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  2. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    The United States Bureau of Health has just had submitted to Diem a paper milk bottle, the cost of which is so small that the customer throws it away ...

    Article : 80 words
  3. BOORABIL ESTATE.

    Justice Pring, sitting as a Royal Commission, to-day continued his enquiry into the circumstances connected with the purchase by the Government of ...

    Article : 533 words
  4. THE WORKER.

    The railway trouble practically came to a head on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday evening, after his meeting with the Union Executive, Mr. R. A. ...

    Article : 640 words
  5. FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    The order of the speeches to be given by the Prime Minister (Hon. J. Cook) during the week he will spend in Tasmania has been definitely arranged thus:— ...

    Article : 50 words
  6. AMUSEMENTS.

    The principal feature of the new programme presented by Spencer's management at the Princess Theatre last evening, is "The Vicar of Wakefield." It is ...

    Article : 308 words
  7. NATURE NOTES.

    A cockroach which had crawled into the high tension switch gear caused , failure of the electric light supply an the Hoe district of Plymouth by ...

    Article : 40 words
  8. TASMANIAN GOVERNOR.

    A White Paper has been published containing Sir William Ellison-Macartney's correspondence, and Mr. Harcourt's despatch of June 5, defining the ...

    Article : 32 words
  9. A SUBSTITUTE FOR CANDLES.

    In Brazil the fire-flies shine so, brightly that when the native are s[?] of candles they catch a few [?] and put them in a bottle. The [?] ...

    Article : 55 words
  10. IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS.

    The Vulcan Company states it intends its Dutch harbour and docking for iron ore, coal, and other commercial uses, with the view of avoiding agents' and transit ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. MR. COOK ON THE OUTLOOK.

    In the course of an interview the Prime Minister (Hon. J. Cook), who returned from Sydney to-day, said—"It is quite evident that both Mr. Fisher and myself ...

    Article : 205 words
  12. A NEW FIRE APPLIANCE.

    One of the latest fire appliances is the water tower, an ingenious device for throwing water on a burning building from a high altitude. Several of these ...

    Article : 155 words
  13. "THE NOSEY ONE."

    In the whole realm of nature there scarcely anything more astonishing than the behaviour of certain small [?]eetles of the weevil class, popularly known as ...

    Article : 178 words
  14. THE POWER OF A THUNDERBOLT.

    During a thunderstorm at Klansthal, in Germany, a thunderbolt struck a wooden pillar and melted two nails instantly. From the mass of the nails ...

    Article : 87 words
  15. ADDRESS IN MELBOURNE.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Cook) addressed a crowded meeting at the Auditorium to-night. The Minister for Public Works (Mr. Hagelthorn) presided. ...

    Article : 153 words
  16. WITH MANY ENEMIES.

    It is estimated that two-thirds of the island of Ceylon is undermined by white ants. The number of these insects is quite incalculable; but it is fortunate ...

    Article : 247 words
  17. THE RED DANDIES.

    The Red Dandies, who are installed at the Academy, are evidently in for a very successful season. The theatre was well-filled in all parts last night, and the ...

    Article : 76 words
  18. OVERHEAD RAILWAY.

    An ingenious overhead miniature railway may be seen doing effective work at Victoria station, Manchester, for the conveyance of passengers' luggage from ...

    Article : 170 words
  19. THE KHEDIVE'S ASSAILANT.

    The Khedive's assailant is the son of the late Judge Cario, of the native tribunal. He is a demented youth, and addicted to drugs. The assault was not ...

    Article : 55 words
  20. HARRY LAUDER.

    Messrs. J. and N. Tait announce that the box plan for Mr. Harry Lauder's performances on Tuesday afternoon and evening, August 11, will be open at ...

    Article : 188 words
  21. THE SUFFRAGETTES.

    The real name of the suffragette who attempted to blow up Burns' birthplace is Janet Parker, a niece of Lord Kitchener. ...

    Article : 27 words
  22. CAMPAIGN NOTES.

    The federal elections are the all-absorbing topic here at present, says our Nabowla correspondent, and electors are eagerly looking forward to a visit from ...

    Article : 291 words
  23. FINANCIAL.

    An interim dividend of is per share has been declared by the directors of Robert Campbell and Co. ...

    Article : 25 words
  24. A NEW AMPUTATION ANAESTHETIC.

    Stovaine, a new anaesthetic, produces paralysis of the body below the point of injection, and removes all sensation from the limbs, so that it has been found ...

    Article : 159 words
  25. THE ASCENT OF THE SAP.

    Professor S. H Vines, one of our greatest authorities on botany, referred in a recent address to the force by which water is raised from the roots to the ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. DIABOLICAL MURDER.

