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  2. FORETELLING THE WEATHER.

    THE NEW YORK Tribune gives a somewhat lengthy account of the working of the Signal Service Bureau of the War Department, which did such excellent ...

    Article : 1,249 words
  3. ANOTHER GREAT PHILANTHROPIST.

    MR. HOLLOWAY, of pill aud ointment fame, is reported in the English papers as having resolved to devote the bulk of the great fortune be has accumulated to charity. His design is ...

    Article : 454 words
  4. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

    IN a recent address, on the occaison of the distribution of prizes to the Bristol Trade and Mining School, Mr. Mundella, the member for Sheffield, England, took the opportunity of ...

    Article : 1,488 words
  5. HAS AUSTRALIAN PLAYED OUT ITS PART IN THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD?

    THIS question was touched upon some years ago in one of the Queensland papers, and the subject was can vassed with considerable interest among some of the lovers of geological research. ...

    Article : 1,560 words
  6. THE STAMP DUTIES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 636 words
  7. THE PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

    MUCH is nowadays said and written about the promotion of scientific research, and although everybody is convinced of the importance of doing something, no one is agreed upon ...

    Article : 1,529 words
  8. THE MEANS OF SUCCESS IN AGRICULTURE.

    THE English agricultural journals have lately taken to writing upon the "Exhaustive System of Farming carried on in America and Australia." They tax us, as well as our cousins, ...

    Article : 1,469 words
  9. ORIGIN O[?] FAMILIAR WORDS.

    THE word "quiz," to make fun of, or poke fun at, a person, was the coinage of a theatrical manager in Dublin, who, at a drinking party with his friendds one Saturday night, when the ...

    Article : 1,104 words
  10. QUEENSLAND TARIFF.

    SPIRITS.—Brandy of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Sike's hydrometer, and so in proportion for any greater or less strength than the strength of proof, ...

    Article : 648 words
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