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  2. THE MAN IN THE MOON.

    The Christian Globe is responsible for the following —“So after all the ‘Man in the Moon’ is not fiction, but a real flesh-and-blood reality like ourselves. Our little folks, at any ...

    Article : 473 words
  3. MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN TARTARY.

    Among the Kirghese the bridegroom after betrothal has sometimes to wait for a year or more until he can bring the remaining portion of the kalim. If during this period the ...

    Article : 253 words
  4. A NOVEL AMERICAN EXHIBITION IN LONDON.

    A new departure in international exhibitions will be made in the year 1886, when an American exhibition is proposed to be opened in London on May 1. The following extracts ...

    Article : 503 words
  5. A NEBRASKA TRAGEDY.

    The following account of a tragedy recently enacted near Fuller ton, Nance County, Nebraska, U.S., is given by Mr. F. L. Shaw, Lone Tree, Nance County Nebraska :—“Two ...

    Article : 353 words
  6. A FIGHT IN THE SOUDAN.

    A correspondent, writing from Corti, near Ambukol, describes the recent fight in which the Mudir of Dongola was successful against a considerable body of the Mahdi’s men. The ...

    Article : 423 words
  7. A FAMILY POISONED.

    The Times of India relates that an unfortunate case of poisoning occurred at Mazagon, in which four female members of a Parsee family were administered by mistake (as it is stated) ...

    Article : 214 words
  8. THE CROWN AND THE PRINCES.

    Dr. Barry, Primate of New South Wales, related a good story recently concerning the sons of the heir to the British crown. It seemed that on one occasion two of the Royal ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. THE CHAMPION FEMALE “SHOOTIST.”

    An American exchange thus refers to the female sharp-shooter of the world :—“The glorious climate of California has recently developed a wonder in what is extensively ...

    Article : 223 words
  10. A SEA MONSTER.

    Mr. Alfred Morris wrote lately to Nature from Sydney :—“A friend of mine, Captain W. Hopkins, of the schooner Mary Ogilvie, who has returned from a voyage all round ...

    Article : 359 words
  11. A ROMANCE OF DIPLOMACY.

    A truly extraordinary story is told by an old schoolfellow of M. Lomaiue, late French Consul-General at Shanghai, and recently appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Hue ...

    Article : 313 words
  12. ROMANTIC BANDITS.

    The Mexican brigand is fast getting “played out,” and two more of them have fallen into the hands of the Philistines. Churchnel Poto who was captured at Queretaro the other day, ...

    Article : 281 words
  13. A FRIGHTFUL CONFESSION.

    An English paper relates that a coroner’s jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Elizabeth Clarke, at New Cut, Gloucestershire, for having drowned her little boy ...

    Article : 179 words
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