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  2. LITERARY NOTES.

    Admiral Keppel records in “A Sailor’s Life .Under Four Sovereigns”, that in 1826 he sat on a court-martial, when the captain of the Ariadne was tried for having ...

    Article : 1,478 words
  3. THAT VIXEN NANCY.

    SADIE'S ACCIDENT [?] Pause, friend, are you frown, for do you not know ? Old heads do not on young shoulders grow [?] ...

    Article : 3,176 words
  4. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    Everyone is now familiar with the extraordinary brilliancy of the light emitted by the Welsbach burner, but the explanation of its efficacy as a light-giver has, till ...

    Article : 408 words
  5. MUSIC, ART AND DRAMA.

    Mr. Sims Reeves reckons that by not fulfilling engagements (through colds, etc.), he has lost during his career £8O,OOO. A dryness or tickling in the throat, with an ...

    Article : 1,446 words
  6. An Anti-Toxin Story.

    The Practitioner of February gives another of the admirable short stories, with which it endeavors to lighten the dulness of medical literature—this time dealing with ...

    Article : 578 words
  7. RELIGION AND TEMPERANCE

    The Rev, C. Perry has commenced duty as curate of Christ Church, South Yarra. The Rev. W. R. Fitchcet, B.A., son of the Dean of Dunedin, N.Z., is acting as curate ...

    Article : 1,241 words
  8. THE VALUE OF SUGAR AS FOOD.

    In an interesting paper recently published on the value of sugar as a food as compared with fat, M. Auguste Chauveau maintains that its nutritive value is considerably ...

    Article : 204 words
  9. Therc Were Two.

    Here is a story told of Patrick O’Mara, a private in the Ninth Regulars:—Not long ago he went to the colonel, who was a severe disciplinarian, for a two weeks’ leave of ...

    Article : 429 words
  10. PROTECTIVE COLOR.

    Without a careful consideration of the case and by experiment it is not at all easy to determine what colors are of use to an animal as a means of rendering it inconspicuous. The ...

    Article : 282 words
  11. MICA.

    Few minerals in common use nowadays are of greater value than mica. Whether os an insulating material for dynamo commutator bars, or for the manufacture of ...

    Article : 298 words
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  13. CEREBRAL LODES.

    The position which the soul, as representing the highest intellectual faculties, occupies in the human body has recently been discussed in the pages of Science” by Dr. ...

    Article : 111 words
  14. HOW CANON FARRAR BECAME A TOTAL ABSTAINER.

    "One day a gentleman addicted to hard drinking was seated in the smoking-room of an hotel when a dog walked in. The drinker gave a violent start, and shrank back in his ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. ECLIPSE.

    There will be a total solar eclipse on 28th Mar, 1900, plainly visible in Spain, Portugal and Algiers. Speaking of the prospects at the British Astronomical Association, Mr. ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. ALCOHOL DISTURBS JUDGMENT.

    One cause of drunkenness is the fact that after the first glass a man has not his usual cool judgment as to a glass, still loss after the second as to the wisdom of taking ...

    Article : 63 words
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