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  2. SMITH OF GEARY'S.

    Mr W. R. Titterton writes in the "Daily News" of 23rd April:— The typewriter girl came out of the private office, chewing a pencil and ...

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  3. WHAT THEY ARE LIKE.

    A contributor to the English "Mail," Frankfort, writes:— One who has only seen the Andalusian is inclined to think of all ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  4. EASY DIVORCE.

    Sir Gorell Barnes' advocacy of the re- form of the divorce laws, with the view of placing wives on an equality with husbands. and Mr Plowden's remarkable ...

    Article : 759 words
  5. FARM AND FIELD.

    Artificial pastures receive very little attention in the shape of winter topdressing. When a forest is cleared, what with the heavy coating of ashes that ...

    Article : 471 words
  6. GARDEN ON A WARSHIP.

    H.M.S. Bufwark, the flagship of the [?] Fleet was a veritable flower garden when the King and Queen and the Prince and Princess of ...

    Article : 213 words
  7. ROMANCE OF ART.

    Once upon a time (writes the London "Daily Mail") there was an artist who took his profession very seriously. He had passed the schools of London and ...

    Article : 535 words
  8. ANARCHISTS' SECRET TUNNEL.

    From Baku the correspondent of the London "Dally Mail" wrote in May last:— The Russian Easter holidays, which ...

    Article : 194 words
  9. COTTON OF THE INCAS.

    Cotton growing in Peru (writes the "Manchester Weekly Budget;") dates back to prehistoric times, and it is quite a common occurrence to bring to light ...

    Article : 209 words
  10. A SUPPOSED WITCH.

    An Italian exchange writes that an example of the barbarous superstitious which still prevail in certain rural districts of Italy is afforded by a terrible ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. A Department of Animal Industry.

    In his recently-published book, entitled "The Breeding Industry Its Value to the Country and. Its Needs," the author, Mr Walter Heape, L.A., Trinity ...

    Article : 197 words
  12. A NEW INDUSTRY.

    The making of pillows and mattresses stuffed with sponges instead of feathers or horsehair has been commenced in Florida and, according to a note in the ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. ENGLISH DIVORCE LAWS.

    On Friday April 28th the suit in which Fanny Dodd sought divorce from her husband James Dodd, the President of the Divorce Division (Sir Gorell Barnes) ...

    Article : 437 words
  14. A SWISS MURDER.

    An extraordinary murder trial. in which one of the chief criminals is a dog, has just been concluded at Delemont, in the Canton of Soleure. ...

    Article : 167 words
  15. BUTTER AND CHEESE AS CONVEYERS OF INFECTION.

    Some time ago an interesting experiment was undertaken by Professor Delepine, of the Public Health Laboratory, Manchester University, England, into ...

    Article : 222 words
  16. QUEST FOR WEALTH.

    The fact that a man has just been fined for the unlawful possession of a quantity of sweets and a tin of sherbet, which he claimed to have found in a ...

    Article : 258 words
  17. VIEWS OF SPORT.

    "Intantane" writes in the "Westminster Gazette":—In a train returning from a race-meeting were an old man and his son. "Seen what this here ...

    Article : 155 words
  18. SIMIAN TRAGEDY.

    All is not Jam that's sticky. It was regrettably, brown paint in the case of Bronko, the pet monkey of the 2nd Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment, whose ...

    Article : 251 words
  19. TUNNEL TRAGEDY.

    A remarkable story is told in the Manchester "Weekly Times" of 7th April in connection with the death of a Swansea woman in a tunnel between Ledbury ...

    Article : 686 words
  20. GOT-IT.

    "What's the matter with Billy? Seems ill" "Just been in to Geary. Shouldn't wonder if he's got the sack." ...

    Article : 255 words
  21. THE NEWLY-MOUNTED COMMON REFLECTOR.

    Flamsteed, the first Astronomer- Royal, who fixed the object-glass of a telescope at the mouth of a well 100ft deep and (to solve the problem of ...

    Article : 162 words
  22. ACTION OF LIME ON SOIL.

    The functions of lime when applied to soils requiring it are very complex. and may be summed up as follows:— ...

    Article : 246 words
  23. THE SCOTS' GUARDS.

    In the last "battalion orders" issued by Colonel G. J. Cuthbert, when relinquishing the command of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, on being placed on the ...

    Article : 323 words
  24. LONDON'S TREASURES.

    Possible damage to our trees, plants, and flowers in parks and gardens, to national treasures in museums and galleries, as well ns increase of impurity in ...

    Article : 389 words
  25. TRAVELLING PAWNSHOP.

    A travelling pawnshop for the convenience chiefly of racing men is the latest development of the commercial automobile in America. A New York ...

    Article : 109 words
  26. TO PREVENT SNORING.

    It would surely be difficult to find a more curious invention than that described in a recent issue of the "Scientific American" for the prevention of ...

    Article : 164 words
  27. TWENTIETH-CENTURY DISBELIEF IN EDUCATION.

    The quotations we. "Westminster Gazette." gave a few days ago from certain anti-education speeches made in Parliament early last century might ...

    Article : 216 words
  28. THE FIERCEST WINDS ON RECORD.

    The world's record for high winds is, according to the "Scrap Book." held by Point Reyes, and important United States storm-signal station about ...

    Article : 130 words
  29. HIS OLD LEDGER.

    Well, the old fellow won't do much starving. I think he'll die when he can't grub in his musty old ledgers. "I shall die." echoed the old man, ...

    Article : 845 words
  30. THE ORCHARDS OF AMERICA.

    According to the latest statistics there are now 165,600,000 apple trees bearing fruit In America. The number in Victoria in fit bearing at present is ...

    Article : 199 words
  31. ETHICS OF FLIRTATION.

    The really up-to-date woman of the generation should be an adept in the cult of flirtation. But flirtation is an unwise game for foolish virgins. who ...

    Article : 69 words
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