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  2. Hard Drinking Without Drunkenness.

    SOME people can swallow a great deal more in the shape of intoxicating drinks that others without bad effects, that is to say, without getting tipsy; ...

    Article : 269 words
  3. Clarence and Richmond Rivers S. N. Company.

    A GENERAL meeting of shareholders of this company was held on the 25th ultimo, Mr. T. R. Allt in the chair. The report and balance sheet set forth that up to the ...

    Article : 185 words
  4. A Model Husband.

    ON a week day he walks out with his wife, and is not afraid of a milliner's shop. He even has "change" when asked for it, and never alludes to it ...

    Article : 453 words
  5. Commercial Banking Company.

    THE eighteenth half-yearly meeting of the commercial Banking Company of Sydney was held last week, Mr. R. Jones in the chair. In moving the adoption of ...

    Article : 157 words
  6. A Family Roasted Alive.

    A TELEGRAM dated Roma, Queensland, July 23, says:—A report was received by the police yesterday tot he effect that a family had been burnt to death at ...

    Article : 270 words
  7. The Quickest Courtship on Record.

    A CERTAIN young lady went out last Wednesday morning to make some calls. On her way she met a friend, who suggested that she should go to the matinee with ...

    Article : 136 words
  8. The Human Breath.

    PROFESSOR BROWNSEQUARD has recently been making experiments to determine whether the human breath was capable of producing any poisonous ...

    Article : 113 words
  9. The Sagacity of a Dog.

    THE sagacity of a spaniel saved the house of Mr. Curtis, of Nelson, New Zealand, from destruction by fire recently. During the night a log fell from the stove on to ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. Transplanting Trees.

    OF all practices connected with transplanting that of allowing tree roots to dry when out of the ground is about the most reprehensible. In bad cases, when the ...

    Article : 193 words
  11. Horrible Execution.

    CAPE papers give details of the execution of four Basutos in the Orange Free State. The sheriff's nominee performed his work so expeditiously that when the ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. An Old Military Horse.

    SOME year's ago, a baker in London purchased a horse on which he rode when supplying his customers with hot rolls and cakes. One day he passed the gate ...

    Article : 306 words
  13. China's Great Wall Myth.

    ABBE LARRIEU, formerly a missionary in China, has published a pamphlet, "Pairs Leroux" on the great wall of China, to demonstrate that this structure does not ...

    Article : 461 words
  14. Marriage-Making in Ireland.

    IT is one of the contradictions of the Celtic race that, amongst a people eminently poetical, marriage is almost entirely a matter of business. A father ...

    Article : 191 words
  15. Miscellaneous.

    Chaff is selling at Glen Innes at 2s 6d per cwt. Do not prune evergreens until the wanner weather of spring sets in. ...

    Article : 691 words
  16. Freemasonry in New South Wales.

    THE following is extracted from the Minutes of Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of England, at the meeting held in the Freemason's Hall, London, on the ...

    Article : 736 words
  17. The Dog and the Railway Train.

    THE following is told of the Auckland Railway. A man was travelling by a suburban line, and had taken his dog into the carriage with him. Just before ...

    Article : 437 words
  18. The Botany Mystery.

    THE inquiry into the circumstances attending the deaths of Charles Andrews and John Collins, who were respectively husband and son of the woman Louisa ...

    Article : 344 words
  19. Exercise for Horses.

    by exercise, sweating, and grooming that we prepare the horses to stand the most service. Exercise hardens the muscles, clears the wind, and ...

    Article : 152 words
  20. An Extensive Trade.

    THERE is less weariness of fingers, less heaviness of eyelids, less of unwomanly rags, less poverty, hunger and dirt—far less—working for the dead than the ...

    Article : 479 words
  21. Encke's Comet.

    MR. JOHN TEBBUTT says that with the [?] of an approximate ephemeris, applied by Messrs. Blacklund and [?], of St. Petersburg, he ...

    Article : 236 words
  22. Friendly Societies and Stamp Duties.

    A DEPUTATION consisting of Messrs. Edwin Schofield (I.O.O.F., M.U.), John Hampton (A.O.R.F.), and John Slade, waited upon the Postmaster-General last ...

    Article : 304 words
  23. Fire Caused by a Thrashing Machine.

    A REMARKABLE case of spontaneous combustion occurred in a thrashing machine working in Canterbury, N.Z., revealing a hitherto unsuspected danger. ...

    Article : 199 words
  24. Sweating in the English Boot Trade.

    AT the meeting of the City Board of Guardians held in London recently, Mr. H. Lobb, C.C., asked whether it was a fact that well-made leather boots, with hobnails ...

    Article : 259 words
  25. Is Hanging Played Out?

    NO OEBEL, who murdered his sweetheart, Mrs. Rose Schneider, at her mother's house, No. 1122 First avenue, March 10, because she refused to marry ...

    Article : 226 words
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