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  2. EXTRAORDINARY HIGHLAND SUPERSTITIONS.

    The Highlanders (says the "Pall Mall Gazette") are as a people preeminently superstitious. The belief in 'the Daoine Shi (fairies—literally, "men ...

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  3. FROM COURTS COUNTER AND BACK AGAIN.

    Behind the counter of a tiny watchmarker's shop in a Broadway side street may be seen any day the hero of a romance as strange and thrilling ...

    Article : 763 words
  4. TRANSVAAL CLIPPINGS.

    The refusal of the Boor element in South Africa to assimilate with the British has made trouble for years past, and their aggressiveness has been increasing to such ...

    Article : 68 words
  5. COPPER MINING.

    'The English metalliferous mining industry appears to have entered upon a much more hopeful period than has characterised it for many years past, ...

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  6. THE IRISH IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    Irishmen here, I might say nine-tenths of them, support the demands of the Uitlander .Council, and lately both in the Transvaal and the colonies have spoken ...

    Article : 136 words
  7. MR. RHODES AND ENGLISH STATESMEN.

    In his speech on returning to Cape- town (on July 20) Mr. Rhodes gave some interesting reminiscences. One of these referred to Mr. Gladstone. ...

    Article : 353 words
  8. BOER "UTTER CANT."

    My knowledge of the facts convinces me that the Transvaal Government is rotten through and through with bribery and corruption, and where not corrupt stands ...

    Article : 142 words
  9. LITTLE ENGLANDER TO UITLANDER.

    Attractive as your efforts are To cleanse the wrong, to clear the shame, Between us lies a fatal bar— ...

    Article : 47 words
  10. DANGEROUS SURGERY.

    Dean's Ointment cures piles quickly, painlessly, without danger. People go along for years suffering with piles. They try this and that and the ...

    Article : 346 words
  11. CURIOUS CRICKET MATCHES

    Some very curious cricket matches have taken place at various times. The Surrey bowler, Richardson, once arranged a novel match at Thames ...

    Article : 681 words
  12. CAPE TO CAIRO AT MONMOUTH.

    In another part of his speech, Mr. Rhodes told a story of Sir William Harcourt. If he had had one consistent opponent in connection with his thoughts of expansion it was Sir ...

    Article : 224 words
  13. WOMEN AS WHIPS.

    To drive four-in-hand along Piccadilly in the height of the London season' might be taken as the test of good horsemanship. This sensational ...

    Article : 232 words
  14. MR. RHODES AND THE BOER BABY

    Referring to the Transvaal, Mr. Rhodes related some of his old experiences in 1884-85, at the time of the Boer raid into Bechuanaland. Some ...

    Article : 332 words
  15. BRITAIN V. RUSSIA.

    The expected conflict between Russian and British interests over Hankow has at last arisen (says the "Daily Mail" correspondent at Shanghai). ...

    Article : 424 words
  16. MY FIRST BEAR.

    The Kumara Rajah of Bobbili writes to a Madras paper:—"At about 9 a.m. on July 23 a man came running up from a place some eight miles north ...

    Article : 794 words
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