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  2. A VISIT TO NEWGATE.

    It is eight o'clock on a Monday morning, and, amid the striking of many clocks and the tolling of one dismal bell, three figures appear in dresdfal prominence upon the lofty ...

    Article : 1,540 words
  3. A PRACTICAL JOKE.

    Among celebrated men, actors have prob. ably been the most given to practical joking.: Charles Matthews; in his autobiography, relates this story:— ...

    Article : 268 words
  4. LINES FOR AN ÆSTHETIC.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 228 words
  5. Wit and Wisdom.

    "Condition"-Drill Sergeant (to. recruit): "Throw out your chest and keep in your stomach! A soldier should always have a full chest and a empty stomach !"—Punch. ...

    Article : 591 words
  6. GERTY'S GLOVE.

    "Elle avail an bout de ses monches Une pair de mains [?] blanches!" Slips of a kid-skin, deftly sewn, A scent as through her garden blown, ...

    Article : 125 words
  7. MARK TWAIN'S NEW VERSION OF HAMLET.

    Access has been had to the advanced sheets of Mark Twain's new play, which' will be g brought out in New York some time during or he coming winter. It is not exactly a new nm ...

    Article : 1,391 words
  8. OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

    Australian passengers by the overland route homeward not unfrequently avail themselves of the facilities afforded them by the P. and O. Company to diverge from the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 130 words
  9. MORE LUCK THAN GRANT.

    At a social gathering a few nights ago, at a house on Austin Avenue, they were talking about lucky men, when Bill. Prior spoke up and said that he knew a man who had more ...

    Article : 119 words
  10. Agricultural, &c.

    It is very rare that the mother does not voluntarily, and at once, commence to cleanse its progengy; navertheless there are exceptions (says G. Fleming, F. R. C. V. S.), chiefly among ...

    Article : 543 words
  11. TWO SIDES OF A LAW QUESTION.

    Mr. Barnes of Vermont, as a lawyer, Lad his happy faculty of impressing his clients that justice and law were with them in all eases. A rough cou[?]y man walked into the office of Mr. ...

    Article : 500 words
  12. LADY GODIVA

    Have you ever heard of Coventry, an old town not very far from London, where some of the streets are so narrow that no waggon can pass through them, and where the second ...

    Article : 812 words
  13. OSCAR WILDE, THE ÆSTHETE.

    Many persons may like to know what Oscar Wilde, the esthete, is like. I find in a late American paper the following description:—" During my last visit I met Lady Wilde ...

    Article : 394 words
  14. ALEXANDER III.

    Alexander HL. the CAR of Russia, was born on March 10, 1854. He was the second son of the late emperor, his elder brother. dismissed M[?]ik off in disgrace and adapted ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 222 words
  15. THE DAIRY.

    From the Farmer we take the following description of a new kind of churn recently in- rented by a Mr. Slater:—"The churn under notice is of a simple construction, but of a totally ...

    Article : 596 words
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