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  2. WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNGER.

    It was a pleasure to Lady Fareham in some rare interval of solitude, when the weather was too severe for her to venture outside the hall door even in her comfortable coach, and when ...

    Article : 2,500 words
  3. THE COURTSHIPS OF GREAT MEN.

    The late Czar Nicholas of Russia met the object of his supreme affection (says Success) at a State dinner, and during the progress of the banquet made his ardour known to the ...

    Article : 657 words
  4. HIS HONOR CHIEF JUSTICE WAY, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

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    Article : 7 words
  5. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The tallest people in the world are the Patagonians; the shortest are the Laplanders. It costs £3 a minute to fire the Maxim gun at the rate of 700 shots a minute. ...

    Article : 1,765 words
  6. CHAMPION CYCLISTS.

    W. Martin is the champion cyclist of America, and came to Australia with a splendid reputation won in a great racing career. He has performed with brilliant ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 136 words
  7. NANSEN'S EXPEDITION.

    The New York correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing on February 29, says:—Discussion of the report that the Arctic ...

    Article : 422 words
  8. SHAKESPEARE AND SLANG.

    An enterprising correspondent of the American publication Shakesperiana has been showing that the Bard of Avon is the father of more than one slang phrase now held in disrepute ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. THE FREAK OF NATURE.

    The post-mortem on the young man Schmarda, held by Professor Maydl, in Prague, has proved that it was really a case of a twin child, the twenty-sixth of the kind ...

    Article : 51 words
  10. EASTER CYCLING MEETING.

    This afternoon will witness a veritable battle of the giants in the cycling arena on the Adelaide Oval. We shall have Parsons, Martin, Fitzgerald, Harris, Porta, and Granter on the track, and the ...

    Article : 1,099 words
  11. THE EVOLUTION OF REVOLUTION.

    Mr. D. H. Parry, in writing the story of Waterloo for Cassell's "Battles of the Nineteenth Century," gives an interesting series of quotations from the Moniteur, announcing the ...

    Article : 154 words
  12. AMUSEMENTS.

    "La Mascotte" was repeated for the last time at the Theatre Royal on Friday evening, when the performance went from start to finish with a merry swing. Miss Juliet Wray ...

    Article : 294 words
  13. A HORRIBLE STORY OF CANNIBALISM.

    A dispatch to New York from Wheeling, West Virginia, states that a remarkable discovery has been made there regarding the fate of four men, who mysteriously disappeared 32 ...

    Article : 285 words
  14. DISEASES OF WATCHES.

    The whims and caprices of watches are to many people a deep mystery. Sometimes they go fast and sometimes they go slow, and sometimes they don't go at all. The Journal ...

    Article : 715 words
  15. SARAH BERNHARDT'S FIRST SUCCESS.

    Madame Bernhardt's first success was in "Le Passant," a play by Francis Copp[?]e, at the Od[?]on, Paris, in 1869. Concerning this appearance she has just been saying:—" I can ...

    Article : 405 words
  16. ITALIAN DISASTER IN ABYSSINIA.

    On Saturday, February 29, King Humbert reviewed at Naples the troops about to embark for Erythrea. In a short address to the soldiers His Majesty called upon them to ...

    Article : 373 words
  17. HERR HEUZENROEDER'S BENEFIT.

    There should be a crowded house at the Town Hall this evening, when a complimentary concert will be tendered to Herr Heuzenroeder, the well-known pianist and composer, by the ...

    Article : 172 words
  18. CYCLORAMA.

    Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather there was a large audience at the Cyclorama last night. Mr. C. Richardson's description of the "Battle of Waterloo" was ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. THIS DAY'S EVENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 228 words
  20. "EDEN,"

    The Garden of Eden with its accompanying entertainments will be open to-day and this evening, and will doubtless attract a fair share of public patronage. ...

    Article : 299 words
  21. THE RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH.

    Preaching at Westminster Abbey on moral freedom, which he defined as "the power, external and internal, to be what one ought," and the influence of circumstance and heredity, ...

    Article : 187 words
  22. THE REV. HASKETT SMITH.

    There was a fairly large attendance at the Town Hall on Friday evening, when the Rev. Haskett Smith gave his illuminated entertainment, "The Land of the Pharaohs, or the ...

    Article : 332 words
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