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  2. CONCERNING A GREAT SCOTCH PREACHER.

    Let us suppose that by the kindness of some Glasgow acquaintance we have succeeded in procuring tickets of admission to the Park Church. In the midst of a throng which has convorged from many points to the steep ...

    Article : 1,571 words
  3. INSOLVENCY COURT.

    Auctioneer, North Adelaide and Gawler Town. A final meeting. Mr. Emerson attended for the insolvent, and Mr. Stow for the estate. ...

    Article : 460 words
  4. MEDICAL.

    A MEDICAL KING IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.— About 30 years ago, a French surgeon, M. de la Gironniere, went to the above island in medical charge of a merchant vessel. He lived in obscurity at Manilla for ...

    Article : 1,695 words
  5. THE COMET OF 1858.

    It is exceedingly amusing to see the thousands of upturned faces that are every night gazing at the comet, which rather unexpectedly has made its appearance this year. A very large comet ...

    Article : 840 words
  6. EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

    The Alta California has given rise to some gossip among medical men. It contains a strange (if true) story, in a letter from a German physician, Dr. Lichterberger, at Fort Langley, ...

    Article : 598 words
  7. POLICE COURT—ADELAIDE.

    VAGRANCY.—Henry Goodfellow, a blind man, was brought up charged with being an idle and disorderly person, wandering about in the streets and without any visible means of subsistence. The defendant stated that he had been arrested ...

    Article : 307 words
  8. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE.

    A question put to Lord Derby by Lord Lyttleton recently in the House of Lords, led to a short debate on the subject of competitive examinations for the Civil Service, in the course of which Lord Grey stated, with great ...

    Article : 1,787 words
  9. POLICE COURT—PORT ADELAIDE.

    OBSCENE LANGUAGE AND ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—W. Birrell, charged with the above offence, was fined for the first offence 2l., and for the latter 5l., or in default of payment one month's imprisonment. The evidence of the constable, who ...

    Article : 141 words
  10. THUNDER AND LIGHTNING.

    There are two kinds of electricity; the one vitreous or positive, the other resinous or negative; and both kinds are produced in the atmosphere by various causes; chiefly by evaporation. We may form a slight idea of ...

    Article : 3,981 words
  11. BREAD FROM COAL.

    The science of political economy is threatened with a total overthrow—its dicta, its theories, its very facts, are in danger of being contradicted, refuted, and disproved. The questions of supply and demand, of imports and exports, the balance ...

    Article : 1,220 words
  12. THE LAW OF LUNACY.

    Mr. Lawrence Ruck, a gentleman of property, of Sittingbourne, in Kent, and Montgomeryshire, has been confined in a private lunatic asylum for some time. It is alleged, on one hand, that he ...

    Article : 790 words
  13. THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE.

    A scientific body calling itself the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, which has been in existence some three or four years, has recently closed its period of session for the year 1858. ...

    Article : 670 words
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    The other day a teetotal lecturer, in giving an oration on the great panacea of cold water, exclaimed, "My friends, it is a grand mistake to call intoxicating drinks 'strong drinks.' It can be proved that plain cold water is ...

    Article : 248 words
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    EXTRAORDINARY COMBAT.—The other evening a rather singular affair happened near Hull. Mr. Bray, cowkeeper, who resides in Hendyke-lane, near Newland[?] was passing along one of the fields at dusk, when, a few yards in advance ...

    Article : 169 words
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