London Coffee Palaces and Global News Roundup
The piece describes new coffee palaces with billiard rooms and open-air balconies in London, plus a railway bridge foundation stone at Inchgarvie. It reports charity funds for Abercarne, Princess Alice disaster aid, and coroner findings at Woolwich, alongside international notes from New York to Germany and Canada, including royal engagements, epidemics, and rail plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Walhamgreen
Bolsover-street
New Cut
Lambeth
Oswell-road
East India Dock
Firth of Forth
Queensferry
Inchgarvie
Woolwich
Bywell Castle
Germany
Cologne
Rhine
Gotha
Herr Petermann
Bleicherode
Prussia
Royal Geographical Society
Barth, Overweg
Vogel
Africa
North Pole
Berlin
Morning Post
St. Petersburg
Land and Liberty
Mount Vesuvius
Chin Lam Pin
Hayes
United States
China
Li Hung-Chang
Tientsin
Taku
Calcutta
Burmah
Prince Theebo
Prince Nyolingy
Mandalay
Washington
Earl of Dufferin
Toronto
Canada
Dominion
Marquis of
Lorne
City Liberal Club Memorial for Earl Russell Planned
The City Liberal Club begins a memorial drive for Earl Russell including a statue or other tribute with subscriptions capped at 10s. per person. Honorary supporters include Lord Beaconsfield Archbishop of Canterbury Mr. Gladstone and several peers and nobles.
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Liberal Club
Earl Russell
Lord Beaconsfield
Archbishop of Canterbury
Ri. A. Cross
Earl Granville
Earl and Countess of Derby
Gladstone
Marquis of Hartington
Lord Northcote
City Press
Professor Macfarren
Curwen
Birkenhead
Babylon
W. St
Babylonian tablets in British Museum reveal Phoenician inscription
The British Museum adds Babylonian inscriptions from Nebuchadnezzar era to its Oriental department. Rassam secured the collection during his last eastern journey, with tablets from Babylon and later Persian kings offering Phoenician legends for the first time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Museum
Kazakh
Nineveh
Babylonia
Nebuchadnezzar
Oriental Department
Rassam
Glapstone
Gladstone
E. B. Shuldham
Mr. Gladstone
Frail Curiosities and Wit From 19th Century Gossip
A collage of pithy maxims and anecdotes including jokes about street doors and blacksmith strikes. Notable items mention Australian cricket earnings, sermons advertised in Philadelphia, Delaware peach baskets, and novelties such as engagement bracelets with locks. It also notes a Vesuvius railway scheme, Paris fashions, temperance, new mosquito problems, and farmer memories with Glenmary and Glenbetsy.
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England
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Delaware
Atlantic
Superior Council of Public Works
Naples
Paris
New York
Daughters of Temperance
Mamma
Johnny
Wallace
Ansonia
Connecticut
Highlands
Glenmary
Glenbetsy
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Melody
King of Holland
Emma
Waldeck-Pyrmont
Prince of Orange
New Orleans
Memphis
Vicksburg
South Africa
Transvaal
St. John’s River
Pondo
Amquibela
Cyprus
Garnet Wolseley
Bairam
M. Bardoux
Gambetta
Italy
Frederick William III
Coblentz
Guerzenich
Glemings