... hut as unfortunately there are many per- sons ou both sides of the Channel only too ready to give credence to such bogus- stories of Irish plots and dynamite conspiracies, we deemed it O our duty promptly to institute inquiries whether at erewas any, even ...

... AN EXTRAORDIN ARY STORY. - - - - (ScaCIAL TELEGRAM.) London. Wedne-day Night. The Central News siys :-A Man giving his name as John Wrangle, and fstting that he was a native of Roscommon, called on the police at Southport this morning and stated that ...

... into the town at the point of the) bayonet. There are stories of women beine violateil and of men who refused to embrace Christianity being sent to Siberia. These are all false. £ heard the story of Seh iiik from the lips of one oF the sufferers, a man ...

... AN INDIAN STORY. i EARLY in the Summer a white man was found Otis , D murdered on an island in the Platte S-. River, and, as the spot was only 30 miles from the Pawnee reservation of Indians, it was assumed that some of them were the culprits, but inquiry ...

... ROMANTIC STORY. WVELa may we term what we intend to state a roman- tio story, for itgi one that almost outvies fiction itself, l and will -long continue to be recited at many a fire- side on yyinter evenings. O.n the 18th of July last, a gloom was spread ...

... I - - -EXTRAORDINARY STORY. Robert Mitchell Glover, described a - person of superior address and education, was charged at Bow. Etreet Police.eort on lednesday with begging. His story wasan extraordinary one. He was wellconnected, and formerly held a ...

... thrill by the perusal of a story 'xvith soai thing spooky in it over a cosy fire on a 4Wintsd, evening. The majority of thcse reaeders are apt '9 be general in their definition of this parti-u, class of literature. Ghost stories ' is accurate for many ...

... GRASSHOPPER STORIES. Sn-CE the invasion of Northern California by the grasshoppers there has been a marked revival in the literature appertaining to this interesting in- sect. * I remember in '71, said a member of the Grain Exchange yesterday, I was ...

... THE STORY OF BARBARA.* .1 : - e How to Criticize a Novel, or The Art of olvel writing, is a book sorely needed by the Proew of to-day. For, when a reviewer takes the regular three volumes into his hand for a notice he is more than inclined to treat ...

... DETECTIVE STORIES. ARE WE CEASING TO BE ENGLISHMIEN SucH was the indignant question asked by one of the Bow Street magistrates when he heard that a detective officer had been fighting for his life with a desperate criminal, and that of the crowd col- ...

... GHOST STORIES. Stories dealing with the supernatural do not, as a rule, find much favour with the eaditos or readers of mnagazinesF. But an exception is still made in favour of Christmas ; and there is gene- rally a fair proportioan of ghostly legends ...

... | HORRIBLE STORY. I. - I . I .1. . The following horrible story appears in a Frer. Jaurnal The House of Refuge for Lunatics, establisl~d at C 3ur-Loire, department of Nieure, was, a short tics, scene of a most tragical event The Si-ur Malis t, thecary ...