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  2. TOBACCO-GROWING IN IRELAND.

    The series of tobacco-growing experiments in Ireland begun ten years ago by the Department of Agriculture is now concluded. Full details ...

    Article : 112 words
  3. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

    Mr. Marcel Natier, at a meeting of the Paris Medical Society, gave a lecture in which he stated that he had found a cure for lazy boys, ...

    Article : 209 words
  4. The Fascination of the Serpent.

    Snakes have been compared to centipedes, and with all respect to the man who first originated the comparison, I think it a peculiarly ...

    Article : 448 words
  5. AUSTRALIA'S INDUSTRIAL CONDITION.

    The Commonwealth statistician gives us an interesting glimpse into industrial conditions of the Comnon wealth. ...

    Article : 269 words
  6. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    A peculiar method of fishing is employed by the natives of certain islands of Oceana. At stated intervals about two ...

    Article : 942 words
  7. PEN PICTURES OF THE PAST. IN PIRATE DAYS.

    Sir Henry Mainwaring, who received the honour of knighthood on March 20, 1618, was notorious as the foremost of the "gentlemen ...

    Article : 375 words
  8. Hair-breadth Escapes in Battle.

    If ever a man bore a "charmed life" in battle it was surely Lieutenant Hills when, single-handed, he charged a column of rebel cavalry ...

    Article : 1,004 words
  9. CAN THE "TITANIC" BE RAISED?

    A scheme is on foot to raise the Titanic, the £2,000,000 liner that struck an iceberg and sank with immense treasure. A Denver ...

    Article : 187 words
  10. "IN THE COILS OF A PYTHON."

    Actors for motion picture dramas are called on to face death in awful form in the pursuit of their profession. In a drama entitled "In the ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. LARGEST WORKING MODEL.

    In order to give a bird's-eye view of the Panama Canal, the largest working model in the world has been constructed. ...

    Article : 204 words
  12. THE RECREATION GROUND.

    Victoria is lending the way in the progressive movement which provides recreation grounds for the young of Melbourne, and ...

    Article : 188 words
  13. A BITTER DISA[?]TOINTMENT.

    In the autumn of 1797 the Jacobins came into power once more in France, and during the following winter their opponents were brought ...

    Article : 320 words
  14. "DEAD" SOLDIER SITS UP.

    One of the men of the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers, who reached Southampton recently from South Africa was Private M'Devet, who, though ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. EARLY NESTS.

    Everyone who is interested in Nature topics is accustomed to hearing every season of abnormally early nests. Here and there a pair ...

    Article : 538 words
  16. THE LATEST THING IN PINCE-NEZ.

    One of the latest things in pincenez consists of a pocket case of the now popular rimless glasses, the bridge-pieces being so fashioned ...

    Article : 191 words
  17. EARWIG HOLDS UP LONDON TRAFFIC.

    A British earwig is after the championship cup of the American mouse which recently put out the lights and stopped the electric ...

    Article : 214 words
  18. CONSERVING OUR FISH.

    Though the ocean wealth which teems at the very doors has only just been tapped, it is, nevertheless, not too early to take means to ...

    Article : 243 words
  19. THE DUC DE BERRI'S TWO MARRIAGES.

    The fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814 enabled the Bourbons, exiled since the execution of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, to re-enter ...

    Article : 266 words
  20. MUSICAL SAFES.

    Nowadays the safe thief must be a highly-trained expert. The Bill Sikes type of burglar has passed. Every year the work of the ...

    Article : 234 words
  21. WOMEN MOUNTAINEERS.

    Mountain-climbing as a sport is, it seems, one in which women to-day are attracting the most attention. In the Himalayas, the Andes, ...

    Article : 188 words
  22. AUSTRALIAN HOSPITALITY.

    Mr. Reichenbach, who has just com[?]leted his record cycle ride, speaks enthusiastically of the country and people of the Northern ...

    Article : 132 words
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