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  2. THE POETS' CORNER.

    Her eyes like quiet pools are clear; Her placid face is sweet and fair: The frost of many a vanished year Lies on her hair. ...

    Article : 227 words
  3. OSMAN DICNA.

    The news that Abdullai, who has been posing as a kind of deputy-Mahdi since the death of the original Mahommed Achmet in June, 1885, has sent for ...

    Article : 882 words
  4. MEN WHO MADE AUSTRALIA.

    The sails were taken in, the boats dropped out, soundings taken, four anchors carried well to stern, and the capstan manned. With many a cheery ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  5. A LOVE ROMANCE

    The experiences in England of the troupe of Burmese who were performing at the Crystal Palace some time ago would hardly lead one to look for a ...

    Article : 220 words
  6. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    The buttercup owes its brilliant golden hue to a pigment called carotin (from its presence in the carrot root), "which is amassed in discoidal bodies that ...

    Article : 506 words
  7. A MUNICIPAL LODGING HOUSE.

    In Parker street, London, one of the Drury lane thoroughfares that run parallel to Holborn, stands, plain and unadorned, a building which represents ...

    Article : 229 words
  8. WHEN SPRING IS NEARING.

    The sunlight breaks in roseate flakes O'er mount and valley, tree and river; In glens below the wild- flowers blow And 'neath their weight of glory quiver: ...

    Article : 181 words
  9. FOR THE TIMES.

    During the portion of the time he was editing the "North Scotland Gazette" in Aberdeen Dr J. H. Wilson acted as a reporter for the London "Times" ...

    Article : 183 words
  10. THE VIRTUES OF A GOOD CIGAR.

    Lieutenant-General Sir James Clerk- Rattray, K.C.B., of Craighall, Forfarshire, was publicly entertained the other evening in Blairgowrie in honor of the ...

    Article : 409 words
  11. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

    The famous Italian scientist, Signer Marconi, who invented the system of telegraphy by which messages can be transmitted without wires, has recently ...

    Article : 394 words
  12. RAILWAYS AND GEOGRAPHY.

    Railways play a more important part in our national education than is generally supposed, says the "Railway Magazine." There is the geographical ...

    Article : 208 words
  13. CARLYLE AND HIS WIFE.

    A correspondent of the "Glasgow Evening News" tells a story of Carlyle which, he says, he received at first hand, and which has the merit, he ...

    Article : 117 words
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