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... Nicholas appears to have been very popular in most countries. He is the patron saint at Russia, and most of the Czars are named after him. He is also the patron of New York city, which was first settled by the Dutch, who hold him in high esteem in their ...

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... house to spend the evening in a sayer circle. By. an~act of Parliament, Miss Medlycott was empowered to use her maiden name 'after- her marriage ; but th Sergeant did not like herexercising this right. He would not allow her to sign her name otherwise ...

LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... eagernesS. The Muiova 2Aldotogia for March has an article by Signor Bonghi on Leo XIII. and his Predecessors of the same E Name. After a review of the careers of the Leos, he i points out that the first nine Popes of that name exercised E no temporal power ...

THE QUEEN IN GLASGOW

... for the Higher Education of Women, rc formed in Glasgowv in 1877, axid was incorporated in 1883 as a college, which was'named after Q~ueen argaret of so Scotland, the earliest p atroness of learnrag and culture in Di this kingdom. Her Itoyal Highness the' ...

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... wept With head bent down, her sobs showed how deeply she felt what had been said so fervently in defence of her outraged name. After the splendid appeal thus briefly depicted, an accident occurred which saved the Attorney-General from certain embarrassment; ...