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The General Wealth Of The United States Is Attaining Large

proportions. The Census Department, in a report issued on August 18th, and prepared with exceptional care on special data furnished by every county in the Union, estimate the......

Bank Rate, 21 Per Cent.

New Consols (24) were on Friday 95 to 95k.......

A Well-informed Correspondent Of The Times Declares That...

despite the apparent civilisation of Bangkok, with its electric lights, tram-cars, and fine buildings, is a purely Oriental State. The King is despotic, even in details ; the......

Mrs. Besant, As We Have Recorded Elsewhere, Has Passed From

the materialism of Charles Bradlaugh to the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky, and now believes in the power of the Mahatmas to " precipitate " letters from the recesses of the......

Most Powerful And Most Touching Of All Was Mr. Holland's

illustration of what the highest culture,—spiritual, moral, and intellectual,—really means, from the life and mind of the late Dean of St. Paul's :—" One name will you suffer me......

The New Route To The Far East Across The Canadian

Dominion is wonderfully quick. The mails; for example, which left Yokohama, in Japan, on August 19th, arrived in Vancouver at noon on August 29th, and in Ontario at 9 on......

We Deeply Regret To Notice That Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod

has been compelled to resign her office as consulting entomo- logist to the Royal Agricultural Society. According to a statement in the Times, confirmed in great part by a......

Canon Scott Holland Preached Before The University Of...

Sunday, August 2nd, at the beginning of the Oxford summer session for the students of the University Extension movement, and his eloquent sermon is fully re- ported in last......