*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 79705 *** CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE _Science and Arts_ * * * * * CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE _Science and Arts_ [Illustration: 1886] [Illustration] W. & R. CHAMBERS LONDON & EDINBURGH * * * * * Edinburgh: Printed by W. & R. Chambers. * * * * * [Transcriber’s Note: This cross reference of issue number to page number was provided by the transcriber. Issue Pages Date No. 105 1–16 January 2, 1886 No. 106 17–32 January 9, 1886 No. 107 33–48 January 16, 1886 No. 108 49–64 January 23, 1886 No. 109 65–80 January 30, 1886 No. 110 81–96 February 6, 1886 No. 111 97–112 February 13, 1886 No. 112 113–128 February 20, 1886 No. 113 129–144 February 27, 1886 No. 114 145–160 March 6, 1886 No. 115 161–176 March 13, 1886 No. 116 177–192 March 20, 1886 No. 117 193–208 March 27, 1886 No. 118 209–224 April 3, 1886 No. 119 225–240 April 10, 1886 No. 120 241–256 April 17, 1886 No. 121 257–272 April 24, 1886 No. 122 273–288 May 1, 1886 No. 123 289–304 May 8, 1886 No. 124 305–320 May 15, 1886 No. 125 321–336 May 22, 1886 No. 126 337–352 May 29, 1886 No. 127 353–368 June 5, 1886 No. 128 369–384 June 12, 1886 No. 129 385–400 June 19, 1886 No. 130 401–416 June 26, 1886 No. 131 417–432 July 3, 1886 No. 132 433–448 July 10, 1886 No. 133 449–464 July 17, 1886 No. 134 465–480 July 24, 1886 No. 135 481–496 July 31, 1886 No. 136 497–512 August 7, 1886 No. 137 513–528 August 14, 1886 No. 138 529–544 August 21, 1886 No. 139 545–560 August 28, 1886 No. 140 561–576 September 4, 1886 No. 141 577–592 September 11, 1886 No. 142 593–608 September 18, 1886 No. 143 609–624 September 25, 1886 No. 144 625–640 October 2, 1886 No. 145 641–656 October 9, 1886 No. 146 657–672 October 16, 1886 No. 147 673–688 October 23, 1886 No. 148 689–704 October 30, 1886 No. 149 705–720 November 6, 1886 No. 150 721–736 November 13, 1886 No. 151 737–752 November 20, 1886 No. 152 753–768 November 27, 1886 No. 153 769–784 December 4, 1886 No. 154 785–800 December 11, 1886 No. 155 801–816 December 18, 1886 No. 156 817–832 December 25, 1886 End of Transcriber Note.] [Illustration] INDEX. Familiar Sketches and Essays. Page An Angler’s Idyll, 49 An Old Tulip Garden, 525 Arachne and Melissa, 385 ‘Chop’ with King Ja-Ja, 433 Coaching-days, 321 Conscientious Money-spending, 229 Cottage Ideas, by Richard Jefferies, 289 Ethics of Housekeeping, 81 Finance without Funds; or, How to Float a Company, 257 Fortune, 286 Germanisation of America, 465 Hostess and Guest, 353, 379 Hygeia in the Dog-days, 481 Instinct and Reason, 248 John Hullah, 326 Just before Winter, by Richard Jefferies, 801 Life’s Golden Age, 97 Literary Endeavour, 65 Modern Slavery: a Word for Our Shop-assistants, 449 Money Lent! 447 Our Domesticated Otter, 53 Our Ways and Theirs, 545 Park Pearls, 561 Pleasures of Ruin, 758 Revolution Below-stairs, 28 Scottish Beadle Half a Century Ago, 209 The Old Priory Garden, 254 Two Evenings with Bismarck, 17, 86 ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Grant, 102 Unpopular Relationships, 293 What Career for Tom? 381 ‘Where Ignorance is Bliss,’ 344 Winds of Heaven, by Richard Jefferies, 497 Poetry. A Bright Day in November, 768 A Deserted Garden, 32 A Nurse, 672 A Retrospect, 736 A Song of Rest, 544 An Old ‘Chubb,’ 80 At the Mill, 320 At