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  2. AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

    The weather continues in every way favorable to the growth of crops, and a good harvest is now almost assured in all parts of the district. Everywhere there is a strong ...

    Article : 1,292 words
  3. ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

    The Londoners have taken to the Thames throughout the summer months, and eat, drink, and sleep in what are known as house boats. These usually contain a sung ...

    Article : 706 words
  4. EXCERPTS FROM THE ENGLISH PAPERS.

    Iroquois, the winner of the Derby and St. Leger, has been twice badly boa ten lately in the land of his birth. The Society of Friends in England has just ...

    Article : 911 words
  5. AN ALL-ROUND FIGHT.

    A Louisville paper is responsible for the following story, which it asserts is vouched for on good authority. It is related that Mr Sam. M’Curdy was sitting ’neath the shade ...

    Article : 432 words
  6. BURNING OF THE SCRIPTURES IN SPAIN.

    On the festival day of St James—the patron saint of Spain—the 25th of July last, 1300 copies of the Gospels were committed to the flames in the Costom-house at Barcelona. ...

    Article : 507 words
  7. VITAL STATISTICS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 591 words
  8. ASTRONOMICAL NOTES FOR NOVEMBER, 1883.

    The sun is in the sign of the Scales till the 23rd, and then enters Scorpion. The sun’s surface is in a disturbed state ; groups of sunspots are frequent and numerous. ...

    Article : 1,137 words
  9. A DOCTOR 107 YEARS OLD.

    When a man and a doctor attains the age of 107 years in good health, and dies in the full possession of all his faculties, the announcement that the secret which enabled ...

    Article : 262 words
  10. THE ALLEGED GOLDFIELDS IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    It is well that a word of caution should be raised against an indiscriminate rush being made upon the supposed gold mines of the Transvaal. If the country is as rich as ...

    Article : 322 words
  11. DECREASE OF THE POPULATION IN GERMANY.

    The German Government has been much surprised to find that the population of the empire, which had for many years been increasing, despite the constant flow of ...

    Article : 198 words
  12. HOW THINGS APPEAR TO THE INSANE.

    The first that I remember of my attack was while I was riding in a railroad car. It seemed to me that the passengers in the forward part were getting up amateur ...

    Article : 442 words
  13. GREAT SUBSIDENCE OF MINED LAND IN YORKSHIRE.

    A great subsidence of land, consequent on mining operations, took place at Boosbec, Yorkshire, and caused considerable alarm. Windows, doors, and portions of walls of ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. ARABI PASHA.

    The friends of Arabi are said to be only waiting their time to bring him back again as a possible political ruler in Egypt. They are already arranging to keep him constantly ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. HOW A THIEF WAS CAUGHT.

    As a capital illustration of the “biter bit,” the folio wing incident, which is vouched for by a correspondent, and which occurred to a “caney Scot,” who arrived in London ...

    Article : 271 words
  16. THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 words
  17. SALT WATER A REMEDY FOR CHOLERA.

    An account of some sailors who, when attacked by cholera, were cured by being immersed in the sea, has been recently published. It is now stated, however, that ...

    Article : 162 words
  18. THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA.

    Alaska possesses stores of minerals in the shape of gold, silver, and coal. Near the mining town of Janean a good many gold ledges have been discovered, and it is ...

    Article : 208 words
  19. PROPOSED EXHUMATION OF SHAKSPEARES REMAINS.

    It is announced that the vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, the Rev. G. Arbuthnot, is not opened to the exhuming of Shakespeare’s remains, as proposed by Dr Ingleby, one of ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 words
  21. SIR WALTER SCOTT.

    Sir Walter Scott, thine honored name Belovel by all, cad event of fame, Doth fresh inspire my [?] As now, deep in the bush retreat, ...

    Article : 172 words
  22. THE TELEGRAPH LINE.

    A native chief from Timbuctoo Came here to view the land. And such things as to him were new, He tried to understand. ...

    Article : 228 words
  23. A BUNDLE OF LETTERS.

    Strange how much sentiment Clings like a fragrant scent To these love-letters pent In their pink covers; ...

    Article : 286 words
  24. MY BONNY NELL.

    The son o’ life may rise and sink, An’ s’ her bonny stars begin to blink. Her silvery moon may come an’ go, An’ oceans too, may ebb an’ flow, ...

    Article : 169 words
  25. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    Sir Henry Brand is really a man of marvellous physique. He is in his seventieth year, and has spent a busy life in politics. Even a Prime Minister can sleep through a ...

    Article : 353 words
  26. THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND’S ESTATE AND SCOTTISH GRAZING.

    SIR,—As much has been written of late by “Tom Touchstone” and “Highland Woman” about the maladministration, or rather tyranny, of the Sutherland estate, it may ...

    Article : 1,941 words
  27. RETROSPECT.

    True to one loving face. Bright as the summer-skies; The happy thoughts within Shone in those gentle eyes. ...

    Article : 114 words
  28. AN ORIGINAL RHYME, WITH A MORAL AT THE END THEREOF.

    A friend of mine, the other any (“Was very silly !” some might say), Took for a wife as fine a less As in a day’s march you would past. ...

    Article : 201 words
  29. IN THE MEMORY OF CHARLES WALTER MURRAY.

    Three years have pissed; three summers f[?]ed, Since our dear Walter died, And how the time has onward sped; How many gone besides. ...

    Article : 88 words
  30. SOLITUDE.

    How sweet when the toils of the day shall have past. And the spade or the pen is laid down at last, And the brain for a time is at rest; ...

    Article : 200 words
  31. MT QUEEN.

    As queen of roses I saw her once, Standing beneath the rose-tree, Whose crimson blossoms and tinted buds Seemed no fairer than she. ...

    Article : 110 words
  32. RACHEL, ’TIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST,

    Death bath passed by the corn, ripe for the sheaf, To blast my neighbor’s blo[?], Bitterly She weeps for the sweet girl. Yet there may Be a woe far de[?]per. Though her life was [?] ...

    Article : 79 words
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