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... Thereisno more singular phenomenon connected with our complex civilisation than the rise and decline of certain arts, for the flourishing or decay of which there is apparently no more cause ...

... I Sly S i lun: Si/urns G/iwis') brought from I he Danube; and presented by the Marquis of Hath Black Eye browed Albatross from the (\l tw 3. Pleasant Antelope from West Africa 4. remale Black-faced Ch ...

... WHATEVER may be thought of Mr. Chamberlain's principles, it is not disputed that he has made himself one of the foremost figures in the political life of England. If we except Mr. Glad ...

... . Miss Aliok Linoard is of English birth, but her early stage experience wan acquired in tho United States. She made her dramatic debut at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, where she played for a season, afterwards being engaged for New York. Here she acted with increasing success in a great number of pieces, among them Biae de Lys, Frou-Frou, The Sphinx, The Mew Magdalen, Marie Stuart, and ...

... SPORT IN QUEENSLAND. KANGAROO HUNTING. HAVING finished branding at the out-station and, as there was nothing on the cards for the afternoon, Prank's suggestion that we should go kangarooing was agreed to nem. con. The black boy was sent to run up fresh horses, and we hungry mortals commenced an attack on a cold lunch. As soon as we had digested this, with the help of a smoke, we saddled up for ...

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... HAMMOND Co. HAMMOND Co. HUNTING. (ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURY), BREECHES TROUSERS MAKERS, Respectfully inform their Customers that their business will be carried on, as heretofore, at their old number, 463, OXFORD STREET, DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION OE THEIR PREMISES. FRANCS ESTABLISHMENTS at _ PAR.IS 23, Rue Oambon By Special Appointment to I.rRhMthe3pIinc! on wales. VIENNA-- 1, Maximilian ...

... HUNTING CENTEES. THE RUFFORD HOUNDS. THERE have been hounds of some sort or other at Rufford for many years. So writes a well-informed friend; and one has only to see the country to be assured of the truth of the assertion. Hunting in the open is, I take it, of more modern origin than hunting in a forest. Long anterior to the time (1750) at which the poet made a fox droop his bushey tail, ...

... HUNTING NOTES. By Brooksby. Author of The Cream of Leicestershire, etc. THE SOUTHERN MIDLANDS. LAST week's frosty wave crushed at least three days from off the calendar. Men who would have hunted from town were left in a state of un certainty and ferment from Wednesday to Friday inclusive, and worked the wires meanwhile much to the benefit of the Telegraph Department if with little ...

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