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  2. Kelly Gang Story.

    How it is that the memory of the Kelly gang of bushrangers is still kept green is an interesting social problem. These outlaws outraged the laws of property and committed ...

    Article : 1,772 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,176 words
  4. Pith and Point.

    Gold is yellow only by reflected light. The river dolphin of South America has 222 teeth. A species of white ant produces 86,4[?] ...

    Article : 715 words
  5. Spray.

    Among the self-imposed duties of the Princes Victoria when she was but 7 years old was that of watering the flowers under the window of the Duke of Susser's rooms in ...

    Article : 77 words
  6. Explained

    Stranger: "You are the only gentleman in the room." Guest : "In what way, sir ?" Stranger : "When I tripped in the once ...

    Article : 65 words
  7. Nearly the Same.

    "Mamle, I hear that you are going to enter the lecture field." "The idea! I am engaged to be married, Minnie." "Well, I knew it was something of the sort," returned Minnie. ...

    Article : 39 words
  8. Cause of the Kettle's Song.

    People often wonder what makes the high note of a simmering tea kettle, but the explanation is simple. As the water heats little bubbles of steam are formed at the ...

    Article : 66 words
  9. And Still Dreaming.

    "Isn't old man Brown a good deal of a [?]ssimist?" "Him! He's an optimist of the optimists. There's a man that went through the ...

    Article : 43 words
  10. The Pyramid Builders.

    The labourers who built the pyramids did not work under such disadvantages as have long since been attributed to them. Recent research shows that they had solid and ...

    Article : 51 words
  11. Couldn't Be Divided.

    In Felix Moscheles's "Fragments of an Autobiography" occurs the following :— Madame Schumann was wanted to play at a little musical reunion, but she did not ...

    Article : 117 words
  12. How Room Was Made.

    A little black-syed and nimble-tongued [?]h street car conductor In Dublin came into the car and called out in his peculiarly penetrating voice: ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. SEED WHEAT FOR FARMERS.

    IN view of the fact that this season there will practically be no wheat grown on the Darling Downs, the question of providing seed wheat for next year's sowing will be ...

    Article : 175 words
  14. No Good in Either.

    In a rural justice court a darkey, charged with hog-stealing, was asked if he had anything to say. "Only dis, sub," he replied, ...

    Article : 89 words
  15. Rectifying an Omission.

    This is how the editor of the Bristol(Va.) "News" squares himself with a prominent citizen :—"In our write-up on Monday of the Walker-Hamilton shooting affray on ...

    Article : 77 words
  16. WOOGAROO LUNATIC ASYLUM.

    THE following is the report of the state of the above Hospital for the Insane for the week ended on the 25th ultimo :—Admitted since last report, one male and four females; ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. A Lost Opportunity.

    "I hear you have a little sister at your house ?" said a grocer to a small boy. "Yes, sir," replied Johnny. "Do you like her ?" was the grocer's next ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. Life as a Dressmakers' Model.

    A lady has been making some inquiries with respect to the employment of model by London dressmakers. "What do I earn? Why, about 15s. a ...

    Article : 341 words
  19. THE MINISTER AND THE WHALE.

    SIR WILLIAM LYNE(says the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph") has just been out on a torpedo-boat endeavouring to capture a whale. The boat with the ...

    Article : 225 words
  20. How to Save a Drowning Man.

    IN "Outing" for August Mr. Alexander Meffert tells us how to go about saving a drowning person. In the first place, he shows that the direct danger of cramp-seizure ...

    Article : 410 words
  21. Disappointment.

    Two youngsters were observed on North-terrace. Adelaide, a few weeks ago earnestly gazing at the beautiful statue of Venus recently erected there. ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. [?] It.

    "There said the young wife proudly us she deposited the hot plate carefully on [?]b[?]e. "That's the first mince-pie I [?]made without any help, all by myself." ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. [?] Lo[?]

    [?]seem to have discharged your new typewriter." "Yes, she played me a nice trick," "How did it happen?" ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. Why People get Married.

    Though it is very common to reproach old Bachelors with their celibacy, and to p[?] old maids as if "slugle blessedness" were a misfortune, y[?] mar[?]ed people have ...

    Article : 235 words
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    A political candidate on paying a second visit to the house of a doubtful voter of the peasant class, was very pleased, but somewhat surprised, on hearing from the ...

    Article : 145 words
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