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  2. Scientific and Useful.

    A BRISBANE correspondent of the Leeds Mercury, signing himself "Yorkshireman," writes as follows to that journal, under date January 15, 1868:— ...

    Article : 833 words
  3. Humors of the Day.

    A BORE is a fellow who keeps talking to you about himself when you want to talk to him about yourself. It is said that the finest entertainment one ...

    Article : 1,492 words
  4. Our Portfolio.

    HOPE ON! Oh, hope on! though the days that are past Were cheerless and gloomy from poverty's blast; Though sorrow has paled the fresh bloom on thy cheek, Despair not, but trust in the Guide of the weak. ...

    Article : 164 words
  5. THE CHEMISTRY OF A TEAR.

    THE principal element, the prime ingredient, so to say, of a tear is water; this water, upon dissolution, contains a few hundredth parts of the substance called mucus, and a small portion ...

    Article : 2,882 words
  6. MANUFACTURE OF IRON.—NEW ZEALAND IRONSAND.

    A CORRESPONDENT, "C.R.B.," of the London Mining Journal, thus refers to the valuable properties of this ironsand:—"The peculiar properties of the ironsand of New Zealand have ...

    Article : 1,465 words
  7. THE BUGLE CALL.

    I LOVE to hear that bugle call From soldiers of the line, That strikes with startling force the ear, So full and yet so fine. ...

    Article : 166 words
  8. THE MYSTERY OF DARKNESS.

    [It is not often that we find a piece of composition equal to the following emanating from the pen of a colonial journalist, and seldom anything to surpass it even in the best English magazines. We extract it ...

    Article : 1,223 words
  9. "THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD."

    REVIEWERS are a tolerated nuisance. No matter how, like wasps, they settle upon the great writers, and great men of the day, and annoy them with their stings. ...

    Article : 1,031 words
  10. A WIDE FIELD FOR CAPITAL.

    A CORRESPONDENT signing himself "B.Paroo" writes as follows to the Australasian:— But little is known, and less written and said, of the vast inland pioneer districts of ...

    Article : 903 words
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