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CLEVELAND AGRICULTURAL SHOW

... CLEVELAND AGRICULTURAL . SHOW. ANNUAL SHlOW AT GUISBOROUGH. Yesterday, in a field situated in a picturesque locality near Guisborough, and sheltered on all sides by wood and hill, the Cleveland Agricultural Society held their annual I show of live stock, implemencs, &c. rhe weather was dull and rather threatening, and towards the latter part it was also cold. Nevertheless, the society, who in ...

ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF BELLS

... Am 3AaRTS BETISRD. j I - . . - -. ?? By WILIAM ANDREWS. P.H.tS., Author of Historic RomIance; ?? in the Olden Time, s The Book of Oddities, s Gleanings of Lancashire lore, &e. No. VL-CCURsING oY BELL; BOOS, AND CANDLE, The Cardinal rose with a dignified look Be called for his candle, his bell, and his book I In holy anger, and pious grief Be solemnly cursed that rascally thief, He ...

[ill] ME DISCOURSE

... INOW FIRST IUBLISHL'D. i-L E DISCOURSE. By X ha bCOIL HAY, Author of ?? Middietons Money , Noras Love Test, For Her Dear Sake c. PARXB VI. Wednesday, August 3rd, WNI, her thre.,e drys I have not written ja %-y a . I have been, like dir tq teuthe-s and unsettled; but I feat it vwoe altalease I have been suspicious and uncosMfortildse, even in spite of trying to imitate Denis, MaIry has avoided ...

Chats with Housekeepers

... thato with 940thaptro. Br PHYLLIS BROWNE, Author of Ai YAR's CoOKERY, and Tsa GIRLS OWN UOOKacxy BOOL Wbhat an astonishing thing it is that English house- keepers will not give, themselves the trouble to make coffee properly. It is really a question of trouble and nothing else, for it is as easy as possible to make good coffee if only two or three little details are attended to; bhit ...

Art and Literature

... (2=,Vt and I PtAtim. dIe- S.r Erskine May proposes to add to his work oa Parlia. all mantary Procedure a chapter summarisi~ng the new rules ing now being passed through the House of Commons, and Messrs Sampson Low will be the publlishers of Mr Archi- ble bald R. coiqohoun's narrative of his journey of exploration oil- through the South China border-lands from Canton to my Mandalay. ore It as ...

THE CHILD'S YEAR

... a- .- DECEMBERL Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God.-ST. LuiE ii. 13. When, everywhere, The trees are bare And clouds are dark in heaven above, December's near, When, sweet and clear, One song we hear Of peace and Love. Soon all is white At morning-light, Clad in fair robes of driven snow; And robins sing, While joy-hells ring And tidings bring Of ...

THE POLITICAL BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL

... ?STABLIS?ED liii, I FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 18S3. THE POLIT'ICAL BIRMINGHAM The people of Birmingham have had a wveek's holiday. Twenty-five years ago, Mr John Bright wvas elected one of their Parliamentary representa- tives, and notwithstanding repeated opposition, he has contrived to retain his seat during the whole of that time. This has been in the course of the week a matter of congratulation on ...

FEMININE FASHIONS AND FANCIES

... Lc Feller says that charming fancy woollens are em': the most fashionable walking dresses; large fowers are. appearing; fine lines with saw-like edges, en * I, di colours on light grounds, large checks of two or mo-e s:,- of the same colour, crossed by fine groups of linesic trasting colours, are the styles adopted by the I--tif turs-rcs, The narrow stripes are generally of brig: ?? on checks ...

Chats with Housekeepers

... ALL BmGlIf RBSRR7D Thato W.'Ith BY PHYLLIS BROWNSE, Author of AL YRs OOOEERY, and TEX GIBL'S COOKERY Boos. Some people seem to think that housekeepers who do not understand all about pastry, by instinct as it were, are not rightly constituted. When they express thir thought they Only show that they have never realised what an important and serious business it is to make pastry. A great French ...

NORTHUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... N-ORTHUMBERILAND AGRICTUL'uRAL SOCIETY. BSHOW AT ALNWCEK. The annual exhibition at live stock, Implem ents, &c., in connection with the Northumberland Agricultural Society was held on Wednesday in Hulne Park, Ainwiek, the us of which was kindly granted by the Duke of Korthumbr- Ir dto the society for the pu pose Prizes to the amount ot £l,0(0 were offered, end these attracted a large nn nber ...

HEATHER

... HEATHER, Vnst barren hills and rroor-, cliffs over lakes. treat headlands by the sea-a lonely land! N ith Firbers' huts beside a yel~oc strand WVher wave on wvave in foam and thunder breaks, Or elae a ttanquil blue horizon takes iunlightand bbadlw. Few can understand 'lh. poor folk's ancient tntne. swreet, smunile, grand, W1erein a dreanmy old world half awakes. Anti on these hills a ?? Teamr ...

AN OCEAN TRAGEDY:

... ALT IlIGIT8 RESURTV1D. A NOVEL. tat B' NV. CLARK RUSSELL, i Author of 1Tism WnxecKO or M nut osvNorti, &c., &O. Ing CHArTFER XT1I-CONTINVED. 00 I waihtle to the taffrail and locked aster a, There was Mt nothing to beseen but faint phanta-smal rheelsol phosphoric I light softly undulating-, with the brighter glow of our wake. Mr I was roolly snwor agitated than!I should have liked to own, ...