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  2. AN AUSTRALIAN ON FRENCH RACING.

    Eight consecutive days' racing at Paris, the Flower Show, and the Exhibition—a veritable bean feast for me. Can I miss the opportunity. He who hesitates is ...

    Article : 3,249 words
  3. SOME TRUTHS ABOUT THE WAR.

    The lights of the crowded and busy hotel bathed the broad stoop where forty men and women in evening dress chatted over iced beverages and burning tobacco. ...

    Article : 1,705 words
  4. ECHOES FROM LONDON.

    The Aldershot muddle last week, which resulted in the death and prostration of so many men, is the subject of a "Punch" cartoon, in which Field-Marshal Punch ...

    Article : 377 words
  5. THEATRE QUEUES.

    The visitor to London is at an early period of his sojourn here struck by the patience and orderly behavior of the persons forming the queues outside the ...

    Article : 132 words
  6. ROBBING A PRINCESS.

    The Russian Princess Radziwill has been robbed of L10,000 to L15,000 worth of pearls at a city hotel. She was ready to start for Paris, and ...

    Article : 97 words
  7. THE QUEEN'S FRENCH DESCENT.

    Sir,—Your correspondent in the "Spectator" of 9th June is wrong in asserting that Sophie Dorothea of Celle, daughter of Eleonore d'Olbreuse and Duke George ...

    Article : 309 words
  8. THE GHOST OF AIRLIE.

    Who heard the ghostly drummer of Cortachy Castle beat the death-roll of the late Earl of Airlie. His spectral tattoo is ever the herald of ...

    Article : 432 words
  9. NAVAL AND MILITARY.

    Olympia has been the scene of many striking displays, but never has it afforded a prettier spectacle than it did yesterday, and will do until to-morrow ...

    Article : 1,866 words
  10. ENGLAND'S COAST DEFENCE.

    If war broke out between England and some European Power, the Channel Fleet would be sent to the Mediterranean. The Reserve Fleet would then ...

    Article : 282 words
  11. KLONDYKE GOLDFIELDS

    According to the Geological Survey Department of the Dominion of Canada, the Klondyke gold fields are bounded in a general way by the Yukon river on the ...

    Article : 314 words
  12. AWKWARD FOR THE DOCTOR.

    A very remarkable action for damages against a medical practitioner has just been concluded. The plaintiff was a nurse, who sued. Dr Dods for the libel ...

    Article : 259 words
  13. A DISMAL DIARY.

    The following pathetic extracts from the dairy of a girl who had drowned herself in the Thames during temporary insanity were read at an inquest in ...

    Article : 264 words
  14. CLOSE TO THE POLE.

    The most northerly people in the world are a tribe discovered by Sir John Ross in 1818. They live along the coast of Greenland above Melville ...

    Article : 459 words
  15. THE ROYAL BARGE.

    There are few people, says a writer in the "Windsor Magazine," who are aware that the Queen has still a Royal Barge-Master, though the barge itself is now a ...

    Article : 265 words
  16. THE LATE ARCHIBALD FORBES.

    Mrs Forbes, widow of the late war correspondent, is the sole executrix of his will. The estate was estimated at the gross value of L10,908. ...

    Article : 29 words
  17. ART SALES.

    On Saturday, Messrs Christie sold some valuable pictures at high prices. One by George Pomney—a full-length portrait of a young girl who afterwards became Mrs ...

    Article : 76 words
  18. THE SUEZ CANAL.

    The Suez Canal is such a financial success that the old project of building another may be undertaken before very long. The annual report states that the ...

    Article : 330 words
  19. ANTIQUITIES OF SILCHESTER.

    On the site of the old Roman city of Silchester antiquities are constantly being recovered, consisting of coins, glasswork, ornaments, seals, keys, and pottery. The ...

    Article : 85 words
  20. THE "DAILY EXPRESS" VENTURE.

    It having been said that the "Daily Express" will shortly be floated into a company, Mr C. Arthur Pearson, the proprietor, informs the "Sun"—the publisher of ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. THE KAISER IN PARIS.

    According to information said to be derived from German sources, the "Gaulois" states this morning that the Emperor William has already visited the Exhibition, ...

    Article : 183 words
  22. DOCKERS' STRIKE.

    The dockers' strike seems likely to collapse, with the result to the men of permanent loss of their work. It is said that 12,000 are out, but these numbers are ...

    Article : 146 words
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