THE TRADE IN HUMAN HAIR
... THE fashion of head adornment adopted by ladies has lately undergone considerable modification. False tresses are now worn on a much more limited scale than formerly, the evi ...
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LUMBERING IN CALIFORNIA
... LUMBERING IN CALIlORNIA TiIt timber trade-or lumber trade as the Americans call it- if Truckce, California, has grown from small beginnings. In iS6.1 1 small saw mill with an improved water wheel, ?? ...
RURAL NOTES
... 1 RumRAL NOTES i. 1 . I, - ?? NEW CORN.--The supplies of this year's English grain are still very small, but sufficient has been offered at the markets to enable us to form a definite opinion upon the ...
The Secret of the Strait: The Aicaragua Canal
... Zhc ccurt of the SttaiIt: Z he ficavagua Lanal By ARCHIBALD ROSS COLOUHOUN Gold M#dallist, Royal Geographical Society; Assoc. Mem, Inst. G.E.; ?? ?? author of 'Across Chryse, &e. THE question ot new ...
Target-Practice at Sea
... zargetvractlife at Act THE need for habituating the crew to gun-practice at a floating target is, of course, woell understood, but at the same time there are some people in the ship who scarcely look ...
A FLOWER MARKET
... A FLOIVER AMARKET 'FLOWER-SELLING is a very prosaic process in England. There is a severe air of business about even our best nursery-grounds and conservatories. And the people who vend these fairest ...
A BANKER'S NOTES
... A BANK.ER&'S NOTES III. SCOTCH thrift and Scotch banking react favourably on each other. The proverbially thrifty people have long ago discovered that, despite exceptional smashes, there is no safer p ...
THE COLUMBIA FISH MARKET
... THIE COLUMBIA FISH MARKET IT is an important event which is commemorated in the accompanying engraving-nothing less than the first sale of fish in the new market which has been established as a rival ...
The Stock Exchange Point=to=Point Races
... LC to ch ex ancll'y voillt~t ot oillt I I' THE members of tha Stock Exchange held their annual point-to- point races at Aylesbury on Saturday last, Lord Rothschild having kindly intimated to the stewa ...
THE IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE
... THE Iron and Steel Institute, although a very vigorous and influential, is still a comparatively juvenescent body. It was founded in 869, to afford a means of communicati ...
MONEY TO LEND
... MONE Y TO LEND MAODERN life involves a highly complicated struggle, in which the proportionof prizes to competitors is ever ?? less, and in which wealth is the most important aid. In this struggle the ...
THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE—WELL-KNOWN FACES IN THE CONSOL MARKET
... THE LON DON STOCK EXCHANGE-W DfHAWN F ELL-KNOWN FACES 7ROM LIFE BY LOCKHART BOGLE IN THE CONSOL MARKET TRlE CONSOL MALRKETE IT is a fact not generally known, that the two great institutions which are ...