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  2. LITERATURE.

    Hardly a month passes now without some reference somewhere or other in the home Reviews to the part that morality should occupy in fiction. The words have become a kind of catch-phrase: ...

    Article : 2,109 words
  3. THE SKETCHER.

    Cold is the forge fire, Seemingly dead; Yet iu its grim heart Embers are red. ...

    Article : 101 words
  4. Colour Blindness.

    One of the essential conditions of employment as railway signalman or enginedriver is freedom from what is known as colour-blindness—a curious and little-understood defect of vision, from which ...

    Article : 722 words
  5. British Railway Facts.

    From Bradshaw's time tables we learn that in the United Kingdom there are 127 distinct lines of railway and nearly 8520 stations. Taking an average of 3120 figures in each of the 523 pages ...

    Article : 257 words
  6. A German Bradshaw.

    The German Railway Guide, "Hendschel's Telegraph," was first established about 43 years ago, and is a substantial, somewhat bulky volume in brighter and larger print that of "Bradshaw." ...

    Article : 192 words
  7. The Post Office Clock.

    Aye! Set me going. Set me going. Let my idle hands go round; I am eager; I am eager To be known by sight and sound; ...

    Article : 343 words
  8. Sparks.

    Cool.—A French paper says: The engine whistle has been going desperately for a few seconds: one of the passengers, looking out of the window, remarks: "I believe we are going to have a collision!" ...

    Article : 487 words
  9. Railway Surveying Fifty Years Ago.

    When railways were first introduced into the United Kingdom, considerable difficulties were experienced in making the necessary survey, in consequence of landowners objecting to the lines ...

    Article : 509 words
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