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  2. LATEST RACING NEWS.

    The terribly warm weather on New Year's Day militated to some extent against the attendance at the various race meetings. That at Flemington was well attended, so ...

    Article : 643 words
  3. THE BOERS AND THE GIRAFFE.

    The Boers are credited with being great bunuiersn, and chief of them in his younger [?] says G.E.W. in the "Scietific American," was President Kruger, whose daring ...

    Article : 1,796 words
  4. WATCHING THE BOERS.

    As our men are required to do similar scouting work, this is interesting to us:—The Cape papers, of course, are full of the war, and naturally the achievements and adventures ...

    Article : 1,264 words
  5. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE POPE'S FAMOUS RING.

    As some interest has been taken in the announcement that appeared in the papers about Leo XIII. losing the " Fisherman's Ring," some particulars about the famous ...

    Article : 565 words
  6. THE PLUCKY POSTMISTRESS.

    If we are not mistaken (says the "West-minster Gazette") the postmistress of Ladygrey the chief town of the native reserve on the Free State border, will be the recipient ...

    Article : 944 words
  7. FOR SUNDAY MEDITATION.

    How impossible it is for one to grow in the spiritual life without partaking of spiritual food. As impossible is it as for one to preserve the physical being without partaking of ...

    Article : 933 words
  8. AN ANECDOTE OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

    When Mr. Chamberlain first left the Liberal party (says "M.A.P.") and began to be a favorite of "smart society," there used to be, it will be remembered, plenty of ...

    Article : 169 words
  9. EPISTOLARY WIT.

    One of Tom Hood's, the prince of punssters, happiest puns appears in a brief epistle which he addressed to a young brother poet. The latter had sent him an ...

    Article : 491 words
  10. A BANKER'S GENEROSITY.

    One day, according to a writer in the "Century," Humboldt was dining with Mendelssohn, the banker, and, an unusual thing for him, was very silent. His host, ...

    Article : 173 words
  11. A CURIOUS MODERN LEGACY.

    [?] University has received a legacy of 1,500,000 marks, to which peculiar conditions are attached. On the testator's estate at Honnef a "Lady's Home" is to be ...

    Article : 227 words
  12. PLAYING WITH AN ICEBERG.

    A few years ago a French man-of-war was lying at anchor in Temple Bay, and the younger officers took it into their heads to amuse themselves with an iceberg, a mile or more distant ...

    Article : 259 words
  13. A CONCERT BY INCURABLE CHILDREN.

    An Edinburgh correspondent of "The Hos pital Nursing Mirror" sends an interesting account of a concert given by the children in the " Nursery" of the Edinburgh ...

    Article : 365 words
  14. A QUEER THING ABOUT ELEPHANTS.

    One favorite food of the African elephant is the tender, juicy roots of the mimosa tree, which crows in scattered grollpe most of the meadows and lowlands of Central Africans. When ...

    Article : 247 words
  15. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

    A murder was committed in South Dunedin on Monday morning. Thos Gullowing informed the polite that his wife had been murdered by some unknown man, who broke ...

    Article : 270 words
  16. DR. TANNER ON DIET.

    Dr. S. H. Tanner, who nineteen years ago went forty days and forty nights without food, is still in the flesh and chipper at the age of sixty-seven. He says:—"My stomach, ...

    Article : 266 words
  17. ILL-BRED PEOPLE.

    Who are they? Even the most brutal-minded and ill-instructed person will probably agree with the common precept that human intercourse, in a free country, would ...

    Article : 228 words
  18. BENDIGO BENEVOLENT ASYLUM AND LYING-IN HOSPITAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 words
  19. AN EMIGRANT SHIP FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    In 1850 hardly one steamship had yet crossed the equator. The vessels which bore the emigrants were sailors, mostly—though not always—of an inferior class. Badly found, ...

    Article : 603 words
  20. THE ORIGIN OF PEARLS.

    The presence of pearls in the shell of a mollusc (says "Chamber's Journal") used to be attributed to congealed drops of dew or rain; and Pliny has left an elaborate account ...

    Article : 235 words
  21. A STORY ABOUT A MONKEY.

    Some little while ago [?] was much agitated over "mysterious disappeara[?]." Turin is a city of robust faith—happily for itself. But sometimes, as will be seen, it ...

    Article : 376 words
  22. IS CONSUMPTION INCURABLE.

    In his well-known medical dictionary Dr. F. R. Walters, M.D., commenting upon consumption, makes some remarks particularly applicable to Australia, where this disease ...

    Article : 558 words
  23. GLASS-MAKING BY ELECTRICITY.

    A French technical journal (says " Chamber's Journal ") gives a description of an electric furnace used by Kroll, of Cologne, in the manufacture of glass. Like other ...

    Article : 553 words
  24. THE CONDITION OF GIBRALT, R.

    The Governor Sir R. Biddulph (observes the " Pall Mall Gazette"), in his report on the state of Gibraltar for 1898, says that for the past five years the revenue has exceeded ...

    Article : 414 words
  25. A LUCKY BABY.

    The story of a baby asleep in a cradle on the roof of a church, baby and cradle having been placed there without hands, looks like a piece of extravagant fiction, but there is an old ...

    Article : 448 words
  26. AN ANECDOTE ABOUT MR. GLADSTONE.

    Mr. Gladstone was being examined one afternoon before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in favor of a proposed railway in North Wales, in which his family ...

    Article : 224 words
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