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  2. SCIENTIFIC.

    There is no doubt that the present time constitutes a crisis in the history of telegraphy. Three entirely different inventions are put forward to supersede the comparatively ...

    Article : 2,713 words
  3. ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    At the meeting of this Society, held on Tuesday, April 5, there was a moderate attendance of members, Mr. Thomas D. Smeaton occupying the chair in the absence of the ...

    Article : 468 words
  4. POINT LACE.

    In these days when the rage for cut needlework is so great, a short account of one of the most delicate and artistic of all the various manufactures which can be wronght out with a ...

    Article : 674 words
  5. LADIES' COLUMN.

    The report that "crinoline" is again to come into fashion has been current in London. The rumour is due to the fact that the Parisiennes and other elegants wear stiff muslin flounces ...

    Article : 665 words
  6. COMING COMETS.

    Two magnificent comets are prognosticated for this year (1881) by an Indian writer, who, according to the Times of India, announces that these heavenly bodies will be ...

    Article : 92 words
  7. MUSEUM OF ECONOMIC BOTANY.

    This Museum, which has recently been finished, forms an important and valuable addition to the Botanic Gardens. The building was described in detail some weeks ...

    Article : 308 words
  8. THE CHANT OF THE CHAPERON.

    I am old. and I'm bound to confess that I'm grey, And the talk of the ballroom seems vapid and thin; Yes, I queen'd It myself, but I've long had my day, ...

    Article : 243 words
  9. AN AUSTRALIAN ZOOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY.

    Baron N. de Miklonho Maclay, the Russian naturalist, whose scientific labours and explorations in New Guinea have been successfully prosecuted under circumstances which would ...

    Article : 474 words
  10. A RUNAWAY MATCH ON THE OHIO.

    A romantic incident closely resembling in its' details the story of "Lord Ullin's Daughter, " occurred recently at Maysville, Kentucky. Maysville is on the Ohio.River; and ...

    Article : 412 words
  11. CHILDREN'S COLUMN.

    "Mother, can I have a birthday?" "A birthday?" asked Mrs. Keaney, pausing in the midst of her washing, and looking down, half-bewildered, half-amused, at her little ...

    Article : 1,752 words
  12. FINE ARTS.

    A collection of carefully selected oil and other paintings, brought out from England by Mr. C. Clarke, has been on view in the Adelaide Town Hall, and will repay ...

    Article : 526 words
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