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  2. IS IT SUICIDE?

    Mark Twain tells the story that at the inquest held on the body of Buck Fanshaw—was during the delirium of a raging typhoid, fever had taken arsenic, shot himself through the ...

    Article : 432 words
  3. EUROPEAN NOTES.

    A contributor to the Figara has been allowed two interviews, one of them lasting four hours, with the Italian Premier, Signor Crispi, and has published a condensed epitome ...

    Article : 3,211 words
  4. SUBMARINE BOATS IN WAR.

    The Berista General do Marina contains an account of the trials which took place at Cadiz in May and June last, of the sub-marine boat designed by Lieutenant Peral, of ...

    Article : 657 words
  5. A SACRED RIVER.

    From the reeking atmosphere of Bombay, and by a detour over the hot plains of the Deccan, I came to the old city of Naisk, one of the five most sacred places of al India, whither, ...

    Article : 1,178 words
  6. A MYSTERIOUS MINE.

    It was the fortune of the waiter, a few days ago, while on a train running between El Paso and San Antoine, Tex., to meet Colonel D. It—, a well-known and respected citizen of ...

    Article : 2,065 words
  7. MR. GLADSTONE ON THE CREATION STORY.

    In a court of justice the evidence of a witness is to be accepted on matters within his coguisance, when his character unit intelligence are not questioned ; or again when the main part ...

    Article : 1,516 words
  8. THE GRENADIER GUARDS AT ST. GEORGE'S, BERMUDA.

    A correspondent of a contemporary writes:—" To those who are accustomed to hear regimental bands, and who are unacquainted with this little town, the late capital of the ...

    Article : 613 words
  9. THE EXTERMINATION OF SEALS.

    The statement made by D. H. James, the United States cutter Rush, dated se Oonalaska, that the seals in Behring Sea at in danger of extermination, is fully confirme ...

    Article : 452 words
  10. A DUEL BETWEEN ELEPHANTS.

    It was my good fortune, writes a correspondent to a Karachi paper, for some years to spend some months every season in a fine forest and hill country, whore my duties ...

    Article : 645 words
  11. SOME AMUSING BLUNDERS.

    It goes without saying that a great and amusing class of blunders arises from the employment of ambiguous forms of expression, or in other words, from "slipshod' English. ...

    Article : 449 words
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    Advertising : 558 words
  13. AN OPEN LETTER.

    Dear Sir,—As a rule no one can treat advertisement for patent medicines with more indifference than I do, but I must say that the advertisement in the "Figaro" about three weeks ago so "fetched" ...

    Article : 288 words
  14. INDIFFERENCE OF DEATH.

    A remarkable instance of indifference to pain and death, and of the promptitude to throw away life on what seems the most insufficient provocation, is recorded in the Indian papers as ...

    Article : 299 words
  15. IMPROMPTU MARRIAGES.

    A last century nobleman astonished his friends by marrying one of his domestics under the following curious circumstances: —" He was engaged to be married to a lady of his own ...

    Article : 436 words
  16. NASTURTIUMS.

    "People who wish to be odd or exclusive in their flower garden, as in everything else, may say the nasturtium is too common " (says Miss Parloa in Good Housekeeping), "but so are pure ...

    Article : 414 words
  17. THE PRETTY DIPLOMAT.

    I know her by her Empire gown, Her winkled gloves, her stylish jacket; By certain features like my own, And ways, perhaps, as diplomatic. ...

    Article : 163 words
  18. THE TIME TO MARRY.

    A good story reaches Woman from the somewhat out of the way region of Petaluna. Early last week all was going merrily at a very interesting wedding in the town until ...

    Article : 160 words
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