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  2. Advertising

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  3. Centralisation in Australia.

    Magnificent cities have arisen in Australia with a rapidity which has no parallel elsewhere. There has been, in fact, an altogether abnormal aggregation of population ...

    Article : 341 words
  4. Cane-Cutting Appliance.

    An application for a grant of letters patent and the complete specifications annexed thereto has been accepted, and is now open for inspection at the Patent Office, Brisbane, ...

    Article : 118 words
  5. The Danish Egg Trade.

    Scientific American: The benefits of co-operation applied to the egg trade appear in a striking manner in the results obtained in Denmark. The ...

    Article : 590 words
  6. The People's Spending Power.

    The long-continued drought is beginning to play on the nerves and sentiments of city and suburban people, and the cry that has been going up ...

    Article : 1,060 words
  7. Rain-Making Experiments.

    Observing from the papers that Australia suffers greatly from drought, I beg to ask why not try the following experiments:— A man in Kansas, U.S., claims that he ...

    Article : 230 words
  8. Controlling Sex

    It has long been an interesting question amongst stock breeders whether anything can be done in the way of regulating the sex of the offspring of horses, cattle or ...

    Article : 341 words
  9. Beauties of the Clarence River.

    Of the beauties of the Clarence River, Brisbane "Courier's" special reporter writes as follows:—" It would be difficult to exaggerate the many beauties of the ...

    Article : 235 words
  10. Why Men Can't Sleep.

    It has been found in most cases that insomnia is caused by disordered stomach, says an authority. Between the stomach and the brain there is a close communion, ...

    Article : 146 words
  11. Swam Through Niagara Rapids.

    Carlisle Graham swam from the Whirlpool, below Niagara Falls, through the rapids to Lewiston on August 31. Graham made a better swim than he did on September 9, ...

    Article : 230 words
  12. Sheep Losses by Drought.

    It is gratifying to find that the State losses in sheep are not nearly so great as was represented or apprehended. It has been alleged that the mortality in the flocks has ...

    Article : 198 words
  13. Inexpensive Universities.

    Students at the American Universities live either in college houses or in private houses in the University towns. The cost of living varies with the individual tastes of the ...

    Article : 153 words
  14. Poetry Inherited From the Mother

    In a discussion at the Paris Society Medico Psychologique on the subject of the heredity of poetic talent, Dr. Chaslin and Dr. Mobius arrived at the conclusion that great poetic ...

    Article : 151 words
  15. Age of the World.

    One of the ways of reckoning the age of the world is that adopted by Professor Joly of computing how long a time must have elapsed for the sea, which was first fresh, ...

    Article : 209 words
  16. FLOWERS GROWN IN DARKNESS

    A series of experiments has been conducted in France to test the influence of darkness on the development of flowers. For this purpose, says ...

    Article : 141 words
  17. Laying Competition.

    The six months laying competition which commenced at the Hawkesbury College in April concluded last week, the laying for September by many of the breeds being the ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. Price of Eggs.

    A few years ago could the present price of a shilling per dozen have been obtained for eggs during September, such a thing as preserving them in view of a higher market ...

    Article : 344 words
  19. Alpine Glaciers Disappearing.

    Hotel-keepers in the Alps have a new trouble and are complaining at the loss of patrons. The attractive glaciers are said to be actually passing from the landscape, ...

    Article : 144 words
  20. VALUABLE VASE.

    In the ancient Cathedral of Genoa a vase of immense value has been preserved for six hundred years. It is cut from a single emerald. Its ...

    Article : 264 words
  21. Growing Force of Vegetables.

    A well-known student of nature once tried the growing force of a melon. When it was 18 days old, and measured 27in in circumference, he fixed a sort of harness ...

    Article : 235 words
  22. A Pretty Story.

    An American paper publishes this pretty little story. There were three little maids from school riding out on a suburban car, and as they swung their school bags they ...

    Article : 111 words
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