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... only brother of the King of Saxony. His father is heir presumptive to the kingdom of Saxony, and a Field-Marshal in the German army since 1888. His mother was the Infanta Maria Anna. daughter of King Ferdinand of Portugal. Prince John was born Julv 10. 1869 ...
... upon me that we had got very little else. r ather was a landed proprietor upon a reduced scale, and a parent on a large one there were twelve of us, counting Ponsouby, who had passed into the Army a few years previously, and passed out of it later on at ...
... rotting, and affords little or no protection to the fierce fish, which may, if carefully manipulated, be landed without much difficulty. Before landing him it is as well to bestow a coup de grace, for his teeth are remarkably keen, and, if old enough, his ...
... gaff and the shower of granile blocks there seemed but Hobson's choice, so he circled back to the reel and was successfully landed. After stumbling over the rocks, so anxious all the time that he feels not bruises which will discover themselves next morn ...
... d things, unlike anything seen in any other part of Em-ope. J ust before my friends arrived at the market town they saw a woman washing the roof of her cottage with a mop and a pail of water. The roof being flat and the houses low, it is customary to ...
... These Swazi chiefs are gallant men, and when I asked what they thought of her Majesty the prompt reply came, A most handsome woman. They wanted to squat themselves on the ground in her presence, for the sitting posture is, to them, a position of dignity ...
... he would spend all his time in Paris, and, despite his success over here, his predilections have always been for his native land. A popular star of the lighter stage was giving vent to a grievance the other day, and, as the matter is one of considerable ...
... to the career of the man who, when a young East India Company's officer holding an appointment as reorganiser of the Persian Army at the peril of his life, on the frail support of a long ladder lodged on a ledge three to four hundred feet from the ground ...
... the Arthurian legends. They have the tomb of Guinevere at Meigle, in Perthshire and there is an agreeable tradition that any woman who incautiously touches the tomb will be childless. A Scotch correspondent of the Globe says there can be no doubt that Arthur ...
... must, to be eligible for the appointment, have held a commission as lieutenant-colonel or major in the Army, or in the Marines, or in the Indian Army. Lieutenant-Colonel Hornsby-Drake succeeds to one of the vacancies in the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen- ...
... attention to it in these columns had it not been for the opportunity I had of beholding some of these Yeomen, the flower of the army, as Sir Donald Stewart called them in his short harangue, in their habit as they live, and stripped of the wonderful trap ...
... Coventry. LAND RESCUE DRILL. Photo by Maule and Co., Coventry. RESUSCITATION DRILL. Photo by Maule and Co., Coventry. THE GRENADIER GUARDS TUG-OF-WAR TEAM. Photo by Edward Sharp, Westminster Bridge Road. Tug-of-War Competition at the All- Army Athletic ...