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  2. THE STREET KAFFIR.

    We are of those who recognise and uphold the doctrine of a fair, humane, and equitable treatment of a follow-mortal. It matters not in the least to us whether ...

    Article : 1,021 words
  3. THE LAND.

    A feature of the Hobart Agricultural Show, which opens on 15th April, is the sugar beet competition. For the best acre of sugar beet grown in Tasmania, ...

    Article : 1,329 words
  4. THE DEFORMITY OF NINE TEENTH CENTURY LIFE.

    Unless the man of genius buries himself resolutely in the country and by the sea, as Tennyson did, as Clausen does, he cannot altogether escape the influence of ...

    Article : 695 words
  5. OPENING A WHISKY MINE.

    One foggy morning, just at about dawn, in August, 1865 (says the "St. Louis Globe"), the steamboat Twilight was making her way cautiously up the ...

    Article : 1,754 words
  6. BAD LANGUAGE.

    "Procul, O procul estc, profani."—VIRGIL. Why are not the Professors of Strong Language driven by repeated ...

    Article : 729 words
  7. THE HAUNTED HOUSE.

    Tis hard for human actions to account, Whether from reason or from impulse only—But some internal prompting bade me mount ...

    Article : 640 words
  8. A NOTABLE ADVERTISER.

    Silly people sneer at what they call the world's respect for riches: but the world is not so unreasonable, after all. The object of nine hundred and ninety-nine ...

    Article : 419 words
  9. GOLD UNDER THE LAVA.

    The great lava flow covers a section of country in Idaho four hundred miles in length by forty to sixty miles in width. It lies in the south-eastern part of the ...

    Article : 558 words
  10. THE WAR CLOUD.

    There is something striking in the quiet business-like manner in which the country is just now getting ready for a possible war, which, should it break ...

    Article : 1,034 words
  11. IN THE BOWERY.

    I went into a bowery saloon and sat down at a table to sip a glass of beer and have a glance at the comers and goers. A hard-looking young man, who also ...

    Article : 672 words
  12. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND FUEL.

    In 1868 gas was first employed as fuel. Moscow was first lighted by gas in 1866. Sydney, in Australia, was first lighted ...

    Article : 530 words
  13. CELEBRITIES.

    Dr W. G. Grace, the great English cricketer, has put the live thousand pounds of his shilling testimonial into an endowment insurance policy payable ...

    Article : 507 words
  14. THIS BURNING TREE OF BURMAH.

    There has lately been added to the collection of plants at the Botanic [?] dens at Madras, India, a specimen of a strange tree. It is in size scarcely more ...

    Article : 358 words
  15. THE QUEEN'S TASTES,

    Her Majesty has, during recent mouths, being busily reading the works of various poets, beginning with those of Mr Henley. The great lady positively ...

    Article : 261 words
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