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11 May 1889 (9)

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... 1'r UxUacts front xe? 9Gds. .i - 0. BATIRNG AT AGUAS CALIENTES.-To the left, along the whole length of the canal or sluiceway, as far as the eye can reacb, are scattered hundreds of nativee of both sexes, and all agos lining the water's edge and disporting them- selves in. every conceivable state of ddshabflle. In fact, it might as well be stated that the assemblage is divided into two classes ...

Our Antiquarian Club

... -a--C -0- ALL SOULS' DAY-SOUL CAKES. CHAPTErE II. The petition for a 0oul cake may find its inigin in a French custom, which may also have existed in England. At Dackirk, on All Souls' Day, a certain kind of roll is eaten by the people for the benefit of theirdeparted friends, and the greater the number of rolls each person oousumnee the greater the indulgence be obtains for the souls ...

SOME MAY MAGAZINES

... SOME MAY MAGAJIN ES. THE FINDING OF THE LAOCOON. The most prominent feature In The Magazine of A4, fo3 clay is an article on the exhibition of the Royal Academy. The test is by the editor and it is aceomparied by facsimiles of tvio of Sir Frederick Leighton's original designs for his pictures, ani four other studies, as well as by a full-page engravlng of Dr Watts. The froutispiece isa ...

OPENING OF THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... al1y .r k NORT1i 1 OF ENGLAND FARMER, AND GENERAL HUE AND CRY. ESTABLISELD 1.711-9T3 YEA&U OF QUEEN ASNrP I - ?? 0 PR7ING OF THE PARIS EXIIBITIOI. U 'be Paris Eshibition is now open. The inaugural pro- cec lings commenced on Sunday, .soen PrEsident Carnot vnE shot at by a lunatic by way of calling attention to his grie vances. Fortepately the revolver was only loaded with blat lc eartsidge, ...

A SPRING DITTY

... The violet shy and prinmroso sweet Again wirh tenderness I greet; Bright buttorcups anl daisies Pale, flerkins tse le.- I gladly bail ! Deper's moy pleasure tleough t'espy The purity of Jennie s eye. a look itGU rapture on Ebe dune, All carpeted with choicest green Ivith joy i viewv tie buddieg trces. Through wlhicl hunfs ?? the brdezeI Lut svceter far the sight to me Of Jennie's goldon hair ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... OPENING CERE4ONLY. ; ThePresIdential partyon SunasyproceodedxuourohSevr and Chayile, and on reaching Versafler. the President for- maily inaugurated the ?? tablet placed over the eetrance to the building in which the States 5Genam met a hundred years: ago. M. La 3oyer, Presideat of the I Senate, delivered a sneech, at, the cachldou.of which President (arnot replied. He referred to the-events ...

STEPHEN ELLICOTT'S DAUGHTER:

... ALL RIGIHTS RESEBVED. A NOVEL. By MRS J. 1H. NEDWELL, u0bor of NOEL CHETrTVrYD'S FALL,; LUCIA5 EHuH, and ToiEiR; The STORY OF PHILIP M-ETHUEN, ?? S'C.MMIARY OF PRECEDING CEAPTEP.S. I Sornl1en Elicott is a Dorset yeoman who, by force of cia:actor and persistent labour, has freed his estate from the oii;s; es to which be succeeded. He rmarried from the strong desire to obtain an heir. ...

FEMININE FASHIONS AND FANCIES

... auL ?? BZBMMD, Em FASMONS AND- N- F OIES. BY L ADY. TEZ'LAlS=:lDRAW G 30011. BRturningfrom the Rojar!Academy my friend's canlagt got blookedlsaregeiat Streki. What was tbe commotion? Only the ladies, cr some of them; who had been to viither Majesty going to the photographic studio to be taken in. Court drews. The day the Queen came to London jThurs- day) sbe drove past my residence on her way ...

THE PENNYCOMEQUICKS

... ALL MGEMS BESEBRVD. T H E I PENNYCOMEQ-UICKS. BY S. BARING-GOULD, &uthor of MIEHATA, 'COURT ROYAL, 513ox0r t HBanING, Tq GAYSSOCKS,&-o. SUMMARY OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Mrs Sidebottom, whose maiden name was Pennyccmequick.,. and her son Captain Pernycomequick, who had taken the nrime5' by special licence, are sitting together considering ways and means. With ambitious notions and ...