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... and North anby were re- markable men in many respects, and, as furnishing strike ing examples of energy of character, the story of their lives is especially worthy of perservation.rma Him by THE HONOURS OF I.NDUST5SY.-Thero is no discredit; hut honour ...

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... li (gir's E ssion to China andt Japan. DISPOSING OF SEPOYS.-I went into one of the tents to-day, where I heard a man tell a story which astonished . me-not the tale so much, for I had heard many of them, as the way he told it-a very worthy man, no doubt ...

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... ALOIBIADEs AND mam Doo.-Aldibiades had a. dog. of. uncommon size and beauty, which, according to -Plutarch, who gives the story, cost seventy minrs, and yet his master caused his tail, which was his --incipal ornarnent, to be cut oft. Some of his friends ...

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... which often prevents their -getting) any sound sleep-whatever. ' Florenice Niqingdie. - AN ABSEaNT Bamnn.-I must tell you that story; .for it is -a fact I assure you. Sam had permission to spouse Milkin Sally, a slave on another plantation. Anigh was fixed ...

LITEARY EXTRACTS

... Soft water-so hungry that it will even digest stone -has, in short, to be preserved with special care from con- tact with whatever is ?? All the Year Round. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN'S STORY OF THE CREaTIoN.-Kitchi-Manitou first made the coast of our ...

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... LITERARY EXTRACTS. I ?? - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ?? ~~ ?? ~ AN INOORRBIJBLE THFiE- Another story related by Rogers was of a -wretch who, for some atrocious crime was hanged in chains. His whole life had been so desperately wicked that the ...

LlTERARY EXTRACTS

... of lively authoresses take us into France; we are transported even to Bengal and back by two giddy girls; we have not, in short, a taste, a wish, a want, a deficiency that the press does not, terough an angelic host of dehcate pen-won, supply. We go down ...

THE LIVERPOOL FREE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

... briaoby Mr. Brown, (snd at also the cost of the fittingd and the tote expen so thereof, ai ineluding the exttloikis illuthi o short of £40,000. lt] The building haslo ?? x 0tcC;Ied -fromh dedaigs I'urnished, by re the EUrVeOar to ?? - Thuvediy, the iliaugutti ...

THE [ill]

... is dark and wild;: Oh, the very. stormu is speaking- l'lendlng for yoar wrs bzhed ohild. One short night beneath the cover Of the old roof let me lie; One short night-'twill soon be over, I have only come to dig. :hrlnk not from the wreok before you, Once ...

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... moves tow ards1lpikt a'ieseve~irer th ct~delea~ofthe I vili~n,' Ofeoavehe h 'W& ell whereF his in. FAIRY STORIES.-All a child wants at first is a story ; about good or bad people matters not-whether with fr without a moral. Every impression must be conveyed' ...

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES

... experienced the greatest kindness and courtesy. At 'five o'clock tie inmate3 were regaled with tea and bunloaf, and after short -addresses by Mr. Gough, lr. Heyes, and Mr. J. Davies, the dining room was cleared, a fiddler was lntfrodsieed, nod dancidg ...

A MANCHESTER GHOST STORY

... employer, and after telling his story, he ositively refused, on any consideration, to waatch at the spot another nighti mat evening another man was watch. ing, and he laughed heartily as he bore testimony to the truth of our story. Weo have nO doubt that his ...