Waking, 64 Autumn Days, 608 Bird Notes, 336 Bonnie Dryfe, 48 By the River, 368 Dead Flowers, by Alexander Anderson, 256 Dolly, 144 Dream-fancies, 592 If this were so, 704 In the Distant Years, 800 ‘Let there be Light,’ 224 Lost at Sea, 528 Love’s Seasons, 720 Mehalah, 784 ‘Missing,’ 512 ‘None will miss Thee,’ 576 Parted, 208, 640 Persephoné, 160 Picciola, 560 Sketches, 384 Solitude, 624 Spoken in Anger, 288 Spring’s Advent, 192 Sweet Day of Days, 832 Sweetheart, Farewell, 496 The Gorse, 464 The Last Year, 272 The Lindsay’s Bridal, 416 The Minstrels, 432 The Mother’s Vigil, by Hugh Conway, 96 The Old Viking, 176 The Poet’s Treasures, 400 The Return, 240 The Two Seas, 816 This is All, 752 To a Cherry Blossom, 480 To a Lady, 656 Two Sonnets: Keats, 112 Which? 352 Who Knows? 688 Youth and Age, 448 Popular Science. Air as a Motive Force, 762 Cocaine, 145 Desert Dust, 6 Dew, a New Theory of, 350, 624 Earthquakes, Comrie, 351 Fissure Eruptions, 129 Fuel, Economy of, 748 Man-like Apes—and Man, 280 Mars, Life in, 369 Massage: a Mode of Medical Treatment, 593 Mineral Subsidence, 648 Mitis Metal, 527 MONTH, THE: Science and Arts— Pamir Region of Asia—Paraffin as a Successful Preservative—Artificial Fireproof Plaster—New Form of Lamp—Plan for Toughening Paper—‘Plumage League’—Fast Sailing Torpedo Boat—Torpedo Catcher—Gunnery Experiments—New Turning-lathe—Development of Leather Manufacture in Germany—Tea-cultivation in Natal—Lithographic Printing from Zinc Plates—Glazing without Putty, 76–79 Discovery of Roman Relics—Ancient Statue of Pharaoh found at Ramleh—Fall of Meteorites in India—Proposed Chart of the Stars—Earthquake in Cornwall—Thunderstorms—Typewriting Association—Machine for Repairing Wood-pavement—Weight of Salmon—Mersey Tunnel—Weight of Frozen Snow on Telegraph Wires—New Photographic Process—Freezing Wet Gravel—New Form of Stretcher—Preservation of Fish by Boracic Acid, 137–140 Phylloxera in the Vineyards of Cape Colony—Worms in Ice—Isthmus of Corinth Canal—Improved Method of Etching Metallic Surfaces—Stationary Buffer-stop for Railway Stations and Sidings—Gas Regulator—Purity of Aërated Waters—Acidulated Water as a Disinfectant—Successful Inoculations for Hydrophobia—The Microscope as a Criminal Detective Agent—Heating of Public Conveyances—Variations of Light emitted by Celestial Objects—Electric Alarm-bell for Railway Crossings—‘Whitebait’—Screw Forging Machine—Important Analysis of Prescriptions, 205–207 Cheapening of Aluminium—Petroleum Wells in Egypt—Photographing the Pleiades—Embryo Growth in a Bird’s Egg—New Refrigerator—Lighthouse Illuminants—Dentistry in America—Deterioration of Pictures by Exposure to Light—Revival of Pastel-work—Burmese Method of Working in Metals—Prevention of Cholera—Utilisation of London Refuse—Unexhibited Greek and Roman Sculptures—Artificial Reproduction of Trout, 268–271 Discovery of Ancient British Boat and Wooden Causeway—Christy Ethnographical Collection—The National Egg-supply—Oyster Spat—Tenacity of Life in Pike—Gas in Water-pipes—Petroleum Engine—New Uses for Cork—Extraction of Saccharin from Coal-tar—Balloon-signalling—Value of Basic Cinder as a Manure—Waterproof Paper and Ink—Utilisation of Skim-milk in the Manufacture of Cheese—Honey-wine, 347–350 Sanitary Furniture—Purity of Artificial Ice—Scarlatina Epidemic in London—New Method of Etching on