At The Last Meeting Of The Royal Society, Professor Tyndall
reed an interesting paPer in connexion with the sub- ject of spontaneous generation, in which he showed that repeated heatings for a short time destroy the living germs from......
The Candidates Who Seemed Likely To Dispute, At The Best
ad- vantage, the Oxford Professorship of Poetry with Principal Shairp, of St. Andrew's, namely, Mr. Palgrave, the accomplished poet, editor, and critic, and Mr. Courthorpe,......
The " Annexation " Of The Transvaal Appears To Have
been accomplished very easily. Sir T. Shepstone, after issuing his pro- clamation, appointed himself, under authority from the Queen, Administrator of the State, abolished the......
A Remarkable Man, Possibly A Man Of Genius, Though Some
may probably think him subject to strange delusions, died at Nice last week, and as far as we know, no English paper has yet made men- tion of his death. Every one knows how for......
The Most Recent Report By Mr. C. V. Riley On
the insects of the State of Missouri contains new and rather alarming news of that uncommonly formidable little emigrant, the Colorado beetle, whose qualities as an invader Sir......
It Must Not Be Forgotten, In Considering The Chances Of
a French coup d'jtat, that the Dim Decazes has consented to remain in the Cabinet. Though not a Liberal in the French sense, he is as Liberal as an average English Tory, and......
It Is A Curious Thing To Find A Wreck Due,
not to the ship striking a rock, but to a rock striking the ship, yet this is what seems to have happened in the case of the iron screw steamer Knight Templar,' which, on......
Mr. Samuel Fielden, Of Todmorden, Is A Little Horrified At
the confidence with which Lord Beaconsfield is credited in some quarters with one of the chief shares in that beneficent Factory legis- lation in which Mr. Fielden's father took......
Consols Were On Friday 95-1.
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