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  2. TIMBER MINES.

    Men emloyed in driving a new gallery in a gold-mine at Charlotte Plains, in Victoria, have made a most astonishing, discovery. At ...

    Article : 315 words
  3. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    A letter posted in London fifteen years ago has just been delivered to a Portsmouth trad [?]man, who, failing to observe the date, proceeded to ...

    Article : 138 words
  4. ARE YOU A GOSSIP ?

    Are your neighbours gossips ? Yes, certainly they are But before telling Mrs. Brown across the way that she is a gossip you had better ...

    Article : 236 words
  5. "LINEN KING" OUTLINES HIS PLANS.

    There were a round dozen of them -round as to figure as well as figures--typical City men whose every slightest movement was ...

    Article : 1,554 words
  6. 189 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.

    In the Central Prison at Constantinople, Colonel W. Nickerson, of the Army Medical Corps, has just found a girl who had served three years of ...

    Article : 202 words
  7. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Sharpe:"I see you are mentioned in one of the books just published." Prim:"Indeed ! What book ?" "The dictionary." ...

    Article : 293 words
  8. OLD-TIME PROFITEERING.

    Victims of merchants' greed have [?]gested all kinds of punishments, [?]g hanging or boiling oil, for pr[?] ...

    Article : 135 words
  9. MILLIONS KILLED BY RATS.

    Forty million pounds' worth of damage is done in England every year by rats. There is, however, an even more appalling feature of the ...

    Article : 223 words
  10. "NUMBER, PLEASE!"

    Recent developments in the telephone world are not generally known and are far from understood, except by those intimately concerned with ...

    Article : 653 words
  11. DREARIEST RAILWAY JOURNEY.

    When the projected trans-Australian line from Oodnadatta to Port Darwin is completed the traveller on it will be confronted with what will ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. SIXTEEN EGGS A DAY !

    From sixteen hens ? No, from one lien ! And thirteen of the eggs were laid before a witness who has sworn on oath, in the presence of a judge, ...

    Article : 252 words
  13. WORSE AND WORSE.

    Miss Greene had been invited to be a bridesmaid at quite a smart wedding, and spent much time in planning her new frock. ...

    Article : 527 words
  14. WHERE WATER MELONS GROW.

    Melons were first extensively cultivated in France early in the seventeenth century, but were known to the ancients from the commencement ...

    Article : 153 words
  15. WILLS THAT ARE VOID.

    In this country a testator can do almost anything he likes with his property. He can, for instance, bequeath every penny to a hospital or ...

    Article : 491 words
  16. MILLIONS UNDER THE SEA.

    If the estimated total of £1,000,000 stated to have been recovered from the wreck of H. M. S. Laurentic, sunk in Lough Swilly in February, ...

    Article : 374 words
  17. INSPIRED BY ROTTEN APPLES.

    Grieg, the musician, when about to compose, would first memorize the words whose meaning he wished to express by sounds. ...

    Article : 372 words
  18. A THOUSAND YEARS OLD.

    A turtle measuring six feet from head to tail and five feet across its shell, the head being fifteen inches in circumference, was caught recently ...

    Article : 158 words
  19. INSECT AS READING LAMP.

    The lantern-fly of South America sometimes measures more than two inches in length. The shape of the head is very curious. It is furnished ...

    Article : 181 words
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