Glass—Ocean Oil-well—Uses of Diatomite—Ferrous Sulphate a Preventive of Potato Disease—Damascening Metals by Electrolysis—Discovery of Old Roman and English Coins—The Electric Light at Paddington—Means of Escape from Suffocation by Smoke—Production of Solid Oxygen—Heat-value in Fuel—Mummy Wheat—Safety Cartridges for use in Fiery Mines, 411–414 Efficacy of Vaccination—The Transbaïkal Mineral Springs—Construction of an Observatory at Sonnblick—New Photographic Camera—New Military Shell—Origin of the Germ Theory of Disease—Fading of Water-colour Paintings—New Process for making Whitelead—Hay-loader—Discovery of Ancient Egyptian Palace—Safest Material for Road-paving—Snail Harvest in France, 492–495 Photographic Printing-blocks—Crematory Furnaces in Paris—Volcanic Eruption in New Zealand—Ancient Dentistry and Artificial Teeth—Remarkable Cases of Recovery from Bullet-wounds—New System of Coating Iron or Steel with Lead—Durability of Red-lead Paints—Upward’s Primary Battery—Fryer’s Refuse Destructor—Manufacture of Brick Tea, 555–558 India-rubber and Asbestos as additions to Armour-plating—Explosive Ice—Steel Sleepers for Railways—Slack Coal as Fuel for Boiler-firing—Repairing of Furnace-linings—Machine for making Wood-wool—An Axleless Wheel—Railway Foot-warmers—Cultivation of Tobacco in Kent—Creosote a Cure for Erysipelas—Machine for ‘withering’ Tea, 617–619 Non-efficiency of Toughened Glass—Dynamite as a Charge for Explosive Projectiles—Electric Boat—New Motive-power for Vessels—Marine Brake—Accident at the Crarae Quarries—Earthquake Predictions—Fertilising Effect of Volcanic Dust—Torpedo Experiments—Butterfly Procession—Woodbury Tissue—A Photographic Phenomenon—Completion of the Severn Tunnel, 701–703 Isthmus of Panama Canal—Colonial Woods—Instinct of Ants—The largest Photographic Negative—Preservation of Flowers—Effect of Light upon Eyeless Animals—Solder Alloy—Electric Safety-lamp—Disposal of Sewage—Sugar used in Making Mortar and Cement—Casting of Chains in Solid Steel—Deposition of Dust and Smoke by Electricity—Simplex Ironing Machine—A New Explosive—Continuous Wire-netting Machine, 764–767 Japanese Sanitarium—Careless Construction of Flues and Party-walls in Houses—M. Pasteur on his Treatment of Hydrophobia—A Petroleum Engine as a Motor for Torpedo Boats—Spent Dye Liquors used in the Manufacture of Writing-ink—Acclimatisation of Bavarian Fish in England—Successful Experimental Tobacco-growing at Sydenham—New Method of Preserving Polyzoa—Settle’s Safety-lamp and Water-cartridge—Technical Education in Britain—An American Dynamite Cruiser—Professor Hughes’s Microphone used for Detecting Leaks in Water-mains—A New Steam-valve—Petroleum Springs, 828–831 Nothing New, 737 Ordnance Survey, its Past and Future, 774 Plant-life, Influence of Habit in, 113 Prehistoric Man, 417 Sand, Musical, 427 Senses, the Evidence of the, 719 Shot-firing in Coal-mines, 149, 208, 271 Signalling at Sea, 33 Star-charting, Photographic, 732 Subaqueous Excursion, a, 30 Tales and Other Narratives. A Barrack Ghost Story, 140 A Dead Shot: an Incident in 1801, 717 A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.—By Charles Gibbon, 503, 522, 537, 552 A Gallant Rescue, 487 A GOLDEN ARGOSY, a Novelette.—By Fred. M. White, 8, 25, 42, 55, 71, 89, 105, 119, 134 A Humble Sprig of Nobility: a Red River Story, 666 A Trick at the Helm, 396 An Escort Adventure, 443 An Every-day Occurrence, 156 BY ORDER OF THE LEAGUE.