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  2. English and Foreign Extracts.

    At the recent launch of the Cunard liner Aurania, 7500 tons gross register, from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. J. and G. Thomson, Clydebank, Glasgow, Mr. James E. Thomson, one of the builders, in ...

    Article : 345 words
  3. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Duke and Duchess of Connaught ara travalling through France aa Mr. and Mrs. Sussex. The British ship Jacob Stander and the Norwegian ship Zorka were burnt in the Now York Lower ...

    Article : 1,333 words
  4. THE PRESS.

    From the "Newspaper Press Directory" for 1833 we extract the following on the present position of the newspaper Press:—"There are now published in tho United Kingdom 1962 newspapers, distributed as ...

    Article : 212 words
  5. SMOKERS AND DRINKERS.

    Mr. Matthew Arnold tells us that he has never smoked and has always drunk wine —chiefly claret. As a general rule he drinks waterin the middle of the day. At a late dinner "a glass or two of sherry, and ...

    Article : 513 words
  6. PENCHANTS FOR WIDOWS.

    A Milwaukee paper contributes a chapter m the history of the man Jones; of San Francisco, whose persecution of Miss Stilos, of Fond du Lac, is attracting so much attention. According to the published ...

    Article : 608 words
  7. LIVERPOOL'S RIVER TUNNEL.

    The enterprise and more than princely liberality of Liverpool keep pace with the times. The prosent exemplification of the spirit ol energy that animates this great commercial city amply proves this, It is ...

    Article : 341 words
  8. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA,

    Of historical contributions in the forthcoming volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the most important is, perhaps, a monograph on the Medici by Professor Villari; the late Professor Pauli ...

    Article : 192 words
  9. WELL-KNOWN TO THE POLICE.

    Says Sergeant Ballantine, the well-known London barrister:—"Ono night, late—it might be early morning—I was in Piccadilly, and attracted by a gathering of people I came upon a policeman ...

    Article : 224 words
  10. THE SUNDAY QUESTION.

    A paper in the "Cornhill Magazine" for March on Pictures for the People, by Henrietta Barnett, is worthy of attention in connection with the present agitation in Victoria for throwing open libraries, ...

    Article : 423 words
  11. AUSTRALIA AND THE DRAMA.

    It ia not often that authors draw upon the colonios for the personages in thoir books or plays. Novelists would do well to imitate the late Henry Kingsley, and work the rich mine of characters and scene to be ...

    Article : 241 words
  12. ARTFUL JUMBO.

    Jumbo has boon causing a great deal of mischief in his new home in America. He has had a large mastiff put beside him to serve aa a companion in place of a dog formerly filling this position, but the ...

    Article : 190 words
  13. JUDAH BENJAMIN, Q.C.

    The final retirement, of Mr. Benjamin from practice at the English bar closes a career which is among the most extraordinary of our time. It is, indced, hardly correct to speak of Mr. Benjamin's career, for he has ...

    Article : 198 words
  14. A FOREIGNER ON CRICKET.

    There are Englishmen in Portugal, and wherever there are Englishmen, of course there will be cricket. Clubs have been established at Lisbon and Oporto, and it was on the occasion of a match between these ...

    Article : 434 words
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