... THE WOELD'S FATE. The May Day of this year of grace will long he a red-letter day, for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, opened on this date, marks the most impressive review of the progress of its civilisation the world has seen. May Day has come to be the worker's own, but never before has it been signalised by such a display of his achievements in the past and his potentialities ...

... A FAMOUS NOVELIST AT HOME A CHAT WITH ME. WALTEE BESANT. Frognal? Why, that 's where the Queen has 'er maw-soleum, ain't it? Reassured that it was not to Frogmore that I wished to go, but to the Hampstead home of Mr. Besant, cabby brought through devious ways a representative of The Sketch to Frognal Gardens, Here one is confronted with the following intimation: Private Road. No ...

... . Dear Bots asd Geres, I do not know if you all believe in fairies as firmly as I do. I hope so. You get, believe me, more pleasure out of a single elfin friend than half-a-dozen ordinary flesh-and-blood godmothers put together. One has to put up with their whims, of course. Still, things generally come out satisfactorily in the end. And the following incident was vouched for to me by a ...

... A CHAT WITH C. W. ALCOCK. That two things cannot be accomplished at one time is an aphorism that is just a little out of date. It still holds good, however, that if you want anything done go to the busiest man you know. For this reason an interviewer of /The Sketch/ recently called upon C. W. Alcock, one of the best known sportsmen of England, and probably the busiest man in all London. ...

... .A-ZDZDIRIESS- THE JOHANNIS CO., Lte .A-ZDZDIRIESS- THE JOHANNIS CO., Ltd SPRINGS: ZOLLHAUS, GERMANY. London Office: 25. REGENT STREET, WATERLOO PLACE. S.W. ,The finest tribute ever accorded to sterling merit is contained in the Lancet of August 8, 1891, which embodies the Report of the Lancet Special Commissioner on Natural Mineral Waters. JOHANNIS-- the subject of the Report-- being ...

... MISS DECIMA MOOEE. A CHAT WITH A SAVOYARDS. The young lady who has been chosen to take a leading part in the new Savoy opera is the youngest, and many think the prettiest, singer and actress on the English stage, for, like her elder sister, Miss Eva Moore, she made her début at an age when other girls are still in the school room. I found Miss Deeima, writes a representative of The Sketch, ...

... . Three of us belong to the profession, Miss Eva Moore said to a representative of The Sketch who called upon her the other day, surely that is enough? And we cannot claim kinship with Miss Mary Moore; indeed, as far as I know, I was the first member of my family who ventured on the stage at all. I was a governess, and accidentally took a part in some private theatricals, and thus ...

... . The railway disaster on the Canadian Pacific line at Frazer River, already briefly noticed in these pages, occurred on one of the wildest reaches of the gigantic Fraser Canon. A typical scene is shown in oiu- illustration from a photograph by Mr. M'Munn. 'The gorge, slashed like a great sword-cut across the Cascade Range, is the route by which the Canadian Pacific engineers have contrived ...

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... THE CAMPANIA-- TWO ATLANTIC EECOEDS. The magnificent new Cunarder, the Campania, has scored heavily in her maiden passage across the Atlantic both ways. She has broken a whole series of records. Her passage from Queenstown to New York was done in (i days 8 hours 34 minutes, this being the fastest steaming ever done by a vessel on her maiden voyage. Her average rate was 18'6 knots per hour, and ...

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