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  2. THE EXPORT APPLE TRADE TO GERMANY.

    Australian apples, hardly known in Germany ten years ago, have gained such favour with the general public that the consumption is rapidly ...

    Article : 700 words
  3. THE HAND AS AN INDEX TO EVOLUTION.

    There is a very ancient Belief that a blood vessel extends from the base of the fourth finger of the left hand to the heart, whence, as is ...

    Article : 946 words
  4. THE LATEST BATTLESHIPS.

    It is safe to say that no ship of modern times has aroused more interest among naval engineers than that extraordinary vessel H.M.S. ...

    Article : 1,079 words
  5. "O-U-G-H."

    A farmer’s boy, starting to plough, Once harnessed an ox with a cough; But the farmer came out, With a furious shout, ...

    Article : 151 words
  6. A NEWSPAPER FOR BURGLARS.

    This is the age of specialization in journalism, as in other things, the world over. Nearly every trade or profession has its organ. But in ...

    Article : 388 words
  7. A COLOSSAL EFFORT TO REACH OCEAN TREASURE.

    The latest submarine inventions at last give promise that we shall soon really be able to walk the ocean floor at unheard of depths, and to ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  8. LOST IN THE FOG.

    How the captain of the steamer City of Dundee, the second officer, and the quarter-master sacrificed their lives during a collision in ...

    Article : 1,254 words
  9. PEARLS FROM CEYLON.

    Placuna placenta, the oyster from which pearls are said to be obtained in Ceylon, is found abundantly along the west coast of India ...

    Article : 447 words
  10. THE ROMANCE OF BOOKMAKING.

    "The only men who can make money on the Turf," Admiral Rou[?] used to declare, "are the bookmaker and the jockey;" and when we lear[?] ...

    Article : 371 words
  11. FROM WEALTH TO BEGGARY.

    First a humble servant in the Imperial Palace, then at a bound the favourite of Czar Alexander II., rolling in wealth bestowed by that ...

    Article : 293 words
  12. CURIOUS NATURAL DECEPTIONS.

    Our senses deceive us curiously at times. A flash of lightning lights up the ground for one-millionth of a second, yet it seems to us to last ...

    Article : 320 words
  13. A FREE-LANCE JOURNALIST.

    Gilson Willets has just been talking to an interviewer lately about the monetary side of a journalist’s life. ...

    Article : 286 words
  14. BY DEDUCTION.

    Twa Scotsmen, wi’ the broadest Scotch accent ye ever heard, were staying at a Lunnon hotel ower nicht. Noo, it sae happened that ...

    Article : 132 words
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