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  2. COMPARATIVE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE IN VARIOUS TRADES.

    In the Supplement to the Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages just published, an interesting chapter is devoted to the comparative ...

    Article : 899 words
  3. THE WINNER OF LAST DERBY.

    Mr. John Wrightson, Professor of Agriculture at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, gives the following interesting account of the winner of the Derby:— ...

    Article : 710 words
  4. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, QUEENSLAND.

    The grandest structure in Brisbane is, without a doubt, that in which assemble the representatives of the people. It is of immense size, quite out of proportion with the rest of the city, but is most ...

    Article : 2,916 words
  5. FRETTING WIVES.

    Constant dropping wears away a stone, and a peevish wife will destroy the temper of the best husband living. It is a pity that a number of good ladies do not see this, the probability being ...

    Article : 1,205 words
  6. THE NAVY OF THE FUTURE.

    " I have a hundred ships of the line, and yet I have not a navy "—wrote Napoleon to Marshal Bernadotte; and much the same thing might be said of England now. We have a ...

    Article : 1,366 words
  7. LATER INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    By the arrival of the s.s. Tasman from Sydney, on Saturday, we have received New South Wales dates from the 22nd to the 25th inst.; and Queensland from the 15th to the ...

    Article : 2,071 words
  8. A YARMOUTH BLOATER.

    We clip the following from the London Figaro:— The Local Government Board should lend some boxing-gloves to the Yarmouth Board of ...

    Article : 699 words
  9. THE COMPETING NATIONS AT PHILADELPHIA.

    In the American Centennial Exhibition, as in all other "world's fairs," the visitor's first and last impression is one of bewilderment. It is impossible to classify the articles exhibited, or to ...

    Article : 1,527 words
  10. MAURITIUS.

    Generally speaking, there has been little doing here since the date of my last, a state of things by no means uncommon at this time of year, when our only produce worth mentioning, i.e., sugar, is still ...

    Article : 582 words
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