... Queen has a large number of scrap-books filled with newspaper cuttings and handsomely bound. This department is superintended by her secretary, who obtains from the Press-cutting agencies all the paragraphs which appear in the world's Press concerning her ...

... in this manner. A good housekeeper will see that her brooms are all thus scalded. Remember that fine paste for scrapbooks can be made from alum water and flour. A teaspoonful and half of powdered alum dissolved in enough cold water make a pint of paste ...

... purpose of supplying him with extracts from the world's press which in any way refer to him. This bureau of scissors, which is under the direct control of a Privy Councillor, enters the clippings daily in a scrap-book, which is regularly sent to the Emperor ...

... refused to die. But the doctors made Mew England hot for him. He couldn from bis door to the well for a bucket of water without meeting professors of physiology from Boston, and surgeons from New York, and the faculty BosUm medical college surrounded him when ...

... lie was an eccentric character, and is known to the world of letters his nom >!e plume of Peter Pindar.” The substance of the following anecdote of him I find in scrap-book. A number of works from his had been published which mot with great sale, chie'ly ...

... souls from the grave and from hell. Thou hast saved Thy redeemed. Lord, we offer to Thee our grateful love and praises at the foot of the Cross. Who suffer here with Thee shall reign with Thee in glory, in joy and love and peace. Soon, ah, soon, from the ...

... memory letter from Lord Harrington on the subject, but he had not Xot it with him, he had left it at home. Immediately after this he rose and objected me quoting from scrap-book of 1 'Facts and Figures for Politicians,” a speech on the same snbjeot Lord Harrington ...

... bounties. meeting of the Progressive Party of the London County Council, letter has been read from the Marquis of Ripon, stating that, owing to pressure from the West Riding County Council, wa« unable to accede to the request of the party stand a* candidate ...

... ART AND LETTERS. Moen ingenuity had to be employed to efeet thi removal of the world-famous portrait of Cam Borgia from the Borghere Gallery at Rome. The portrait is attributed to Raphael, though many good Judges think it more probably the work of Bronzines ...

... much sugar is produced, are also very good. MAHOMEDAN EMIGRATION FROM BULGARIA. The Vienna correspondent of the Titnes says: Acccording to accounts from Varna the Mahomwdan emigration from that and the neighbouring districts is greatly increasing, _ the ...

... known in the sporting and agricultural world as the Druid. Mr. Dixon was the author of The Post and the Paddock ; Silk and Scarlet ; The Field and the Fern ; Saddle and Sirloin; which were scrap-books of anecdote, and descriptive of matters ...

... If this be so, the directors of the New Gallery will win gratitude from more than one quarter, primarily, of course, from tbe admirers of Mr. Burne-Jones’ collection, but not less from the ins picture seer, who justice will thtu be enabled to do (nil jiu ...