On Saturday Last The Master Of Balliol, Professor Caird,...
a lecture on Abraham Lincoln at Toyn- bee Hall, which, to judge by the highly abbreviated report in the Times, must have been a very remarkable attempt to focus Mr. Lincoln's......
The Depth Of The Hatred With Which Teutonic Peoples Regard
restrictive liquor laws is curiously exemplified by what is pass- ing in New York. The reformers there had, it was believed, squelched Tammany, and set up an honest government ;......
The Annual Return Of The British Army, Issued On Thurs-
day, contains some very interesting and satisfactory figures. On June 1st last there were 222,151 men and officers in the Regular army,—that number being the highest reached......
The Times Of Friday Gives An Account Of One Of
the most striking engineering feats ever undertaken. Colonel John Pennycuick, who has just been made a C.S.I. on the corn- 4aletion of the Periyar irrigation works, has......
Messrs. Yarrow Have Succeeded In Building A Torpedo-boat...
will steam 301 knots, or say 35 miles, an hour. This vessel, named the Sokol,' built for the Russian government, is the fastest in the world, no other steamer having attained to......
Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.
New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1071.......
One Of The Oddest Stories Reaches Us From Sydney. A
man named Dean, skipper of a ferry-boat, was accused of poisoning his wife. Under a " strong " charge from the Judge, the jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to death.......
Professor Sayce's Address To The Church Congress—...
the credibility of the Bible as attested by recent arch mological research, contained some very curious and interesting facts connected with the Babylonians. The Mosaic age, it......
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