—By Fred. M. White, 580, 595, 614, 628, 644, 660, 675, 693, 707, 724, 739, 756, 771, 788, 804, 819 Cousin George, 744, 759 David’s Son Solomon, 733 ‘Doubleworks:’ a Story of Athlone, 823 George Hannay’s Love Affair, 632, 650, 664, 681, 699 Great Jewel Robbery, 188 How I became a Convict, 13 How Pat Delaney paid his Rent, 490 IN ALL SHADES.—By Grant Allen, Author of _Babylon_, _Strange Stories_, &c. Chapter I., 1 Chapter II., 3 Chapter III., 21 Chapter IV., 36 Chapter V., 51 Chapter VI., 66 Chapter VII., 83 Chapter VIII., 99 Chapter IX., 101 Chapter X., 116 Chapter XI., 131 Chapter XII., 147 Chapter XIII., 163 Chapter XIV., 179 Chapter XV., 195 Chapter XVI., 197 Chapter XVII., 211 Chapter XVIII., 214 Chapter XIX., 227 Chapter XX., 244 Chapter XXI., 246 Chapter XXII., 261 Chapter XXIII., 276 Chapter XXIV., 278 Chapter XXV., 291 Chapter XXVI., 308 Chapter XXVII., 323 Chapter XXVIII., 340 Chapter XXIX., 357 Chapter XXX., 371 Chapter XXXI., 387 Chapter XXXII., 404 Chapter XXXIII., 420 Chapter XXXIV., 436 Chapter XXXV., 451 Chapter XXXVI., 453 Chapter XXXVII., 466 Chapter XXXVIII., 484 Chapter XXXIX., 499 Chapter XL., 516 Chapter XLI., 531 Chapter XLII., 547 Chapter XLIII., 563 Chapter XLIV., 584 Chapter XLV., 585 Chapter XLVI., 599 Chapter XLVII., 611 ‘In at the Death,’ 45 Irish Travelling Theatre, 201 Jack, the Bushranger, 414 Lady Frederick’s Diamonds, 540 Leopard Hunt, 601 Lottery of Death, 476 Miss Masterman’s Discovery, 712, 729 My Detective Experiences, 221 My First Patient, 331 Night in a Well, 158 Night in an Indian Hill-fort, 573 Night-raid on Donegal Smugglers, 170 Novel Adventure, 809 Ocean Mystery: a True Story, 301 Rebel-catching, 613 Sign of the _Red Indian_, 749 Signalman’s Love-story, 218, 231 Some Faroe Legends, 173 Spirited Away, 283, 296, 312 Strange Love Affair, 780 Tale of Naseby Field, 461 Tale of Two Knaveries, 567, 589, 604, 619 That Fatal Diamond: a Thief’s Confession, 110 The Denschman’s Had: a Legend of Shetland, 685 The Haunted Jungle: a Legend of North Ceylon, 152, 167, 183 The ‘Lady Godiva,’ 124 Treasure Trove, 361, 376, 391, 409 Wanted, a Clue, 776, 793 Was it Murder? 812 Where the Tracks led to, 424, 439, 458, 472 Will of Mrs Anne Bowden, 250, 264 Notices of Books. Aberdour and Inchcolme, by Rev. William Ross, LL.D., 272 Anthropoid Apes, by Professor Hartmann of Berlin, 280 Bryant and his Friends, by Mr James Grant-Wilson, 272 Canadian Tour, by the _Times_ Correspondent, 811 Chronicles of the Customs, by Mr W. D. Chester, 273 Coral Lands, by H. S. Cooper, 762 Dickensiana, a Compilation, by Mr Fred. G. Kitton, 272 From Tanyard to Whitehouse, by W. M. Thayer, 102 Life of John Hullah, by Mrs Hullah, 326 Nordenskjöld’s Studies and Researches in the Far North, by Professor Wittrock, 61 Reports on Destructive Insects, by Mr C. Whitehead, 671 The Coming Deluge of Russian Petroleum, by Mr Charles Marvin, 826 The Kilima-Njaro Expedition, by Mr H. H. Johnston, 161 The Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom, by Lieutenant-colonel T. P. White, 774 The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland, 144 Vice in the Horse, by Mr Edward L. Anderson, 272 Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment. A1 at Lloyd’s, 668 Absence of Mind, 240 African