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  2. European and Other News.

    Syracuse, N. W., March 12.—Seventeen years ago Rufus Warren Nye, of Sodus, Wayne county, married Miss Olive Rose, of Sodus Centre. A boy was born to them one year ...

    Article : 475 words
  3. Leisure Hour.

    Stars with banded spectra fall into two perfectly distinct classes, of which the first is well exemplified in a Orionis (Betelgeux), the second in a 5 5 magnitude star close behind the ...

    Article : 200 words
  4. Silk Industry.

    MR. THOMAS WARDLE, of Leek, has been to India to examine the cultivation of the silkworm (Bombyx mori) there, and the methods still in use in reeling the silk. Although the ...

    Article : 256 words
  5. Ipswich.

    THE members of the committee appointed at a recent meeting in connection with the North Australian Jockey Club canvassed the town yesterday afternoon for subscriptions in ...

    Article : 1,522 words
  6. THE ORIGIN OF THE UNION JACK.

    It may not be known to everybody that the Union flag or Union Jack, with its three crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick, is the symbol of the parliamentary ...

    Article : 148 words
  7. A MAGNIFICENT METEOR.

    On March 28, at about 9 p.m., a magnificent meteor was observed in several places between Trondbjem and Molde, on the northwest coast of Norway. An observer at the former ...

    Article : 277 words
  8. Toowong Shire Council.

    THE ordinary meeting of the council was held at the office, Toowong, on Tuesday evening last, when there were present: Mr. Robert Cribb, president, and Councilors Payne, ...

    Article : 431 words
  9. Commercial.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 485 words
  10. AN ECCENTRIC MARRIAGE.

    The following extract from a newspaper of 1811 may be interesting: "Last week, in Hertfordshire), John Freeman, a chimney sweeper, to Miss Priseilda Thackthwaite, with ...

    Article : 128 words
  11. Farming Notes.

    A tablespoonful of saltpetre to one gallon of water is recommended as a destructor of the cabbage worm. Grass grown on nutritious soil is often as ...

    Article : 1,221 words
  12. A HOUSE BRISTLING WITH ELECTRICITY.

    Edward H. Johnson, president of the Edison Isolated Company, has a residence which fairly bristles with electricity. Not satisfied with telephone, fire-racket, burglar-alarms at every ...

    Article : 174 words
  13. A TOWN DESTROYED BY FIRE.

    Vienna, April 18.—The town of Stry, near Lemberg, in Galicia, has been entirely destroyed by fire. The fire broke out yesterday afternoon, owing, it is believed, to the fall of ...

    Article : 601 words
  14. THE PLEIADES AS SEEN AND AS PHOTOGRAPHED.

    MM. Homy have recently compared their beautiful photographic map of the Pleiades with the map so carefully laid down by M. Wolf in 1873 75, and published in vol xiv. of ...

    Article : 341 words
  15. A YEAR'S "RECEPTIONS" AT THE PARIS MORGUE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 words
  16. Curiosities of the English Language.

    TO THE EDITOR.—SIR,—It is no wonder that foreigners find our idioms difficult when we make one word carry so many different meanings. Take the following sentence: "He was ...

    Article : 581 words
  17. Carrier Pigeons as Messengers in War Time.

    SOME practical and very interesting experiments with pigeons as war messengers were commenced at Dover on Saturday in connection with the Easter manoeuvres, the experiments ...

    Article : 635 words
  18. HEROISM.

    Heroism is not yet extinct among English- speaking people, though it may be dying in the House of Commons. In December last the American ship Cleopatra was described by ...

    Article : 214 words
  19. A NORTH COUNTRY JAEL.

    "DEAR, dear!" thought Ann, "I hev slept lang time" and she turned to the fire, for she felt chilly. Stooping by it she saw something bright on the floor near her. It was an open ...

    Article : 558 words
  20. FAT PROFESSORSHIPS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 275 words
  21. THE FIGHTING STRENGTH OF FRANCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 words
  22. VITAL STATISTICS IN SCOTLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 words
  23. Advertising

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    Advertising : 196 words
  24. PAYING THE PENALTY.

    Nearly 18 years ago one of the most expert counterfeiters in the country was found guilty. He was a young man, and at the time considered among the best engravers in this ...

    Article : 314 words
  25. THE SALE OF THE MAHARAJAH DHULEEP SINGH'S FURNITURE.

    The sale of the fine furniture and other contents of Elveden Hall has been going on according to announcement, although it was currently reported that a telegram had been ...

    Article : 427 words
  26. BIRD NESTING EXTRAORDINARY.

    One evening Tom approached his father in a laughing mood, and said, "Captain, are you aware that over on the clifts the natives gather those peculiar bird's nests which ...

    Article : 578 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 130 words
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