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  3. IN THE ARMCHAIR.

    In a volume entitled "The Minor Moralist: Some Essays on the Art of Everyday Conduct" (Edward Arnold), by Mrs. Hugh Bell, we obtain ...

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  4. JOKELETS.

    Clara : " How was his voice when he proposed ?" Maud : " Oh, it had the right ring to it !" "I say if you can't give a bigger tater ...

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  5. FACTS & FANCIES.

    On Thursday, 6th May, 1886 a fire, attended by loss of life, occurred at Derby where the Grand Theatre, a new building was burned down and one of the actors ...

    Article : 469 words
  6. THE SKETCHER.

    The loss of the British submarine, that was recently struck by a merchant steamer, and sent to the bottom with its hapless crew of eleven officers and men, proves ...

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  7. SPRAY.

    During the Crimcan War a lady was distributing tracts to the occupants of a military hospital, and was excessively shocked to hear one poor fellow laugh ...

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  8. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    In bygone days the Earls of Arnley had been men of prominences and affluence, holding the highest positions in the State, and enjoying the confidence of their ...

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  9. THE FOUNDATION OF FENCING.

    First and foremost, the lungo must be mastered. Starting with the upright position, the heel of the right foot against the left heel, and at right angles to the ...

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  10. ADVANTAGES OF MODERN GAS LIGHTING OVER ELECTRICITY.

    Lighting by coal gas consisted not many years ago in a maximum of heat and a minimum of light. Very little effect was secured from the calorific capacity of the ...

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  11. THE COARSENESS OF THE AGE WE LIVE IN.

    It is an age of course effects, an age of advertisement. A poet could not conscientiously sing now about a rose left to bloom unseen, for excursion trains, would ...

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  12. DISCOVERING NEW TRIBES.

    The public are likely soon to have an opportunity of seeing some of the trophies of sport and travel which have resulted from Major Powell Cotton's great journey ...

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  13. THE DISPOSAL OF REFUSE.

    The progress of the refuse destructor in England has been slow but sure, and there is no doubt that it would have been slower still were it not that the power ...

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  14. COST OF A BIG GUN.

    Anybody who has ever given the subject a thought must possess some inkling of the fact that the modern big gun with its complex and delicate breach mechanism. ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. THE ANTIQUITY OF KOREA.

    The authentic history of Korea begins at a date some hundreds of years anterior to the foundation of Rome. It was in B.C. 1122 that Kitsu, brother of Woo Wang, ...

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  16. THE NEW MINERAL.

    Sir William Ramsay, in some particulars of the new mineral from Ceylon, given by him in a letter to "Nature," says:--The mineral, when heated alone, gives off 3.5 ...

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  17. AN UNREADABLE HAND.

    Writing of the late Sir John Robinson in the "Cornhill Magazine," Mr. H.W. Lucy says that the popular editor's hand writing was terribly bad. ...

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