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  2. Physical Culture.

    Interviewed in Sydney, speaking of various sports, Sandow said that he did not decry them, but he contended that they were mostly recreations, and not exercises. If one could go in for them all ...

    Article : 779 words
  3. Dairy Farming in New Zealand.

    A correspondent gives some particulars relating to dairying in New Zealand, which soon promises to become one vast dairy farm. " There are two methods under which dairying ...

    Article : 601 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 303 words
  5. A Bloom of Visiting Cards.

    An amusing story is told in the course of an article in "Temple Bar" on the life of the late Poet Laureate at Farringford, in the Isle of Wight, where he resided from ...

    Article : 186 words
  6. A Curious Case.

    A curious case of telepathy is reported from Athens. M. Lazare Lyrites, a Greek sculptor, was quietly talking to his wife, when suddenly he became greatly excited ...

    Article : 99 words
  7. If Morgan Went Mad.

    Mr. Murray Tuley, one of the oldest and ablest of the Chicago judges, having been elected president, has addressed the Illinois Bar Association on compulsory arbitration ...

    Article : 175 words
  8. Wellington and the Picture.

    Sir Robert Peel's great colleague, the Duke of Wellington, on one occasion had commissioned Sir David Wilkie to paint " The Chelsea Pensioners," and when it ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. Novelties in Afternoon Teas.

    Sandwiches are always suitable at an afternoon party, many people preferring savory sandwiches to cakes and sweetmeats. The bread should be at least a day old; close grained tin loaves are the ...

    Article : 1,151 words
  10. Cattle Breeding Association in Germany.

    A contributor to the "Agricultural Economist" for August writes:— During a visit I paid lately to the German Agricultural Society's show, in Mannheim, I was ...

    Article : 1,463 words
  11. Making Marble.

    Manufacturers are actually making marble by the same process by which nature makes it, only in a few weeks instead of a few thousand years. They take a rather soft ...

    Article : 74 words
  12. The Valiant Maoris.

    All over the Empire the problem of race has been solved in a hundred ways (says the "St. James's Budget") and Mr. Seddon's friends, the Maoris, are fine examples of ...

    Article : 226 words
  13. Russia's Population.

    The total population may, says the Nineteenth Century, be estimated to-day at well over 140,000,000. At the beginning of last year it was lees than 40,000,000. Thus, in a hundred ...

    Article : 189 words
  14. EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.

    An old French lady in Mahe, one of the Seychelles Islands, who has just celebrated her 112th birthday, tells an interesting story about the ...

    Article : 164 words
  15. DROUGHT-RESISTING GRASSES.

    The Acting Federal Premier has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies a parcel of books and catalogues with reference to drought-resisting grasses. ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. SABBATH OBSERVANCE.

    Some clergymen have very broad views with regard to the keeping of the Sabbath. One such is the Bishop of Christchurch, who announced the other day at the Church ...

    Article : 206 words
  17. Money in Wolves.

    The State of Nebraska has paid £30,000 in the last ten years as bounty for the destruction of wolves within its boundaries, considerably more than half of this having ...

    Article : 172 words
  18. NEW PROSPERITY FOR IRELAND.

    The Catholic priest (Father Greenan) and Protestant Minister (Mr. Lusk) have started a creamery, costing £2000, at Loughbrickland, in Ulster. What is the ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. A VERY WICKED PEACE.

    According to the German Press the Kaiser has ordered every station-master to keep a parrot, supplied by the State, on the platform to cry out ...

    Article : 423 words
  20. MOTOR FATALITIES.

    The rate of fatal motor accidents in France is absolutely bewildering. Old shepherds going home are smashed to pulp, rheumatic old ladies trying to cross the village ...

    Article : 177 words
  21. POPULATION OF NEW YORK.

    According to the official figures, in the city of New York there are only 737,477 white persons born of native parents, or but 21.4 per cent. of the population of the ...

    Article : 108 words
  22. Fighting Consumption in Brisbane.

    There have been six fatal cases of phthisis (or consumption) in the district of the Joint Board in Brisbane, since the 29th September. One of these occurred in the ...

    Article : 226 words
  23. A Perilous Atlantic Voyage.

    Recently there arrived at Falmouth the oil launch Abiel Abbott Low, which has accomplished the perilons task of crossing the Atlantic. The little vessel, which is only 36ft long and 8ft wide, left ...

    Article : 279 words
  24. MAKE THEM ALL PAY.

    The only way to check Ministerial extravagance is to spread the cost over all those who have votes. If the cost of wars is thrown entirely on the income-tax, the ...

    Article : 215 words
  25. A CURE FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.

    A correspondent, writing to the London "Spectator," from West Virginia, says:— "I venture to send you a remedy for sleeplessness which, during 30 years, I have ...

    Article : 194 words
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