    The body of Ethel May Houghton, 22, was found in a gutter of the road between Broadmeadow railway gates and Newcastle Show Ground on Sunday ...

    Article : 304 words
  27. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

    There was a head-on collision here this morning between an engine engaged in shunting the mail train, and an engine which was starting off with a ...

    Article : 101 words
  28. THE WEATHER.

    The monthly meeting of the Circular Head Marine Board was held on Saturday at Stanley. Mr. C. T. Smith (Master Warden), was in the chair. ...

    Article : 126 words
  29. THE WILD CAT.

    When cats take to a wild life in the woods in the course of generations their descendants show a tendency to revert to the dark wild type; partly no doubt, ...

    Article : 113 words
  30. ASBESTOS SLATES.

    A firm in Munich has succeeded in rendering asbestos waterproof, and there are now on sale asbestos slates, which are claimed to be as hard and as strong ...

    Article : 169 words
  31. OUT OF WORK.

    A party of twelve unregistered barmaids, who lost employment as a result of the recent appeal court judgment, sailed aboard the Maheno. They ...

    Article : 48 words
  32. SUPPOSED TRAGEDY.

    The Government has ordered the steamer Penguin to the north-west to search the islands off Roger's Strait for the brothers McGuire, who have been ...

    Article : 141 words
  33. Family Notices

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  34. RAILWAY STRIKE.

    The Minister of Railways announced this afternoon that he had received an urgent wire from Mr. Neild, deputy chief mechanical engineer at Townsville, ...

    Article : 108 words
  35. MIMICRY OF BIRDS.

    It is well known that canaries, bull finches, starlings, jays, crows, mocking-birds, cat-birds, parrots, and so on imitate speech, whistling, and other sounds, ...

    Article : 119 words
  36. LIBERAL RALLY.

    A social and rally arranged by the Sandhill Liberals was held last evening in the Wilmot-street hall. There was a splendid attendance, the building being ...

    Article : 126 words
  37. ROMANCE OF A VOICE.

    A pretty story is told how Prince Oscar, the Kaiser's fifth son, became engaged to the Countess Ina von Bassewitz, to whom he is to be morganatically married. The ...

    Article : 344 words
  38. HOBART TOURIST BUREAU.

    The Tasmanian Tourist Association was formally taken over by the Commissioners of Railways to-day, and will be known in future as the Tasmanian ...

    Article : 40 words
  39. TRAMS IN COLLISION.

    A collision occurred near Brighton Beach this morning, when two electric cars, one of which is said to have been travelling at a fairly high speed, met ...

    Article : 135 words
  40. BY TRAM TO BETHLEHEM.

    A forty years' concession has been granted for tramways in Jerusalem. According to the contract, the "Sunday at Home" states, four separate route, of ...

    Article : 206 words
  41. MR. JAMES' EVIDENCE.

    "Please send me another gross of Bean's Essence. It is no trouble to sell on account of being made by a qualified chemist, and the fact that one bottle ...

    Article : 324 words
  42. GAZETTE NOTICES.

    In to-night's Gazette it is notified that Trooper Charles Patrick Foley has been appointed truant inspector for the district of Avoca; also that W. Angus and ...

    Article : 71 words
  43. RAILWAYS FOR NORTH WEST.

    The Minister for Lands (Hon. J. Belton), has received a circular from the Circular Head Railway League, asking if the Government would receive a monster ...

    Article : 275 words
  44. SMALL-POX.

    To-day four further cases of smallpox were reported. One was in the city, one at Pyrmont, and the other two at Waterloo. The disease continues of a ...

    Article : 34 words
  45. WORKED WONDERS

    I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for years," says Mrs. Elizabeth Bingham, Kent-street, Teneriffe, Q. "One of my sons was so bad with continual ...

    Article : 76 words
  46. Nabowla.

    Sickness has been prevalent of late, mostly influenza cases. No doubt the exceedingly cold weather has had some. thing to do with it. Mrs. A. A. Bessell ...

    Article : 152 words
  47. FIRE PREVENTION.

    At the monthly meeting of the Zeehan Fire Brigade Board, Mr W. Fisher was welcomed as municipal representative. The accounts passed amounted to £19 ...

    Article : 122 words
  48. GROUP AND WHOOPING COUGH.

    "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy when my children, Andres and Beulah, were attacked with croup rind whooping cough," writes Mrs. C. Collis ...

    Article : 62 words
  49. Advertising

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    Advertising : 110 words
  50. REMOVING PAINT STAINS

    To remove paint from a dress take a camel-hair brush, dip the point of it in turpentine, and just damp the parts that are stained Let garment dry, and then ...

    Article : 55 words
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