Mountains, the Monarch of, 161 After an Explosion, 510 Air as a Motive Force, 762 America, the Germanisation of, 465 American Children, Some Anecdotes of, 779 American Traits, 742 Americanisms, Some, 70 Ancient Spinner, an, 442 Angler’s Idyll, an, 49 Arachne and Melissa, 385 Army Panics, 631, 816 Artists, a Bone to Pick with, 223 Atlantic Voyage—as it Was and as it Is, 582 Avalanches, 571 Bank Guard, the Dublin, 373 Beadle, the Scottish, Half a Century Ago, 209 Bee-hunting, Wild-bees and, 534 Bees and Honey, 485, 768 Bi-metallism, 241 Birds at South Kensington, the, 415 Bismarck, Two Evenings with, 17, 86 Bleeding Heart Yard, 653 Blindness in the New-born, Prevention of, 316 Blockades and Blockade-runners, 401 Bread from the Bark of the Fir-tree, 319 Butterine, 109, 448 Camp, Holidays in, across the Atlantic, 529 Canadian Progress, Some Aspects of, 811 Canal Navigations, 199 Cats, Stories of, 791 Cave-hunting in Yorkshire, 657 Charity Organisation Society, London, 684 Children, American, Some Anecdotes of, 779 Children’s Play, 508 China Grass-cloth, 399 ‘Chop’ with King Ja-Ja, 433 Christmas in a Dâk Bungalow, 807 City Trees, Old, 358 Claimants to Royalty, 337 Cloudy Mountain, New Guinea, Ascent of, 405 Coaching-days, 321 Coal-mines, Shot-firing in, 149, 208, 271 Cobras, 526 Cocaine, 145 Colonial Farm-pupils, 118 Comrie Earthquakes, 351 Concise and to the Point, 639 Coracle, the, 378 Cottage Ideas, 289 Counsel and Solicitors, English, 539 Country Jottings, 519 County Cork, Holiday in, 236 Customs’ Officers and Wrecks, 134 Cycling as a Health-product, 558 Dâk Bungalow, Christmas in a, 807 Death-roll of Mont Blanc, the, 513 Death’s-heads, 431 Derwentwater, Floating Island on, 93 Desert Dust, 6 Destructive Insects, 671 Dew, a New Theory of, 350, 624 Diamond-smuggling, 820 Dog-days, Hygeia in the, 481 Dublin Bank Guard, the, 373 Dust and House Refuse, 166 Earthquakes, Comrie, 351 Egypt, Recent Notes from the Land of, 564 English Counsel and Solicitors, 539 Ethics of Housekeeping, 81 Every-day Occurrence, an, 156 Explosion, After an, 510 Fallacies, Popular Legal, 95, 215, 423, 715, 814 Farm-pupils, Colonial, 118 Faroe Legends, Some, 173 Finance without Funds; or, How to Float a Company, 257 Fir-tree, Bread from Bark of the, 319 Fishermen, the Herring-fishery and, 305, 328 Fissure Eruptions, 129 Fleet Street Marriages, 655 Floating Island on Derwentwater, 93 Flowers, Some Rustic Names of, 310 Fortune, 286 Foundling Quotations, 710 Fuel, Economy of, 748 Furs, the Land of, 39 Fyvie Castle, 334 Germanisation of America, the, 465 Gloving, 225 Gordon’s College, Technical Education at, 479 Grant, ‘Unconditional Surrender,’ 102 Grass-cloth, China, 399 Greek Gypsies at Liverpool, 577 Gretna Green and its Marriages, 193 Hayes, Captain—A Nineteenth-century Pirate, 762 Hedgehogs, 489 Herring-fishery and Fishermen, 305, 328 Holiday in County Cork, 236 Holidays in Camp, across the Atlantic, 529 Hops, Kentish, 663 Hostess and Guest, 353, 379 Housekeeping, the Ethics of, 81 Houses with Secret Chambers, 641 How to Prove a Will, 299 Hullah, John, 326 Hygeia in the Dog-days, 481 Indian Hill-fort, a Night in an, 573 Indian Ink, a Stick of, 187 Indian Servants, 202 Innkeeper and Guest, the Law of, 796 Inn-signs—their Origin and Meanings, 785 Insects, Destructive, 671 Instinct and Reason, 248 Investors and the Stock