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  2. Beautiful Sacrifice.

    The author of " Indian Memories'' tells how it happened some thirty years ago, that after a hard day's fighting between the British forces and the Sepoy mutineers, there ...

    Article : 777 words
  3. GENERAL BRIEFS.

    Horseshoes have been found in tombs that date back to the sixth century. Reindeer meat is almost the exclusive animal food of the British American ...

    Article : 419 words
  4. AT MARKET VALUE.

    The season was waning towards its latter end; Mrs Hesslegrave and Kathleen were on the eve of flight for their regular round of autumn visits in the country, before returning ...

    Article : 2,790 words
  5. PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

    The crew of the United States steamer Chicago recently presented Mr Henry Irving, who had been a passenger by the ship, with a water-color picture of the ...

    Article : 963 words
  6. THE WIDE WORLD.

    The highest recorded speed on the Atlantis as an average for the whole passage is 21[?]9 knots per hour, performed by the Canard steamer Lucania. This has nearly been ...

    Article : 1,121 words
  7. HERE AND THERE.

    A gentleman signing himself "Mountain Dew" writes to "The Herald" complaining, in a good-tempered way, that I "dished up" a little story about an ...

    Article : 1,450 words
  8. GIDDY BILL NYE.

    Before beginning this latter let me briefly announce that my alliance with the Princess Angeline, eldest daughter of King Seattle. Emperor of Puget Sound and Duke ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 731 words
  9. The Stockman's Last Bed.

    Be ye stockmen or no, to my story give ear, Alas! for poor Jack, no more shall we hear The crack of his stockwhip, his steed's lively trot, ...

    Article : 178 words
  10. A Brave Englishwoman.

    Some original documents concerning Charlotte Atkyns--an Englishwoman who played a part in the First Revolution--have been unearthed by Pere Delaporte, a Jesuit. ...

    Article : 352 words
  11. A Champion Cyclist.

    Cyril Shorland, of London, the champion long-distance rider of the world, who won the twenty-four hours cycling race at Brixton, Surrey, England, accomplishing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 628 words
  12. United States Sheep Exportation.

    Within the past two months (say Messrs Clay Robinson and Co., in their "Live Stock Report") there has been a sudden revival of an industry that for the last few years has been ...

    Article : 490 words
  13. Struck by Lightning.

    The steamer Port Phillip, of the Anglo-Australasian line, well-known in the colonics, had a rather remarkable experience at Singapore. The vessel (reports an exchange) was ...

    Article : 262 words
  14. Mr Gladstone.

    It has been related that Mr Gladstone's advice to his own children when they had the toothache was that they, "should have it out to-morrow, and think no more ...

    Article : 165 words
  15. Remarkable Religion.

    A Russian Journal describes a peculiar religious movement in the winter of 1891-2 in the province of Kiev. The originator was a Russian, given to drink until the age of forty ...

    Article : 391 words
  16. Horti[?]

    A healthy fruit [?] wood as well a [?] Young grape [?] three or four strong buds [?] ...

    Article : 342 words
  17. Crossing the Channel.

    Mr Sayce, formerly an officer in the army, who succeeded in crossing the Channel last year in a small, curiously-shaped beat of his own invention, made the crossing last month ...

    Article : 163 words
  18. Tight Lacing.

    Gloomy prophecies of the future of the human race, owing to tight lacing, are being circulated here (says the "British Medical Journal,") They are evidently ...

    Article : 277 words
  19. A Morocco Prison.

    There is a good deal in the cable messages about that wonderful country Morocco just now. Here is a description of a Morocco prison given by mouth by Miss Hanbury, of ...

    Article : 250 words
  20. Penny in the Slot.

    A writer in the London "Notes and Queries" says: " It is worth while recording that the "penny in the slot' automatic machines was known in the time of Hero of ...

    Article : 182 words
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