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  2. Monkey Gangs.

    Monkeys are an unmitigated nuisance, especially in the country. I have often come across in the jungles adjoining the villages of Northern Bengal whole troops ...

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  3. THE DESCENT OF MAN.

    At the Zoological Congress at Cambridge, Professor E. E. Haeckel, the celebrated German naturalist, once referred to the importance of the discoveries of fossils recently made in Java. These, he said, showed that it was no longer a hypothesis that man was included in the primates (the highest order of mammals). Lemurs, monkeys, and men were descended from a common stem. We publish herewith an illustration representing some of man's ancestors, taken from the pictures in the works of Buffon and other eminent authorities. As races sometimes have a tendency to revert to their original [?]pes, we also give a prophetical [?] of what the Iranian kind may come to when it begins to deteriorate. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 117 words
  4. THE BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS.

    One of the most remarkable women conspicuous for good worts in two centuries entered upon her 90th year last month. If ever the history of London be fully and ...

    Article : 993 words
  5. THE WORLD'S CAPITAL.

    London still stands undisputed the queen city of the world. This is the one fact that runs through the solid volume of "London Statistics" published by the ...

    Article : 569 words
  6. TRIUMPH OF COOKERY.

    Under a largo tent, bright with color and gay with flowers, erected in the Tuileries Gardens, the twentieth Culinary Exhibition i was inaugurated. Gourmets, connoisseurs ...

    Article : 685 words
  7. SOLDIER-BRIDEGROOM'S DEATH.

    Before the Mid-Surrey coroner at Richmond (Eng.) recently full details were elicited of the melancholy story of a bridegroom's tragic death on the eve ...

    Article : 424 words
  8. HOPE FOR CONSUMPTIVES.

    An important discovery has been made by a German savant which, if it does not exterminate tubercolosis altogether, is expected by its advocates to go further to ...

    Article : 343 words
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  10. YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS.

    Life would become intolerable if girls could not be on frank and uncoquettish terms with men of their own age, or some years their seniors. The idea that because ...

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  12. POISONED BY A CRAB.

    Mrs. Wright, the wife of a Midland Railway shunter living at Kentish Town, ate the whole of a fresh crab for tea and pronounced it "very nice," but shortly ...

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