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  2. A WAR VESSEL WITH THE SPEED OF A RACEHORSE.

    The pneumatic dynamite gun cruiser Vesuvius, which has been built by the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company for the United States Navy, was ...

    Article : 578 words
  3. RENTS PAID BY THE POOR.

    Viscount Lymington, in the course of an article on the housing of the poor, in the National Review, says:—There are two certain practical evils, which, to a certain extent, ...

    Article : 302 words
  4. WOMEN SOCIALISTS IN PARIS.

    According to the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph the International Union of Women has just been holding a rather obstreperous meeting in Paris. It took place ...

    Article : 218 words
  5. THE REAL CZAR.

    The Czar of Russia becomes a very ordinary and unromantic personage, if what Mr. Lathrop, ex-Minister to that country, says about him be true. He denies that this great ...

    Article : 296 words
  6. SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS.

    The first edition of the London edition of the New York Herald appeared on Saturday, 2nd February. The fact that it is to appear on Sundays as well as on ordinary days ...

    Article : 395 words
  7. THE GENEALOGY OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA.

    The North China Herald gives a curious account of the manner in which the genealogical statement of the family of the Emperor of China is periodically compiled. On 15th ...

    Article : 500 words
  8. ST. PAUL AND WOMEN.

    In an article on this subject in the Westminster Review, a writer says:—Divesting our minds of all preconceptions, of all tremors, of all prudential reserves, let us try to discover ...

    Article : 451 words
  9. ADULTERATING COFFEE.

    It is often said by captious critics (states the Daily News) that English people do not know how to make coffee, but according to a recently issued report from the British Consul at St. ...

    Article : 299 words
  10. WHY ARE AUTHORS POOR?

    How does it arrive (asks a writer in the Fortnightly) that the wage of the average author, usually a person of some little education and some modest intelligence, falls so ...

    Article : 516 words
  11. THE AUSTRIAN CROWN PRINCESS.

    Prince Rudolph's widow, the Princess Stephanie, is (says "Atlas" in the World) the eldest daughter of the King of the Belgians, a bright, pretty, pleasant woman, and when she ...

    Article : 346 words
  12. PROPELLING STREET CARS BY ELECTRICITY.

    Scranton is (says an American paper) beyond a doubt far in advance of many of the progressive cities of the country in the matter of electric light and power. Every street-car in ...

    Article : 364 words
  13. A BUDDHIST PROPAGANDA.

    The Japan Weekly Mail describes an interesting missionary effort of certain Buddhists of Kioto. Of late much has been heard in the Japanese newspapers of able Buddhist ...

    Article : 503 words
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