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CHAMBERS’S JOURNALOF Science and Arts
CHAMBERS’S JOURNALScience and Arts
1886
W. & R. CHAMBERS
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Edinburgh:
[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.]
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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
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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
{vii} 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
{viii} 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
[Transcriber’s note—the following changes have been made to this text.
Chub to Chubb—“An Old ‘Chubb’”.]
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