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... . in 1574, when Elizabeth was Queen, a monstrous hsh, according to Kilburue and Hasted, was stranded on the sands at a spot somewhere near Broadstairs, which has since borne the name of Fishness. There the monster died next day for want of water, amidst hideous roars that could he heard over a mile around. This extraordinary denizen of the ocean measured no less than 66 feet in length, 14 feet ...
... __ No. o3Q. A QL. XXYI. WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1899. sixpence. By Post. 6jd. ...
... . LAW REPORT, May 16.-- High Court of Justice, Chancery Division.-- Before Mr. Justice Byrne.-- Re Hope's Settled Estates-- The Hope Blue Diamond.-- This was a summons under the Settled Land Acts by Lord Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, commonly called Lord Francis Hope, tenant for life under a settlement contained in the will of his grandmother, Mrs. Hope (Anne Adéle), asking for an ...
... . I have always been one of the staunchest admirers of Mr. C. D. Gibson's work, which is known to my readers best, perhaps, through the handsome albums published by Mr. Russell in New York and by Mr. John Lane in this country. But Mr. James Henderson, of Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, has long published in journals Mr. Gibson's work, of which he holds the copyright for England Mr. Henderson has ...
... . .c -j-- mm* mmmmm mum iiujiimiiim i.i mm^amam w-- i mi hl mi uiwwww^-- .mini i n n t FLUFFY AND MUFFY. ...
... At my death I mean to take a total adieu of the world, not caring for a monument, history, or epitaph. So wrote the famous chirurgeon Sir Thomas Browne; but his own desires notwithstanding, a monument will shortly be erected to his memory in the good City of Norwich-- probably in the Hay market-- where he lived for many years, and where he received in 1671 the honour of knighthood at the ...
... #VK&T.efib No. 328.-- Vol. XXVI. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 1899 sixpence. IIVPOST6JI ...
... PTheiS K&jeM No. 331. Vol. XXVI. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1899. ...
... . Pretty girls are always more or less interesting; but a girl celebrated far and wide for her beauty, a girl who has broken a score of hearts in spite of herself, who, at twenty, deliberately forswore all dreams of love or marriage, giving herself instead with ardour to the duties of a somewhat misunderstood religious band, is more interesting by far than the ordinary run of pretty girls-- ...
... THE WORLD OF SPORT. RACING NOTES. The Derby is not likely to cause any great excitement this year, and it is a pity that something could not be done to give the race more of a handicap character. it may be that in the near future the winner of the Two Thousand Guineas will be made to carry a penalty in the Derby. Winners of the triple crown are all right on paper, but they may justly be termed ...
... THOMAS BEWICK AND THE DEYIL. BY MASON* JACKSON. In the first chapter of Jane Eyre, the heroine, as a child, is delighted with the pictures in Bewick's History of British Birds; but she is, at the same time, described as being frightened at some of the vignettes where the devil is introduced. Thomas Bewick has been charged with being too fond of introducing the devil and the gallows into ...
... THE LIGHT STDE OF NATURE. I see yer buy that apple, Liz; an if yer don't gimme 'arf, I'll rub myself against yer, an' then yer '11 'ave the measles! ...