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  2. GILBERT'S NEW PLAY IN LONDON.

    London, February 20.—Mr. Gilbert, author of H.M.S. Pinafore, has literally turned Goethe's sublime tragedy inside out. He discards the usual opening scene, with "Faust" as an old man, the ...

    Article : 451 words
  3. AN ARCADED STREET IN LONDON.

    Few Londoners (says the Globe) will hold that Regent-street, the chief thoroughfare in the richest quarter of the wealthiest city in the world, is what it ought to be in all respects; and any scheme for ...

    Article : 439 words
  4. Impoundings.

    ARMIDALE.—Chestnut mare, small star, [?] over K near shoulder. W over K off shoulder, aged, 15 hands. Brown gelding [?] over [?] conjoined near shoulder, star, broken-in. aged, 15½ hands. Bay gelding, S over W near shoulder. ...

    Article : 1,626 words
  5. (FROM THE GAZETTE, MAY 13.)

    BOGGABRI.—Bay mare, broken, star off hind foot white, JC near shoulder, f over Es over M near shoulder, Over C off rump, r near neck, aged, 14 ½ hands.—Day of sale, May 29. ...

    Article : 1,374 words
  6. THE HISTORIC PLAGUE.

    The plague is one of the oldest things under the sun. According to Petavius, it ravaged the whole known world in 767 B.C. In 534 B.C. it made lerrible havoc in Carthage, and the people, ...

    Article : 240 words
  7. THE AUSTRALIAN BUG.

    Professor C. V. Riley, entomologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, reports that serious complaints have come from the Pacific slops during the year of a new insect that is killing many of ...

    Article : 200 words
  8. TWENTY-THREE MILES AN HOUR AND NO SEA-SICKNESS.

    Yachismen and tourists who visit the Isle of Wight or Southampton have often been puzzled by a strange craft that crutses in those waters, and which invariably slows down to ordinary ...

    Article : 448 words
  9. A GERMAN BURIED ALIVE, AND RESURRECTS HIMSELF.

    A German gentleman, named Vester, a resident of Newark, has obtained a patent for a safety coffin, designed to provide a way of escape to those who might be buried during suspended ...

    Article : 511 words
  10. MECHANICAL MARVELS.

    Some newly-invented machinery is now in operation at the Oak mills, near Low Moor, in the immediate vicinity of Bradford, The machinery is so constructed that it will run all night ...

    Article : 88 words
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