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  2. ON SEWING MACHINES.

    AN important decision was given on Tuesday at the Water police Court by Mr. Marsh, W.P.M., whilst presiding in Small Debts Court. It appeared that on the 7th instant Dr. Lawrie sued Miss Hall in the ...

    Article : 553 words
  3. THE PROSPECT OF RUSSIA.

    THE prospect in Russia is appallingly dark, and the appointment of General Ignatieff as General Melikoff's successor in the Ministry of the Interior is of evil omen.—General Ignatieff is a ...

    Article : 235 words
  4. INTERESTING TO WIDOWS.

    A HUSBAND signed three notes or memoranda, giving certain plate and furniture to his wife for her own sole use and benefit, specifying in the third memorandum that it was to be hers ...

    Article : 178 words
  5. A MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.

    THE resolution of Sir Massey Lopes, for establishing a Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, was adopted by the House of Commons on May 13, without any serious opposition; ...

    Article : 310 words
  6. THE NEW ZEALAND "WELCHER."

    NORTH, the bolting barber, who "did" the New Zealand folk so thoroughly (says a N.Z. contemporary), has been interviewed in California, and seems to be more "cheeky" than ...

    Article : 299 words
  7. LIVING UNDER WATER.

    THE now plan for protecting divers, and supplying them with fresh air when under water, which was mentioned in these columns some time back, has been very satisfactorily tested ...

    Article : 334 words
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  9. WATER IN AUSTRALIA.

    MR F. T. Mott, of Birstal Hall, Leicester, writes —"A gentleman recently returned from Australia believes that the arid plain which occupies the centre of that island-continent might ...

    Article : 256 words
  10. THE ADVENTURES OF A PORK PIE HAT.

    A GENTLEMAN should be a gentleman always, and ever attentive to the troubles of distressed damsels; and yet if he be a married man, it may be wise for him to remember that he will ...

    Article : 648 words
  11. THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES.

    IN the House of Commons on May 12th Mr Anderson asked thr Under-Secretary for State for the Colonies whether there wits in the Colonial Office a memorandum which Sir Penrose ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. MR GLADSTONE AND THE LAND BILL OF IRELAND.

    IF Mr Gladstone was a little at fault in the earlier agitations of the Irish Land League, he has fully atoned for his errors by the course of action recently pursued by him. Possibly he ...

    Article : 402 words
  13. A USEFUL INVENTION.

    A RECENT number of the "Journal des Fabricants de Suere" gives a very interesting account of an apparatus (the "Defibreaur"), invented by Mr. Faure, for peeling off the outer flinty ...

    Article : 231 words
  14. BOTTLED LIGHTNING.

    ONE of the most difficult problems in connection with electric force has been how to store it in any quantity for subsequent use. The current could be generated when required, but with ...

    Article : 291 words
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