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  2. INCREASE OF SPEED ON RAILWAYS.

    A RECENT writer on fast passenger trains says:—'The prevailing tendency toward fast railroad trains is not a mere passing device for ...

    Article : 938 words
  3. HOW HE BROKE THE NEWS.

    YOU say that I'm pale and flustered, and shivering in my shoes; I'll be hanged if you would't shiver too if you had to 'break the news.' ...

    Article : 465 words
  4. THE SCOTTISH JUDGE JEFFREYS.

    LORD Braxfield, the Scottish Judge Jeffreys, died in 1799; yet, as Cockburn, relates, his name was a terror a generation later. His life ...

    Article : 237 words
  5. A SPITEFUL PARROT.

    ONE day towards the end of April a beautiful parrot escaped into the apartments of a lady living at 52 Rue Duhesme, Paris. The lady not ...

    Article : 190 words
  6. MILLIONAIRES.

    MILLIONAIRES (observes a London writer) are not very interesting beings. There is a little flavour of romance about the richest of them; ...

    Article : 298 words
  7. REMINDED OF HIS DEAD MOTHER.

    IT was the latter part of August 1891. A friend and I had come down from Ramsgate to Minister, to see the venerable church there, which is a thousand years ...

    Article : 905 words
  8. MR. LABOUCHERE.

    MR. Labouchere has many faults, the most conspicuous among them being that he is, perhaps, the most consistently interesting man in the ...

    Article : 1,057 words
  9. AN EMPEROR'S CONFESSION.

    NAPOLEON III. was not religious, but dared not own it. Under the influence of his wife and Madame Montijio, his mother-in-law, he ...

    Article : 282 words
  10. LORD DERBY.

    THE late Lord Derby was, of course, enormously rich (says ST JAMES'S GAZETTE.) His Liverpool property, ground rents chiefly, must have ...

    Article : 385 words
  11. The Afternoon Nap.

    THE editor of the WIT AND WISDOM publishes the opinions of a number of eminent correspondents concerning the value of the afternoon nap. The ...

    Article : 317 words
  12. DRIVING EXPRESS TRAINS.

    THE general public (observes an English contemporary) has no idea what driving engines of the express trains means. It is no ...

    Article : 221 words
  13. SHIPPED TO AUSTRALIA.

    THE PALL MALL GAZETTE of May 2 contains the following particulars of an interesting case of divorce heard on that day in London: ...

    Article : 373 words
  14. THE GRANDEST PRIVATE DWELL. ING.

    THE rebuilding of Mount Stuart, Lord Bute's palace, near Rothesay, Scotland, makes it the most magnificent mansion in Great Britain. ...

    Article : 282 words
  15. The Care of Shoes.

    How difficult it is in winter to keep one's feet even presentable in appearance. Sidewalks are sloppy, crosswalks are muddy, and the air is so cold that it hardens shoe ...

    Article : 514 words
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