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MADRID, July 3. Letters from Barcelona of the 28th ult., contain alarming accounts of the state of some parts ..

... Garoz, had started for Tarragona, conveying all the troops it could hold; while General Pavia marched by land towards Reus, faking U a column of the army upon his way at MoKns-el-Rey. It appears that the motive of thin gtir is, that a Carlist band, consisting ...

LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS

... asid unburdened, were allowed to accompany the army to Turkey ; and they were suffering, uneared for, and in some cases dissolute. Self-respect was lost ; and the women were a burden, a disgrace to the army, instead of being, as they should have been, ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... primitive condition. Before ow the first Puritan emigrants landed at Plymouth the Indians it.' planted, and hoead, and reaped their corn much as the white rnsosettlers do now, and like them deserted old land for new when the crops began to fail. Many operations ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... womnan had, they urlchasedl a piece f land in the neighbouring towi_ of Irondequoit. lhoete they lived for a time, cud then moved to the ity, where they now residle. Calaltger was a Nova- leotian, like the woman, asd is disposes to be an induls- rious ...

SONGS OF THE SUNLANDS.*

... come: to the new world from Spain, and, weary of bloodshed, resolves to go in. search of the Amazon shore, Where woman's hand with a woman's heart Has fashioned an Eden from man apart, And she walks in her garden alone with God. The lonely man is like ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... and lime light effects, add greatly to the general pleasing appearance of the stage. A return issued of proceedings nader the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1883, shows that down to March this year there were 115,528 cases of fair rent settled in court and 82,130 ...

Varieties

... neighbour's chimney. A gentleman paid a compliment to a beautiful German lady at Newport, by telling her she resembled the Prussian army. Row so sh easked. You are winning, was the reply. A use has at last been found for old hoop skirts. No less than six are ...

THE AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF IDA

... Etat-Major, leaving nothing to chance, has calculated that it will require 65 trains to carry each army corps. As the German army consists of eighteen army corps this would be I,170 trains, or 117 for each of the lines. On a similar calculation we would ...

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... of the de. grees of comparison. A. Positive, teacb; comparative, teacher; superlative, tea-chest. ALL A MATrEaR OP TAzT.-A woman wili tolerate tobacco. smoke In a man sbe likes-and even say she likes it, and yet, curiously enongb, bow Sei ?? It in a man ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... clique, prevailed upon the king behind the back of his responsiblo advisers to bring up the army for the purpose of overawing, perhaps of crushing, the Assembly. The army, infected with revolutionary seutiment and miserably ill-haudled, broke. But in the meautimne ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... the Prince's army at Falkirk, where the boistful Genesal Hawley received a severe lesson. The fear of an invasion of the South of England hein now soitemovod, the Duke of Csumbes'land hanteuted to Srotlaild, and took comamand of the army. The High'anlers ...

LITERATURE

... in the early summer of 1887 as an ordained missionary to Blantyre. Bound for Africa at last: the land of my hopes, and, I trust, sooner or later, the land of my grave -so he wrote to a college friend as the vessel steamed out of the Thames. It was to ...