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ECHOES AND RE-ECHOES.
“The greatest country on airth” is at present seriously divided as to tho choice of a successor to Cleveland as President of the United States. The following lines contain ...
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MEMORIES OF A LONG LIFE.
Both the sisters Bramwell had independent property; but in establishing the Home they resolved not to divert a penny of their own money from tho usual channels of service, but ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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ANECDOTES OF BURNS.
A man of shady reputation once naked the loan of Burns’s black coat to go to a [?]meral. Says Bums—“I can’t oblige yon, as I am going to the funeral myself; but I will give ...
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HERR HEINlCKE.
Herr Hermann Heinicke was born July 16, 1863, and entered the Dresden Royal Conservatoire of Music in April, 1873. Showing great talent, he won a scholarship in 1877, ...
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AN ACTOR’S STORY.
They say that we actors are loafers, Immoral, improvident, gay; That we never put by for to-morrow What we’re able to squander to-day; ...
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MUSICAL NOTES.
The “Mendelssohn” night by Heinicke’s Grand Orchestra will doubtless attract a large audience to the Town Hall this evening, seeing that the programme contains such popular ...
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THE BURNS CENTENARY.
I am reminded that if Bobbie Burns had lived till july 21,1836, he would have been dead a hundred years (writers Hugh Kalyptus), and the Scotch will on that date ...
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A PARLIAMENTARY ORATOR.
Reading lately in the Register some specimens of what the late sesquipedalian M.P., the renowned “Paddy Coglin,” used to call his “Grecian eloquence,” a few other samples ...
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REVERBERATIONS.
The audience on Tuesday night at the Theatre Royal were rather overawed by Trilby, I think. The house was quite apathetic as first—the people could not get a ...
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THE O’MALLEY AND THE BARMAIDS.
“The beautiful barmaids could only be regarded as the polished fangs of the stagger-juice rattlesnake. The Government might just as well try to tame a huge rattlesnake or an Indian ...
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MISS ELSIE HALL’S VISIT TO MADAME SCHUMANN.
In connection with the announcement of the death of Frau Clara Schumann, the following account of an interview with her, granted to Miss Elsie Stanley ...
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A RACE OF WHITE AFRICANS.
There have always been vague traditions of a white race locked up in the interior of Africa, but when the tales have come to be tested, the white race generally turns out to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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DESPATCH FROM JAPAN.
May the Sun of Prosperity shine upon thy Serenity, and the hand of fortune fill thy pouch with yen, sen, coin, and comfort, with both fists full, is the wish of Miaco-Sima. Greeting. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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THE TOMB OF BURNS.
What woos the world to yonder shrine What sacred clay, what dust divine? Was this some Master faultless fine, In whom we praise ...
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FROUDE AND THE FARMER.
Here is a story which Froude told of a Devonshire farmer and his Bible:— Froude had been staying in Devonshire in a familiar parish, and he had called on a ...
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