Exchange, 122 Ireland, Incidents of Rent-collection in, 799 Ivory Trade, the, 287 Jewel and Gem Rogueries, 501 Jottings, Country, 519 Just before Winter, 801 Kentish Hops, 663 Keys, Queen Victoria’s, 177 King Ja-Ja, ‘Chop’ with, 433 Lammas Revel, an Old, 475 Land of Furs, the, 39 Landslips, 635 Law of Innkeeper and Guest, the, 796 Legal Anecdotes, 74 Legal Fallacies, Popular— The Rights of the Eldest Son and other Children of an Intestate Owner of Real and Personal Estate, 95 Kissing the Book, 215 Underweight and Overweight, 216 Ignorance of Law and of Fact, 217 Lotteries and Art-unions, 423 Deeds of Gift and Wills, 715, 814 Legal Reform, a Possible, 255 Leopard Hunt, 601 Life’s Golden Age, 97 Lion-house at the Zoo, 470 Literary Endeavour, 65 Lizards, Some Pet, 454 Lloyd’s, A1 at, 668 London Charity Organisation Society, 684 Maldive Islands, 11 Man, Prehistoric, 417 Man-like Apes—and Man, 280 Manure, Peat as a, 239 Maoris’ Fight for Life, the, 673 Marriages, Fleet Street, 655 Marriages, Gretna Green and its, 193 Mars, Life in, 369 Marvellous, Truth in the, 625 Massage: a Mode of Medical Treatment, 593 Matterhorn, and its Victims, the, 689 Memory, Wonders of, 394 Mind, Absence of, 240 Mineral Subsidence, 648 Mitis Metal, 527 Monarch of African Mountains, 161 Money Lent! 447 Money-spending, Conscientious, 229 Mont Blanc, the Death-roll of, 513 MONTH, THE: Science and Arts, 76, 137, 205, 268, 347, 411, 492, 555, 617, 701, 764, 828 Musical Sand, 427 Napoleon in Tor Bay, 679 New Hebrides, Notes on the, 705 Night in an Indian Hill-fort, 573 Norman Stronghold, a, 365 Noses, 428 Nothing New, 737 OCCASIONAL NOTES— Americanisms, 31 Ancient Boat at Brigg, 496 ‘Army Panics,’ 816 Art-guild, a New, 736 Artillery Experiments, 127 ‘Atlantic Greyhounds,’ 815 Australia, Western, as a Settlement, 16 Automatic Railway Coupling, 63 Bees, Angry, 768 Big Undertakings, 608 Board of Trade Journal, the, 720 Boiler-feeder, a New, 208 Books, Some New, 272 Borax, 30 British-Colonial Teas, Increased Consumption of, 704 Butterine, Professor Sheldon on, 448 Canadian Pacific Railway, Travelling Arrangements on the, 767 Canadian Pacific Railway’s Western Terminus, 224 Caterpillars, Processionary, 368 Celery, the Cultivation of, 192 Chess-clock, a, 80 Clan Tartans, a Book of, 144 ‘Clergyman’s Sore Throat,’ 800 Co-operative Farming, an Experiment in, 480 Dairy Experiments, 144 Dentistry, the State’s Neglect of, 720 Deserted Wives, the Rights of, 559 Dew, Theories of, 624 Dickens, Charles, at Work, 64 Easter Sunday, 256 Electrical Experiments, M. Deprez’, 832 Electrical Furnace, an, 688 Electricity, Novel use of, 560 Emigrants’ Information Office, 704 Fish-culture, 112 Flax-culture, 559 Foreign Competition, 48 Fruit, Crystallisation of, 495 Gas Cooking-stoves, Extended use of, 63 Gold-fields, the West Australian, 543 Greece, Interesting Discoveries in, 511 Hessian Fly, the, 623 How Children Grow, 79 Hudson Bay Route from Canada to England, 271 Infant Band of Port Jackson, 144 Labour in Australia, Mr G. A. Sala on, 48 Light, a New, 47 Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, 512 Milk-diet for Infants, 831 Mission to Deep-sea Fishermen, 528 Monte Carlo, Some Facts about, 128 Motors, Small, 143 Petroleum Industry, Present Position of the, 495 Pharaoh’s House, 703 Photographic Experiments, Novel, 80 Plastering