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  2. SOJOURNING IN AFRICA.

    LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has been keeping so much to himself in South Africa that the papers there have been unable to corner him for an interview. The Johannesburg ...

    Article : 1,306 words
  3. TO BE LUCKY

    MARK TWAIN informs the readers of Harper's Magazine that an English clergyman, formerly an instructor at the Military School at Woolwich, told him the ...

    Article : 1,515 words
  4. FRANCIS ADAMS' VIEWS.

    MR. FRANCIS W. L. ADAMS writes in the Fortnightly Review:--Marcus Clarke, the one Australian who has so far managed to write anything like English prose, wittily ...

    Article : 1,513 words
  5. A BRAKEMAN'S LIFE.

    IN few branches of manual labor has modern invention done so much to lighten the burden that falls on the human muscles as in the application of the air-brake system to ...

    Article : 2,009 words
  6. MEN AND WOMEN.

    Mr. Matthew Burnett, the Yorkshire evangelist, who has labored for 27 years in Australia, has been resting in England the last four months, but has now so far ...

    Article : 123 words
  7. THE GIRLHOOD OF THE GERMAN EMPRESS.

    IN the Jane number of Good Words there is an interesting little description by Sarah S. M. Pereira of the girlhood and subsequent home life of the Empress Victoria of ...

    Article : 1,189 words
  8. The Marquis of Ailesbury.

    The Marquis of Ailesbury gave his evidence in the case in the Chancery Division, in which he applied for the sanction of the court for the sale of the family estate of ...

    Article : 167 words
  9. J. M'Laren Cobban.

    Mr. J. M'Laren Cobban, the author of "The Reverend Gentleman,", "Master of his Fate" and many another successful story, has just completed a novel which he ...

    Article : 186 words
  10. MISS PICKETT'S DEATH.

    COLONEL OLCOTT, president of the Theosophical Society, writes to the Home News:--Permit me to protest against the imputation that the sad death of Miss Kate ...

    Article : 324 words
  11. Kaiser Wilhelm.

    Kaiser Wilhelm is a regular story hook monarch--he is up to Imperial doings all the time. The other day he happened to be at a post where a regiment of the Guards were ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. Dr. M'Glynn.

    Dr. M'Glynn is still a familiar figure about town, says the New York Sun. His still black hair is far more heavily tinged with grey than when he was a priest, and he ...

    Article : 78 words
  13. Sir Charles Forster.

    The late Sir Charles Forster will be much missed in tho House of Commons. He was in every way one of the figures of that place. He was until quite recently to be seen every ...

    Article : 274 words
  14. AN OBSERVATORY ON MONT BLANC.

    THE Governments of the Australian colonies as a result of the Meteorological Congress held at Sydney 10 years ago set a good example to the world in building observatories ...

    Article : 494 words
  15. An Alarm Clock

    It happened about 6 o'clock one morning. A man with flushed face and attired in a white robe stuck his head out of a bay window and yelled: ...

    Article : 351 words
  16. HAWLEY SMART.

    Captain Hawley Smart, the successor of Whyte Melville as the sporting novelist, has found that "racing is more profitable to write about than to follow." After leaving ...

    Article : 92 words
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