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  2. Scientific and Useful.

    UNDER this heading it shall be our effort to keep the readers of the QUEENSLANDER posted in what is new and interesting in the World of Science, and especially in those departments that can be reduced to the ...

    Article : 71 words
  3. Facts and Fancies.

    What is that which never uses its teeth for eating purposes?—A comb. IT is said that the Digger Indians are never known to smi'e. They are grave diggers. ...

    Article : 1,552 words
  4. HAS AUSTRALIA PLAYED OUT ITS PAST IN THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD?

    This question was touched upon some years ago in one of the Queensland papers, and the subject was canvassed with considerable interest among some of the lovers of geological research. ...

    Article : 1,535 words
  5. MINERAL WEALTH OF THE BURNETT DISTRICT.—I.

    CONSIDERING the great advantage that Queensland would derive from having her vast mineral wealth thoroughly made known to the commercial world, and seeing the splendid ...

    Article : 1,933 words
  6. ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR WORDS.

    THE word "guiz," to make fun of, or poke fun at, a person, was the coinage of a theatrical manager in Dublin, who, at a drinking party with his friends one Saturday night, when the ...

    Article : 652 words
  7. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

    IN a recent address, on the occasion of the distribution of prises to the Bristol Trade and Mining School, Mr. Mundella, the member for Sheffield, England, took the opportunity of ...

    Article : 1,472 words
  8. The Sketcher.

    AMMEXATION OF RASTERN NEW GUINEA. THE following telegram from Cardwell was received by the Bulletin on Monday, the 9th instant:— ...

    Article : 669 words
  9. THE PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

    MUCH is nowadays said and written about the promotion of scientific research, and although everybody is convinced of the importance of doing something, no one is agreed upon ...

    Article : 1,269 words
  10. HOME.

    THE warl', It's dotted wi' hames As hick as gowans on the green Bonnier ilk ane nor the lave To him wha there open'd his sen. ...

    Article : 633 words
  11. ANOTHER GREAT PHILANTHROPIST.

    MR. HOLLOWAY, of pill and ointment fame, is reported in the English papers as having resolved to devote the bulk of the great fortune he has accumulated to charity. His design is ...

    Article : 442 words
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