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  2. SPRAY. A CURE FOR NEURALGIA.

    Those who disbelieve in doctors should be careful as to the alternative they propose to their friends. "Neuralgia.!" cried one of the ...

    Article : 90 words
  3. AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NOES. FOR THE MAN ON THE LAND.

    Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. ...

    Article : 35 words
  4. DIAMOND MINES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The history of the diamond mines is one long romance—catastrophe, skilful robberies, and the speedy realisation of colossal fortunes, the annual ...

    Article : 378 words
  5. MODERN SPONGE GATHERING.

    So far has advancement been made in scientific progress that, no longer content to fish from the surface, of the sea, we must descend to the depths in a ...

    Article : 354 words
  6. Advertising

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    Advertising : 13 words
  7. AUSTRALIAN PRESS DIRECTORY.

    "Gossip," in the Sydney "Stock and Station Journal," reviews the new Ausralian Press Directory thus:—"There are roughly one hundred ...

    Article : 675 words
  8. No. 15Y.

    The best variety of potatoes for New England—what is it? The question is one for which the Department is endeavoring to find an ...

    Article : 1,371 words
  9. GETTING BACK AT HIM.

    Mrs. Benham: "I wonder what people will wear in heaven?" Benham: "I suppose you will want the most expensive things, the same as here ...

    Article : 50 words
  10. ONLY ONCE.

    The two hypochondriacs wore exchanging confidences. Were you ever bedridden?" inquired one. ...

    Article : 56 words
  11. SOME STATISTICS.

    "The annual rainfall in the United States runs up into the millions of barre[?]s," said the man who had a slubby pencil in his fingers. "The number of fires and ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. POULTRY.

    Why are eggs so dear? Tho question is just now a very real one with housekeepers—country as well as city—and complaints are freely ...

    Article : 764 words
  13. A SUBSTITUTE FOR IRRIGATION.

    At a banquet given to visiting English chemists at New York, Dr. H. W. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington, supplied an entertaining example ...

    Article : 98 words
  14. ELECTRICALLY OPERATED MOVING TARGETS.

    Moving targets are used in Germany which are mounted on trucks and drawn along the ground by the use of electrically worked cables and drums, so as to ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. THE KING A WORKER.

    Those who have soon the King since his return to town declare that, though he looks in the best of health, he is looking much older. Even Royalty, of ...

    Article : 161 words
  16. ONE OF THE FRATERNITY.

    A young lady was going down a dark side street in New York (says To-Day"), when a man, muffled up to the eyes, stepped out of a doorway, and, demanding ...

    Article : 162 words
  17. EARLY MAIZE.

    In the hope that something would be gained by being early in the market, a number of maize-grovrers on tho Northern Rivers have allen into tho rather ...

    Article : 160 words
  18. BIG ANTS.

    The Amorican truth-teller was in form. "Talking of ants," he said, "we've got 'em as big as crabs out West. I've ...

    Article : 120 words
  19. NOT THE ONE.

    A man picked up r purse in the street, and advertised the fact. The same evening he was visited by sixty-one persons, all claiming to have lost money. The ...

    Article : 71 words
  20. AMERICA'S GREATEST INVENTOR.

    Mr. Thomas Edison, America's greatest; inventor, celebrated his 67th birthday by receiving reporters and dining. en famille. Sir William Osler's theory ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. DAIRYING.

    According to the Inspector for the North Coast district, tho Department's advocacy of tho renovation of old and deteriorated paspalum pastures by ...

    Article : 437 words
  22. A SUBORDINATE POSITION.

    "Now," said the bridegroom to the bride when they returned from their honeymoon trip, "let us have a clear understanding before we settle down to ...

    Article : 67 words
  23. THERE'S WALLS!

    A jerry builder was showing a client a semi-detached house. To emphasise the substantial nature of the building he sent a bricklayer into the next house and then ...

    Article : 92 words
  24. HICCOUGH—TO CURE.

    That tiresome and noisy spasmodic contraction of that breath does not invariably choose a convenient time to declare itself, and we all know how loud and ...

    Article : 198 words
  25. HAWKESBURY AGBICULTURAL COLLEGE.

    Arrangements have been made for tho 1914 Winter School for farmers to commence at tho Hawkesbury Agricultural College on Tuesday, 24th June, ...

    Article : 362 words
  26. WEIGHT TEST FOR HAIR.

    If your hair is coming out, pull a hair from your head and find out what weight can be hung from it without its breaking. A strong hair will sustain ...

    Article : 55 words
  27. HAD HIM.

    At a country fete a conjurer was performing the old trick of producing eggs from a pocket handkerchief, when he said to a youngster who was looking on:— ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. HE FORGOT HIMSELF.

    An elderly gentleman, who knew something of law, lived in an Irish village where no solicitor had ever penetrated, and was in the habit of arranging the ...

    Article : 117 words
  29. BRIDE FINDS HER TONGUE.

    A new married couple once hit upon the idea of pretending to be deaf and dumb whilst on their honeymoon. At the station they started talking on their ...

    Article : 159 words
  30. TO KEEP BUTTER FOR A LENGTH OF TIME.

    Melt the butter in well-glazed earthen pans at a heat not exceeding 180 deg. [?]anr., in a water bath, and keep it heated, summing it from time to time until the ...

    Article : 267 words
  31. TO REMOVE A FISH BONE FROM THE THROAT.

    When a fish bone has been swallowed suck the juice of a lemon; the acid usually dissolves the mineral part, making the bone flexible; it is then easy to ...

    Article : 233 words
  32. "BEAR AND FORBEAR."

    An old man was giving some fatherly advice to a recently-married son as to how he should treat his young wife. "When you have any little differences ...

    Article : 170 words
  33. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The measuring of the exact quantity of an arsenic drench that should be used in treating sheep for stomach worms is one of the things that has ...

    Article : 313 words
  34. HERD TESTING.

    The Dairy Export, in an article that appears in the May "Gazette," draws attention to the fact that the practice of certain dairy-farmers is already ...

    Article : 275 words
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