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  2. GOLF.

    The event of last week was undoubtedly the match between the Longford and Tasmanian clubs, and for the first time the country "A" team had to submit ...

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  3. AROUND THE WORLD.

    In a case at Leeds, in which a book-maker was fined, it was stated that 2769 bets were made with him in eight weeks. In the same period he received ...

    Article : 45 words
  4. THE GARDEN.

    During favourable weather make new, and re-form existing edges of box. The ground should be prepared for the reception of the plants by being made level ...

    Article : 295 words
  5. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    It is proposed to combat the ant pest in Rhodesia by circulating sulphurous gas in their galleries after the modern manner of killing rats on board ship. The ...

    Article : 84 words
  6. FAMINE OF HARVEST HANDS.

    A serious dearth of farm labourers existed last month in Kansas, where the wheat crop was enormous. Over 60,000 men were required for harvest work, but ...

    Article : 111 words
  7. A FEMININE THREAT.

    If men despise our business capacity, said a delegate at a women's co-operative congress at Lincoln the other day, we ought to teach our daughters to say ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. MYSTERY OF RADIUM.

    In an unusually interesting article in the "Contemporary," Mr. Frederick Soddy, dealing with "the mystery of radium" and kindred topics, attributes the ...

    Article : 202 words
  9. NEW TEST OF SOBRIETY.

    A new test of sobriety was mentioned at Keighley, in Yorkshire, the other day, a police superintendent stating that a woman was not drunk, as she could ...

    Article : 40 words
  10. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.

    As a church bell was being rung at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, for the death of a man named William Sacret the tongue fell out. Sacret had himself rung ...

    Article : 35 words
  11. THE REJECTED PORTRAIT.

    At Glogau, Silesia, an action was brought by an artist to recover 20, the price of a portrait ordered by a widow. The latter refused to pay the money, ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

    By the invitation of the president, the Duke of Westminster, the annual meeting of the native races and the liquor traffic united committee was held last month at ...

    Article : 762 words
  13. PATRIOTS OR SINNERS?

    The Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church has passed a resolution to the effect that the National Scouts "sinned against God and against man," and ...

    Article : 49 words
  14. MIRAGE PHOTOGRAPHED.

    An interesting experiment was made recently by Herr Max Backert, of the Dresden Balloon Society. While at a considerable height he succeeded in ...

    Article : 46 words
  15. PLANT HOUSES.

    To keep up a succession of gloxinias to flower during the summer, the tubers should be started at about three different times. The first portion ought to be put ...

    Article : 635 words
  16. CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS.

    The most common symptons of consumption of the lings are wasting, loss of weight, and cough. It would not, of course, be right to declare that everyone ...

    Article : 306 words
  17. COLOSSAL MUNICIPAL DEBT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 words
  18. CYCLING.

    Unless something unexpected happens, the Tasmanian test race for the selection of a competitor to represent this state in the Warrambool-Melbourne ...

    Article : 379 words
  19. VARIATIONS OF A STAR.

    Professor Stebbins, of Lick Observatory, has made the discovery that the star Omicron Ceti, known to vary at uncertain intervals since 1596, is ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. LUXURIES AS NECESSARIES.

    Rightly or wrongly, there is at present a scale of living adopted in all grades of society that is far more expensive than that which prevailed a generation ago. ...

    Article : 65 words
  21. FROM PATRONESS TO PAUPER.

    A romantic story comes from East Anglia. It is only a few years ago that Miss Margaret Amies figured as patroness of the Wickham Market vicarage. ...

    Article : 221 words
  22. BOSTON SAID TO BE SINKING.

    Mr. J. R. Freeman, consulting engineer to the city, in the course of a report he has made on the feasibility of damming the Charles river, says that Boston is ...

    Article : 71 words
  23. UNDIGNIFIED TOUTING.

    A circular sent to proprietors of beer gardens in Hagen and Posen is being criticised as not being in keeping with the dignity of the German army. In this ...

    Article : 86 words
  24. IN THE EVENT OF POISONING.

    There are certain rules which apply more or less to all kinds of poisoning which should be known to everyone, so that in the case of accidents the proper ...

    Article : 271 words
  25. TRACED BY MISSING FINGERS.

    After the thief of a large quantity of dynamite from a magazine at Schultenhofen, Bohemin, three angers of a man's hand were found in the vicinity, which ...

    Article : 107 words
  26. PARCELS ON THE LINE.

    An extraordinary accident happened at Peterborough station on the Great Northern railway early on the morning of June 20. In wheeling 11 basketfuls of ...

    Article : 242 words
  27. LACROSSE.

    To-morrow afternoon at inveresk a practice match will be played betweens two teams from the Northern Association players. ...

    Article : 58 words
  28. RATEPAYER'S CURIOUS CLAIM.

    The Aberavon Corporation, Glamorgonshire, are being sued by a ratepayer who claims to be the portreeve, or chief magistrate, of the old freemen and ...

    Article : 82 words
  29. WHERE ARE WE BOUND?

    An importance which relatively few persons are aware of attaches to an expediton which has just gone to Chili from the Lick Observatory in California. Its ...

    Article : 687 words
  30. Advertising

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    Advertising : 364 words
  31. FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH

    Few men have looked death in the face more closely than M. Lavier, an engineer of Paris, who arrived recently at Varese, Italy, with the intention of exploring an ...

    Article : 283 words
  32. A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT.

    Mr. Roosevelt and his family were to leave for their country house, Oyster Bay, Long Island, on June 27, and remain there until September. The President and ...

    Article : 79 words
  33. THE KAISER'S HOMILY.

    In a somewhat lengthy speech which the Kaiser made in the Rathaus his Majesty praised the merits of his ancestor William the Great, and exhorted the ...

    Article : 373 words
  34. THE GOLF BOOM.

    Golf has worn down the deep-rooted English prejudice against everything except Harris tweeds and Highland whisky which comes from Scotland. The ...

    Article : 79 words
  35. MOTHERS KNOW

    what a gentle, soothing effect a dose of California Syrup of Figs has upon the moot fretful of children, who lake it with avidity. Its action is so mild and its ...

    Article : 110 words
  36. DEATH OF CONVERSATION.

    Whatever disastrous effect it may have had on the bookselling trade, bridge has most certainly put the nail in the coffin of conversation, The solemnity ...

    Article : 95 words
  37. BALDNESS CAUSED BY FEAR.

    Several carefully observed cases of falling hair from emotion have been recorded, but the following is probably one of the most curious. A normally healthy ...

    Article : 115 words
  38. SOME OF OUR JUDGES.

    The general public would be very much astonished if they knew the little esteem in which a considerable number of judges on the bench of the High Court ...

    Article : 82 words
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    Not everyone who has read Mr. Morley Roberts's novels knows how much they are based upon his diverse experiences. He went to Austrlia when he was but 17 ...

    Article : 100 words
  40. "COLONEL" LYNCH'S RENTS.

    A curious legal complication has arisen in connection with the estate of "Colonel" Arthur Lynch in county Clare. A garnishee order has been obtained in the ...

    Article : 94 words
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