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  2. A Rival to the Koh-i-noor.

    Great crowds collect every evening at Messrs. Emanuel Schwartz and Co.'s, London, to see the process of polishing what is deemed the champion diamond of the world. Within sight through the ...

    Article : 248 words
  3. Judging Character by the Forehead.

    "I cannot express an opinion on the subject of palmistry or even upon phrenology," said a well-known surgeon to a reporter for the New York Mail and Express recently, "for I have never ...

    Article : 412 words
  4. Appalling Horrors In the Backwoods.

    The Legislature of the State of Michigan has just passed, under a spasm of universal horror, a new law imposing five years' penal servitude in the case of any person, male or female, convicted of ...

    Article : 628 words
  5. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

    COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—In the import markets on Friday there was more inquiry for goods, though the activity looked for has by no means been realised. Already a good many ...

    Article : 690 words
  6. The Victorian Revenue Returns.

    Returns show that during the quarter ended on Thursday, the revenue of Victoria was £1,805,306, which, added to the sum received during the six months ending December last, makes a total of ...

    Article : 284 words
  7. Miserable End of an American Miser.

    Early this year, on a cold day following a bitter cold period, there were found frozen to death in a small house on Locust-street, Philadelphia, two old men. Joseph Perry, who owned the house, had ...

    Article : 957 words
  8. Sir Charles Wilson on the Soudan.

    Colonel Sir Charles Wilson delivered an address a few evenings since on "Our Friends and Foes in the Soudan," to a large meeting, held at the Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel. Sir Charles Wilson in ...

    Article : 537 words
  9. A Case for the Divorce Extension Advocates.

    Mr. Justice Hawkins has decided says the Pall Mall Gazette, that bigamy is no crime when a woman commits it in self-defence. A poor woman who had married a habitual criminal when she was ...

    Article : 215 words
  10. Brisbane Markets.

    Fat Cattle.—140 yarded, which were from medium to good. Sales opened extremely dull, and prices fell fully 20s per head; the majority being withdrawn. We quote: Best bullocks to £5 ...

    Article : 327 words
  11. Temperance Literature in Public Schools.

    It will be recollected that a deputation recently urged the Minister of Public Instruction to sanction the introduction of Dr. Richardson's temperance books into the Public Schools of the colony as text ...

    Article : 357 words
  12. Tilbury Docks and the Australian Trade.

    We (Argus) are in receipt of a circular reporting the completion of the Tilbury docks, opposite-Gravesend, constructed by the East and West India Dock Company. Owing to the rapidly ...

    Article : 372 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 766 words
  14. Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets.

    DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—The weather during the past week has been rather changeable. On Monday it was like rain, and a few sprinkles fell in the evening. A cold wind blew during the day. On ...

    Article : 442 words
  15. The Opposition Programme.

    An important meeting of the Opposition, by which is meant the protectionist party in the Legislative Assembly, was held on Friday afternoon in the Opposition room, and was well attended. Those ...

    Article : 426 words
  16. Terrible Lynching Scenes.

    According to information received on 12th inst., a most extraordinary case of "lynching" occurred in the Kansas town of Leavenworth, through the streets of which the culprit, with a rope round his ...

    Article : 314 words
  17. A Reform Bill Indeed.

    Up in Beef Gap, Idaho, says the Arizona Star, there is a new city marshal. He was "Onion Bill" before his election, but now they call him "Chief," and add respectfully his last name, Birdell. Here ...

    Article : 274 words
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