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  2. TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES.

    Going back to the end of 1872, the writer will lift a corner of the curtain of his memory and speak a little of telegraph affairs as they were in those days of its comparative youth. ...

    Article : 1,236 words
  3. F. R. SPOFFORTH.

    "Fred, my boy, cricket will be your ruin." Thus spoke my employer to the youthful "Demon" one morning in January, 1874. He was a friend of Fred's father, who was a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,174 words
  4. LOS ANGIES.

    As no visit to Los Angeles is complete without seeing the City of the "Movies," we went one morning to Hollywood. We drove first through Culver City, also a ...

    Article : 1,580 words
  5. RAND GOLD.

    Sir John Luke, representing the New Zealand members of the Australian and New Zealand Parliamentary delegation at present in Africa, has urged the Union people to make ...

    Article : 1,531 words
  6. SPIRE OF POPLAR CHURCH.

    STEEPLEJACKS AT WORK. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 7 words
  7. FLEET-STREET.

    I travelled up from Brighton to London the other morning. Everybody on the train read a newspaper. Some had two or three journals, and glanced through them all. To a ...

    Article : 1,062 words
  8. TURMOIL.

    I doubt whether any Presidential election in America his given the political prophets of at county so much to think about and left com with so little confidence in their gift of ...

    Article : 1,623 words
  9. THE TAPERING ENGLISH SPIRE.

    There are fashions in ecclesiastic architecture. The Victorian age was singularly rich in tapering church steeples. Ornament of so many rural landscapes, and ...

    Article : 1,073 words
  10. ARTIFICIAL LIGHTNING.

    How lightning is made and how to make it was the topic of the address of F. W. Peek, Jun., at the centenary of the Franklin Institute at Philadelphia on September 17. ...

    Article : 496 words
  11. SCIENCE NOTES.

    New light on the old mystery of the origin of the Pacific island races may be shed by recent dlscoveries on two tiny Islands belonging to the United States—Islands whose very ...

    Article : 486 words
  12. HISTORY IN TAPESTRY.

    The history of Australia is not yet woven from the indestructible threads of fact and time, and no would-be historian can afford to Ignore any records or information that may ...

    Article : 325 words
  13. ON THE TRAIN.

    Riding onward through the night, The wheels keep singing in their flight; This is their song As they hurry along— ...

    Article : 203 words
  14. SYDNEY.

    The dim October dusk comes down All swift and soft to Sydney-town; From out the darkness suddenly The lamplights shimmer on the Quay, ...

    Article : 117 words
  15. "A DEAR OLD SPOT."

    There was once a dear old homestead In the summer's golden glow, But I left it on my journey In the shadows long ago. ...

    Article : 103 words
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