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A Bad Year. F Ew Or None Will Regret The Year

that closed on Wednesday night. 1879 passed away in fitting gloom of storm and rain. Its end, like its beginning, was one of sadness. The hard, dark winter which ushered in the......

The Future Of Siberia. T Hree Hundred Years Have Elapsed...

the Russians made themselves an Asiatic Power by the conquest of Siberia. About the year 1580, Irmak—a Cossack brigand of the Don—obtained permission from Ivan the Terrible to......