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  2. FOREIGN NEWS AND NOTES.

    For the financial year just ended New Zealand;s Customs Revenue is £91,000 in excess of the estimate. A nugget of pure gold, weighing ...

    Article : 963 words
  3. TRICK IN MAKING A LIFE-LIKE PICTURE.

    Apelles, the ancient Greet artist, is said to have painted a dish of fruit that had so natural an appearance that it attracted birds but ...

    Article : 121 words
  4. AT THE RIFLE BUTTS.

    In a passage of his recently published book, "The Book of the Rifle," the Hon. T. F. Freemantle tells the following amusing story. ...

    Article : 37 words
  5. BANANA V. WHEAT FOR BREAD.

    The banana is a true child of the tropics and grown in the greatest luxuriance, demanding little exertion from those who cultivate it for their ...

    Article : 235 words
  6. THE WORST INDIAN THAT EVER LIVED.

    Geronlmo, the Apache Indian chief, is to be released from captivity at last by the United States Government. ...

    Article : 348 words
  7. WILL YOU CO TO SIBERIA?

    The Russian Government [?] issued an English booklet evidently aimed at inducing some of out bountrymen to emigrate to Siberia. ...

    Article : 128 words
  8. THE ROSE GARDENS OF CALIFORNIA.

    Nowhere in the world probably, do roses grow in such grand and beautiful profusion as in Southern California Wherever one may turn ...

    Article : 546 words
  9. MOUNTAIN RAILWAYS OF SOUTH AMERICA.

    The romance of mountain railways by no means ends with their construction, and travelling upon railways at a very high altitude is not ...

    Article : 415 words
  10. LANGUAGE IN A DOG'S TAIL.

    In the cAse of all hunting dogs such us foxhounds or wolves, which pack together the toil is Carried aloft. and is very tree from ...

    Article : 371 words
  11. A SEVENTY-FOOT LIZARD.

    A fossil expedition, sent out by the American Museum, discovered one of the largest skeletons of extinct mammoths ever found in America. ...

    Article : 180 words
  12. NEW SYSTEM OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Mr. Marconi, speaking at the meeting of the Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company declared that a speed of 22 words a minute was ...

    Article : 229 words
  13. A FAMOUS WEDDING AND ITS TRAGIC SEQUEL.

    One of the most sensational marriage ceremonies on record is known as the "Diamond Wedding," and it was performed in New York. ...

    Article : 243 words
  14. LARGEST OVEN IN THE WORLD.

    The world's largest oven is in a temple in Rajputana, in India. At the annual fair or pilgrimage to the shrine of Kwajah Chisti, in the ...

    Article : 202 words
  15. HOW THE TULIP WRECKED HOLLAND.

    In these sober days, when the tulip the queen of spring flowers, is to be bought and sold as cheaply as 3s. a 100, it may seem hard to realize the ...

    Article : 302 words
  16. IN A WILD BEAST SHOW.

    A really remarkable story of animal perception has been contributed to "Frank Leslie's Monthly" by Mr Rostock, who may be considered an ...

    Article : 295 words
  17. TO FOIL THE ASSASSIN.

    A protective vest devised by Jan Szczenpanik, the polish sthool-master inventor, is most remarkable its a product of the weaver's art. The ...

    Article : 97 words
  18. IN A DRAPER'S SHOP.

    An ingenious fraud was recently perpetrated at a leading draper's shop. A fashionably-dressed lady rustled in, accompanied by a ...

    Article : 256 words
  19. WHAT HAPPENED.

    "Tony," said a moody British officer to his soldier servant, "something tells me that I shall never come back from the Boer was alive ...

    Article : 193 words
  20. HUSBAND AND WIFE.

    "I don't think I'll try any more practical jokes on my wife. They don't pan out well." "Elucidate." ...

    Article : 332 words
  21. THE LARGEST WE ON EARTH.

    The largest grape-vine in the world is growing in a secluded part of the Carpinteria Valley, Santa Barbara County California; Its trunk ...

    Article : 291 words
  22. THE LATEST IN ARIEL NAVIGATION.

    M. Siblllot a Parisian aerenaut, has devised a new principle of aerial navigation, which, will solve the problem of travelling through the ...

    Article : 146 words
  23. MOST ANCIENT OF GOLD SEEKERS.

    A mining centre probably worked as early as 2,500 B.C., has been discovered by Mr. C.J. Alford, between the Red Sea and the Nile. ...

    Article : 138 words
  24. FOR TALKATIVE WIFE.

    "What's this tiling?" asked a man who was inspecting a music emporium. "That? Oh, that's used on ...

    Article : 118 words
  25. AN OCTOPUS WITH ARMS 47 FEET LONG.

    A Newfoundland fisherman recently found a great cuttle fish, which had been thrown up by the sea, high and dry. ...

    Article : 70 words
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