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  2. Wit and Wisdom.

    Self-denial is the best riches. An open door will tempt a saint. Reputation is a great inheritance. A young man idle, an old man needy. ...

    Article : 532 words
  3. Scientific and Useful.

    A heliograph may be described as a simple instrument that is used for signalling by sunlight from a plane mi[?]ror. The signals are made by flashing reflections or by obscuring and revealing ...

    Article : 111 words
  4. From Sydney to China and Japan.

    The densely crowded and thoroughly representative Chinese city of Canton, with its 2,000,000 inhabitants, is easily accessible, from Hongkong, for first-classcommodious river steamers ply to and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 3,394 words
  5. MIGRATING BIRDS.

    A dospatch to the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says: A migrating bird wave which was passing over hore on the night of May 17 encountered a severe rain and ...

    Article : 134 words
  6. RUSSIAN CENTENARIANS.

    When we bear in mind the fact, says the NEW YORK LEDGER, that the bishops of the Greek Church are even more careful to register births than are the English parochial clergy, we ...

    Article : 156 words
  7. FLIGHT OF THE COMMON FLY.

    Flies frequent the insides of our windows, buzzing sluggishly in and out of the room. But what different creatures are they when they accompany your horse on a hot sximiner's day! ...

    Article : 242 words
  8. The Roads.

    In addressing a deputation which waited upon him on August 14 Mr. Bruce Smith, in refusing a sum of £1000 for repairing a road in the southern portion of the ...

    Article : 201 words
  9. Railway Management.

    A deputation representing the permanent way staff of the railways, Messrs. Manuel (the chairman of the meeting), Mr. Hoyle (the president of the association), accompanied by Messrs. ...

    Article : 327 words
  10. THE SUBMARINER PERAL.

    Although there are great doubts as to the feasibility of working submarine boats in practice, the accounts of the Peral continue favorable. This vessel is of the so-called ...

    Article : 341 words
  11. Probates and Administrations.

    His Honor Mr. Justice Manning sitting in Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction on August 14 granted the following: Probates under the wills of the following ...

    Article : 252 words
  12. Extensive Failure.

    A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Buzacott and Armstrong, ship chandlers of this city, was held on the afternoon of August 15. The statement of affairs showed ...

    Article : 85 words
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