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  2. TOPICAL ARTICLE.

    [?]bable that of all those g[?] connected with Australian politics who have recently visited Great Britain to take part in the ...

    Article : 1,140 words
  3. THE LONGEST RAILWAY JOURNEY IN THE WORLD.

    Most people imagine that the five days run of the famous Western Express from New York to San Francisco is the longest railway journey ...

    Article : 365 words
  4. AWFUL VOLCANO DISASTERS.

    Pull particulars of the recent volcanic eruptions at the island of Martinique are to hand, from which we give the following detailed [?] ...

    Article : 2,673 words
  5. HOW THE WELSBACH LICHT WAS DISCOVERED.

    While engaged in the spectroscopic examination of the light emitted by incandescent [?]rbia and other rare earths Auer von Welsbach found ...

    Article : 414 words
  6. SYNTHETIC FOOD WILL ABOLISH TOIL.

    Within the tranquil precincts of the venerable Institute de France on the Paris quays, there [?]ives and works an old man who is planning ...

    Article : 886 words
  7. INCOMES OF SUCCESSFUL INVENTORS.

    It is generally believed that inventors are a class o[?] unfortunate individuals, who struggle through life surrounded by an ...

    Article : 872 words
  8. PEASANT LIFE IN RUSSIA.

    Picture a steep-roofed wooden cottage of one room, say, 20ft. square, and 9ft. high, the walls inside showing the dressed logs stuffed between ...

    Article : 519 words
  9. SOME REAL GIANTS.

    The extraordinary facination which stories of giants exercise over the minds of the young, and even over those of "children of larger growth" ...

    Article : 426 words
  10. TO SAVE CALIFORNIA'S GIANT TREES.

    There is no more forcible or striking illustration anywhere of the indiscriminating commercial spirit that dominates American industry ...

    Article : 399 words
  11. WONDERS OF THE BELFAST LINEN INDUSTRY.

    In one year alone, the yarn spun by the countless mills of the Belfast district was estimated to measure about 644,000,000 miles (says Mr. ...

    Article : 307 words
  12. HIS REWARD.

    A tradesman in Edinburgh recently had in his employ a lad, whose mother was a poor widow in bad circumstances, consequently the lad ...

    Article : 267 words
  13. THE "DUK-DUKS" WEIRD DANCES.

    Existing in the inlands of the Bismarck Archipelago, near Papua, is a peculiar institution called the Duk-Duk. It is a secret society which ...

    Article : 175 words
  14. TWO OLD LADIES.

    First old lady--"They tell me as [?]ow 'Enery's boy "as got wounded in the Transvaal." Second old lady--"Deary me ! An[?] ...

    Article : 37 words
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