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  2. Protection or Free Trade?

    Protective tariffs differ from revenue tariffs their object, which is not so much that of obtaining revenue as that of protecting home producers from the competition of ...

    Article : 2,753 words
  3. OUR LITERARY HOLIDAY MINCEPIE.

    In the correspondence columns of the favourite periodical at. Nicholas a young contributor recently suggested a game of Pictures and Guesses, a good deal simpler than the ...

    Article : 2,433 words
  4. The Riddler.

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  5. JACK PLANE AND HIS SPOUSE.

    Mrs. Gimlet had a most beautiful daughter —too beautiful, as Mis. Brown, het next door neighbour, remarked to the butcher. Gimlet had oork[?]crewous ringlets ...

    Article : 325 words
  6. RECTUS IN CURIA.

    November 26 venus set at 10.28 p.m. This was the latest time this beautiful planet remained above the horizon during the twenty to date. (See Weekly Calendar ...

    Article : 512 words
  7. THE GENERAL ELECTION.

    It would be idle to speculate on the issue the elections. The Liberals are confident of obtaining a majority. They may sustain losses some of the English boroughs, and they will ...

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  8. THE MEN AT HERGOTT.

    Sir—I have read Dr. Whittell’s report re Hergott with much interest, and was more especially moved with the touching complaints about bread. At one place a poor ...

    Article : 309 words
  9. MR. W. J. THOMPSON AND YOUNG PERSONS' PROTECTION BILL,

    Sir—Who in the world is " W. J. Thompson, Toronto-street, Ovingham?" Reading matter being rather scarce here, it Is quite a treat to read two letters in one newspaper from " W. ...

    Article : 512 words
  10. THE OLD GUMTREE.

    On the summit of a mountain Stood a gumtree all alone, Stretching forth its arms gigantic, Wailing in a plaintive tone. ...

    Article : 225 words
  11. ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS PUBLISHED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 394 words
  12. TOO LITERAL.

    Some men are too fond of what they miscall “reasoning by analogy.” Say they— “Because fish are found in the water of a river, therefore they ought to be discovered ...

    Article : 386 words
  13. A CURIOUS OPTICAL ILLURION.

    Place the forefingers in a straight line, touching each other at the ends. Close the other fingers. Look steadily at some fixed object 10 or 12 feet away. Then, without ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. IX,—BOUNTIES BAD, BUT TARIFFS WORSE.

    In urging the bounty system as a better means for the encouragement of industry than protection, I do not forget that from the bounties given in the colonial days for the ...

    Article : 923 words
  15. ORIGINAL CONUNDRUMS.

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  16. AN UNJUST CASE.

    Sir—Yesterday a man entered my house with a bill for water rates alleged to be due by a Mr. Taplin, who formerly occupied the house I now live in. I said I was wiling to ...

    Article : 439 words
  17. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    “ Scorpio. —Your poetic effusion is respectfully declined. Send it to the Editor of the Government Gazette. “Fritz Hans Gottlei[?] Stillachweigen von ...

    Article : 469 words
  18. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.

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  19. A CAPITAL CONJURING PARLOUR TRICK.

    Borrow a sixpence of some one of the company. Request him to mark it so that he may know it again. Let any of the company examine it. Having received it yourself, ...

    Article : 397 words
  20. CONGLOMERATIONS.

    Our readers were invited to supply for publication “conglomerations,” in accordance with the following conditions; —1 The poems may be on any subject and in any measure. 2 The selected words. ...

    Article : 314 words
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