made Easy, 64 ‘Poor Jack,’ 32 Railway Travelling, Safety in, 79 Relics of Ancient Carthage—Mosaics, 496 Roosen Method of Preserving Fish, 207 Salmon-trap, a Natural, 32 Sea-going Fishing Lifeboat Vessels, 128 ‘Ship-canal,’ Another, 752 Ship-canal of Corinth, the Great, 576 Shot-firing in Coal-mines, 208, 271 Sphinx, the Great, 560 Stanhope Gold Medal, the, 320 Tea, the Consumption of, 480 Telegraphic Wires, Overhead, 768 Veterinary College, Royal, 544 Woodite, 767 Wood-pulp, 831 ‘On Guard’ at Windsor Castle, 769 Ordeal, Trial by, 363 Ordnance Survey, its Past and Future, 774 Otter, Our Domesticated, 53 Our Ways and Theirs, 545 Oxford, Rowing at, 234 Panics, Army, 631, 816 Park Pearls, 561 Parliamentary Titbits, 318 Peat as a Manure, 239 Pet Lizards, Some, 454 Petroleum, Russian, 826 Photographic Star-charting, 732 Pig Pen, the, 432 Pirate, a Nineteenth-century, 762 Pitmen, Past and Present, 696 Plant-life, Influence of Habit in, 113 Portable Theatre, the, 721 Postal Work, a Year’s, 609 Prehistoric Man, 417 Priory Garden, the Old, 254 Prize System, the Modern, 389 Proverbs, French and English, 263 Provincialisms, Ulster, 597 Queen Victoria’s Keys, 177 Quotations, Foundling, 710 Racing Rogueries, 726 Reason, Instinct and, 248 Rebel-catching, 613 Relationships, Unpopular, 293 Rent-collection in Ireland, Incidents of, 799 Revolution Below-stairs, 28 Rogueries, Jewel and Gem, 501 Rowing at Oxford, 234 Royalty, Claimants to, 337 Ruin, the Pleasures of, 758 Russian Petroleum, 826 Salmon Angling, a Few Words on, 107 Sand, Musical, 427 Scottish Beadle Half a Century Ago, 209 Sealskin Coats, Alive and Dead, 753 Secret Chambers, Houses with, 641 Senses, the Evidence of the, 719 Shop-assistants, a Word for Our, 449 Shot-firing in Coal-mines, 149, 208, 271 Sickroom Fire, the, 224 Signalling at Sea, 33 Silk Gown, What goes to the making of a, 575 Similes, Some, 367 Slavery, Modern: a Word for Our Shop-assistants, 449 Smoking and Snuffing in Church, 429 Smuggling, Past and Present, 273 Snow-blossom, 61 Solicitors, English Counsel and, 539 South Kensington, the Birds at, 415 Spinner, an Ancient, 442 Star-charting, Photographic, 732 Station No. 4, 438 Stock Exchange, Investors and the, 122 Subaqueous Excursion, a, 30 Subsidence, Mineral, 648 Swimming, 587 Technical Education at Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 479 ‘Telegraphed,’ 550 Theatre, the Portable, 721 Theatre, the Unseen Regions of a, 817 Titbits, Parliamentary, 318 Tobacco-cultivation, 342 Tobacco-culture in Scotland, 827 Tom? What Career for, 381 Tor Bay, Napoleon in, 679 Trees, Old City, 358 Trial by Ordeal, 363 Truth in the Marvellous, 625 Tulip Garden, an Old, 525 Turquoise, the, 181 Ulster Provincialisms, 597 ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Grant, 102 Weeds, 478 Whale-hunt in the Varanger Fjord, 22 ‘Where Ignorance is Bliss,’ 344 Whiteboys of Sixty Years Ago, 637 Wild-bees and Bee-hunting, 534 Will, How to Prove a, 299 Winds of Heaven, 497 Windsor Castle, ‘On Guard’ at, 769 Winter, Just before, 801 Wonders of Memory, 394 Wrecks, Customs’ Officers and, 134 Yorkshire, Cave-hunting in, 657 Zoo, Visits to the, 470 [Illustration] * * * * * [Transcriber’s note—the following changes have been made to this text. Chub to Chubb—“An Old ‘Chubb’.”] *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 79705 ***