The Alloa illustrated family almanac, district directory and general register for the county of Clackmannan for 1887 . ted and taken to Paris. Itwas on this occasion that he had an Inter-view with Napoleon. The emperor ridiculedJacquards mechanism, but Jacquard de-monstrated his success, and eventuallybrought out the Invention which bears hisname and is known over the civilised world. THE QUEENS JUBILEE. (20). Queen Victoria to-day complotosthe half century of her beneficent Majesty attained her 68th birthday onthe 24th of May. Tliere have been but threesimilar jubilees in our histor


The Alloa illustrated family almanac, district directory and general register for the county of Clackmannan for 1887 . ted and taken to Paris. Itwas on this occasion that he had an Inter-view with Napoleon. The emperor ridiculedJacquards mechanism, but Jacquard de-monstrated his success, and eventuallybrought out the Invention which bears hisname and is known over the civilised world. THE QUEENS JUBILEE. (20). Queen Victoria to-day complotosthe half century of her beneficent Majesty attained her 68th birthday onthe 24th of May. Tliere have been but threesimilar jubilees in our history. The jubileeof Henry IH. was kept on the 19th ofOctober, 1265, and the festival appears tohave been anything but a joy-inspiring next royal jubilee was that of Edwardin., kept on the 25th of January, 1377, Inconnection with which also there seems tohave been little cause for jubilation. On the25th of October, 1809, the jubilee of GeorgeIII. was celebrated with more joyous hil-arity than characterised the two predecessorsput together. Our Queens jubilee excelsthem all in the loyal warmth of her are you dumb? 1887—JULY—31 THE MOONS CHANGES. If. Moon, Stli, morn. I N. Moon, 20th, Quar., , ( morn. | let Quar., 27th, alter. IjF2S 1011 MTuWThF Hols 121314 15 17 181920212223 24 M TuWThF S_ 3115 2G 27 28 f 29 30 Then came, hot Julji boiJinr/ like afire,That all his garments ha liad cast away. 4tli Sunday after Trinity. The Lowestoft fishing boats cauRht in onenight mackerel which sold for £1, Bonaparte took Alexandria, 1798. Mme. Blanchard, who had ascended fromTivoli inal)alloon,feU„owingtoit takingfire, and was killed, 1819. Richard Brinsley Sheridan died, 1816. BJunted sensibility, renewed excuses, lossof caste in society, followed each other inmelancholy succession, until solitude anddarkness closed the scene 5th Sunday after Trinity. 10. Capt. Barclay concluded his het to walk1,0(» miles in successive h


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