Chapter V. at War with the World
Criminals of all grades are good selfexcus[?]s. Their crimes, according to their arguments, have always been forced upon them by circumstances. Those who…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1887
33 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2
Safe Great Ships of War
Engineering, of July 1, has a first article on the problem "Defects in the Designs of Warships." It is well worth reading, as it shows pretty plainly that nothing has yot been done, no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Ships of the World
Commenting upon the recent issue of Lloyd's Universal Register, the Broad Arrow quotes the following interesting details regarding the war-ships of the world:—Commencing, then, with heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dogs as War Messengers
Says a Berlin correspondent of the New York Tribune:—"Among the thousand and more inventions, appliances, and wonderful uses of men and beasts which German genius has devised to defeat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Novelist. Days of Crime and Years of Suffering. an Autobiography. (Reprinted from "The Australasian" of 1887 by special permission.) Chapter Viii. the War Within
The blackest human heart that guilt ever chimed as its own has still lingering in it [?] spark of a holier fire then that with which crime sears it. I have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Wounded Dog Visits a Hospital for Treatment
Mr. T. Mosse Macdonald, secretary of King's College Hospital, tells a pathetic story in the Times of a visit of a wounded dog to the hospital to be treated by the medical staff…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Loss of Life in the American Civil War
Investigations recently made in the War Department at Washington show that the late American Civil War was relatively the most sanguinary on record. Though the Federal and Confederate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Employment of Soldiers
Lord Wolseley, writing to Colonel Sir Lumley Graham, under date September 22, says:—"I hear you are about to have a meeting at Leeds in the interest of the National Association for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The French War Office Scandals
Following are details of this business, telegraphed to a San Francisco paper:- The Caffarel-Liraouzin case in Paris is a great scandal. Edmund Yates, in his account, says…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Decay of the British Soldier
As we stood overlooking the scene, I could not help asking my companion how had it come about that his opinion had been recorded against the possibility of our English craft being able to stem…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Endurance and Daring of the Chilian Soldier
As a soldier the Chilhvno is brave to recklessness and a sense of fear is unknown to him. He will not endure a siege, says W. E. Curtis, in Harper's Magazine, nor can be made to fight at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TALE The Fortunes of War. a Tale of Life in Goats Hollow
BRIDUET CALLAHAN and Norah O'Grady met at a fish-stall in the Sixteenth-Street market, and, as luck would have it, each fixed her fancy upon a particularly large and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Cloud
IMPORTANT news has been received, relating to the m[?]aring movements of Russian troops. Months ago it was stated that Russian troops were being…
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