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  2. WITH THE BRITISH FLEET.

    We lay at Plymouth when news came of the outbreak of war. A new Armada had sailed from the south of Ireland with the avowed object of creating a ...

    Article : 1,455 words
  3. SIR WILFRID LAWSON.

    Within a few months of the ripe age of seventy-seven Sir Wilfrid Lawson has passed away. By the irony of fate he, who was ...

    Article : 1,210 words
  4. LEGAL REMINISCENCES.

    Some interesting reminiscences and good stories appear in " Life in the Law," a volume of recollections by the late John George With, K.C., ...

    Article : 681 words
  5. STRANGE STORIES.

    According to a Warsaw correspondent, about the only branch of trade in Russia that is not in a languishing condition is the old clothes ...

    Article : 184 words
  6. SNAKES IN ENGLAND.

    The recent fatalities from snakebite have led to the discovery in many places that snakes are more abundant than is pleasant this year; and from a ...

    Article : 664 words
  7. BELATED INQUEST.

    An inquest was opened on 9th July at the District Council Offices, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, on the body of Mrs Elizabeth Oliver, who died on 1st ...

    Article : 151 words
  8. DE ROUGEMONT AGAIN.

    Of the extraordinary claims put forth by Mr Louis De Rougemont, the "modern Munchausen," the one which drew on his head the most laughter and ...

    Article : 640 words
  9. A TOWN OF LINGUISTS.

    A Babel-like confusion of tongues reigns, according to a correspondent, in Eperies, a Hungarian town situated close to the Galician border. No ...

    Article : 196 words
  10. "TOO MUCK WILSON."

    Sir John Wilson, ex-M.P. for Falkirk, one of the new baronets, revisited the Houses of Parliament recently. ...

    Article : 199 words
  11. THE BOOK OF PROPHECIES.

    Some sensation has been caused in Italy by the publication of the prophecies contained in an old Latin tome, printed in Venice, A.D. 1788, ...

    Article : 225 words
  12. TORQUOISE BLUE.

    The misfortunes of one country are often beneficial to another, and thus we are now reaping the fruit of the Russian troubles, at least as far as the ...

    Article : 188 words
  13. WAR NEWS.

    Probably every one admits (writes the London "Times" in June) in the abstract the importance of controlling, and, if need be, restricting, the ...

    Article : 471 words
  14. THE HANGMAN AT WARSAW.

    How public executions are arranged in Warsaw is the topic of an interesting descriptive article from a correspondent of the "Russkoe ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. INNSBRUCK.

    The fact that King Edward may possibly visit Ischl this year calls attention to one of the most attractive-- and the most curious corners of Europe-- the ...

    Article : 332 words
  16. KENTUCKY FEUD.

    The little town of Beattyville, Kentucky, is terrorised by the members of the Hargis and Marcum famjjfes, whose long standing feud ...

    Article : 303 words
  17. TO AN ASYLUM.

    An extraordinary statement was made by counsel in a case at Gravesend County Court recently, in which Dorothy Wilkinson, an actress, of ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. IMPECUNIOUS GLOBE TROTTER.

    An impecunious globe trotter has turned up in Vienna in the person of Marius Jonescu, aged twenty-five, a student of Bucharest, who four years ...

    Article : 352 words
  19. HIDING THE DOORS.

    The Buildings Commissioners took the drastic step to-day of closing Messrs Marshall Field and Co.'s vast stores and issuing warrants for the arrest of the ...

    Article : 217 words
  20. WOMAN'S FIRST DUTY.

    Queen Margherita of Italy is emphatically hot on the side of those who hold advanced! theories of woman's rights. In an interview in the ...

    Article : 275 words
  21. SEAWEED PARASOLS.

    Sea-weed is being put to many pretty uses this season. Artificial bunches of it provide trimmings for hats, falling in masses of feathery fronds over the brim ...

    Article : 277 words
  22. A SAD OUTLOOK.

    One wonders how many fello[?] citizens in this "Merrie England" of o[?] have no capital and no chance of sa[?] any; who, well or ill, have to stand[?] ...

    Article : 84 words
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