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  2. HONESTY PAYS.

    It must be confessed that the difficulties of doing a good, square business in a good, thorough, square style, are becoming greater and harder than ever to combat. Honest and honourable competition has ...

    Article : 636 words
  3. X Tracts

    In England (says the S.M. Herald) another sort of seagoing structure is being constructed in the shipbuilding yards--a floating lighthouse, with which it is intended to mark out the best route from England to ...

    Article : 296 words
  4. PEN-MAKING.

    Many clerks say they cannot work to advantage unless they have particular styles of pens. The result is that by passing the word from one writer to another a market is soon created for a favourite style. Each ...

    Article : 358 words
  5. A LOST WORLD.

    Geologists begin to discover that the contour of the earth has been completely changed since the beginning of the tertiary period, when it consisted of two great continents, one at either pole, with a vast ocean between ...

    Article : 257 words
  6. HUMANE WORK.

    "It is little more than a decade of years since the Humane Society began its work in the West. As a protector of the horse, Mr. Bergh had even at that time immortalized his name by his zeal for the welfare ...

    Article : 616 words
  7. PAINTED SPIDER'S WEBS.

    Travellers sometimes bring home from Europe an uncommon souvenir in the shape of a painting upon a spider's web. The spiders which spin the dense texture, forming the base of the picture, belong to the ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. SCIENTIFIC & USEFUL.

    Among the transactions of the New Zealand Institute Mr. R. H. Govett gives some startling facts as to the bird-killing powers of Pisonia brunoniana or P. sinclairii. A sticky gum is secreted by the carpels ...

    Article : 221 words
  9. A REMARKABLE SHIP.

    A new steamer of 5,000 tons has just been launched in England for the service between London and New Zealand. Besides the extensive refrigerating arrangements, enabling her to carry 500 tons' weight of meat, ...

    Article : 95 words
  10. A CURIOUS CASE.

    Much is being written now about the injurious effect which is produced upon sight and hearing by the retention of bad teeth. Complete blindness was caused in one instance by a decayed molar, and when the ...

    Article : 98 words
  11. CORN ON A CHESSBOARD.

    By a rough calculation the corn on a chessboard, putting one grain on the first square, and doubling on each succeeding one of the 64, would fill 1,884,875 barns, each holding 1,000,000 bushels of 100,000 ...

    Article : 68 words
  12. FOR THE SOUTH POLE.

    Professor Baron Nordenskiold is, it is said, about to vary his Arctic experiences by an attempt to reach the South pole. He is reported to have left Stockholm for St. Petersburg some weeks ago, in order to interest ...

    Article : 50 words
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