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  2. Miscellaneous.

    Perhaps it is not very generally known that bananas are very nutritious. It is claimed that a pound of bananas contains more nutriment than three pounds of meat or many pounds of potatoes, while as a food ...

    Article : 148 words
  3. Wool and Other Exports.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 282 words
  4. A Tragedian on "Tour."

    The great theatrical event of the season wrote the London correspondent of the "Age," on October 19), has been, of course, the departure of Mr. Henry Irving and MiSs Ellen Terry for ...

    Article : 2,106 words
  5. WOMEN'S WORK.

    A writer in London "Truth" dealing with women's work says:—The war of woman workers against men has thus fairly began, and the statistics when last taken were encouraging. The number of female ...

    Article : 213 words
  6. HUMAN CURIOSITIES.

    Paris boasts of the most extraordinary collection of human curiosities extant. One is the Grand Hotel Leguay, known as "La Table d'Hote des Monstres." The hotel in itself is like any common provincial ...

    Article : 201 words
  7. Borough Council Meetings.

    LEICHHARDT.—At the usual meeting on the 17th instant, there were present the mayor (Alderman W. Pritchard) and Aldermen John Young, Madge, Taylor, Hearn, Arguimban, Whiting, Scott, and Evans, Mr. Beames, the ...

    Article : 1,174 words
  8. MELBOURNE GRAND HOTEL.

    Although we are rather better off for hotels than Sydney (says the Melbourne "World") there is still room for an extension in the right direction, and this fact, within the past 12 months, has been very ...

    Article : 331 words
  9. WAS DARWIN A BELIEVER?

    Quite lately Dr. Moorhouse claimed Darwin as a true believer. What about the following letter, which appears in a work just issued:—"Down, Beckenham, Kent.—Dear Sir,—It seems to me absurd ...

    Article : 181 words
  10. Fossil Footprints.

    The Shingalese Mohammedans are happy in the possession, on Adam's Peak, of what they are taught to regard as a footprint of the first man. Unfortunately, the evidence in favour of the ...

    Article : 1,759 words
  11. A JUDGE'S GUSH.

    He is a bold man who would undertake to answer the question of "Who is the most distinguished Englishman Irving?" Lord Coleridge, however, has settled this question in a speech to an American ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. A CAPACIOUS STOMACH.

    Somewhere in the neighbourhood of Aylsham lived a certain Jerry Eke, whose appetite was said to be superhuman, and whose prowess at harvest suppers was the boast, and wonder, and envy of the villagers ...

    Article : 258 words
  13. RUSSIA'S POET.

    Targenieff's corpse was carried home to St. Petersburg to receive due mortuary honours, but with all its trappings was, it is said, intercepted by the customs officers on the Russian frontier, and duly levied ...

    Article : 435 words
  14. A Sewing Machine Motor.

    It has loner been an object of desire among all who use the sewing machine to obtain some method of driving it which should be independent of the worker, and many contrivances, including ...

    Article : 653 words
  15. HABITS OF THE MOSQUITO.

    "I have devoted 20 years to a study of tho habits of mosquitoes, and a curious lot of creatures they are." He was a withered up, yellow-faced, parchment-skinned little man, with bright little eyes ...

    Article : 956 words
  16. Australasian Confederation.

    The "Freeman's Journal" of last Saturday discusses the confederation question from a broad and comprehensive standpoint. Says that journal: One of the strangest circumstances in connection with the ...

    Article : 696 words
  17. ARCHBISHOPRIC OF SYDNEY.

    The archbishopric of Sydney (says the London correspondent of the Melbourne "Age") has been successively assigned by the voice of rumour to a brother of the late Archbishop Vaughan, to Dr. Tynan, and to ...

    Article : 524 words
  18. Tomato Leaves as an Insecticide.

    I PLANTED a peach orchard (writes M. Siroy, of the Society of Horticulture), and the trees grew well and strongly. They had just commenced to bud when they were invaded by the curculio (pulyon), which insects ...

    Article : 239 words
  19. DEPRAVITY IN STAFFORDSHIRE.

    At the Stafford Assizes yesterday morning (says the London "Telegraph" of November 9), Justice Pearson sentenced the following prisoners for criminal assaults and other shocking offences:—Edward ...

    Article : 316 words
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