... iGLASGOW INTERNATIONAL III Et XHIBITION. I - The weather yesterday could not be called either favourable or unfavourable for Exhibition visitors. It was both. A lowering, sultry morning culminated its a heavy downpour of rain, which continued for some hours, and must have deterred many from making an intended I visit to Kelvingrove. The other extreme, how- ever, was experienced in the ...

... I OT __ D o nnt anual show of the Scottish XKeanenlI aelb a pened i* the Wavorley Market, Edin.3 burgh, yesterday,, The exhibitions which was the largest yet bold-there being In all 1045 entries, or 100 over laot year's number-also cropmped favalor- Abl~y in point of quality with previous ahews. As ,formerly there were a large number of prizesj 0 ofered for competition in the- various classes ...

... 1 1, A SUPPOSED ?? ° GEOER I 0GORDON. A STR4NG&E STORY. The Souah Aestrfn Rcginer oi the 2t October prints the fol'l'win telegram, dized o u the nrevious day from Wallaro, in colony: j 'On Friday morning Ur Alfred Mallyoa, accouh tnt to Messrs Styles & Co., at Kadinse picked fp I in thet streat What there is everv reason, to elie.e is-an original letter written by General Gordon in Khartoum oa ...

... CITY HALL SATUPRlDAY LvLN-dt I nA i CoNCRT ?? The 35th series of the °Poiuiar coeaerte i each winuter in the City Bali ly - s r Abstainers Union W3as i3Uutrrt. I ue Giszow evening. The continued attracr 5 3 as tional Exhibition with its many acd Intel of eniterta~inment caused tle direetorftlY e & 1 opening to a later period in them e k *al n the result of the corncert on lunibi | looked ...

... AP ?? lye NVOTES ON NYEW ROOFs. ¶,th lea Sampson Low-, inarsndr, Sc pan & ~~~lugua (Li ited) have published Side A, LesOn tle Stuarts, by M-,r F. A. Inderovick, S1 with illustrations ; and ''Flowers and ar hr. mroon the Writings of Harriet cecher fol m arranged by AbbI o i . Fairfp l id.h JG .s .i nn Murraay bhas published ''Notes of Con- es: Pye. ltios with the Duke of Wellington, 1a51- ...

... .MISSCELLANE OUS BQOKS. Elocution, Voice and Gesture. By Rupert | p Garry, teacher of elocution and dramatic art. o 1 (Lndo : eurose& sons, 23 Old Bailey, E. C.) t: Althoug 'we are not too favourably disposed- t as a rule-to written instruction on this subject, i: it is impossible to refuse some praise to Mr t Garry for the pains he has bestowed unen his v Lj ok The best; Parts- Of itare ...

... GL, ASGOW INTERNATIONAL l EXHIBITION. I __ . ..s t pqE0iZSS OF THE WEERKS-RECEPTON OF EXH!5ITS. . Da:ring the past few week s great progress hasl i ado wvith the erection of the Glasgow jrenat.onal Exhibition, and the laying out of r -oanis in the Kelvingrove Park. Indeed, ras the mina building is concerned, the o coustraction is practically finished. It ccii rooted in over its whole extent, ...

... POTTERY AND GLASS-No. L BY JAMES PFAON, F.LS. t.a The thirst which afflicts the average visitor a to an Exhibition such as that of Glasgow is not the precisely aud solely a thirst for knowledge, and 9in it is to be feared that of the vast crowds who 1&5 bare been visiting Kelvingro;e Park few indeed fact have set themselves conscientiously to examine I has the pottery and glass, and to learn ...

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... THE FINE ARTS.-No. IV. i ?? the concerns of life an early start is)fra ; ?? at least, to a good beginning It is of t so in the case of a great Exhibition) bet i v, :or wishes the time at his disposal am to ) Lost results. If he seeks only wh laid the pleasurable excitement of cor Ile reeiJ vot. hasten to K(eivingrove : he p pre I v' his Acecunt in night and its u- :L l realising sooner or ...

... THE RUSSIAN PETROLEUM , EXHIBITION. N Eo. III. la~yt -- con] (FROM OUR OWN CORRES2O'TDENT.) of 1 i St Petersburg, March 2$. 188S. buol l The official statistics of the annusl output oE in crude oil at Baku are not based upon the actual nila amount of liquid that comes to the surface, but siv upon the quantity piped from the wills to the pri refineries, eight or nine miles distant, situated gre ...

... -MISCELLAYNROUS BOOKS. ?? me your hand and I will tell you your fortuae is the invitation to business ousuarly f ive by the gypsic3, but those 1 who provide theneie'ves with the 'Grammar c of Palmistry, bv K~atherine St Hill (London George Redwayl, will not require the services t of a fortune-teller, bet will be able-or may I persuade themselves that they are able-by I oxamwiniutg their own ...