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  2. SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.

    Sir,—The complaint in "The Argus" of this morning of "A Poor Mother" is certainly rather severe on all teachers, who now, alas, comprise so very large a section ...

    Article : 608 words
  3. TRAITS OF LEWIS CARROLL.

    The lighter vein of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" opened early, and his first published lines are of home— "I watch the drowsy night expire, ...

    Article : 935 words
  4. MORGUE JURYMEN,

    Had the late Dr. Youl lived a few years longer the word "morguer," of which he made frequent use, would have passed into the language. It does not refer in any ...

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  5. RESIGNATION OF MR. JUSTICE HAWKINS.

    Mr. Justice Hawkins has resigned his seat on the Bench after having been a judge for upwards of twenty-two years, he having been raised to the Bench on November 2, ...

    Article : 929 words
  6. THE NEW LORD CHAMBERLAIN

    The following description of Lord Hopetoun appears in "M.A.P.":— The Earl of Hopetoun, whose appointment to the office of Lord Chamberlain ...

    Article : 1,280 words
  7. THE DREYFUS CASE.

    There has been a sharp debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Dreyfus case, turning chielly on the question whether the Government ought or ought not to permit ...

    Article : 1,909 words
  8. THE INSIDE PASSENGER.

    It was a hot summer morning in the long-ago days, when Victoria was young and gave a bountiful welcome to those adventurous spirits flocking from other ...

    Article : 3,177 words
  9. THE LACK OF GREAT MEN.

    With the century genius appears to be dying out. That is perhaps too brusque a sentence, requiring some qualifications, but it conveys what is substantially the ...

    Article : 977 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—"A Poor Mother's" protest against the excessive length of school holidays is well timed, and I hope the complaint will be echoed far and wide. The labours of ...

    Article : 215 words
  11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—"A Poor Mother" has hit the nail fairly on the head. My boy's college closed on December 14, and is to open again on February 14—nine weeks at ...

    Article : 107 words
  12. ABOUT CHEERFULNESS.

    In the "North American Review" Mr. Max O'Rell has some studies in cheerfulness, from which we take two pictures:— Some three years ago I was spending a ...

    Article : 772 words
  13. THE WORKING GIRLS' CLUB, COLLINGWOOD.

    Sir,—May I again through the medium of your columns call attention to the beneficial work which is being done for the working girls of Collingwood by means of ...

    Article : 256 words
  14. RANDOM READINGS.

    The anger of the French Chauvinist press at the Fashoda failure, and the general "set back" on the Nile, is evaporating now in grief. There is a growing inclination ...

    Article : 795 words
  15. THE LATE REV. G. J. TAYLOR, M.A.

    Sir,—The Rev. W. G. Hindley's letter in your issue of to-day has touched my heart with tender sympathy for the widow and children of the above elergyman. ...

    Article : 253 words
  16. WHAT THE HAIR TELLS OF PERSONAL CHARACTER.

    There is, perhaps, no sight on earth that gives more pleasure to the spectator than a head of glossy, Inxuriant hair. It has been from time immemorial considered a ...

    Article : 596 words
  17. FRENCH ALARM.

    Sir Weymess Reid writes in the "Speaker:"—There are curious stories as to the state of feeling in Paris just now. Incredible as it may seem, a very large ...

    Article : 343 words
  18. SHOULD NURSES DANCE?

    Bradford (Yorkshire) is distracted by the vital question—Should the nurses at the workhouse be allowed to dance? The quardians have just furnished the male ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. PIN PRICKS.

    Sir,—In the interesting and amusing "Passing Show" of "The Argus" of last Saturday I found the following:—"It is odd how quickly a phrase circles the globe. It ...

    Article : 211 words
  20. THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD SHOOTING.

    Lord Wolseley, speaking at the annual prize distribution of a volunteer regiment (2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers), laid great stress upon the importance of good ...

    Article : 261 words
  21. AS IN TUNIS, SO IN EGYPT.

    Dr. John Maedonnell, master of the Supreme Court, writing in the "Nineteenth Century" on "Egypt and Tunis—a Study in International Law," expresses a ...

    Article : 233 words
  22. A SPANISH WOMAN'S SUFFERING.

    Dona Maria Luisa Inigo, known as the beroine of Panta Brava, has arrived in Barcelona, her native place. She was living on a tobocco plantation in Cuba, with her ...

    Article : 215 words
  23. PRESSED HAY FOR JAPAN.

    Sir,—There is little or no hay produced in Japan, and its requirements in this respect are supplied by the importation of pressed hay from America. Seeing the ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. A GRAND ATTENDANCE.

    The number of people that have visited Cole's Book Areade this season has been immeuse, Books, ever-attractive books of all kinds, Music, Pictures, Fancy Goods, Toys, Christmas and New year ...

    Article : 60 words
  25. WHAT ARE THE BEST PRESENTS?

    No better Christmas Present can be made than a Book. It does the receiver good, and it Insts. There is an enormous variety to choose from, re tail and wholesale, at Cole's Book Areade, ...

    Article : 68 words
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