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  2. TALES OF SOUTH AFRICA.

    It was a glorious South African day in the year 1881. The rains had ceased,summer had departed, the first crisp touch of winter was abroad. Vilioensdorp, a ...

    Article : 2,505 words
  3. SHOCKING MEDICAL SCANDAL.

    A Vienna telegram of March 23 says:— A horrible outrage has been practised on women by the scientists at Cracow Infirmary. Professor Kuczynski has been ...

    Article : 123 words
  4. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    The cost of St. Peter's, Rome, was over £14,000,000. The peach, the plum, and the cherry first grew in Persia. ...

    Article : 1,621 words
  5. LORD ROBERTS' ADVANCE.

    CAPTURING A BOER CONVOY. "Black and White." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 12 words
  6. RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT GLASGOW.

    On March 30 a collision, by which five persons were killed and 20 injured, occurred on the underground line of the North British railway in that city, between ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 790 words
  7. THE LIONS THAT STOPPED THE RAILWAY.

    Speaking in the House of Lords of the progress of the Uganda railway, Lord Salisbury mentioned that among the unexpected difficulties encountered were a ...

    Article : 1,513 words
  8. WERE LIFE IS CHEAP.

    John Gilmer Speed, a grand-nephew of the poet Keats, and himself a Kentuckian by birth and breeding, contributes to the April "Century" a time study of "The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 603 words
  9. A STORY OF WELLINGTON.

    As amillustration of what may be accomplished by military genius in determining t'he course of future events from apparently insignificant facts, the following story of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 744 words
  10. NAPOLEON ON SUICIDE.

    The April instalment of the "Centnry's extracts from the diaries of Dr. O'Meara's "Talks with Napoleon" includes the Emperor's views on suicide, and his own ...

    Article : 530 words
  11. MUSICAL NOTES.

    Writing from Leipzig on March 11, a correspondent of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" contributes some news of musical interest. Leipzig is having a particularly ...

    Article : 1,217 words
  12. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DEATH.

    The Vienna correspondent of the London "Standard," under, date March 26, wires: — Professor Nothnagel, of the Vienna University, delivered a lecture last ...

    Article : 507 words
  13. IN HONOR OF A FAMOUS RELIC.

    The approaching festival in celebration of the 750th anniversary of the bringing to Bruges of the Holy Blood, to be held there on May 8, is attracting attention all ...

    Article : 673 words
  14. THE SUBMARINE BOAT 'HOLLAND."

    Recently (says a Washington telegram) a final test was given the Holland submarine torpedo-boat. The board of examiners, composed of naval officers, ...

    Article : 489 words
  15. HOW NEW YORKERS AMUSE THEMSELVES.

    Telegraphing on March 27 the New York correspondent of a London paper says:— Miss Anna Constable entertained last night the One Hundred Club, and many ...

    Article : 283 words
  16. AWKWARD IN CASE OF A PUNCTURE.

    Various are the devices of those who smuggle things through the Octrio or Town Dues barriers in Paris. Recently—it is the London "Daily News" that tells the ...

    Article : 243 words
  17. ANTI-CIGARETTE MOVEMENT.

    A, Washington dispatch, dated March 25, says:—The chief of the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture has issued an order forbidding the smoking of ...

    Article : 99 words
  18. LADIES' HATS OFF IN CHURCH.

    The pastors of the various Methodist churches in Cleveland, Ohio, announced from the pulpit recently that the Church Board had made a rule to the effect that ...

    Article : 91 words
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