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  2. HORSELESS CARRIAGES.

    At the Society of Arts, in London, lately. Mr. H. H. Cunynghame read a paper on "Locomotive Carriages for Common Roads." ...

    Article : 93 words
  3. EDGAR ALLAN POE'S BIRTHPLACE.

    In view of the publication of new editions of Edgar Allan Poe's works, it is worthy of note that interest concerning the poet seems ...

    Article : 144 words
  4. PROFESSOR BLACKIE AND THE POETIC COLONEL.

    Here is an interesting extract from a hitherto unpublished letter written by Professor Blackie last year to a correspondent who ...

    Article : 183 words
  5. POLICE COURTS.

    Henry Bridge and William Allen had to pay 10s. and £1 respectively for disorderly conduct on the previous day. The latter was ...

    Article : 99 words
  6. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Mr. James Annand contributes to the New Review an article in which he discusses the future of the Liberal party, with special reference ...

    Article : 904 words
  7. THE PEER-MAYORS.

    In the days of the Plantagenets the inhabitants of the towns sought charters from the Sovereign in order to protect themselves from ...

    Article : 1,198 words
  8. A POPULAR ACTOR.

    George Alexander (writes a London gossip) has recently been much annoyed by a charge which he had to answer in a police court. It ...

    Article : 305 words
  9. MONDAY, JANUARY 6.

    Several men who appeared before the Bench for the first time on charges of inebriety were discharged with a caution. ...

    Article : 308 words
  10. THE POPE AS CHESS PLAYER.

    Leo XIII., according to the Debate, is an ardent lover of chess. He has been a constant player for over thirty years, and hie skill in ...

    Article : 144 words
  11. A BABY'S CAUL.

    An English paper is responsible for the following curious letter which, it alleges, was received by an Australian manager:— ...

    Article : 175 words
  12. SIR GEORGE TRESSADY.

    The Century has begun the publication of Mrs. Humphry Ward's new novel, for which rumour says an unprecedented ...

    Article : 1,338 words
  13. F. C. BURNAND.

    That Mr. Burnand was fit for the post he new admirably fills was proved a dozen years before he had anything to do with Punch, and ...

    Article : 180 words
  14. BRITAIN'S COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.

    The Speaker of the House of Commons recently distributed the prizes to the technical school students at Burnley Mechanics ...

    Article : 210 words
  15. THE LARGEST HOTEL.

    The Hotel Cecil will be the largest hotel in London, containing one thousand rooms, and covering an area of two and a half acres ...

    Article : 195 words
  16. FREMANTLE.

    James O'Brien and John Hogan were each fined 5b. for having been drunk, the former having also to pay 2s. for cab hire. ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. CARLYLE AS PEDAGOGUE.

    A pupil of Thomas Carlyle has just died at Montreal. Jonathan Duncan Gleig Findlar (the London Chronicle tells us) was his name ...

    Article : 101 words
  18. SARAH BERNHARDT AS LADY BOUNTIFUL.

    Madame Sarah is the heroine of the hour in Italy, notwithstanding the fact that recently she played "La Femme de Claude" to an ...

    Article : 311 words
  19. MANY MILLIONS IN FIVE ENGAGEMENTS.

    Never before were such vast fortunes involved as in the United States fashionable engagements of the past season. The wedding ...

    Article : 232 words
  20. A GIRL PREACHER.

    England had once a boy preacher, bat the United States girl preacher puts him entirely in the shade. Claretta Avery is her name, and ...

    Article : 232 words
  21. A DEEP SOUNDING IN THE PACIFIC.

    Mr. W. J. L. Wharton, writing to Louden Nature, says:—A deeper spot in the ocean than any yet known has been recently found ...

    Article : 181 words
  22. (Before Captain Smith, J.P.)

    Richard Harburn, an engineer on board the steamer Tangier, was charged with having assaulted, the cook, James William Harris. ...

    Article : 179 words
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