They Are Too Close To The Sanctuary To Feel Its
sanctity,—a fact noted through centuries about almost every great temple in the world, even that which at Mukden covers the tombs of the Manchu Emperors. We fancy that Lamaism......
The Times Of Friday Publishes From Its Cape Correspondent A
telegram giving the new Census for British South Africa south of the Zambesi. The total white population numbers 1,135,016, and the coloured population 5,198,175. For the......
Diplomatists On The Continent Are Much Excited By A Sudden
visit which Signor Giolitti, the Italian Premier and Minister of the Interior, is paying to Count von Billow at Homburg. It is argued that the Italian would not quit Rome at a......
Reuter's Correspondent At Peshawur Forwards A Curious...
The Amir of Afghanistan, he says, has made a speech in full Durbar complaining that, although Afghanistan can supply a million of men, the people are becoming enervated, and it......
Englishmen Think The Reverence Felt In Tibet For Lhasa, And
in China for Mukden, and in India for Mount Merou rather foolish, but the Pope is evidently of a different opinion. There has been a Congress of Freethinkers in Rome, and his......
A Correspondent Of The Manchester Guardian Sends Some...
to last Saturday's issue on Chinese labour on the Rand, taking for his text Lord Milner's confident state- ment that it was "absolutely certain" that the number of white......
Tuesday's Westminster Gazette Contains An Interview With...
Van Heerden, of Ladybrand, the leader of a deputation from the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange River Colony—the other member of the deputation is General Kritzinger—whose......
The Letter Of The Democratic Candidate For The American...
accepting his nomination is of importance rather as indicating the wishes than the policy of the party. He is evidently opposed to high tariffs, which, he says, protect "huge......
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