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  2. Scientific and Useful. AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIPS.

    An English contemporary states that the "Cosmopolitan Magazine" of New York proposes to give away 1000 scholarships to those who canvass for new subscribe s. A scholarship in America is ...

    Article : 105 words
  3. A Sydney Art Furnishing Firm.

    A visitor to the well-known furniture warehouse of Messrs. A. Hall and Company, 561, 563, 565, and 567 George-street, Sydney, is at once struck on inspecting the large and varied ...

    Article : 756 words
  4. The Treasury Note.

    The new Treasury notes are out. They bear the proud imprint, "Sydney, Charles Potter, Government Printer," and are examples of the depth of nastiness ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 346 words
  5. BULL FIGHTING—SPAIN'S NATIONAL SPORT—IN THE BULL RING AT MADRID.

    A recent telegram announces that during a bull fight in Madrid certain youths entered the arena to act as matadors, that two of them were fatally gored, and that the spectators ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,728 words
  6. PHOTOGRAPHS OP SWIFT'S COMET.

    Professor Barnard, of the Lick Observatory (U.S.), has succeeded in taking three remarkable photographs of Swift's comet, at intervals of 24 hours each. The changes which the comet has ...

    Article : 126 words
  7. A NEW METHOD OF PAINTING.

    That necessity is the mother of invention has been exemplified recently, according to report, in the method adoped for painting the buildings of ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. NERVOUS CENTRES.

    At a recent meeting at the Paris Academy of Science a paper was pesented by M. A. Chauveau, in which he gave reasons for believing in the existence ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. LIVERPOOL'S OVERHEAD RAILWAY.

    Liverpool (says an English contemporary) has now got an electric overhead railway. The trial trip was recently made a party of 30 adventurous travellers, including Sir William Forwood, ...

    Article : 301 words
  10. London Charities.

    It is stated that £6,000,000 is annually dispensed by London charities. Private benefactors are certainly twice as large in their gifts, and, in all £20,000,000 is probably given ...

    Article : 237 words
  11. An Eventful Balloon Journey.

    An American scientific journal in its last issue gives an account of "the longest balloon journey on record." It is described by one, M. Maurice Mallet, and was undertaken in L'Aeronante, from ...

    Article : 159 words
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