... gift of toys and scrap-books, which have been distributed among the fifty-nine branches of the scciety. The Rev. Canon Haig Brown, LL.D., the new Master of the Charterhouse, is lying seriously ill a his residence, Godalming, suffering from acute rheumatism ...

... Queen has a large number of scrapbooks filled with newspaper cuttings and handsomely bound. This department ii superintended by her secretary, who obtains from the Press cutting agencies all the paragraphs which appear in the world's Press concerning Her Majesty ...

... condensation of the steam employed in the engines, recourse is had to what are called engine -dams, or ponds, into which the water from the steam-engine is thrown for the purpose of being cooled. In these dams, the average temperature of which is about eighty ...

... leading journal” in tht- days Delane ; and he has preserved in a scrap-book ail tbeecraps—and they were mostly the veriest scraps, but the point—of instructions for leaders which got from his great chief. —Pall Mail Gazette, The poem by Oliver Wendell ...

... (just published), from which the following is an extract:— Queries proposed by Society of Arts, March Bth, 1853.—The following is an abstract of the replies received to the circular« issued on this subject, from which it appears that—From institutions in ...