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  2. Scientific and Useful.

    SIR,—Will you allow me to make a suggestion through your columns to the Government. It is, to introduce the hot-air or Turkish baths into the Asylum at Woogaroo and the Hospital, ...

    Article : 1,039 words
  3. "GOING DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS."

    THOSE who fear that British pluck is in a fair way to become as much matter of legend as our "wooden walls" will find comfort in the narrative of an Atlantic voyage published by ...

    Article : 1,824 words
  4. Facts and Fancies.

    HOUSE decorations—Women. TAKE things always by their smooth handle. THE only industrious "loafers" are the bakers. A THEFT is now-a-days called an irregularity, ...

    Article : 1,565 words
  5. THE SOLVENT POWER OF WATER.

    OF all the properties of that most remarkable and most important, though most common and abundant of liquids, water, none is more remarkable than its solvent power. It is one of ...

    Article : 759 words
  6. BEAR YOUR CROSS.

    "IT'S a poor heart that never rejoices," Nor to conquer its misfortunes tries; Why cloud with the shades of our sorrow The brightness of other folks' skies. ...

    Article : 288 words
  7. TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY.

    WHEN poor To-day is slowly dying In the west, And on the sea the land-breeze sighing, Sinks to rest. ...

    Article : 929 words
  8. AUSTRALIAN INDIFFERENCE TO TALENT.

    WHAT Australia has lost and America may gain in the way of mechanical invention is revealed to us in the subjoined notice from the Scientific American. The distinguished ...

    Article : 2,204 words
  9. ANNUAL RAINFALL IN DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF THE EARTH.

    A CORRESPONDENT asks us to give the amount of water, rain, hail, and snow, falling upon an area of 100 square feet, during a year of twelve months, taking the average from one year to ...

    Article : 1,503 words
  10. MARKS PRODUCED BY LIGHTNING STROKE.

    ALTHOUGH scientific men have devoted much attention to the nature and effects of lightning, there is still much to learn. The following has been contributed to a scientific contemporary: ...

    Article : 609 words
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