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  2. FUN AND FANCY.

    A short paragraph—This. For equestrian pictures—Upright mounts. Proof Before Letters—A postman's knock. The largest waterfall is but a drop of water. ...

    Article : 1,226 words
  3. DIAMOND CUTTING.

    The rough stone is, in the first instance, put into the hands of the "splitter." It must be noted that three operations must be gone through before the stone is fit to be ...

    Article : 287 words
  4. Poetry.

    "There is no death," the angels say ; Only the glory of new born day ; Only the closing of mortal eyes To waken again in glad surprise. ...

    Article : 434 words
  5. SCIENTIFIC.

    After much study aid the making of many experiments it is now expected that a very rauch improved kind of steel will shortly be at the disposal of manufacturers., The new ...

    Article : 220 words
  6. RUSSIAN EXILES IN SIBERIA.

    It was in Tukalinsk, a wretched Siberian town of one thousand five hundred inhabitants. We were three ; my wife, a friend of ours, now a prominent novelist, then an ...

    Article : 1,170 words
  7. Wilful Kate.

    " My dear Kate !" exclaimed a pale, deilcate looking lady, starting nervously, an a bright, active child of eleven burst into the room, "you must learn to open the door ...

    Article : 1,203 words
  8. Troubles Come Like Thieves at Midnight.

    Tell me not that trials are over ; For we cannot say, they cease ; Though we see them not, they hover O'er our head in time of peace. ...

    Article : 124 words
  9. How a Man Who had Cheated Him Came Back After Death to Apologize.

    " I never go much on ghost stories," began Contractor Van Dyke at the Clinton House the other evening. The old gentleman had been listening with more or less attention to ...

    Article : 746 words
  10. IMPROVEMENT IN ALLOYS.

    This alloy is intended to be" used in the place of steel in the manufacture of the various parts of watches, such as the balance wheel and hair spring, so as to obviate the ...

    Article : 117 words
  11. DIARY OF AUTOMATICAL EVENTS.

    7 A.M.—Turned out of automatically constructed bed and deposited upon the floor. Am picked up and hurled into an automatic dressing, washing, and shaving chair, after ...

    Article : 302 words
  12. PLATING WITH ALUMINIUM.

    A Paris correspondent says that the process which is intended to constitute a new trade consists of a new deposit of a coat of aluminium upon a metallic surface by the ...

    Article : 174 words
  13. CLOTH AND PAPER OF CORN HUSKS.

    One of the best utilised waste products in Austria, resulting in the manufacture of large quantities of paper and cloth, are corn husks. The husks are boiled with an alkali in tubular ...

    Article : 313 words
  14. A Modern Miracle Worker.

    The following wonderful cure by Mr. Milner Stephen is so astonishing, as the lady had been afflicted with more than one complaint for up ...

    Article : 401 words
  15. ROYAL SCOTS OR "PILATE'S GUARDS."

    The 1st Regiment (Scots Guards), when in the French service, temp Louis XIV., are said to have had a dispute with the Picardy regiment as to which was the oldest regiment ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. HOW TO MAKE DIAMONDS.

    The making of artificial diamonds has been the subject of immense thought and research on the part of chemists. Up to this time it has eluded all the efforts of tie experimenters, ...

    Article : 246 words
  17. SANITATION AND CHOLERA IN SPAIN.

    The Lancet says:—" The town and province of Valencia, has won an unenviable notoriety throughout the world. It is celebrated as the seat of the most severe of ...

    Article : 370 words
  18. A Salvini Story.

    'THREE years ago he was playing far out West to an audience composed of the roughest men, miners of them miners, nod women of coarse stamp. The play was " Conrad," or " M[?]te ...

    Article : 451 words
  19. HE AND

    We were wooing in the starlight, She and I ; We were bidding sweetest " Good-night !" Neath the sky. ...

    Article : 192 words
  20. DETECTING MINUTE QUANTITIES OF IRON IN MINERALS.

    Alexander Johnstone, F.G.S., Assistant to the Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh, states, through the columns of the Chemical News that a now ...

    Article : 286 words
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    Mr. George Milner Stephen, the great renowned healer, performed a wonderful cure at the Oddfellows Hall, Melbourne, last Wednesday Mrs. Massey's ...

    Article : 154 words
  22. VERTICAL.

    A little girl of tender years, who had been attending one of the public kindergartens, fell from a ladder. Her mother caught her up from the ground in terror, exclaiming— ...

    Article : 86 words
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