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A Most Argumentative Fact Must Have Convinced Mr. Hudson...

acci- dents do happen on his own railways, and that they are not pleasant. As the_story runs, "Mr. Hudson and his friends had on of one of four carriages forming an......

Spectator's Library.

TRAVELS, Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains. By George F. Buxton, Esq., m em , ber of the Royal Geographical Society, the Ethnological Society, &c.&c dfurra i . Flamm,......

Surgeons For Emigrant Ships.

ONE of the most extraordinary phtenomena of society in our time and country is the slowness with which the official mind con- ceives the idea of possibility. Some day, every......

Laughter—its Tragedy.

WE continually encounter some new sample of the varying and .discordant motives which move men to laughter, often the most jarring emanation of feeling. Nothing is more Zappy......