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  2. ANECDOTES OF THE LATE EMPERORS

    A General who commanded a corps of artillery stationed at the Imperial head-quarters, had incurred, on some triffing occasion, the serious displeasure of the Emperor Alexander, shortly before the battle of Leipzig. His Majesty very ...

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  3. THE BROWNIES.—A DANISH TRADITION.

    There is scarcely a bouse in Denmark where things thrive, end go on in a proper manner, that has not a browny to take cure of it. Lucky is the servant girl and the stable-boy to whom the browny is favourable, for then they can go early ...

    Article : 506 words
  4. The Selector.

    It is a fact, no less extrnordiuary than trne, that there are [?]o dountrics on the habitable globe, where the arts of civi[?]ized life are at all understood, of which our knowledge is so limited and imperfect as of those lying immediately between ...

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  5. LOUIS BRABANT, THE VENTRILOQUIST.

    Louis Brilliant, the valet of Francis I. could not only emita voice from any distance, or in any direction, but had, also, the art of counterfeiting any voice which he had ever once heard. By this extraordinary faculty the following imposition was ...

    Article : 814 words
  6. THE ENGLISH LAW.

    The following dialogue (from Landorys Imaginary Conversations), between the president Du Paly, and Leopold, of Tuscany, is intended togive an idea of the view which might be taken of English law by the foreign Jurists:— ...

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  7. SINGULAR SUICIDE.

    IN the year 1600, on the 10th of April, one William Dorrington threw himself from the top of St. Sepuichre's Church, having previously left on the roof a paper, of which the following is a copy:—"Let no other man he troubled for that ...

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