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  2. BRITISH COLUMBIA.

    We hear but little of British Columbia, and the report of 1870 by the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Good, on the condition of the colony is acceptable. He states that the yield of gold in 1869 was quite ...

    Article : 464 words
  3. REMARKABLE ANCIENT MAP.

    We learn from the report of the deputy-keeper of the Public Records that the operation of taking fac-similes of national manuscripts by process of photozincography is continued. The second part of ...

    Article : 1,110 words
  4. MANUAL LABOUR CLASSES OF ENGLAND, WALES, AND SCOTLAND.

    The economic science and statistic section, at the sitting of the British Association, on Saturday, at Edinburgh, was one full of interest. Lord Neaves presided, and a paper was read by Mr. W. Taylor on ...

    Article : 1,304 words
  5. ROUND AND ABOUT THE HIGHLAND LOCHS.

    With the morning breeze blowing coolly in from the sea, through an open window that showed us the blue waters of the Frith, with the whiting and codlings he had caught the night before now lying crisp ...

    Article : 1,929 words
  6. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

    Lord Kimberley has relieved the colonists of South Australia of a long and wearisome agitation. In that part of the Queen's dominions, at any rate, no more will be heard of the disabilities of the Deceased ...

    Article : 1,395 words
  7. THE COREAN EXPEDITION.

    The prediction which I bazarded last week that the American expedition would meet resistance in Corea has been quickly verified. A squadron of gunboats and steam launches engaged in surveying ...

    Article : 1,538 words
  8. DEATH OF "THE MAN-CANNON."

    Louis Vigneron, the man-cannon, whose name and exploits must be familiar to most visitors to the north of France, has fallen a victim to his adventurous pursuit. It will be remembered that Vigneron, to ...

    Article : 453 words
  9. MEDICAL ASPECTS OF TOBACCO SMOKING.

    Dr. E. B. Gray, who describes himself as having long been a moderate smoker, and watched the effect of the habit on himself and others, offers in the Food Journal what he believes to be the true answer ...

    Article : 1,035 words
  10. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FRAUD.

    At Bow-street on the 7th September, Arthur Wellesley Yarrow, aged thirty-five, described on the charge-sheet as a clerk, address refused, but who is supposed formerly to have been in holy orders, was ...

    Article : 924 words
  11. THE COMBINED FLEETS.

    The Admiralty has sent to the London papers the statement annexed:— The following is a correct list of vessels belonging to the Mediterranean and Channel fleets, which, ...

    Article : 303 words
  12. EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY NEAR FARNHAM.

    On Saturday afternoon a shocking tragedy was perpetrated in a sequestered portion of the Weald of Surrey, lying between Farnham and the Hindhead Hills, and known as the "Devil's Jumps." The ...

    Article : 602 words
  13. PRUSSIAN MANŒUVRES.

    A paper by Lieutenant-Colonel Bray, 4th (King's Own) Regiment, on "The Prussian Mode of Conducting Large Manœuvres," is about to be published at the Royal Artillery Institution for the information ...

    Article : 613 words
  14. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN GERMANY.

    The Bavan[?]an Government has made its choice in the s[?]e which divides the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. It took its time about it, but there can be no mistake about the side which it has ...

    Article : 1,764 words
  15. THE GREAT TOWNS OF ENGLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 words
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