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  2. Here and There

    According to the investigations of a Gorman botanist, out of 4300 species of flowers cultivated in Europe only 420 possess an agreeable perfume. Flowers with white or ...

    Article : 101 words
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  4. THE NEWEST PIERCING OF THE ALPS.

    Little has boon made of the newest piercing of the Alps, writes a correspondent, yet the conclusion of the live years' work at the Loetschberg tunnel is noteworthy. The ...

    Article : 170 words
  5. CHILD LABOUR IN JAPAN.

    According to Dr. Kuwada a member of the Japanese House of Peers, more than two fifths of the 1,000,000 factory hands of Japan are women and children. With no laws to fear or ...

    Article : 163 words
  6. THE TRADE IN CONFETTI.

    The trade in confetti grows amazingly. The municipality of Paris reports that the number of papers thrown in the faces of people in the streets at Mi-careme exceeded ...

    Article : 140 words
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  8. GRAVE NEWS ABOUT GLACIERS.

    Glaciers are part of the romance of mountains; the very name gives the thrill of the lonely and high and awful even to those who are not quite sure what a glacier may ...

    Article : 334 words
  9. MAKING ARTIFICIAL RAIN.

    In the town of Irondequoit., N.Y, bordering Rochester on one side and Lake Ontario on another, more fruit is raised than in any other place of equal size in the United ...

    Article : 152 words
  10. WHY A PRINCE'S WIFE WAS FINED.

    A prince's wife was fined two pounds res[?]ntly in Hanover for representing herself as a princess. Prince von Bentheim-Stein-fast is heir to the throne, and the accused ...

    Article : 179 words
  11. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE CENSUS.

    A very interesting chapter might be written on the curious ineldents in the taking of a census. At every census very many people are found to be in ignorance of their ...

    Article : 300 words
  12. WHAT IS CHAMPAGNE?

    Champagne is still not quito certain what it is or where it comes from. Lot not the irreverent think it is a question of the famed gooseberry; there is authentic wine of the ...

    Article : 187 words
  13. THE FIRST SILK WEAVERS.

    The Chinese were the first to introduce silkworm culture, the industry dating back, under their records, to 2500 B.C., and deing inaugurated by Si-ling, the wife of Emperor Emperors insects belonging to the larger family of "Saturniidae," chief among which is the Indian moth, called "Antheroea litt"— the source of Tussah silk. ...

    Article : 244 words
  14. THE ALBANIAN TROUBLE.

    Albanian trouble dees not lessen politically, but the race has won, on a point of detail, a boon from the Turks which they longed for and fought for. The ...

    Article : 187 words
  15. THE FIRST CENSUS IN ENGLAND.

    The first census for England did not take place till 1801. Scotland and Ireland were not included till 1821. The Census when first proposed met with fierce opposition. A ...

    Article : 169 words
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