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  2. VARIETIES.

    The average Dutchman prides himself on having a large family, and on festive occasions it is common to meet numerous members of several generations in a Boer ...

    Article : 81 words
  3. LADIES' COLUMN.

    The effect of well-chosen perfumes on many nervous, highly-strung women cannot be over-rated. Nothing requires better taste, however, than the choice and use of ...

    Article : 158 words
  4. MURDER'S COURAGE.

    A Spaniard named Eged, who was guillotined at Algiers for the murder of a railway contractor, last December, met his death with remarkable fortitude. Some ...

    Article : 110 words
  5. THE PYRENEES.

    A terrible disaster has just taken place on the Pyrenees. Some score of Spaniards reached Gavarnie, in France, after crossing the Pyrenees on foot. It appears that when ...

    Article : 273 words
  6. LADY COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.

    Lady commercial travellers are now 'on the road' in England and doing well, one who is in the corrugated-iron trade having now become a regular subscriber to the excellent ...

    Article : 116 words
  7. GAMES.

    'The first of all English games is making money. That is an all-absorbing game; and we knock each other down oftener in playing at that than at football or any ...

    Article : 146 words
  8. TRAVELLER.

    Denise Duval is a young woman with such a strong desire for personal adornment that she does not hesitate to decorate her hat and jacket with Masonic emblems when ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. ENGLISH LETTER.

    Tailor-made gowns in their various developments continue as popular as ever. This style of costume is, of course, specially suited to winter materials. Venetian cloth makes ...

    Article : 896 words
  10. MEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

    Australians consume more meat per head than do the inhabitants of any other country, a direct result of the abundance and cheapness of beef and mutton. The consumption ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. THE KING OF BENIM.

    My next visit was about three years later, when I accompanied Consul Annesley. It is the custom at Benin City that if the King has never seen a white man before he ...

    Article : 639 words
  12. A BRIDE WHO SAID 'NO!'

    A strange incident occurred during a marriage ceremony at the Maine, in Toulon. The parties had assembled before the Mayor, and the bridegroom had already, announced ...

    Article : 110 words
  13. WHAT THE KNOUT IS.

    The knout is a strip of hide, a thong which is steeped in some preparation, and strongly glazed as it were with metal fillings. By this process it becomes both heavy and ...

    Article : 535 words
  14. GIBRALTAR.

    The outside world little knows of the immense strengthening of armaments which has been going on of late at this fortress. Heavy guns of great power and ...

    Article : 151 words
  15. GRUB STREET.

    'Among other pretty myths and traditions I fear we shall have to give up that of Grub-street,' says Sir Walter Besant in 'The Queen.' 'My friends, there never was any ...

    Article : 162 words
  16. THE OLDEST MILITARY HOSPITAL.

    The 226th anniversary the other day of the founding of the Hotel des Invalides by the Grand Monarque has suggested to a French paper a brief sketch of its origin ...

    Article : 218 words
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