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  2. COMPLIMENTARY DINNERS.

    Three complimentary dinners within as many days seem to show that the era of silver teapots has passed away, to be succeeded by an era of banquets and toasts. Ten years since,the ...

    Article : 1,858 words
  3. THE UNITED STATES INDIAN COMMISSION.

    A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who has been in attendance on the recent councils of the Indian Peace Commissioners with the Indian chiefs, thus gives his estimate as to the net result ...

    Article : 840 words
  4. HISTORICAL CHARACTERS.

    Towards the close of the last century, two men, the younger about thirty, the other some ton years older, were seated together in a modest room in Philadelphia. One was an Englishman, ...

    Article : 1,921 words
  5. LAW.

    BEFORE His Honor Sir F. Smith, Puisue Judge. The Solicitor-General prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. SHEEP STEALING. ...

    Article : 6,158 words
  6. POLYGAMY AT THE SALT LAKE CITY.

    The Gentile women recognise and visit only the first wives. I conversed alone with three Mormon ladies on their system. Two were unmarried. The first was an active member of ...

    Article : 512 words
  7. PRUSSIAN COAL.

    The coalfields of the valley of tho Ruhr extend over a surface of 115 square miles, and are supposed to contain about 40,000,000,000 tons of fuel. The production in 1855 amounted to ...

    Article : 816 words
  8. AMERICAN POLITICS.

    The Times points out that in five States of the American Union, within as many months, notwithstanding all the efforts of a most efficient party organisation, the people have censured the ...

    Article : 486 words
  9. DISCOVERIES IN PALESTINE.

    The Palestine exploration is making good progress. An official report, dated at Jerusalem on the 22nd of October, says that Mr. Warren has established by actual demonstration that the ...

    Article : 353 words
  10. OPIUM EATING IN ENGLAND.

    Opium eating, it is said, goes on to an incredible extent in the eastern counties. Dr. Hawkins, of King's Lynn, tells the readers of the Medical Journal that half the opium imported ...

    Article : 281 words
  11. MODERN SQUATTING.

    Squatting, too, as conducted now-a-days— when thousands are expended on fencing and dam-making—when large rents and assessments must be paid—requires, in order to make it ...

    Article : 280 words
  12. YIELD OF THE CROPS.

    The last report of the Commissioners of Agriculture gives a full and reliable report of the crops for this year. From the figures therein it is evident that we will at least have plenty to live ...

    Article : 483 words
  13. THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY.

    A correspondent of the Cleveland, Ohio, Herald gives the following picture of the Giant's Causeway, as it is soon to-day. The writer says:- ...

    Article : 365 words
  14. GOLD IN RUSSIA.

    The quantity of gold produced in 1864 by private industry, as well in the Oural mountains as in Eastern Siberia,amounted to niuoteen tons, showing a slight falling off, as compared with the ...

    Article : 236 words
  15. THE MORMON TEMPLE.

    Somebody who deseribes the Mormon temple at Salt Lake, now noarly complete, compares its appearance to that of an old-fashioned ship, without any keel, turned bottom up. The roof is ...

    Article : 222 words
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