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... - C MRMEETING OF NANFFSHIRE BRANCH h M>INNES, FORDYCE, ON HIS DEFE;NCE . A general meeting of the Baniffhire Branch of ai the Educational Institute of Scotland took place 0. iin the Academy, Banif, on S~aturday. There was a large attendance, and Mr Stewart, Aberchirder, 0 presided. Mr George lanes, ?,I.A., Fordyce Pub- ii lie Sohool, who entered a little late, was greeted i! with vigorous ...

... I ABERDEEN UNITERS.ITY UNION. I The annual business meeting of the union was hold an Saturday-Mr Maurice Robertson, one of the vice-presidents, presidisig. Mr Leopold Profelt submitted the scorotiary's report, which detailed the trials and troubles incidentel to the operations of the first year, and expressed a fecliog of thankfulness that what the union has come throu4gh so successfully it ...

... DISTRICT NEWS, ! ~ABERDoUR3. pifa1i L[itsoAav.-The annual public meetingE ~fthe Public Library was held this week. There ofa good attendance. Rev. C- Birnie wias a~rnn The report showed that the books ^ enlargely read, and also that a good sdditioIn had been made to the collection, vwhiola w>^ numbers nearly 800 volumes. During the evrthe managers have purchased over 30 new : Eo5Ary an d over ...

... THE S.l. SALAMIS. This is a sketch of the steamer Salamis, which is to be Iammohed tovday, at 1.30, from Messrs HalU, Russell, and Company's yard for the Aberdeen Line. She is the largest vessel by about 1000 tone ever built at Aberdeen. THE OLD ULAWM1S. Aberdeen clipper of 1079 tons, built in Aberdeen in 18 5. ...

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... TO-.MOB1OClS ('s (n CI-L SlIt lvc'ES. Free Sm'tlth C'Ilrtlt-8, \Ir 'I'itld.wlasgow. Alitle Lectutire. Mliiclell 5 ev.15 Canion lg' C'lleged ('Impzl-ll.0, Icv. C'anon Aitiger. C'atfiedial--1. Verv Rev. Dr MacIca,d. (Gla.gowv o. ie*v. Drl .}Jaym>e2 ...

... DISTRICT . NEWS, A- AttbulaSce Clss: 0 A Home, - The nmbulance class, whioj; A taught xby Sur- geor Lieutemnnt Nicol, F during the pas, few montlhs under the i sit;. of D Compaiiy ,f tlie volunteers, was bro,% very plesant and happy termlnation by ais ntAtjinme in th yaubli, Hall the other eva;9s. ,fter tea, a piano duet, given by Masses Staili9s, s Sherriffs, opened the programme. The Fehf ...

... I I | REIE0TO RGLN RAILWAY | - Mr John Brown Barblay, who has been for many years sin charge' of the running department of the loomotive works of the.Highland Railway Company at Inverness,- has now retired from that position.'. A native of '1lnttrose, where he first saw the light in the 'year 1835, he served his ap- prenticeship in Dindee, and in September, 1855, came to Inverness, just as ...

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... TOO MUCHU SALT. In the western part of Oenrtral North America-well over towards the Pacific Coast, yet anot within some 500 miles of it-is tihe great SsltI Lake, one of the moost re- markable bodies of water on the globe. Comparing equili volires of water, it contains about twice as inuch salt as the owcnr. 01 course, it Is not availab:e for drinking. You can bathe In it if you wisi, first ...