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  2. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—The thermometer must have been about 5[?]0 over proof when I dived amid your columns this morning, in the hope of finding something deliciously cool, either from the great Buttevant, or the still greator Digamma, or some ...

    Article : 775 words
  3. HIGHER SCHOOLS

    SIR,—The principle of [?]clecti[?]ism has certainly found an able exponent in your correspondent "Buttevant" —20 able that I think, in one or two instances, his very ingenutity has betrayed him into an advocacy of ...

    Article : 2,615 words
  4. THE CONFESSIONS OF A NERVOUS MAN.

    I SUPPOSE (my memory is not a good one) that I have been, on the whole, in love with forty young ladies. I think that is the number. I was trying to reckon, the other day, and got as far as thirty-three. I know ...

    Article : 2,153 words
  5. THE TREATMENT OF SAILORS AT SEA AND ASHORE.

    ALMOST daily there are instances occurring of violent and unjust treatment of seamen either afloat or ashore. The seaman ashore, if he has the misfortune to fall into the hands of land-sharks in the way of ...

    Article : 749 words
  6. DR. LIVINGSTONE. DR. KIRK'S LAST LETTER.

    THE following letter-from Dr. Kirk, political agent and consul at Zanzibar, to the secretary, to Government, Bombay, has been placed at the disposal of the Press:— ...

    Article : 715 words
  7. BUCKWHEAT.

    SIR,—A reply to the letter signed "A Farmer," that appeared some few days ago in your journal, has been looked for with some interest and anxiety by many other farmers. ...

    Article : 483 words
  8. THE ENORMOUS EXTENT OF WALLSTREET GAMBLING.

    IT is stated that the transactions of the gold gamblers during the cornering process and excitement amounted on Friday—one day only—to five hundred millions. Certainly they were so large that the ...

    Article : 2,182 words
  9. FIRE AT SEA AND ON SHORE.

    SIR,—Allow me to inquire of your scientific readers if there is any cheap chemical, which, if dissolved in water and used against fire, has the effect of instantaneously extinguishing it. I have some recollection ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. EXTRACTS FROM LIVINGSTONE'S LETTER.

    "Extracts from a letter addressed to John Kirk, Esq., Acting Political Agent, H.B.M.'s Consul, Zanzibar, received at Zanzibar on September 7, 1869. "After enumerating things needed, such as cloth, ...

    Article : 628 words
  11. WOOL EXHIBITS. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—The bale of wool entered by Mr. Donald Gun, of Pikedale, Queensland, under the mark "CLOUHIE," did not arrive in time for the Exhibition, and was not "judged " in Class V., as would appear from the ...

    Article : 93 words
  12. To the Editor of the Herald,

    SIR,—I often see in your columne complaints against the Corporation for their irregular supply of water. If every house had a tank to contain a few days' supply, regulated by a ball-tap, it would prevent ...

    Article : 94 words
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