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A PIG-IRON FAMINE

... the various iron centres. What this means South Staffordshire will best illustrate. Thirty years ago the Black Country sky at night was lurid with the light from scores of furnaces, nearly all of which have since been swept aWay. The district now has ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1900
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OPERETTA IN ARBROATH

... Geddee), wore pink robe, covered with a diaphanous gauze drapery. ** too dim for green, too luminous for grey, is the sky when night and morning meet. Silver Dawn she called herself in her tuneful opening song and recitative. The fairies surrounding ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1901
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 451 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OPERETTA IN ARBROATH

... Geddesi, wore a ro3e pink robe, covered with a diaphanous drapery. too dim for green, too luminous for grey, as is the sky when night and morning meet. Silver Dawn she called herself in her tuneful opening song and recitative. The fairie3 surrounding ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1901
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 431 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Can You Foretell the Weather? The countryman is invariably regarded as a safe weather prophet, but there are ..

... there are few people who take the trouble consider the reason for this. Most of glibly repeat such doggerel rhymes A red sky at night the shepherd's delight, &0., and then as glibly explain that the secret of rustic weather knowledge is instinct—all instinct ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1902
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 397 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE NEW YEAR

... a year. As the earth goes round its orbit one constellation after another passes behind the sun, and the aspect of the sky at night gradually changes, till after a year the stars reach again their original positions. The first astronomers—priests in Chaldea ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1905
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1091 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A Letter for the Mothers

... and white and fair Help answer mother's prayer, That, her men rest snug and sound While the wheels of night round. I went up there, years ago, Every night, I loved so, And I wish 1 knew way L p there still at close day. —Youth's Companion. A BOY'S pocket; ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1907
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1435 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... having been over a road once rarely makes mistake his turning, either night or day. becomes familiar with the weather signs. He can tell you what the red sky at night and the red sky in the morning betokens. He knows the meaning of lowflying swallows and ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1907
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1894 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

OUR READERS EXCHANGE PRIZES EVERY WEEK FOR BEST PARACRAPHS,

... at the residual rays, in which red predominates. Hence the beautiful red sky 1n the morning ' and “red sky at night.,” The more water particles in the atmosphere the redder the sky, provided that the water particles do not form clouds.—Hugh Griffiths, 34 ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1908
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1365 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Economy can overdone, even -when it seems absolutely necessary. The penniless future often looms so ..

... the beach night when clouds are flying, and the giant star, Jupiter, rises in a clear, transparent gap between them; to watch the brown halo in the sky clasping the patient, sleepless moon—these are pleasures that belong to the wide sky of night; they tell ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1908
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1491 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOW TO GRAIN WOOD

... away. Now the moon shines to-night on pretty Red Wing, The breezes glgh.infi the night birds crying, For afar, ‘meath his star, her brave is sleeping, While Red Wing's weeping her heart away. She searched for him day and night; She kept all the camp fires ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1910
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1167 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PROFIT AND LOSS FROM A SINGLE CHAMBER GOVERNMENT

... the sun and moon appear to move across the sky from oast west, and necessarily the stars also appear to move in like manner. If, therefore, a camera is fixed rigidly one position, pointing to the sky at night, the stars will impress themselves upon the ...

Published: Friday 20 May 1910
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 616 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BOOKS AND THEIR PUBLISHERS

... surrounds are taught from observa ion of and meditation the growth a reo. the operations the sp-der, th-e, glories the sky at night, unti. one ■asily and natural.y to g '^ s the fact that here must someth:ng beyond toe world >f sense. Mr Shepheard terse ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1910
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2532 | Page: 7 | Tags: none