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  2. SIXTY-FIVE LIVES LOST IN A COLLISION.

    NEWS has reached Hong Kong of a fearful disaster in an inland sea. It seems that the Ravenna, a mail boat, with several passengers on ...

    Article : 192 words
  3. INSTRUCTIVE FUN.

    SOME of our readers may have heard of this little scientific experiment. It is interesting to the older as well as the younger members of ...

    Article : 254 words
  4. RUNNING AS AN EXERCISE.

    IF one should undertake the habit of running at 40 or 50 years of age (writes the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage), it might be perilous; ...

    Article : 262 words
  5. THE SIDE OF WHICH TO SLEEP.

    THE use of a pillow is not a matter of mere blind usage. It has a physiological basis. We sleep for the most part on the side, and ...

    Article : 300 words
  6. THE WAYS OF DRUNKARDS.

    A LONDON contemporary says:—Mr. Thomas held a inquest lately on the body of Mary Red, aged 77, a charwoman, lodging at nine ...

    Article : 389 words
  7. A YOUNG MINISTER.

    THE Rev. David Fairweather, M.A., who has been, with practical unanimity, called to the ministry of Regent-square Presbyterian Church, ...

    Article : 73 words
  8. MARVELLOUS COURAGE.

    IN a handsome mansion situated in a lonely part of England there resided, a few years ago, a maiden lady of considerable wealth. One ...

    Article : 415 words
  9. TIME FOR READING.

    I DO not think for a moment says John Morley that everybody is born with the ability for using books, for reading and studying ...

    Article : 386 words
  10. DUSTSTORMS ON THE ATLANTIC.

    SHIPS crossing the Atlantic in the latitude of the Cape Verde Islands often encounter duststorms of longer or shorter duration. One of ...

    Article : 162 words
  11. EXECUTION AT GLASGOW.

    WILLIAM M'Keown, who murdered Elizabeth O'Connor in West Lodge, Pollokshields, Glasgow, on October 11, and afterwards cut her body up ...

    Article : 411 words
  12. CONVICTS WHIPPED TO DEATH.

    A MAN named Hudson, who has spent two years and a halt' as a convict in the mines near Princeville, Tennessee, has been making ...

    Article : 197 words
  13. THE TEEMING MILLIONS OF INDIA.

    THE entire population of Hindostan does not exceed 288 millions; yet India is not over populated. On the contrary, unlike Europe, it still ...

    Article : 298 words
  14. WISE WORDS.

    THE way to do a thing is just to do it. Always act on principle—never on feeling. ...

    Article : 218 words
  15. REMARKABLE CASE OF TRANCE.

    A DESPATCH from Caen to the PETIT PARISIEN gives an account of a curious case of trance. A young man, 20 years of age, named ...

    Article : 183 words
  16. THE BEAUTY OF WOMEN.

    THE beauty of women (observes a contributor to Black and White) might seem a fertile subject for a good author, but too rich and large ...

    Article : 384 words
  17. DANGERS OF THE RAIL.

    THE surprising and unexpected nature of some railroad accidents was exemplified in the experince of the engineer of a passenger train which ...

    Article : 491 words
  18. HEROSIM AND RED TAPE.

    THE Sheffield INDEPENDENT of January 17 says:—A little over a week ago we reported a plucky rescue from drowning in ...

    Article : 229 words
  19. THE PARIS EXECUTIONER.

    M. DEIBLER, the 'red man,' the executioner of Paris, seems at last (says the London Daily News) to have found a place wherein to lay his ...

    Article : 187 words
  20. Shocking Accident.

    MR. James Lynham, provision, merchant, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, having a dog which shewed vicious propensities, took a ...

    Article : 92 words
  21. SHOCKING TALE OF STARVATION.

    DR. R. Macdonald, coroner of North East London, held an enquiry at the Bow Vestry Hall into the circumstances attending the death of ...

    Article : 334 words
  22. ADVICE TO OUR GIRLS.

    MRS. O'Connor, of Oxley, contributes a very practical article to the correspondence on Australian girls and their ways. She concludes her ...

    Article : 318 words
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