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  2. KISSING FOR CHARITY.—A WIFE'S JEALOUSY SPOILS ALL.

    IF anyone had supposed it would turn out the way it did the scheme would not have been adopted, but the object was a charitable one, and the committee on invitation were very ...

    Article : 1,231 words
  3. LAND SETTLEMENT.

    THIS first annual report of the Lands Department, although calculated to be useful in many respects, lacks many important details and is defective in point of conciseness. The kind of ...

    Article : 763 words
  4. ARREST OF THE SECRETARY OF THE LAND LEAGUE.

    THE European Mail says:—"The arrest of Mr. Brennan is regarded in Dublin as a serious blow to the Land League movement, as he was, from the beginning, one of the most active ...

    Article : 252 words
  5. OUR RAILWAYS.

    THE main facts of the Railway report for the year 1880, shows the total number of miles of line open for traffic at the close of last year was 850,247 being in course of construction. Since ...

    Article : 497 words
  6. AN ELECTRIC EXHIBITION.

    FRENCH savans are organising an electrical exhibition, to be opened in Paris in August next, at which it is intended that all the most remarkable modern discoveries in the uses of ...

    Article : 361 words
  7. A DAY OF HUMILIATION.

    THE people of Peterborough have just had a general humiliation and intercession on account of the depression in agriculture and trade. Nearly the whole of the shops of the city were ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. ABOLITION OF FEES IN PUBLIC AND DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS.

    WE take the following from last Saturday's Sydney Mail:—Those who seek the abolition of fees in Public and Denominational schools ought to be able to show that the payment of fees ...

    Article : 543 words
  9. TERRIBLE TRADE OUTRAGE IN SHEFFIELD.

    ON May 28, Superintendant Cruit, of the Derbyshire police, and two constables, who had been watching Messrs. Staniford and Co.'s scythe works at Hackenthorpe, a short distance from ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. MIDHAT PASHA.

    THE Neue Freie Presse of Vienna, the leading journal in Austria, writes as follows respecting the alleged complicity of the ex-Governor of Smyrna in the assassination of Abdul Aziz:— ...

    Article : 268 words
  11. FEMALE INEBRIATES.

    THE following important letter on female inebriates appears in the Lancet: "No cases are so difficult to deal with as those of married women who are habitual tipplers; homes are made wretched, husbands get ...

    Article : 436 words
  12. THE LATE MYSTERIOUS POISONING CASE AT MARYBOROUGH.

    IN re the Hilder case, Mr. Hilder has made the following statement:—"I am aware that my adopted daughter, Miss Hilder, died on Monday morning last, under peculiar circumstances, and ...

    Article : 1,328 words
  13. LORD SALISBURY ON THE CABINET.

    IN the House of Lords on May 30, Lord Salisbury bitterly satirised the composition of the Liberal party, and of the present Cabinet. It consisted, he said, of an unboly alliance between ...

    Article : 188 words
  14. JEWS AND TREATIES.

    A DEPUTATION of Jews waited upon Lord Granville at the English Foreign Office, and on the same day a similar body of visitors was received at Gatschina, by the Emperor of Russia. The ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.

    THE causes that have combined to enable the American farmer to compete so successfully with its rivals on this side of the Atlantic are many. Among them, the debt he owes to the ingenuity of transatlantic ...

    Article : 269 words
  16. THE NEW SOVEREIGNS.

    A MEMORABLE event has occured in the Balkan peninsula. The titles of King and Queen have been assumed by the ruler of Roumania and his consort. European monarchy does not ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. THE EARTH'S GREAT AGE.

    IN a recent lecture at San Francisco, Professor William Denton gave several striking illustrations of the earth's age. First he said, we have evidence of the earth's great age in the tiny ...

    Article : 414 words
  18. MORE WONDERFUL THAN THE SIAMESE TWINS.

    VIENNA physicians have been examining, with much interest, a three-year-old pair of twins, who are not less of a curiosity than the Siamese twins were. From the breast down they have ...

    Article : 177 words
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