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  2. THE PASSING SHOW.

    That must have been an interesting series of communications which passed between the Government and the eminent lawyers whom they have elevated to the High Court ...

    Article : 1,834 words
  3. REVIEW ARTICLES.

    There are two articles of weight in the current issue of the "Quarterly Review." The one is upon "Religion and the Poor"— a study by H. Hensley Henson of the great ...

    Article : 1,641 words
  4. THE POINT OF VIEW.

    Rita and Vera came to me dressed for the carnival; as gaily as the garden is for the spring. They said that as I am not allowed to go further than the garden yet, ...

    Article : 2,442 words
  5. AMONG THE FEDERAL MEMBERS.

    Exit Sir Edmund Barton from the political sphere, and from the reach of the political spear. He is going now to a region where the most lightly-poised and ...

    Article : 1,764 words
  6. LIFE ABROAD. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    During the Humbert trial, the Advocate-General said Mme. Humbert, in 1889, spent £1,280 on dress at Worth's and £3,780 at Doucet's, making £5,060 in all. Next year ...

    Article : 125 words
  7. A DUFFY REMINISCENCE.

    In the "Cornhill Magazine" for August is an article by Mr. R. Barry O'Brien on the early career of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. The only item in it of interest to Victorians ...

    Article : 809 words
  8. GIVING AWAY HALF A MILLION.

    Mr. Andrew Carnegie has intimated his intention of making a gift to Dunfermline, his native town, of Steel Trust bonds valued at half a million pounds, producing ...

    Article : 243 words
  9. IN THE PAPERS.

    "The Times," in its literary supplement, revives the memory of a story told of the little Somerset village of Compton Dando. An old man was dying, and the friends ...

    Article : 2,207 words
  10. THE MILLIONAIRE DANGER.

    The "World" prints a Toronto interview with Professor Goldwin Smith, to whom it sent congratulations on his approaching eightieth birthday. Speaking of the ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. INSANITY'S MENACE.

    An appalling account of the increase of lunacy (says a London paper) is given in the annual report of the Lunacy Commissioners. ...

    Article : 202 words
  12. MARRYING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

    Mr. Andrew White, ex-United States ambassador, tells, in the "Century Magazine," how he was often called upon to intervene at Berlin on behalf of Americans who ...

    Article : 565 words
  13. GUARDS' BAND TO VISIT CANADA.

    The King has intimated, throngh the Commander-in-Chief, that he has been pleased to grant permission to the hand of the Cold-stream Guards to proceed to Cannda to ...

    Article : 92 words
  14. A PIQUET QUESTION.

    Mention of Lord Northcote, tho Governor-General elect ot Australia, has revived the memory of many stories connected with the Stafford Northcote family, to which he ...

    Article : 374 words
  15. TO OVERAWE A MOB.

    A new weapon for fighting mobs is being installed in the county gaol at Lafayette, Indiana, which state has been the scene of several disgraceful lynching affairs. ...

    Article : 106 words
  16. "CANOODLING" AND KISSING.

    The Charles River, which is to Boston what the Thames is to London, has for years been the favourite result of those who find summer [?]enjoyment in canoeing ...

    Article : 144 words
  17. PLANT OF LETHE.

    The medical association of Mexico will send to the St. Louis Exhibition an uncanny plant, which, grows wild in the state of Michoacan, and the aroma of ...

    Article : 75 words
  18. A SUSCEPTIBLE COWBOY.

    At a winter party, given out West, in America, was a bashful cowboy, who had not been in civilised society for several years. He was good-looking. One of the ...

    Article : 175 words
  19. BABY WEIGHS 25 POUNDS.

    A girl baby weighing twenty-five pounds was born to Mrs. Clark Boardley to-day. Drs. Samuel Manley and Robert C. Kenner, the attending physicians, regard this ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. SOMETHING TO SHOOT.

    A solitary sportsman, his gun under his arm, was wandering down a country lane in Inverness-shire, when he met a small boy making for school. ...

    Article : 63 words
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