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^FRID LAWSON AT LIVERPOOL.

II PATENT OFFICE MUSEUM.

RICULTURAL DEPRESSION.

a. BRIGHT ON PROTECTION.

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The FUNERAL of BARON ROTHSCHILD,

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THE DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS.I

EXECUTION OF SOLOVIEFF.

PASTORAL LETTER FROM CARDINAL…

AN AMERICAN LADY IN A CORNISH…

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AN AMERICAN LADY IN A CORNISH TIN MINB. The Cornishtnan describes the descent to the lowest depths of Dolooath of Miss Leila A. Noble, a young lady of 19, of Rome, Georgia, United States of America. Accompanied by a friend and a skilled miner, the plucky explorer passed first to a depth of 1,560 feet by the man-engine, stepped from the small platforms on the huge moving rod to the fixed stages at the sides of the shaft with the cool and ready step which takes away all danger from the use of this friend to the underground toiler. But this labour was little compared with that which succeeded. One hundred and thirty fathoms of further depth had to be reached by the descent of perpendicular ladders. This safely done, the lowest and richest parts-of the mine were explored, and a trophy gained, in the form of a lump of ore, dug by the no longer fair hand of the reddened climber. The work of the boring-machines, driving and blasting, huge vughs, or spaces left by the removed ore, and rich deposits of tin were seen. The homely and kind miners were profuse in their compliments. One of them said, I'd raather taake the trouble to put her to the bottom of Dolcoath than I wed a strange miner from another bal; wusnt thee, you ?" The trying ascent had now to be made. Hand over hand upright ladders which would reach to nearly twice the height of St. Paul's had to be climbed— 1 200 staves to be used. The Cornishtnan says ''The firm and Bkilful way in which she took hold of the ladders oaused a miner to ejaculate, 'I never seed a young laady klem with a moor bowlder and shoorer step in my life.' Turning to his comrade he con- tinued, She can klem, you, better'n scores of men I've seed down heer.1" This 780 feet accomplished, 1,560 more, or nearly eight times the height of the Monu- ment, had to be done by the man-engine. About 5 p.m. the bold mineress from the Far West regained the surface, after being underground, and constantly exert- ing herself, for 4i hours, without showing signs of great fatigue, certainly not of exhaustion, and without a mishap of the slightest kind.

COLOUR BLINDNESS.

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THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT.

WEEKLY REVIEW OF THe CORNI…

POPULATION OF THE SANDWICH…

LIBERATED AFRICANS.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND AUSTRALIA.

HUNGARY AS A FIELD FOR! EMIGRATION.

GOLD IN SOUTH AMERICA.

ISWIMMING.

BURIAL OF MR. W. FROUDE.

AMERICAN CATTLE.

EPITOME OF NEWS.

THE MARKETS.

SMAL PARLIAMENT.

DR. SCHLIEMANN'S DISCOVERIES.

EVERGREENS AND FARM STOCK.