The satisfaction of obtaining an advantage over a fellow-creature is transient compared with the lasting joy of self-sacrifice. Trunk-wires to connect London by telephone with Edinburgh, Glasgow, anil Dublin have just been erected by the Post Office. To cure fits—Go to a good tailor. A new town has been laid out in Grant County, Kansas, named Appomattox. It has a grocery, drug store, and boarding-house. Next week the Nation's Defender will be issued. It is an extremely chilly day and late in the fall of the year when a newspaper is not launched upon the broad prairies of Kansas. The belief that Lobengula is still alive still lingers among the Matabele. He is said to be living somewhere north of the Zambesi. The people say that no one has ever seen Loben's body, his wives have all disappeared, his waggons have all disappeared, his waggons have never been captured, and his cattle, all marked with the Boj&l brand, are now&ere to be seen.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 27, 28 May 1896, Page 4
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163Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Hastings Standard, Issue 27, 28 May 1896, Page 4
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