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  2. AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND FARMING. GARLIC AND ONIONS.

    According to tradition, the favourite dish of Mahomet was a haggis of sheep's head stewed in garlic, or a plate of young camel's tripe and onions. The letter was declared to be the "lord of all dainties." While adverting to the ...

    Article : 312 words
  3. LAW AND POLICE COURTS. POLICE COURT.

    Edward Trevannion, miner, pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness. He stated that he had abstained from strong drink for several years; but, during this visiit to Adelaide from the Kanmantoo mines, the old habit had ...

    Article : 2,868 words
  4. SCIENCE, ART, AND MANUFACTURES. IRONING SLIPPER.

    The man who can economise time and money deserves Well—we were about to say of his country, but we will confine the assertion, as regards Mr C. H. S[?]oman, of St. Martin's-lane, to the ironing portion thereof, a very meritorious ...

    Article : 269 words
  5. EXTRACT OF MIMOSA BARK.

    Some spirited individuals are about erecting works on the eastern side of the channel, for the purpose of extracting the tannin from the Mimosa bark, it having been found that the extract is much sought after in the London market, ...

    Article : 89 words
  6. CULTIVATION OF MADDER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 436 words
  7. COLONIAL POTASH.

    At a meeting of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, Sir W. J. Dennison, the president, read a paper founded upon a series of experiments by Dr Motherwell, made by desire of his Excellency, to determine the relative ...

    Article : 154 words
  8. FIRING SHELLS BY ELECTRICITY.

    An American correspondent of the "Mechanics' Magazine" says—"A great number of experiments have removed all doubts of the practicability of this method; and to make it generally introduced, it only requires to be ...

    Article : 1,084 words
  9. PATENT ANEROID BAROMETER.

    The following description of the above appeared in the Chronicle of a recent date:—"This instrument is a simple, beautiful, and accurate indicator o atmospherical changes, on an entirely novel principle. It is termed ...

    Article : 361 words
  10. CULTIVATION OF MILLET.

    The following information is contained in a letter addressed to the Editor of the Hobart Town Advertiser:—I lately observed in your publication a paragraph respecting the value of millet as green food for cattle; and as I have grown a little ...

    Article : 332 words
  11. THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

    Some very interesting and important experiments were lately exhibited in the great room of the Hanover-squ[?]re Rooms to prove the power and the efficacy of the patented electric light of which Mr W. E. Sta[?]e is the inventor. ...

    Article : 211 words
  12. AGRICULTURE IN TUSCANY.

    Mr Whiteside, in his "Views of Italy in the Nineteenth Century," thus gives publicity to his impressions of the actual state of agriculture in Tuscany:—In what state is the agriculture of Tuscany at the present day? ...

    Article : 256 words
  13. COURT OF INSOLVENCY.

    Robert Tod, sharebroker, North Adelaide, attended on his adjourned hearing. His solicitor produced a discharge from each creditor named in the schedule; the insolvent was consequently not examined. It is expected the fiat ...

    Article : 552 words
  14. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

    Mr Hanson asked his Worship how long he would be required to wait for the appearance of the plaintiff in that case. He was in attendance for the defendant, who bad received notice that an application would be made for an ...

    Article : 1,636 words
  15. NEW APPLICATION OF GUN COTTON AND ASBESTOS.

    Mr Robinson, the eminent dentist, in a communication to the Medical Gazette, says:—I have frequently applied collodion in severe cases of toothache, arising from exposure of the nerve, with perfect success, when no persuasion could ...

    Article : 186 words
  16. BEET-ROOT SUGAR.

    The large quantify of saccharine matter contained in beetroot grown in South Australia, having been the subject of frequent remarks, the following official returns and private notice of the beet-root sugar of France may be worth ...

    Article : 372 words
  17. FOLDING MACHINE.

    A newly-lnvented macchne has been announced in the American papers, for folding newspapers and other printed matter. It is to be connected with a cylinder press, so that the sheets come forth from the press folded in the required ...

    Article : 59 words
  18. LARGE HYDRAULIC CYLINDER.

    On the 13th December, the large cylinder of the hydraulic press, intended to be used at Bangor to raise the tubes of the bridge of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, was cast at the Bank Quay Foundry, Warrington. This cylinder is, ...

    Article : 75 words
  19. NEW MODE OF INDICATING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

    Mr Alfred Novello has issued a printed circular, in which he says:—"It has long appeared to me that it would be very convenient to number the hours of the day from I to 24, beginning at midnighr, as the additional words ...

    Article : 259 words
  20. GLASS GAS-BURNERS.

    A foreign artist has lately invented a glass gas-burner, which answers its purpose so admirably that the invention is likely to be very extensively adopted. ...

    Article : 27 words
  21. GUTTA PEROHA IN DENTAL SURGERY.

    A surgeon-dentist in Glasgow is said to have successfully employed gutta percha in the form of artificial palates and gums. ...

    Article : 25 words
  22. NEW SPECIES OF GLUE.

    The Mining Journal states that a Mr Neuber, of Endallstreet, Long-acre, London, has introduced a new species of glue, superior, in all respects, to that in common use by joiners and cabinet-makers, and free from its defects. It ...

    Article : 61 words
  23. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Mr Knowles, of Wilngton, Somersetshire, has in his possession the produce of one bean, 100 pods, ptoducing 316 beans. At an onion show, lately held at Moston, for white porta ...

    Article : 151 words
  24. GLASS PIPING.

    Messrs Costhupes and Co., glass manufacturers, of Bristol, and of Nailsea, Somerset, inform engineers and others, that they are prepared to supply glass pipes of from 1 to 4 inches bore, in lengths of from 3 to 7 feet,—the lengths being less ...

    Article : 51 words
  25. SUGGESTIONS ON CHAPEL BUILDING.

    A writer in the Westeyan, offers the following seasonable hints on Chapel Building, in the form of a letter to the Rev. Dr. Newton, President of the Conference, and to the members of the Chapel Building Committee:— ...

    Article : 889 words
  26. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Madras spectator has an article upon the subject of Capt. Warner's long range, in which he shows, from the Patent Journal, that the idea is by no means chimerical, and may be effected by means of chloride of nitrogen, a ...

    Article : 81 words
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