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  2. LIFE IN THE NORTH.

    The following extracts are taken from lettera received by Professor David from Dr. Woolnough, Geologist to the Northern Territory Expedition:— ...

    Article : 1,813 words
  3. IN THE GAEDEN. HERBACEOUS DELPHINIUMS.

    Herbaceous delphiniums, or, as they are sometimes called, perennial larkspurs, are hardy plants of stately habit, growing from two to nine feet high, and having very ...

    Article : 442 words
  4. JULY QUARTERLIES. THE ENGLISH CHURCH.

    After capably reviewing the main currents of English Church life, the "Edinburgh" remarks that they speak more truly than they know who tell us that for the time in which ...

    Article : 191 words
  5. SCIENCE NOTER. W. G. P.

    Although the leopard cannot change his spots, many amphibians can and do change theirs. The mechanism of the process is Interesting. If the green skin of the ...

    Article : 448 words
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  7. THE MIND OF PASCAL.

    Physicist, Dragmatist, inventor, saint, and artist in prose Pascal, says the "Edinburgh," failed to fuse these qualities into a coherent whole. Occasionally the diverse elements ...

    Article : 223 words
  8. ANIMAL BOOKS.

    Another "Edinburgh" writer makes a readable article out of recently published animal books, such as those of Charles Roberts, Seton-Thompson, and Jack London; and he ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. VIOLETS.

    The early violets have ceased flowering for this season, and the plants that have been growing in the same spot for three years will now require attention. When the plants are ...

    Article : 293 words
  10. THE POISON OF AMPHIBIA.

    Although the toad has no precious jewel in his head there is no doubt of the ugly and venomous character of many amphibians. The secretion of newts and toads causea an ...

    Article : 287 words
  11. DEGENERATION AND PESSIMISM.

    Surveying a field from Schopenhauer to Metchnikoff, the "Edinburgh" asks how may degeneration and pessimism be combated, but it declines to enter upon any propaganda of ...

    Article : 191 words
  12. NOTES.

    The earliest planted pansies are now flowering very freely, and to keep the plants in that desirable condition remove the seed-vessels as soon as they form, and water the plants ...

    Article : 288 words
  13. THE BASIS OF MATTER.

    Professor T. W. Richards delivered the Faraday lecture before the Chemical Society and took as his subject the fundamental properties of the clements. The weights of the ...

    Article : 331 words
  14. TOLSTOY.

    The "Edinburgh" has a very carefully done little summary of Tolstoy's life that puts the main facts of his peculiar career in the proper perspective. An abstract itself, it ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. VEGETABLE GARDEN.

    Late August and early September are very busy times in the vegetable garden, as they constitute the season for sowing the seeds of many of the late spring and early summer, as ...

    Article : 450 words
  16. BRITISH INVESTMENTS ABROAD.

    The "Quarterly" is somewhat alarmed at the magnitude of British investments abroad. From the returns of the Inland Revenue it appears there is an annual income of ...

    Article : 249 words
  17. DUTCH NEW GUINEA.

    Some interesting results are published by the recent expedition led by Goodfellow. The Mimitra coast native is coal black, rather brutal of feature, and crowned with curly ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. PRIMITIVE MAN.

    Edward Clodd, in the "Quarterly," reviews our knowledge of primitive man, mostly following J. G. Fraser. This is a new science with new evidence. Anthropology was only ...

    Article : 101 words
  19. DR. JOHNSTONE STONEY.

    The recent death of Dr. Johnstone Stoney removes one of the most fertile minds of modern physics and astronomy. Dr. Stoney was born in Ireland in 1826, and graduated at ...

    Article : 231 words
  20. THE IRISH THEATRE.

    Mr. Charles Tennyson writes in the "Quarterly" on Irish plays and playwrights. The Irish, he says, are born actors, but they had no drama before the twentieth century. ...

    Article : 90 words
  21. A HAIRDRESSERS'S EXPERIENCE.

    "I have repeatedly used Chamberlain's Cough Romedy, and always depend upon it to give me relief when suffering from colds." Writes Mr. A. B. Fry, Hairdresser, Gawler-street, Mount ...

    Article : 83 words
  22. COLDS CAUSE HEADACHE.

    LAXATIVE BROME Quinine, the world wide Cold and Grip remedy, removes cause. Call for full name. Look for signature E. W. Grove. 1/1½.—Advt. ...

    Article : 28 words
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