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  2. Advertising

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  3. MAMMOTH COAL SEAM.

    Mr. R. D. Graham, mining manager of the Mammoth Anthracite Coal Seam, Limited. who is now on a visit to Rockhampton. is the bearer of good news concerning ...

    Article : 681 words
  4. THE STORY OF A CLOCK.

    A correspondent sends the following story, which may be of interest in these days of high prices for objects of art:—In the published edition of the "Stow ...

    Article : 366 words
  5. A FAMOUS GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL

    "The Journals of Field-Marshal Count von Blumenthal for 1866 and 1870" (Arnold) give the memoirs of a very able and upright German soldier, who, as Chief of ...

    Article : 453 words
  6. STRANGE REVENGE.

    We have most of us heard of the Corsican vendetta—how an injury is resented by the relations of the injured with shot guns or stilettos, and their revenge causes ...

    Article : 472 words
  7. THE MONKEY RACE.

    Few, if any, of the existing groups of the class Mammalia show greater diversity of external appearance than the monkeys, for we find among them creatures ...

    Article : 446 words
  8. ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN.

    In connection with the proposal to utilise the atmospheric nitrogen in the production by electricity of nitrates, the fear has been expressed that to resort to that ...

    Article : 173 words
  9. COURT SOCIETY.

    An interesting article in the Vienna "Zeit" contrasts Austrian and German Court society of the present day. At Vienna, it is pointed out, Court society ...

    Article : 270 words
  10. THE HAUNTED SULTAN.

    In "Pearson's Magazine" there is a strong and graphic article on the private life of the Sultan of Turkey. We are told that he always carries a revolver hidden ...

    Article : 400 words
  11. NEW WIRELESS INVENTION.

    The New York "Electrical Review" gives details of an important invention in connection with wireless telegraphy, the work of Mr. Peter Cooper Hewitt. The ...

    Article : 116 words
  12. THE COMING OF THE MOTOR.

    The motor has come. It is no longer an experiment, and motoring is no longer a pastime or luxury. Upon one thing all thoughtful observers must be agreed: the ...

    Article : 388 words
  13. A FINE BALANCE.

    An Italian physicist, Signor Salvioni, has devised a microbalance of such extreme delicacy that it clearly demonstrates the loss of weight of musk by ...

    Article : 107 words
  14. AN "OCCASIONAL" OIL-WELL.

    Some particulars are given in "The Iron Age" of an oil-well near Barboursville, in Kentucky, which is a puzzle to all those who have studied it. Its peculiarity is ...

    Article : 157 words
  15. BUILDING FIREPROOF HOUSES.

    The annual fire-bill of the United Kingdom may be taken at 20 millions sterling. that of the United States being 28 millions Sterling. There are, besides, the fire ...

    Article : 339 words
  16. THE RESURRECTION OF SPANISH TRADE.

    The Spanish people as a whole are neither lazy nor [?]. Their industries, once busy and [?], were deliber-once busy and prosperous, were ...

    Article : 289 words
  17. BLOODLESS SURGERY.

    Much interest has been aroused by the famous Dr. Adolph Lorenz, Professor, of Orthopatdie Surgery at the University of Vinnna, whose ...

    Article : 140 words
  18. NEW CALCULATING MACHINE.

    Although calculating machines have been known since the time of Le[?]itz, some two centuries ago, the new autarith of Rechnitzer, a young Viennese ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. ROOSEVELT AND THE BULLY.

    A rousing story of President Roosevelt's pluck is told by Mr. Frederick Moore in "Cassel's Magazine." Describing under the title of "The President Begins." ...

    Article : 398 words
  20. RECORD MAKERS.

    A few months age Guiseppe Bruzzl, an Italian youth of fifteen, succeeded in crossing the Adriatic in a balloon, the Journey being 120 miles from shore to shore (says ...

    Article : 412 words
  21. A RELIC OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

    In Gray's Inn Gardens. London. on the side nearest Raymond Buildings, is an old catalpa tree, which, besides being one of the few living specimens in England, is ...

    Article : 365 words
  22. BRITAIN'S COMMAND OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.

    The whole structure of the British Empire; the flow to the British Isles of the raw material for industries, the very bread of the inhabitants, depends, not ...

    Article : 322 words
  23. A LONDON BULLY.

    In the reign of Good Queen Anne duels wer no less frequent than in the rowdy, riotous day of Charles II. Lord Mohun, a dissolute, remorseless nobleman, who ...

    Article : 285 words
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