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  2. Tasmania New Governor.

    Sir Robert George Cruickshank Hamilton, K.C.B., the newly-appointed Governor of Tasmania, and for the past four years Secretary for Ireland, was born in 1836. He is the son of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 324 words
  3. A Classical Artist.

    No painter of modern times has done so much in the way of illustrating the more picturesque features of life in ancent Greece and Rome than Alma Tadema, who is certainly one of the most ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 315 words
  4. Merlatti, the Fasting Man.

    Said the London TELEGRAPH of December 16: Yesterday evening Merlatti, whose name has figured so frequently during the last seven weeks in the letters of our Paris correspondent, brought his fifty ...

    Article : 633 words
  5. A British Political "Agent."

    It used to be said that the following of the late Earl of Beaconsfield consisted of a single individual, his private secretary, Montagu William Lowry Corry, afterward Baron Rowton. This ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 563 words
  6. Our Northern River Districts.

    Upon the Clarence, the Richmond, and the Tweed, the three northernmost rivers of the colony, there are thousands of acres of rich fertile land devoted to the cultivation of sugarcane; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,391 words
  7. THOMAS STEVENS, THE FAMOUS TOURIST "BIKE."

    Undoubtedly the most extraordinary bicycle tour ever attempted is that of Thomas Stevens, the American cyclist, who in April, 1885, started from San Francisco, California, to journey on his wheel round the world which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 525 words
  8. Mrs. Langtry's Complexion.

    A woman once wrote to Mrs. Langtry for the secret of her wonderful complexion, which is never marred by the disfigurements which affect all faces at times. To her vapor baths Mrs. Langtry attributes her ...

    Article : 279 words
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    Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a ...

    Article : 96 words
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