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  2. THE VALUE OF STREET SWEEPINGS.

    From an article in the San Francisco Bulletin, intended to show the value of street sweepings, and how they can be utilised for purposes of cultivation, we extract the following:—There are thonsands of ...

    Article : 537 words
  3. THEATRICAL NOTES BY THE MAIL.

    To old theatre goers it may be interesting to know that the Era is publishing a number of letters from bygone theatrical celebrities. The first series consisted of letters from David Garrick to T. ...

    Article : 1,008 words
  4. A NEW AUTOMATON.

    Messrs. Maskelyne and Cooke's Zoe, the new writing and sketching automaton at the Egyptian Hall, bears no resemblance whatever to the celebrated androids of the Swiss mechanician Le Droz, ...

    Article : 1,005 words
  5. THE TIDAL WAVE IN THE PACIFIC.

    The New York papers landed at Cork, June 13th, contain the following despatch:— "San Francisco, May 31.—The great Hawaiian tidal wave of the 10th of May appears to have ...

    Article : 2,838 words
  6. DEVON.

    Political parties are on the qui vive concerning the forthcoming election to supply the Upper House with a member in the place of the Hon. W. K. Hawkes, whose seat becomes vacant in October, ...

    Article : 393 words
  7. VACANT CURES.

    SIR,—My attention was recently called to an article in the Church News for August, which is evidently intended as an answer to a letter of mine published in The Mercury about a month ago. The ...

    Article : 546 words
  8. SUBMARINE WARFARE.

    Mr. John Donaldson, one of the firm of Thornycroft and Co., delivered a lecture at the Royal United Service Institution on the construction and armament of the Thornycroft ...

    Article : 1,221 words
  9. THE FORTRESS OF RUSTCHUCK.

    To the observer on the Turkish side, from whom the activity and preparations of the Russian Army are naturally hidden, the military situation in th[?] valley of the Dauube will appear to have remaine ...

    Article : 1,181 words
  10. THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.

    The chief difficulty which has hitherto hindered the utilization of electricity for the general purposes of illumination has been the want of a delicate mechanical arrangement for preserving the proper ...

    Article : 1,003 words
  11. PRESERVATION OF IRON.

    SIR,—I take the liberty to draw your attention and that of your readers interested in tin mining, to a very important discovery lately made in England by Mr. Barff, professor of chymistry, to ...

    Article : 525 words
  12. CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN TRAP.

    The Pera correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette gives the following account of how a number of Russian sailors fell into the hands of the Turks in the attempt to blow up the Turkish fleet:— ...

    Article : 882 words
  13. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

    The position and duties of a Special Correspondent in the Fast are becoming even more difficult and more arduous than usual. Times have changed considerably since Mr. W. H. Russell gave us in the ...

    Article : 892 words
  14. FISH ACCLIMATISATION.

    Everyone at all interested in the sport obtained in rivers and creeks by fish-catching will be glad to hear that the Geelong and Western District Fis[?] Acclimatisation Society continues to be successful ...

    Article : 1,149 words
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