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  2. Miscellaneous Intelligence.

    GREAT Britain will spend £11,200,000 this year on her navy. PAUPERISM in Ireland, increased 60 per cent last year. ...

    Article : 1,375 words
  3. Power of Money.

    WE never did yet doubt the power of money in any phase of life, but this little incident shows how useful it may be under peculiar and trying circumstances. At a recent protracted meeting ...

    Article : 168 words
  4. Boulanger Half a "John Bu[?] ."

    GENERAL BOULANGER, now the most popular man--or, at any rate, military man--in France, is says one who knows him intimately to the Times, half English by birth. His mother was a ...

    Article : 270 words
  5. The Black Art.

    IT is passing strange, after a perusal of the many scientific journals of the world which so admirably succeed in providing in their columns popular information, concerning the subjects on ...

    Article : 553 words
  6. The Farmer & Grazier

    WE learn from the National Stockman that a diet of apples produces a superior quality of pork. The writer says :--" It Was our good fortune a few days ago to sit at the table of a very progressive ...

    Article : 147 words
  7. The Demon's Stratagem.

    A PIOUS bishop was devoted to his patron saint, St. Andrew, and lived an exemplary life. A demon, who was struck with his virtue, longed to test it. Taking the shape of a young woman ...

    Article : 931 words
  8. A Fat Man's Ball.

    THIS country is very back ward in paying due honor to obesity. There was a time when the " fat lady" at fairs drew capitally, but her popularity has been quite eclipsed by that of the ...

    Article : 285 words
  9. Keeping Poor Sires.

    It has frequently been pointed out by English writers that the great demand by American breeders and speculators for Hereford and Aberdeen-Angus bulls had the effect of greatly deteriorating ...

    Article : 123 words
  10. A Live Lord in the North.

    SAYS the Cooktown Independent :--" Lord Cairns and Mr. Romilly, who arrived per Egmont on Tuesday evening, did the block on Wednesday, much to the satisfaction of young Cook town ...

    Article : 232 words
  11. Cure for Indigestion.

    When a cow suspends rumination it is caused by indigestion, and a dose of one pint of oil with an ounce of salt will probably set her all right. The common remedy, a salt mackerel, contains both ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. A Very Tough Town.

    "LIVERPOOL is about as hard a town as ever I struck," said the Rev. Samuel M'Whacker of Tombstone, addressing Count Smith at the Palace last evening. " Arizona is pretty tough but ...

    Article : 500 words
  13. The Profit of Wheat Growing.

    A correspondent of the Canterbury Press says : --Figures concerning the profit of wheat growing will probably interest your readers, and I can give you some from this year's returns which are ...

    Article : 216 words
  14. The Brennan Torpedo.

    THE London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing under date of March 11, says :-- Many in Melbourne, and indeed throughout Australia, will rejoice to hear that after years of ...

    Article : 977 words
  15. Symptoms by which Typhoid Fever may be Recognised.

    WHEN a person becomes ill, suffering with slight chills, loss of appetite, frequent nose bleeding, irregularity of the bowels, coated tongue, rapid, weak pulse, a body temperature rising about one ...

    Article : 439 words
  16. Poultry and Eggs.

    The farmer with a moderate flock of fowls and unlimited range for them, will always find them profitable, in spite of the little attention which he may pay to them. They are the scavengers ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. Too Smart For Him

    RECENTLY a young physician of the Harvard Medical School conceived the idea of playing a joke on Miss Annie Copeland, one of the lady students at the College of Physicians and ...

    Article : 350 words
  18. Sulphur and Lime Mixture for Fruit-Trees.

    We (Australasian) have given many recipes for preparing such a mixture, and we question whether there is a better plan than that of boiling together a pound of quicklime and 4oz of flowers of sulphur ...

    Article : 546 words
  19. Dangers of German Defeat.

    THE defeat or annihilation of Germany by France, with or without Russia's help, would place at the mercy of this latter colossal power, who is the representative of the orthodox Greek ...

    Article : 438 words
  20. Live or Dead, let Them Have Them.

    The Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph writes :--" Australians, who complained some time ago of the superabundance of rabbits on their grassy plains aud scant woodlands, could not ...

    Article : 264 words
  21. How Eleven Millions were Spent.

    THE report of Sir William Dunbar, the Comptroller and Auditor-General, upon the navy appropriation accounts for 1885-6 contains some surprising information as to the way in which the vote of ...

    Article : 180 words
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