... A CHAT WITH STANLEY. Apropos of the great interest now being displayed in the returned African explorer, a correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle writes: It is about three years and three months since Mr. Stanley started from Charing-cross on his ...

... five inches thick, with a bore of three and a half inches. We use a charge of 24 grammes of powder, which is sufficient for a distance of 15 or 20 fathoms. The line is hung on a wire loop outside the gun. When we have struck ...

... boat and row me round to them. After a journey which lasted over two hours, and a pleasaat chat with the man, who was remarkably intelligent, and spoke German fluently, as well as a few words of English, I offered him a very modest sum for ...

... he was overtaken by a handsomely-dressed man, who had a foreign air and accent. The stranger glibly addressed Mr. Carnegie, and said that he supposed he had forgotten him. He claimed that he had been a telegraph operator in the old Third-street office ...

... finding himself sadly short of room, came to the other end of the Queen's Counsel row and sat on the deserted seats to chat with a friend, “ encamping,” as he remarked, “on the evacuated wells of the enemy, like our men did at Suakim.” The buzz of eager ...

... would have the ire'l clToc*; they must givn dianc; • The speakers also addressed ;l gathering a* knc»* Filer J the loud-speaker was put aside and interesting chat took place* As became late, fact became so cold as time went on, Hint the meriting continued ...

... A NEW IDEA. A young man living in Harlem has contributed to the New York Tribune & letter on the subject of rapid transit in New York. He has lived, he writes, for several years in 125th-street, and from the first he has taken a deep interest in the ...

... tobacco is eligible to any office, A pressure is being brought to bear on the brethren to make tobacco a test of membership, and there is a growing sentiment in favour of that idea. We don’t aim to give a brother away who has a fondness for ...

... half the time. On a pleasant evening the terrace, that bread plavk promenace which stretches for & quarter of a mile aleng the top ef a precipice nuder the brow of Cape Diamcnd, is crewded with thew, strolling in pairs and groups, chatting, langhivg awvd ...

... Borrowstounness, in Scotland. A few years ago a Mr M. was sitting in a shop chatting with several other gentlemen, when a man, woman and two children passed the door. To those about him Mr M. said, that man’s face reminds me of ...

... when the quadrille was over, and he was enabled to lead her to a seat, He was not long allowed the pleasure of a quiet chat with her, for the music striking up anew, she was claimed a 8 a partner by Ralph Herbert, who, to Mr. Fleming’s ...

... without being maimed. There was a regular counting of heads when they got on board the special, lest some unfortunate should have been left behind. The officials of the railway company wers like a lot of lifeboat men picking up a shipwrecked crew. Here and ...