... pseudo-religious order, the story is written in a didactic vein, and has 4 purpose. It is an indictment of vivisection, which is attacked, not ineffectively, from the side of humanity and sentiment. The hero of the story is a young doctor, Hugh Fortescue ...

... HANGING STORIES. *ame An Experinment. nan, Ag to How executions can best be managed is oft A tamne discuesed-whetber, for instance, with a thick Pt beon rope or a thin one, a slip-ring or a knot, a long I Lame droD or a short one. tb a my The opinion ...

... hut as unfortunately there are many per- sons ou both sides of the Channel only too ready to give credence to such bogus- stories of Irish plots and dynamite conspiracies, we deemed it O our duty promptly to institute inquiries whether at erewas any, even ...

... the substance of the story. She herself is, s. not a striking figure, but turns up all1 mattera [e of domestic difficulty, and the .ptteracea-of here n gentle, old-fashioned wisdom ?? maksk nher real to us. Though her-love story is ro-d ty mantic, we ...

... There was no appeal from this sententious ver. job di't but it is to be hoped that ministers who T the happen to reed this story will not lay it too much hi eat jape to rears oh to ieart. C in. Mathews to the Rescue. vi wn Mathews, the actor, was always ...

... eager line of office boys waiting MIa c- to take the story, page by page, down to the M1i *ilas coiposiug-room. of t Dice At last it was done-one of the best, the most Cau thrillinglv-told stories that had gone out of that ,, oftice for wees; and as the ...

... SCARLET STORIES. The Sergeant-Major Smiled, n Many and various are the tricks that are a played on The newly-joined recruit, as the follow- C i ng will show. n A company sergeant.major of a certain corps a D. had occasion to visit a barrack-room to which ...

... Clouston's story differs, however, in one par- fr ticular from other stories of the kind. His im- It personating character plays the part with the IA consent, end indeed at the instigation, of the ' man who is being impersonated. Briefly told, T the story describes ...

... THE BYRON STORY. Ur B3. R. Noel, H]umberston, Leicester, writes to the Post:- If there be one thing more than another which has intensified the 'admiration which Lady Byron's friends have felt for her, It hasbeen the faot of her consistent determination ...

... THE NURSES STORY. Ana so you've ?? roticed the old castle before, Dlr. Oharleo 1 It is aI ?? pluce, ?? enlough; but it was wonderful howy gentlemen usho go about dcr-wing used to taike to it. They'd come duwo , lote of theun, ill suniner time, and make ...

... THE CABMAN'S STORY. A .Burglar's Funeral Service. M, PC The rummiest start I ever heaxd of, said a es patriarchal driver recently to a representative of so the Liverpool COurie?,, was that that caused a ne cabi an, who is dead now, to be known as ...

... .THE BURGLAR'S STORY. 'I lie RECIARKABLE STATEMENT. he At Grecnwich Police.eourt, on Thursday. a re remarkable story ?? told by a man natmed Veter f 'ir Connor, 32, nDauter, no home, who was charged rd on remiand with the unlawful possession of certain ...