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  2. WITH THE BIG GUNS.

    It was a heavenly morning on Sydney Harbour. Those who recall Monday last in Sydney will acknowledge that much, though few who toiled in the city would but ...

    Article : 1,054 words
  3. THE GREATEST SHIP.

    Our illustrations are of the side section and plan of tire wonderful new vessel, Turbinia, which recently put up the wonderful trial of 33 knots (about 38 miles) per hour. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,380 words
  4. A SWEDISH TRAVELLER.

    Dr. Sven Hodin, the young Swedish traveller, has just returned after exploring for nearly four years the unknown, or little-known portions of Central Asia, at the ...

    Article : 809 words
  5. CURIOSITIES IN NAMES.

    Surnames are not very old, and their use in England in a general way was not dominion until long after the Norman conquest. The Christian name, so-called, is as old as ...

    Article : 1,054 words
  6. MEN AND WOMEN.

    When the Ameer of Afghanistan goes out cycling he uses a triplet machine, and leaves all the work of it to he done by two men who sit one in front and one behind him. ...

    Article : 1,477 words
  7. THE DUNMOW FLITCH.

    The famous old custom of presenting a flitch of bacon to couples who can swear that they have "never made nuptial transgression since they were married man and ...

    Article : 668 words
  8. A DOOR THAT IS NEVER OPENED.

    The invention is just announced of a door that is never closed and never open. It is the only door on earth that a person is forced to shut behind him under any and all ...

    Article : 467 words
  9. REGISTRATION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS.

    Considerable attention has been drawn in the Chinese Treaty ports to the action of Sir Nicholas Hannen, who in his capacity of Consul-General at Shanghai, lately ...

    Article : 369 words
  10. FIRE-PROOFING WOOD.

    The United States Navy Department, through a special board, was been making a thorough investigation of the merits of the system of fire-proofing wood used in ...

    Article : 295 words
  11. GENTLEMEN IN COURT.

    At an Assize Court (says "Household "Words") the late Justice Maule was engaged in passing sentence on a prisoner, when one of the officers of the court annoyed him ...

    Article : 94 words
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