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  2. CURIOSITIES OF TELEGRAPH CONSTRUCTION IN MEXICO.

    TRAVELLERS on horseback in Northern Mexico traversing vast, treeless, and melancholy plains, stop at night for camp, and finding the telegraph poles accessible and admirably seasoned, cut them down for firewood. And this is not all. The humble ...

    Article : 792 words
  3. THE LADIES' PAGE.

    The grim satirist who asserted that "Manners with fortunes, humours torn with dimes. Tenets with books, and principles with times," struck a trenchant blow at the easy morality and the social shams ...

    Article : 5,703 words
  4. Facts & Scraps

    Three gentlemen from Arrowtown have made the ascent of the Remarkables, of which an engraving was given in the The. Sketcher for last month. They made the summit of the first hours (7,000ft. above the sea level) in five hours, having started ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 405 words
  5. VOLCANIC ERUPTION AT NEW BRITAIN.

    THE German New Guinea steamer Otillie left Finachaven on the 3rd March for New Britain, having His Excellency Baron Von Schlenitz on board, and also Mr. Von Below, coffee planter Mr. Charles Hanstein, a naturalist, well-known in North ...

    Article : 347 words
  6. "BUSHED" AT YILGARN.—A FEARFUL EXPERIENCE.

    THE two men, Beadles and Shea, who lost their lives in the bush at Yilgarn, Western Australia, appear to have had a terrible experience before death terminated their struggles. It had been rumoared about amongst the men prospecting near the scene of ...

    Article : 707 words
  7. ENTERPRISE IN NORTH BORNEO.

    THE progress made by British North Borneo in the past year has certainly been astonishing. The report recently read before the shareholders of the 13. N. 13. Company in London cannot fail to deepen their confidence in the future of the new colony. Stress ...

    Article : 625 words
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