Articles from page 6: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT. THE. THUMB-PRINT,

    The Frenchman turned ghastly while, and sprang from his seat with an oath. The next instant he recollected himself, and reseated himself with a laugh that was ...

    Article : 2,237 words
  3. Spray.

    The "peony reading" is an institution that one thinks of as belonging to English provincial life for a gtwd many generations. It is curious to find that it was the ...

    Article : 93 words
  4. Two South Sea Thrills.

    While there at Bold harbour one day, the white missionary being absent, a great Save war canoe, chanting their weird war song, came sweeping round the point, ...

    Article : 256 words
  5. Short Story.

    Fifth-avenue was glittering in the November sunlight. In her tailor-made gown, built by the best man in London, Grace was a consonant atom in the ...

    Article : 1,663 words
  6. Effects of Climate.

    The low-lying level of Lincolnshire is accountable for a curious difficulty at Sleaford—namely, the absence of boys with choir voices. The Influence of a hilly ...

    Article : 69 words
  7. Rough on the Traveller.

    Humanitarian Tourist: "And what hns become of that funny little rabbit that used to gambol about your yard and stables last spring, Pat?" ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. How a Child's Life Was Saved.

    One knows what this means well enough. In hot war it means that if a chief allows his foot to rest on the defeated one's neck the man's life is safe, but he ls a slave for ...

    Article : 290 words
  9. Once Too Often.

    A thief had for weeks been stealing incandescent lamps in one of the Parisian theatres. An electrician caught him by arranging the wires so that when a lamp ...

    Article : 52 words
  10. A Fact!

    This is a story told of Mr. Thomas Whittaker, the temperance loader, who died at Scarborough the other day. On a visit to Cambridge he had to follow a speaker ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. To-day in the Soudan.

    One of the most remarkable facts, in connection with the development of the Soudan is die extraordinary manner in which Omdurmen has adopted European methods. The ...

    Article : 101 words
  12. A Window With a Grievance.

    For a Western, town, which was rather wild and woolly than otherwise, she was a very presentable woman in manner and attire, and when she came into the lawyer's ...

    Article : 538 words
  13. Wished He Hadn't Died.

    Miss Gushington (to young widow, whose husband has left a large fortune): "That is the fourteenth mou[?]ing costume I have seen you wear in three days, and each [?] and ...

    Article : 71 words
  14. As Valuable as Golf.

    The father was trying to impress upon his son, who wanted to play golf for exercise, that chopping wood would answer the purpose just as well. ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. Sayed by the Sign.

    A curious story of Freemasonry to being bold in connection with the disaster of Majuba Hill in the last Boer war. A slightly-wounded British commissariat officer ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. A Bear Story.

    Livonia is a part of our globe where fondness for pets co-exists with love of sport. A Russian subject from that province tells me of the strange consideration evinced by ...

    Article : 715 words
  17. A Cultured Prince.

    Prince Nicholas of Montenegro is a poet as well as a man of action. He writes dramas which have been acted in Cettin[?]e and translated into German and Italian. ...

    Article : 91 words
  18. The Pupils' E[?]ouse.

    A country pedagogue had two pupils, to one of whom be was partial, and to the other severe. One morning it happened that these two boys were late, and were called up to ...

    Article : 129 words
  19. Did Not Recognise the Game.

    An amusing stoty is told of a whist player who imagined himself an authority on game. After boring his friends with verbal comments, suggestions, and advioe upon the ...

    Article : 121 words
  20. Shakspeare and the Crowd.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 394 words
  21. CHAPTER XXIX.

    Long before the trumpets which heralded the approach of Her Majesty's Judges of Assize were heard sounding in the fresh autumu air, the court set apart for the ...

    Article : 1,297 words
  22. An Old Legacy.

    An old Bible was bought for a trifle at a London bookstall. The purchaser, an elderly lady, found pasted between the leaves four £6-notes, with a written statement to the ...

    Article : 54 words
  23. Prevention of Potato [?]

    Where this trouble has not been known, and smooth tubers free from scab are used for seed, there is not maoh liability to damage, but if the ground has at any time grown ...

    Article : 300 words
  24. A Smart Man.

    Captain the Hon. Hedworth Lambton, of H.M.S. Powerful, who with his naval brigade rendered such signal service to Sir. George White in Natal, may claim to be ...

    Article : 90 words
  25. A Dublous Compliment.

    A charwoman, who had once been in good service, was telling one of ber mistresses about the days of her splendour. "Ah, Lady Mary was a real lady," she said, using ...

    Article : 68 words
  26. Spoils of War.

    A company of the 3rd African French Battalion stationed at Ker (Tunis) has just enjoyed the most gigantic omelette ever made. At the request of the farmers in the ...

    Article : 89 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$