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  2. CORRESPONDENCE.

    Sir,—As in a late number, of your paper reference was made to the difficulty of constructing flat roofs to houses, I take the liberty of describing the way adopted by the ...

    Article : 353 words
  3. NEW INDUSTRIES.

    It is a well-known fact that lean meat, as beef, for instance, becomes dry, hard, and innutritious by salting. Salt being chloride of sodium, and its chlorine having a great affinity ...

    Article : 595 words
  4. SCIENTIFIC.

    Sir,—Myself and no doubt many of your readers, who peruse weekly with deep interest the various topics you put forward in your "Scientific" columns, cannot but feel obliged ...

    Article : 353 words
  5. COUNTRY SKETCHES.

    Western Port Bay, although the scene of the earliest attempt at colonisation in Victoria, is less known and less visited than more remote and inaccessible parts of the ...

    Article : 2,388 words
  6. Mango.

    Sir,—Could you, or any of your readers, tell me of an effectual remedy for mange in dogs? I have two valuable sheep dogs whom I can't cure. Though I have tried sulphur ...

    Article : 73 words
  7. Eye Diseases.

    Sir,—Having read with pain your many communications relative to the suffering, and I may say deformity, of so many of the poor children of the Industrial and Sunbury ...

    Article : 143 words
  8. Drainage and Utilising Waste of Cities.

    A novel system of drainage for the houses of cities, patented by Captain Liernur, is about to be introduced at the Hague, the residence of the King of the Netherlands, and ...

    Article : 610 words
  9. What is a Bushel of Apples?

    Sir,—Will you, or any of your correspondents, kindly inform a pretty constant reader in this colony of what he has no other means of ascertaining? ...

    Article : 472 words
  10. MISCELLANEOUS VOTES AND QUERIES.

    Sir,—Will you oblige in next Answers to Correspondents by answering the following:—What is the origin of the ward "Cockney"? And, are all children born in St. Paul's ...

    Article : 115 words
  11. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.

    Sir,—In preparing pupils in Latin for the Civil Service examination, will you kindly inform me what books are absolutely necessary? [Perhps some of our scholastic friends will ...

    Article : 32 words
  12. Oraithological.

    Sir,—Will any of your ornithologioal correspondents be kind enough to inform me what is the name of the following bird? Head tad neck, dark black; back, lighter black; breast ...

    Article : 152 words
  13. Rodgwin [?].

    Sir,—Can youm, of any of your numarous correspondents, inform the if it is possible, and by what process, to attract from linen the staine produced by the juice of the red [?] ...

    Article : 24 words
  14. Reporter.

    Sir,—I shall feel greatly obliged it you, or any of your readers, will else [?] good recipe at the pure of [?] in [?] and also for the pre[?] ...

    Article : 103 words
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