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  2. Drifting.

    The engraving we publish this week is from Mr. W. J. Hennessy's picture in the recent exhibition of the Royal Academy. The scene is American, and in the original the colouring. which is peculiarly excellent, depicts with ...

    Article : 114 words
  3. Curious Revival of an Old Superstition

    A most peculiar application was made to Judge Colt of the Supreme judical court, before the business of the divorce docket was taken up. A gentleman representing himself as a professor of metaphysics, but who did not state his name, ...

    Article : 287 words
  4. Power of the Human Eye.

    Some years ago an officer of high rank, a colonel in the Blues, was vising his friend Colonel—, of the Guards, who resided in Buckinghamshire. This gentleman had a very tine bloodhound, which he kept fastened in the yard. ...

    Article : 349 words
  5. Notes of a Journey Westward.

    At Bathurst we are 2153 feet above tide-water and 145 miles from Sydney, as measured by rail, in an agricultural country rich, and flourishing, and in a climate where severe frosts are common in winter, and sometimes snow, but in ...

    Article : 1,786 words
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    DRIFTING—AN AMERICAN AUTUMN EFFECT. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 19 words
  7. Not a Bad Sort.

    There is a good story going the round anent a certain gathering on the occasion of a pigeon match somewhere in New Zealand. The company were assembled nigh unto a certain hostelrie. and from time to time refreshed ...

    Article : 207 words
  8. Subterranean Water.

    Streams of water flowing either on the surface or underground sometimes pass so near each other that one may drain the other, and thus impair its value as a water-power or a source of supply. For this reason it is important to be ...

    Article : 481 words
  9. A Sweet Creature.

    A traveller says, "The odour with which this creature, truly named Mephitis, can overpower its assailants is truly awful. We were driven out of the cabin for some hours merely by the passage of one across the corral. The ...

    Article : 182 words
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