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  2. DR. CONAN DOYLE.

    DR. CONAN DOYNE was born at Edinburgh in 1859, received his earliest education at Stonyhurst, and was afterwards sent to a school in Germany. In ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 176 words
  3. THE COREAN WAR.

    During the looting of the town of Taipehfu by the Formosan rebels a powder magazine exploded killing 90 of the Chinese troops. Owing to the refusal of the rebels to permit ...

    Article : 71 words
  4. TWENTY WORKS BY TWENTY AUTHORS.

    In many of the provinces of Western Russia the country people have been entirely disarmed. Ten years ago one was accustomed to find some old firearms from the French period in the ...

    Article : 4,152 words
  5. SOME JOWETT STORIES.

    Some very interesting "Recollections of Jowett," by the Hon. L. A. Tollemache, appear as a supplement to a recent issue of the Journal of Education. Mr. Tollemache seems ...

    Article : 932 words
  6. DR. JAMES MARTINEAU.

    Dr. James Martineau, the venerable theologian, entered on his 91st year a few weeks ago. For four years, up to the age of 14, he was a scholar at the Norwich Grammar ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 186 words
  7. TERRIBLE DISASTER IN FRANCE.

    At Bouzey, near the French town of Epinal, in the Vosges, an immense reservoir burst in the early hours of Saturday morning, April 27, causing by the inrush of water the destruction ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  8. A CHINESE LOAN.

    The report that Russia has agreed to guarantee the Chinese 4 per cent. loan of £17,000,000 has been officially confirmed, and the loan is now being floated in Paris to the ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. ARMENIA.

    An official reply has been received from the Turkish Government in answer to the demands made by Great Britain with reference to the government of Armenia. ...

    Article : 74 words
  10. THE LATE MISS EMILY FAITHFULL.

    A correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph who knew Miss Emily Faithfull, whose death this week was announced by cable, supplies the following reminiscences:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 387 words
  11. THE WATERLOO CUP, 1895.

    Presented by Mr. R. Barr Smith, won by Mr. A. Shannon's f s Good Hope, by Justice—Hope On. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  12. GOLD FIELDS OF THE WEST.

    Messrs. Cotter and Gibson, prospecting on account of Mr. John, DeBaun, have brought in some grand stone from 40 miles north of Siberia. It carries splendid coarse gold. On ...

    Article : 312 words
  13. IN THE TOILS OF THE CHARMER.

    George was sitting in his lonely comfortless little cottage. The window was thrown wide open and the glorious spring sunshine came pouring in in a ...

    Article : 1,996 words
  14. DEAN FARRAR ON SAVONAROLA.

    Dean Farrar at the "parish church of the House of Commons" lectured recently on Savonarola, the great Florentine revivalist. The dean (as reported in the Daily Chronicle) ...

    Article : 830 words
  15. A FRENCH TRAGEDY.

    Another of those miserable matrimonial dramas, which have been so frequent of late, has been enacted here with terribly fatal consequences (writes the Paris correspondent of ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  16. A SEAMSTRESS COMMITS SUICIDE.

    Jane Hatley, a young single woman, committed suicide yesterday by taking carbolic acid. She was a seamstress, and had recently arrived in the colony. She took a room in ...

    Article : 76 words
  17. LANGE V. BAGE.

    Mr. Purves to-day informed Mr. Justice Holroyd that the case of Lange v. Sachsce, on his honor's list, had been settled. The action of Lange v. Bage was also compromised. The ...

    Article : 61 words
  18. GREAT FIRE AT MONTREAL

    McDonald's mammoth tobacco factory in Montreal was partially destroyed by fire on April 25. The loss, which is estimated at 500,000 dollars, was not covered by insurance. ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. THE SHEARING SEASON.

    A meeting was held at the White Cliffs opal field on June 2 to discuss the manifesto issued by the executive of the Australian Workers' Union respecting the action to be ...

    Article : 150 words
  20. COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN SCOTLAND.

    A terrible colliery explosion took place on May 1 in the Quarter Coalpit, Dunipace Denny, near Stirling, Scotland, belonging to Messrs. Baird & Co. By 2 o'clock 164 of the ...

    Article : 323 words
  21. TIRED OF LIFE AT SEVENTEEN.

    It is early to begin to grow weary of life at 17, especially when one has health and strength and a better prospect than one's fellows of getting on in the world. Walter Condy ...

    Article : 453 words
  22. CYCLE RECORD BREAKING.

    Mr. R. M. Lewis to-day, running a public trial under the auspices of the League of Wheelmen, broke the Australasian record for one mile, covering the distance in 2 min. ...

    Article : 41 words
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