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  2. A PICTURE OF FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

    Novels are sometimes better than newspapers for giving a picture at once faithful and, vivid of contemporary things. In the last volume of the Paeudonym Library, "A Russian Priest," ...

    Article : 1,377 words
  3. HOW WE SAW THE HOLY COAT.

    Before 6 had struck, this quiet hamlet of Eidiger, on the banks of the Moselle, was answering the call to prayer, and making its way up the village street to the quaint little ...

    Article : 1,258 words
  4. COURAGE AND NERVE.

    The Scottish papers lately told a singular tale of nerve and pluck in a little boy. He is the son of a shepherd at Buckholm, near Galashiels, and he was unlucky enough to be bitten ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  5. GENERAL BOOTH'S FARM COLONY.

    General Booth is fond of fo[?]lorn-hopes, and the first impression derived from a walk over the land which he has purchased for his farm colony, near Leigh, in Essex, is that he has ...

    Article : 1,851 words
  6. THE INVENTOR'S COLUMN.

    The American Institute of Electrical Engineers is a young body, but it is perhaps the wealthiest in the world. Bell, the telephone inventor, has made over £2,000,000 profit on ...

    Article : 1,116 words
  7. MORTALITY AMONG PILGRIMS.

    The Times of India publishes a startling article on the mortality amongst Indian pilgrims going to Mecca, in the course of which it save that, of all the pilgrims leaving Bombay ...

    Article : 411 words
  8. THE END OF BALMACEDA.

    It may be taken as pretty certain, we suppose, that we have at last get at the truth about ex-President Balmaceda. The wretched man will give no more trouble to ...

    Article : 1,015 words
  9. A LOUISIANA LYNCHING-VICTIM FLAYED.

    The New Orleans Picay[?] reports and outrage upon a school-teacher near Arcadia in this State. The school at which the young lady taught is two miles from her home. A ...

    Article : 178 words
  10. AN UNPARALLELED FEAT.

    Mr. G. E. B. Timswell, a native of Bristol, England, a member of the crack Suburban Bicycle Club. Sydney, (N.S.W.), whose long distance ride of 1.30 miles from that city to Rockhampton across ...

    Article : 202 words
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  12. WHAT DOES!

    What becomes of the word after it is spoken? Also what becomes of the light when the candle is brown cut? Both these queries were gravely propounded for discussion some years ago in the Debating Society ...

    Article : 330 words
  13. THE STOVE-PIPE HAT IN TEXAS.

    Texas fashions, although they have undergone a very notable change since the old frontier days, are still somewhat peculiar. Although the average temperature is 100 degrees ...

    Article : 228 words
  14. A MONSTER CUNARDER.

    Sir John Burns and his co-directors of the Cunard Company have made a contract with the Fairfield Company for a steamer which it is hoped will win back to their line the blue ...

    Article : 169 words
  15. AN APT QUOTATION.

    "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."—SHAKESPEARE. The word is "Wate bury," the action comprises the insertion of the digits into that receptacle of your ...

    Article : 188 words
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