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  2. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES.

    The telephone for short distances has become a world-wide institution, but the long-distance telephone is as yet confined [?] America. We can now talk over the [?] ...

    Article : 346 words
  3. SWORDFISH EXPLOITS.

    The Liverpool Me[?] gave a report foam Captain Harwood, of the brigantine Fort[?] from Rio Grande, to the elect that the vessel, while at sea, was struck and ...

    Article : 498 words
  4. EXTENSION DAY, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.

    The third annual celebration of Extension Day was held under the most favorable auspices at the University on Saturday, 16th instant. The weather, as on Previous ...

    Article : 1,238 words
  5. CORNERISMS.

    As [?] the holy Christmas birth By this, good friends, our [?] still— “Be peace on estate be peace on earth Tomen of gen[?]e will.” ...

    Article : 25 words
  6. A GLIMPSE INTO A METALLURGICAL WORKS.

    The following lecture was delivered at the School of Mines:— I have been asked to say something to you about metallurgy, I am very pleased ...

    Article : 1,900 words
  7. WOMEN’S WISDOM AND FOLLY.

    I must say that J rather feared female suffrage in New Zealand would results in one of two things—indifference to politics, or an enthusiastic adherence to Conservatism. ...

    Article : 909 words
  8. CHRISTMAS.

    Dear me—Christmas is around again. It only seems a month or so since it was Christmas last, but “things are not what they seem,” and so here I am a year older, ...

    Article : 1,515 words
  9. AT THE WORLD’S FAIR.

    After a railway journey of five nights and four days, with a short interval of six hours at the Great Salt Lake, we are extremely obliged to the brakeman of the Chicago and ...

    Article : 924 words
  10. MRS PARTINGTON’S [?] AGAIN.

    The crusade against the English language is growing apace in the County Cork [?] the Pas Mall [?] M.P., Sir Thomas Esm[?] M.P. and ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. KEROSENE OIL.

    Monopolies, (says a contemporary) have at least some redeeming gleams of goodness. There never was a more absolute monopoly than the mining and refining of petroleum, ...

    Article : 301 words
  12. THE END OF AN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    Captain Mackay, of the whaler Aurora, which arrived at Dundee on Monday night from Davis’ Straits, brings information of the loss of on Arctic exploring party. In ...

    Article : 241 words
  13. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Many a girl who marries for leisure penis in haste. The biggest kind of sinners generally feel religious in a graveyard. ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. THE WORLD MOVING ON.

    We have heard much of the pinching of the coal-owners and the bare existence gained by the men. And for our owe part, being fairly Impartial, we know so little ...

    Article : 206 words
  15. WINDERMERE.

    The fortnightly meeting of the Windermere [?] was held in the A.N.A. Hall on Friday evening Harvesting operations was the cause of there being but a limited attendance of members Mr T. [?] ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. THE PERFUME OF FLOWERS.

    The following conclusions are the results of the researches of Mr E. [?] upon the mods of productions of the perfume in flowers:—1. The essential oil is generally ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. A VISIT TO PORT MELBOURNE PIER.

    A visited Port Melbourne Pier [?] day. To see an Orient[?] call for England for [?] She [?] to be a dea[?] street as solid [?] ...

    Article : 432 words
  18. ANNUAL DISEASES AND THE MEAT SUPPLY.

    A joint paper was read to the members of the Melbourne Medical Society Wednesday by Mr W. T. Kendall, veterinary surgeon, and Dr Miller, on prevailing animal diseases ...

    Article : 182 words
  19. THE REAPER AND BINDER CONTEST.

    Labor-saving machinery ought surely to be a blessing to man in snaking his lot brighter and pleasanter in this world, but instead of that every such machine, under ...

    Article : 433 words
  20. A SURVIVOR OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.

    A survivor of the battle of Waterloo has just had the misfortune to be run over in the streets of Paris, at the Fanbourg St. Martin, at the comer of Rue Louis Blanc. Jean Louis ...

    Article : 179 words
  21. REACTION IN THE UNITED STATES TARIFF TINKERING.

    SIR,—Opponents of protected industries blew a load blast last year, when Cleveland was elected President. People were as tonished that it should echo from the other ...

    Article : 398 words
  22. REMARKABLE DESTRUCTION OF FISH.

    On the night of 30th October a tank of creosote in a waggon standing in the railway sidings at Rugby leaked, and a large quantity of the liquid found its way down a ...

    Article : 186 words
  23. THE ARMY AGAIN.

    SIR,—I find it necessary though much against [?] will to request that some steps be taken to [?] the Soldiers’ Hill detachment of the army not to come where they are not wanted. They have a [?] of ...

    Article : 333 words
  24. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND THE CATHOLIC VOTE.

    One of the chief surprises of the election (writes the New Zealand correspondent of the Argus), I may add, is the extraordinary manner in which the Catholic vote has ...

    Article : 106 words
  25. HORSE V BICYCLE.

    Near Paris some weeks since a horseman and a bicyclist had a trial of endurance and speed. The velocipedist was named Mave[?] the horseman was Cody (“Buffalo Bill,”) ...

    Article : 238 words
  26. DR BELANRY.

    I can understand very well why Dr Delaney went away so soon and so quietly after his consecration. The sound of ovations was too much for one of his modest ...

    Article : 564 words
  27. GRENVILLESHIRE COUNCIL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 words
  28. SINGULAR FATALITY.

    A sensational fatality occurred at the Great Northern station, Bradford, recently, A boy named John W. Tullan, employed by Messrs Biley, chemists, was conveying two ...

    Article : 94 words
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