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  2. THREE BOATLOADS ADRIFT IN MONSOON.

    A thrilling story was told when recently the Messageries Maritimes steamer Adour arrived at Marseilles with the mails from Madagascar. ...

    Article : 305 words
  3. THREE FEET.

    “How to look happy, though tiny,” is the problem that has been satisfactorily settled by the members of the Zeynard Lilliput-Speciality Troupe. ...

    Article : 941 words
  4. Romance of Man-Woman.

    In the “English Review” for Aug. and September is published for the first time a narrative by the late Charles Reade concerning Catherine Coombe, ...

    Article : 131 words
  5. In the Wilds of Australia

    The history of Australian exploration is not without its tragedies, as, for instance, the disappearance of Leichardt in the interior in 1848 and ...

    Article : 322 words
  6. VIRGINIA MOTOR CRIME.

    Only the closing addresses of counsel and the judge’s summing up now remain to be uttered before the trial of Henry Clay Beattie, jun., for the ...

    Article : 418 words
  7. Arrested as a Man.

    It was in 1897 that London first heard of Catherine Coombe, or “Charley Wilson.” In the latter name she was arrested in imlich on a charge of ...

    Article : 270 words
  8. Killed by Natives.

    The satisfactory manner in which everyone had behaved was indicated in the following memorandum which the Surveyor General issued at the ...

    Article : 371 words
  9. NO RETURN OF ILLNESS FOR NINE YEARS.

    We are answering a very important question to-day, viz., “Do the people who say they have been cured by Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills stay ...

    Article : 372 words
  10. A Man of Many Parts.

    Since his retirement the description “a man of many parts” may be applied to Mr. Hoare with even more appropriateness. Making his home at ...

    Article : 281 words
  11. Charles Reade’s Story.

    The narrative of the famous author of “It’s” Never Too Late to Mend” differs in various details from that told by Mrs. Coombe. He says that in 1855 ...

    Article : 325 words
  12. BY BALLOON TO AFRICA.

    With the idea of making the longest journey without a descent ever per formed by an aeronaut, a well-known London balloonist has laid his plans ...

    Article : 239 words
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  14. Old-Time Emigrants.

    “At one part of the journey the distilling apparatus broke down and, although there was ‘water, water everywhere around us, we had ‘not a drop ...

    Article : 354 words
  15. How the Natives Fought.

    To return, however, to the attack on Bennett and Guv, their position was really, desperate. After the appearance of the first native a crowd of ...

    Article : 637 words
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  17. In Love with “Fred.”

    Tom Coombe and “his smart boy” made a fair start, at Bedford, and eventually Fred won the god opinion of his employers. There was a little girl ...

    Article : 967 words
  18. COMEDY OF ADDRESS.

    The daring and unconventional dress of a certain Mile. Paquerette, an “elegante” of the Quartier Latin, led to a curious scene in Paris recently one ...

    Article : 222 words
  19. AN ANCIENT BREADLOAF.

    A loaf thirty-six years old has just been on exhibition. It belongs to Mr. William Revis, of Hammersmith, W. In 1875 a Mr. William Baker, of ...

    Article : 111 words
  20. In the Country of Cannibals.

    “The territory which had to be explored and surveyed was quite unknown at the time; at least all that was known of it was from the tales ...

    Article : 448 words
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