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  2. CULTIVATION OF POTATOES.

    The best variety of potatoes for New England -- what is it? The question is one for which the N.S.W. Agricultural Department is endeavoring to find ...

    Article : 1,363 words
  3. Notes from Abroad.

    A crowd of white-haired old men -- romantic figures of old London -- stood talking in the vestibule of the King's Hall, Horborn, London, recently, after the dinner given to the ...

    Article : 160 words
  4. New Riding Test.

    A fresh feature of the International Horse Show which opens at Olympia, London, on June 4 will be "international military trials," open to all British and foreign military ...

    Article : 155 words
  5. Pope and British Tars.

    About 360 British bluejackets with their officers have been received by the Pope, who expressed his pleasure at seeing the British seamen, who, he said, spread civilisation all over ...

    Article : 37 words
  6. Flight Over Mont Blanc.

    A magnificent feat of airmanship was accomplished recently when the Swiss airman, M. Agenor Parmelin, flew over Mont Blane, the highest mountain in Europe. Flying from ...

    Article : 54 words
  7. Fifty Tons of Negatives.

    Several railway vans were required to remove over half a million of negatives, weighing over 50 tons, from the premises of Messrs. Byrne, photographers, of Richmond, Surrey, ...

    Article : 58 words
  8. The Berkshire Pig.

    The history of the breed is an interesting one (writes James Long in the "Maritime Farmer"), but I propose to refer to its utilitarian value in these remarks. Some of the earlier specimens ...

    Article : 806 words
  9. Story of King Edward.

    Sir Homewood Crawford, the City Solicitor relating reminiscences of his experiences as a City official to a large audience at the London Institution, told a story of King Edward. ...

    Article : 145 words
  10. The Prince's £85,719 Income.

    The total receipts last year of tho Duchy of Cornwall, which belongs to the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, amounted to £164,114, as against £156,726 in 1912. ...

    Article : 101 words
  11. Antler 10,000 Years Old.

    A piece of bone, two horns, and a portion of an antler have been found in the peaty soil of the weir stream at Marlow, England. The hone and horns belong to an extinct ...

    Article : 60 words
  12. England's Oldest Bachelor.

    Last montly Mr. Robert Crichton, England's oldest bachelor, entered his 103rd year. Some men are born bachelors -- others have celibacy thrust upon them. Mr. Crichton, ...

    Article : 152 words
  13. Mistress and Maid 70 Years.

    After seventy years' association as mistress and maid, Miss Mary Boyer, of Sparkenhoe-street, Leicester, England, and Miss Emma Lane, who had been in her service since she ...

    Article : 69 words
  14. War of Feathers.

    Naturalists in England have never been so sharply divided as they are at present over a crucial question in the preservation of birds. The occasion of the dispute is a Bill ...

    Article : 141 words
  15. Mr. Hucks' Sixfold Loop.

    During a demonstration of upside-down flying at the Tally Hol Ground, Edgbaston, Birmingham, recently, Mr. B. C. Hucks accomplished a sixfold loop. Ascending to a great ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. Death for a Comrade.

    "By the courage he displayed while endeavoring to save fine life of a comrade, he showed himself a hero. We need not search in fiction for heroes; we meet them in every-day ...

    Article : 136 words
  17. Miss Corelli and Rob Roy.

    Miss Marie Corelli, the novelist, writes to the "London Daily Mail" to protest against the scheme for augmenting the water supply of Glasgow by building a dam at the lower end ...

    Article : 136 words
  18. Woman Police Inspector.

    The Liverpool (England) Watch Committee has appointed Mrs. Hughes, matron of the main Bridewell, to to be an inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department of the city. This ...

    Article : 139 words
  19. Wireless to Canada.

    By the beginning of May the Poulsen system of wireless telegraphy was expected to be in operation between Canada and the United Kingdom. ...

    Article : 90 words
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