That Curious Instrument, — The Telephone,—which Conveys...
distance, so that even the tone of a familiar voice can be recognised, and a tune heard, many many miles away, was tried with great success between Boston (Massachusetts) and......
A Trial Before Lord Justice Bramwell, At Lewes, On...
suggests a new danger in the practice of taking lodgings. Some respectable ladies,—the Misses Gaisford, —who took lodgings not long ago at Brighton, and managed to offend their......
Mr. Lowe And Mr. Fowler Have Continued This Week Their
con- troversy about the Oxford pass examination, in letters published in Monday's and Tuesday's Times, and Mr. Fowler has again got very much the better of his opponent, who is......
Mr. Cowen Took The Chair At A Breakfast Of The
friends of "religious equality," held at the Cannon-Street Hotel on Tuesday, and spoke with justice of the Nonconformists as "if not the majority, at least the most trusted wing......
The Death Is Announced Of The Eldest Male Descendant Of
Confucius, the only hereditary noble in China, or rather, we should say, the only hereditary noble according to European ideas. The editor of the "Almanach de Gotha" ought to......
Mr. Knatchbull-hugessen, On Wednesday, Carried The Second...
Colonial Marriages Bill against the Government by A vote of 192 to 141. His object was the complete legali- eation of Colonial marriages with a deceased wife's sister. Those......
To This Mr. Fowler Replies That He Believes It To
be true that here and there a case has occurred where men have deemed it easier to get a low class in a secondary school than a pass in classios,—though, of course, the......
The Duke Of Bedford, Having Got In Devonshire A Liberal
Bishop Temple,--and as it seems, a Liberal incumbent in Tavistock, has found the true solution of the practical problem,—not, of course, of the legal problem, which only the......
Mr. .aarderson, By An Apparently Useless Question, On...
stopped a great crime. He asked Mr. Bourke if a petition to the British Government, signed by a great many in- habitants of Bulgaria, had been forwarded to the British Chargd......
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