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  2. The Empress of Austria.

    No more than Queen Victoria does the Empress discharge any of the social or stately functions of the regal condition. Former empresses used to adorn the chapters of the Knights ...

    Article : 233 words
  3. A Russian Lie.

    IN one respect, and we hope and believe in one only, is Great Britian no match for Russia. With the former, everything is straightforward and above board. There is ...

    Article : 332 words
  4. A Mohammedan Secret Society.

    A CORRESPONDENT writes to the London ' Telegraph' that there exists in Egypt and Mohammedan countries a secret society called the Senoussi, which is greater in its influence ...

    Article : 1,174 words
  5. The Cinderella of the Australian Colonies.

    IT is a curious fact that Western Australia, though the largest of all the Australian colonies, not excepting South Australia, and the oldest of all, with the exception of New South Wales, has ...

    Article : 471 words
  6. A Bog Policeman.

    A LARGE black mastiff made the acquaintance of Policeman Trass on Avenue A on a stormy night about three years ago. The dog was hungry and the policeman fed him. After that ...

    Article : 382 words
  7. Woman as an Afterthought.

    THE 'New York Times,' in commenting on the circumstance that the Woman's Suffrage Association at its last meeting adopted a resolution denouncing all religious ...

    Article : 404 words
  8. A New Potato.

    THE Earl of Cathcart and Arthur W. Sutton, of Reading, England, have been engaged during the past season in attempting, by cross fertilisation, with distinct and hitherto uncultivated species of ...

    Article : 307 words
  9. America's Greatest Heiress.

    MISS NELLIE GOULD, the charming eighteen year old daughter of Mr. Jay Gould, has given her heart to her father's bachelor partner, Mr. Washington E. Connor. At first it was received with ...

    Article : 331 words
  10. He Wouldnt " Pray," but " Fight."

    A STORY is told of the brave and gallant officer, General Otway, which is worth putting into print. Otway, for meritorious conduct, has been raised to the rank of colonel ;but it was ...

    Article : 371 words
  11. Prison Walls with Tales.

    IN Newgate Prison, to which I (Michael Davitt) was conducted while my future was being decided in the jury-room overhead, every available inch of the blackened mortar contained, in a few words, ...

    Article : 277 words
  12. Reforming a Husband.

    WILLIAM MATPHIN is a mechanic residing in the upper part of Toledo, who would have been a most excellent husband aud father had not the demon drink had full possession of him. The very ...

    Article : 944 words
  13. Bread Cast Upon the Water.

    CHARLEY BACKUS, the well-known negro minstrel performer, was in the habit of visiting his old mother, in New Bedford, Mass. While he was there he would go to church ...

    Article : 138 words
  14. General Intelligence.

    EVERY autumn Nature changes her coat of green for a yellow har-vest. 'What is laughter ?' asks a young chemist. It is the sound you hear when your hat blows ...

    Article : 1,574 words
  15. Selling Cats as Scotch Hares.

    WE learn from a London paper that some uncomfortable revelations were made recently at the Gateshead Police Court in the case of a woman who was sentenced, to three months' ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. Scotch Beauties.

    THE handsomest man I have ever seen was a boatman on the west of Skye, the calm and serious dignity of whose face seemed more suggestive of Leonardo da Vinci than of herring-fishing; and ...

    Article : 211 words
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