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  2. The Sketcher.

    Barry Pain, writing in "To-day, says: —Albert Chippel was fairly well off, and unmarried. It is so seldom that facts are just as they should be that I ...

    Article : 902 words
  3. Short Story. Otto Williard. A Reminiscence. Concluded.) V.

    I ought hardly to say. though. that nothing came of W[?]liard's friendship for Miss Mainwaring. for we all of us felt tolerably certain a month or two ...

    Article : 308 words
  4. The Gothenburg System.

    The "Times" contains interesting letters from a correspondent sent to inquire into the working of the Gothenburg system. The writer declares that ...

    Article : 304 words
  5. A Spanish Romance in Real Life.

    Much sensation has been caused in the Spanish capital (says the Madrid corespondent of the "standard) by the news that a well-known millionaire, ...

    Article : 993 words
  6. Spray. A Thoughtful Domestic.

    When Mr. and Mrs. Grant Allen first married they lived, remarks a contemporary. in a little cottage and kept one servant, a German girl. Grant Allen ...

    Article : 143 words
  7. A Bump-reader's Error.

    An a[?]using tale of a phrenologist's mistake is credited to John Burroughs, the American author and bort[?]culturist. "Here's a boy." said the professor. in ...

    Article : 122 words
  8. Vesuvius in Eruption.

    During the present century Vesuvius has displayed [?]s restlessness by having thirty eruptions. The most disastrous [?]ded in history is that of A.D. 79, ...

    Article : 46 words
  9. Mechanical Firelighter.

    An ingenious device has been brought out in England. by the adoption of which the use of wood. paper. &c., in starting a fire is dispensed with. The ...

    Article : 203 words
  10. Rangers We Run Every Day.

    How often we stay-at-home people. when reading of the latest battle or wild adventure on the borders of civilisation. hug ourselves with the thought. ...

    Article : 690 words
  11. Had Him There.

    At a city church a member of the [?]ockney cadger fraternity waited behind after the sermon to see the officiating clergyman. On being shown ...

    Article : 122 words
  12. VI.

    The Willards had been at Grey Court about a month when [?] [?] home. Contrary to any expectation of mine. [?]e no sooner heard of my arrival than ...

    Article : 2,522 words
  13. Aim High.

    A newly-fledged young curate was told by his vicar to take the weddings one Sunday. and he was enjoined to be careful to get the age of the parties ...

    Article : 151 words
  14. Fighting Value of a Ship’s Armament.

    In an article on "The Development of Naval Ordnance" ("Engineering." London. 17th Mayl. the following elements are given as necessary in estimating ...

    Article : 181 words
  15. Licensed Cabmen.

    In Paris there are 15.790 licensed cabmen. Of these 15,539 are Frenchmen and 251 are foreigners. The latter belong to the following nationalities:— ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. The Planet Saturn.

    It was at one time supposed that the rings of Saturn represented a solid structure. and this view was generally accepted until in 1857 Clerk-Maxwell ...

    Article : 173 words
  17. A Wedding Cheese.

    In the cheese regions of Switzerland [?] custom prevails for the friends of a bride and bridegroom to join in the presentation to them on their ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. Foghorns.

    The American experiments indicating that fog-horns are surrounded by a zone of inaudibility. although distinctly heard beyond it. were received in ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. England Surveyed.

    The great Ordnance Survey map of England. containing over 180.000 sheets, and costing during the past twenty years about £200,000 a year, is nearly ...

    Article : 132 words
  20. My Doubts.

    The sign on the door read. "Money to Loan." Now I needed money, needed it the worst way. So I entered the office. I found it b[?]isk young man ...

    Article : 259 words
  21. Some Statistics of Misery.

    As a merely preliminary offering to the sum of misery, it is recorded that in London 144 persons came under the notice of the police as having attempted to ...

    Article : 174 words
  22. In Hawarden Park.

    The park is 250 acres in area, but its hilly surface and the skilful disposition of its timber foliage favour the illusion of greater size. In places Mr. ...

    Article : 340 words
  23. Whist Classes.

    It is a characteristic feature of the age that every talent, nay every accomplishment, is turned to practical and remunerative account. Miss Wh[?]clock, ...

    Article : 114 words
  24. A Pharaoh As Dried Fish.

    The official Egyptian has apparently no particular respect for the remains of his ancestors. Brugsch Bey recently discovered a mummy—believed to be one ...

    Article : 241 words
  25. An Electrical [?]riller.

    A novel machine has lately been in use on the new cruiser Talbot. at Devonport Dockyard. for drilling the boles in her bottom plates, and has proved a great ...

    Article : 217 words
  26. At a Rehearsal.

    Many stories have been told about the the late Dr. von Bulow, but the following. the "Daily News" believes." is an unfamiliar one. A certain noble lady ...

    Article : 147 words
  27. How to Shake Hands.

    Mrs. Cleveland, the wife of the American President, can shake hands with 5000 people in two hours, and feel the freshest woman in the company when all ...

    Article : 125 words
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