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    A FRENCH scientific agriculturist has made a series of remarkable experiments with potatoes; in one of which he obtained a yield of no less than 42 tons of tubers per ...

    Article : 1,916 words
  3. WANTON WASTE.

    THE advocates of socialism and paternalism as essential principles of sound [?]overnment, find no little support in the incurable, folly with which mankind is the ...

    Article : 1,122 words
  4. SHOULD YOUNG CHILDREN CYCLE?

    Dr. E. B. TURNER, writing in the [?]News, says:— The question whether young children between the ages, say of 6 and 12 should be allowed to cycle, and, if allowed, ...

    Article : 726 words
  5. HOW BRITISH CIGARS ARE MADE.

    THE very meagre and unsatisfactory information respecting the manufacture of British eigars, which came out in the course of an Excise prosecution the ...

    Article : 1,374 words
  6. HER CAREFUL TEST.

    The Hon. Miss Gainsford, short and fat, turned away from the bars surrounding the Venus de Milo and shook her gold eased lorgnette and sniffed. ...

    Article : 1,401 words
  7. THINGS ESSENTIAL TO LONG LIFE.

    The primal qualification for reaching old age is an inherited tendency to longevity. This is a different thing from good health, and does not even fully correspond to what ...

    Article : 589 words
  8. A REAL SENSATION.

    THE World's Fair at Chieago will have no lack of attractions, even if the latest proposal is not favourably considered by the Executive Committee. Still, if only in the ...

    Article : 428 words
  9. THE PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF COCA.

    Tim Physical Effects of Coca are more salutary, and in many respects more remarkable than the mental. It is universally acknowledged that coca stills hunger, ...

    Article : 621 words
  10. THE BIGGEST LITTLE PAPER IN THE WORLD.

    M. CASSIGNEUL is the Editor and one of largest owners of Le Petit Journal, the paper having the largest circulation of any in the world. ...

    Article : 597 words
  11. ARE SOLDIERS' LIVES WORTH SAVING?

    YES, of a Verity our soldiers' lives are worth saving, and this being so, the Contagious Diseases Acts must be promptly reintroduced. The wastage of our soldiers' lives ...

    Article : 164 words
  12. THE ART OF CHARMING.

    A MAN says that a woman to be clever at conversation must have a good memory. She must keep in mind so much as she knows of the tastes and prejudices of those present ...

    Article : 298 words
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    Two young ladies were talking the other day about a third who had just become engaged to a widower who plays the cornet and has four children. " What could be ...

    Article : 78 words
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    The schoolboy was showing his teacher some apples he had bought. "Them ain't no good," he said, throwing out a couple ...

    Article : 41 words
  15. "WARNING TO CYCLISTS.

    "WARNING TO CYCLISTS.—No Public-houses up this Road " was painted on a board at the foot of a hill in Scotland recently ...

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