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  2. THE NATURALIST. EARTHWORMS.

    Earthworms exist in very great numbers in all climates in which vegetation can grow, and have done more to alter the face of the globe than any other class of living creature, except ...

    Article : 754 words
  3. THE TRAVELLER.

    Proceeding in our tram we reach Oamaru at seventy-eight miles from Dunedin—Oamaru, which the learned linguists call Wamaroo, a few others O-am-maroo, and ...

    Article : 3,167 words
  4. THE HUMORIST. AN IMPERFECT ECHO.

    The coloured race are very fond of imitating those who are chivalrous in their bearing and courtly in their manners. Their imitations may not always be very perfect, and are ...

    Article : 176 words
  5. MOSES AND THE BEAR TRAP.

    I had just eaten dinner with a Missouri planter, and we sat on the verandah smoking when a coloured man came up, pulled off his hat, and said— ...

    Article : 431 words
  6. ZOOLOGICAL RECOLLECTIONS.—No. XII.

    Six species of South Australian—double that number of Australian—parrakeets belong to the genus Platycercus. This name, derived from the Greek, and meaning broad-tailed, is a ...

    Article : 719 words
  7. ETHNOLOGICAL.

    One of the oldest and most experienced bushmen in Australia, Mr. Tom Coward, who possesses in a marked degree the valuable faculty of observation, so essential to the ...

    Article : 1,409 words
  8. NO OFFENCE MEANT.

    In some parts of Canada it is customary to call a Justice of the Peace or local Magistrat" "The Squire." One of these worthies, a very estimable man, who always enjoyed a good ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. SCIENTIFIC.

    The death of Sophie Kovalesky, the Russian lady Professor of Mathematics in the Swedish University of Stockholm, has called forth some biographical notices of the gifted woman ...

    Article : 1,452 words
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