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  2. PLEASANT WAYS IN SClENCE

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

    Article : 52 words
  3. MINISTERS' SALARIES.

    The London Congregational Union held its autumnal session last month, which was largely attended by delegates. The Rev. R. ...

    Article : 162 words
  4. VILLAGE SHELLED.

    The Village of Bembridge, Isle of Wight, was bombarded last month. Shots came shrieking over the houses, carrying away branches of the trees, ...

    Article : 106 words
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  6. GLOBE CLEANINGS.

    Great consternation was caused in the fashionable restaurants and hotels of West End London by the Government's proposal — since ...

    Article : 214 words
  7. POULTRY & KENNEL NOTES

    There are a few instances on record of Australian bred and owned poultry and pigeons being exhibited at shows in England. A few years ...

    Article : 491 words
  8. TREE PLANTING IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The planting of oaks and other forest trees on ports of the great plain lying between Rotorua and Taupo, N.Z., may be cited as an instance of ...

    Article : 390 words
  9. SOUTH AFRICA'S LEGACY FROM BABEL.

    We believe that the only absolutely equitable solution of the school problem is to be found in the adoption of the Canadian system, which gives ...

    Article : 49 words
  10. FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF AFRICA.

    The "Geographical Journal" for November last contains a very interesting article by Professor Flinders Petrie, the eminent Egyptologist, ...

    Article : 619 words
  11. 135 MILES ON A STRETCHER.

    Mr. Davidson, of Tongy station, Queensland, was admitted to the Mitchell Hospital, having sustained a fractured thigh owing to his horse ...

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  12. SETTLEMENT IN CANADA.

    An interesting discussion of the directions in which various classes of settlers in the Canadian North-West are showing their aptitude for the ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. HYDE PARK BY NIGHT.

    Can Hyde Park, London's historic open space, be thoroughly purged of the evil characters who haunt it by night? Apparently it cannot be. In ...

    Article : 197 words
  14. CANADIAN HEROISM.

    The Vancouver (British Columbia) correspondent of "The Standard of Empire" sends details of a thrilling experience of George Bruce White, of ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. BLOODHOUNDS AND THE POLICE.

    Major Richardson's bloodhounds, for the detection of criminals, have been several times to the tore during the past year. Last month the ...

    Article : 87 words
  16. "SEA-SICK IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.

    In a recent issue (says "Selenee Sift-lugs") we drew attention to a most curlous malady—a form of "sea-sickness"' in railway trains. Dr. W. C. ...

    Article : 256 words
  17. WIFE'S SAVINGS.

    According to a decision given by Judge Smith In West Bromwich (London) County Court, a wife's savings are the joint property of herself and ...

    Article : 233 words
  18. THE BORNEO LIZARD.

    Quite the most famous of Borneah lizards is the Lauthanotus Eornlensls. Of this animal, only seven or eight specimens have been collected so far ...

    Article : 171 words
  19. FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION.

    The great Franco-British Exhibition closed its career at the beginning of last month. Some approximate figures have been given, which show its ...

    Article : 137 words
  20. ANARCHY IN PERSIA.

    The situation in Northern Persia creates increasing difficulties for the Russian Government. The Russian residents at Tabriz have sent their ...

    Article : 123 words
  21. THE ORIGIN OF VERTEBRATES.

    Dr. Walter Holbrook Gaskell has published a remarkable book—"The Origin of Vertebrates"—In which the problem of vertebrate evolution is ...

    Article : 231 words
  22. NO DOLLS FOR AFRICAN MISSIONS.

    A lady missionary recently left Croydon, London, for Qua Iboe, on the West Coast of Africa, taking with her a large assortment of dolls to give to ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. LONG SEA VIGIL.

    After a twenty-four hours' vigil at sea the Margate lifeboat Eliza Harriet and the surfboat Friend to All Nations returned to the barbor. In ...

    Article : 176 words
  24. OUTWITTING THE LAW.

    The evil of "faking homesteads" is one of the curses of the West in Canada. There are districts in which every homestead of any real value is ...

    Article : 66 words
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  26. NATIONAL SURVEYS.

    At the Dublin meeting of the British Association the president of the geography section (Major Hills) chose as his theme the origin, utility, ...

    Article : 334 words
  27. VERSATILE CANADIAN.

    A French Canadian, named Albert Max Martin, who was sentenced at the Clerkenwell, London, Sessions to three and a half years' penal servitude for ...

    Article : 90 words
  28. RESTORATION OF A GILAVE-STONE.

    The beautiful fifteenth century gravestone of Roger Champernowne at Bere Ferrers, Devonshire, has been restored to its original position in the ...

    Article : 48 words
  29. WATERFALL AND ORCHIDS.

    A waterfall 650 feet high, flanked with orchid and fern-covered cliffs is one of the sights reported by Mr. Burnett, Queensland Inspector of ...

    Article : 122 words
  30. OUR MARTIAN NEIGHBORS.

    Professor Perecival Lowell, the American astronomer, whose study of Martian conditions has so enlarged our knowledge of our nearest neighbor ...

    Article : 330 words
  31. LOST LITTLE PRATTLERS.

    Two little boys, aged five and three and a-half, are at present in St. Paneras Workhouse, London. They are described in official documents as ...

    Article : 160 words
  32. DAY TOO SOON FOR CARNEGIE HERO FUND.

    Charles Bernard, the brave Harwich (Essex.) boy who, at imminent risk to his life, jumped in front of an approaching train and saved a little girl ...

    Article : 191 words
  33. HEAVY SENTENCES ON HOOLIGANS.

    Severe sentences have been passed at Rome on the [?] hallan youths who were accused of stabling several Scottish theological students near ...

    Article : 80 words
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