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  2. POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.

    Dr. Gaspar Griswold, of New York, finds carbolic acid in whooping cough, in doses of ¼ minim to a child of six months, ½ minim for one of a year, and 1 minim ...

    Article : 520 words
  3. MACADAM'S ROADS.

    Roads which were mere layers of broken stone—6in., 4in., and even as little as 3in. in thickness—passed through the worst winters without breaking up, while, as ...

    Article : 707 words
  4. EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION CASE IN FRANCE.

    The Paris correspondent of the Standard sends an account of an extraordinary case which has come-before the Correctional Police. Six persons are charged with the ...

    Article : 676 words
  5. THE TONIC SOL-FA METHOD OF MUSIC.

    During these days of educational advancement, in almost every branch of learning there is more than one system by which any particular subject may be ...

    Article : 1,177 words
  6. GENERAL VIEW OF INDIA—WHAT IT HAS BEEN, IS, AND IS TO BE.

    When Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1600, granted a charter to the first English East India Co., she probably never dreamt that she was laying the foundation-stone ...

    Article : 3,875 words
  7. THE HONOUR OF AN IRISH GENTLEMAN.

    An amusing story is told of Daines Barrington, the Irish barrister, who became Recorder of Bristol. Having to appear for a plaintiff in a case at Clonmel, ...

    Article : 723 words
  8. AN AMERICAN PERORATION.

    The House of Representatives the other day had under consideration, under the five-minute rule, the bill to remove certain burdens on the American merchant ...

    Article : 869 words
  9. A WOMAN IN CAMP.

    No man of us who was there can ever forget the afternoon a party of hunters and Indian fighters rode up to our [?]ining camp with a lone woman in their [?]dst. ...

    Article : 1,033 words
  10. ON BECOMING AN AUTHOR.

    Strong forethought is required by the one who would become an author, for, as an English writer observes, "forethought is the elbow grease which a novelist—or ...

    Article : 1,595 words
  11. DISCIPLINE ON AN OCEAN. STEAMER.

    Nearly two years ago one fine morning I sat on the promenade deck of the steamer City of Brussels speeding towards Old England. I said to the captain, who ...

    Article : 910 words
  12. "KILLING THREE BIRDS WITH ONE STONE."

    The Secular Education League in France (says the Pall Mall Gazette) has lately hit upon a most ingenious device for killing three birds with one stone. ...

    Article : 901 words
  13. HORRIBLE MURDER IN HUNGARY.

    The Buda-Pe[?]th correspondent of the Daily Chronicle telegraphs on the 30th March:—"Count George von Mailath, the highest judge in Hungary, and ...

    Article : 798 words
  14. NOT MUCH OF A SHOW.

    The other morning while the urban manager of Woodward's Gardens was smoking a four bit [?]igar and meditatively listening to the muffled walls of a tom[?]t ...

    Article : 591 words
  15. THE IVORY TRADE.

    Sheffield cutlers and cutlery manufacturers (says an English paper) attended in unusually large numbers the first sales for the quarter at London. There were ...

    Article : 483 words
  16. A NEW AUSTRALIAN DRAMA.

    Mr. George Darrell and his little foibles are so well known throughout this colony that the following "skit," recently published in Melbourne, where ...

    Article : 837 words
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