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  2. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    Europe's. public. libraries contain 23,000,000 volumes One-third: of the population of the world speak the Chinese language. ...

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  3. THE LONGEVITY OF THE JEW

    Physically the Jew is poorly developed (says a writer in the "Pall Mall Gazette"). Centimes.of oppression, have stamped out his physical vigor, if not his vitality. ...

    Article : 519 words
  4. GERMAN'S ADVENTURE IN THE FRENCH ARMY.

    The account of the adventures of a German who was formerly a member of-the French Foreign Legion is going the round of the press in Berhn (wires the ...

    Article : 383 words
  5. SIGHT FOR THE BLIND.

    There lives in an out of the way quarter of London a Russian scientist whose name is at present unknown outside expert cir-. cles but who will before long be ...

    Article : 1,012 words
  6. OUR FIRST RAILWAY.

    The first railway line built in South Australia was that from Adelaide to the Port, a distance of 74 miles, and it was opened on April 26, 1856. Mr. E. H. Babbage was ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. AN AUSTRALIAN HERO,!

    Mr. Sydney Joseph Barnes, who was to have been presented with the Royal Humane Society's certificate of merit by Lord Tennyson, on Friday October 13, for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. A REMARKABLE FAMILY.

    In an obituary of Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who died recently, aged 56, the Lon—don "Daily Telegraph" supplies some interesting particulars about the remarkable ...

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  9. ROYAL MIMICS.

    That those who are, figuratively speaking, the "Anointed of the Lord" should show so much fondness to? masquerading as they, do can only he accounted for ...

    Article : 1,410 words
  10. THE TRANSVAAL CONTINGENT

    Captain James Hay,of the Adelaide Mounted, Rifles, has been appointed the third subaltern in the South Australian contingent. As he. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 325 words
  11. AN OLD COLONIST.

    Mrs. Bartle, of Walkerville, whose photo we reproduce to-day, celebrated her 98th birthday on Tuesday last. She hails from the west of Cornwall, and arrived in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. MURDER BY MUTINEERS.

    With the disappearance of the barque Caswell, of Swansea (which left New South Wales in February of this year, and has not since been heard of), there ...

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  13. A "RITUAL" MURDER.

    An extraordinary trial for, What the Anti-Semites know as a "ritual murder" commenced at Kuttenburg, in Bohemia, on September 11, and ended as our ...

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  14. CLAIMANTS TO FRANCE'S THRONE.

    Of the French pretenders, there are two and possibly three—one of the House of Orleans and the others of the line of Bohaparte (says "Cassell's Saturday Journal"). ...

    Article : 266 words
  15. POWDERED GLASS AGML

    Says a Bombay message, dated September 14:—An attempt is reported to have been made to kill Colonel Wray, the political agent at Kolhapore. The ...

    Article : 191 words
  16. INDISPENSABLE INSECTS.

    Insects — nasty, creepy-crawly beasts. Much better if there were no. such things. That's the general idea of most people, particularly in summer, when the fly by ...

    Article : 456 words
  17. AWKWARD FOR THE COUNSEL.

    Frontier life out West continues, its utter disregard for all conventionalities even in these times, as a youthful graduate of the Harvard Law School who opened an ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. AMERICAN "SOCIETY" SENSATION.

    According to a telegram from New York in the Star," a certain Don, who is reported to be a cousin of the late Emperor Pearo, and for three years has been a sensational ...

    Article : 142 words
  19. THE SPIDER AND THE TUNING FORK.

    A contemporary tells how a gentleman was recently watching some spiders when it occurred to him to try what effect the sound of a tuning-fork would. have upon ...

    Article : 204 words
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