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  3. PLEASANT WAYS IN-SCIENCE

    Any question addressed to the author of this column, it received not later than Wednesday, will be answered on Saturday. Readers are invited to send in accounts ...

    Article : 53 words
  4. MELBOURNE TOPICS.

    The- wreck of the Falls of Halladale neat Peterborough adds another to the long list of disasters on that rockbound coast. 1 doubt it anybody could ...

    Article : 1,127 words
  5. ABORIGINAL SONGS.

    The Tasmanian aborigines were practically exterminated before ethnology became a science, consequently very little is known of their ways ...

    Article : 560 words
  6. CLOVE CLEANINGS.

    Some years ago a Mr. and Mrs. Hurley emigrated to New Zealand, leaving their baby daughter In the charge of a maiden aunt at Plymouth, ...

    Article : 172 words
  7. OLD AUSTRALIAN'S DESPAIR.

    Alfred Cornelius Bergius, sixty-eight, of respectable appearance, but obviously in weak health, was remanded at Westminster on a charge of ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. THE AGE OF THE EARTH.

    "In the Beginning" (Sandy Bay) asks "How old is the earth?" This is a question which It is impossible to answer, though some estimates have ...

    Article : 396 words
  9. A DEATHBED WEDDING.

    The Chortle Hospital (Berlin), on September 33, was the scene of the romantic re-marriage of a dying man to his divorced wife. The divorce ...

    Article : 121 words
  10. A RECORD SPENDTHRIFT.

    An almost incredible case of extravagance, which eclipses the record of the "Jubilee Plunger," bas come to light in the story of Beresford Lisle, a ...

    Article : 124 words
  11. LONDON CRIME INCREASING.

    A report Issued by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police shows that serious crimes are greatly increasing in London. The total number of ...

    Article : 171 words
  12. £20,000 GEMS PAWNED FOR £8802.

    An amazing story was told at Bow-street (London) Police Court when Oc[?] and George Kirkness, Jewellers, of Scarborough, were charged with ...

    Article : 107 words
  13. GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

    The grim scene of the escape of the convicts, which is described Will such [?]asterly realism in Dickens's "Great Expectations was repeated with ...

    Article : 180 words
  14. LOVER'S SUICIDE IN THE LIONS CAGE.

    A most extraordinary case of suicide is reported from Laval, in Mayenee (Germany). Among the owners of stalls at the annual fair was a man ...

    Article : 157 words
  15. YOUNG INVENTOR'S TRAGIC DEATH.

    A sixteen-year-old scientist, named [?], met With a terrible death while experimenting on high explosives at "Weymouth (England. ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. THE PALMS OF TRINIDAD.

    Of the many beautiful plants, flowers, and trees in the West Indies, none are more captivating to the eye than tho Moriches Paints of Trinidad. Sixty ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. FALLS OF LABRADOR.

    Two Americans who have returned to St. John's, Newfoundland, after a visit to the famous Grand Palls in Labrador, have given a glowing ...

    Article : 134 words
  18. DIFFICULT RAILWAY MAKING.

    Although only 220 miles long, the new railway track from Toronto to S[?] cost the Canadian Pacific Railway Company over £2.000,000. ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. A HIBERNIAN HOAX

    A peculiar hoax has been played [?] on the police of Tyrone, by a mischievous old Irishwoman, of the tramp class. She appeared on the bridge at ...

    Article : 125 words
  20. THE TREE OF LIFE.

    Another famous palm tree is the Mantilla, called by missionaries any travellers the "Tree of Life." which grows in the mountains of Guiana [?] ...

    Article : 132 words
  21. SIGNALS AND PUBLIC SAFETY.

    The question of the safety of railway travellers in the event of a signalman [?] seized with sudden illness or dying at his post was raised at ...

    Article : 225 words
  22. WASHING BY ELECTRICITY.

    One of the most interesting features of the Empress Hotel at Victoria, British clubbie, is the laundry. Here a white [?] can be washed, dried, ...

    Article : 124 words
  23. A HEAL PEA SERPENT.

    From Fill comes authentic news of a peal sea serpent. Perhaps, to avert misconception and deter the scoffer. It should be explained that the sea ...

    Article : 148 words
  24. A HORRIBLE LIVING.

    A man named Malone. who was fined at Northampton (England) for breaking hotel windows, was said to earn his living by going from place to ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. ORIGIN OF THE DOG.

    An essay by Mr, Woods Hutchinson on "The Origin of the Dog" in the October "Contemporary," makes a practical contribution to a subject that ...

    Article : 227 words
  26. UNCOUNTED CHILDREN.

    The following remarkable conversation took place at an inquest at Shoreditch, London, between the coroner, Dr. Wynn Westcott, and a man named ...

    Article : 192 words
  27. A PHOSPHORESCENT TREE.

    The Wilshaw district, near Glasgow, has been greatly. excited over the appearance of a strange phenomenon in a wood near the Cleland estates. A ...

    Article : 107 words
  28. CAVE DWELLERS AND THE HORSE.

    The attitude of the cave-man towards the horse has long puzzled In vesignators, and down to a few years ago it was supposed that our ...

    Article : 256 words
  29. BOY CRIMINALS' LOSS OF HEIGHT AND WEIGHT.

    One of the points brought out in the report on British prisons issued recently is the stunting effect of crime or criminal environment oh the ...

    Article : 243 words
  30. THE PENNY ATLANTIC MAIL.

    Saturday, October 3, was a great day for the English-speaking race, for then the [?]nny postage with the United States came into force. The ...

    Article : 176 words
  31. THE EARTH'S MAGNETISM.

    Mr. F. A. Black has a singular essay in the current number of "Harper's" on "The Earth as a Magnet," dipping into the wonderful and not ...

    Article : 112 words
  32. BALLOON SICKNESS.

    Navigation of the air produces sickness, but until now not much has been [?] of It, because people tho took trips in balloons were Dot numerous. ...

    Article : 215 words
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