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  2. TALLANGATTA RAILWAY LINE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 words
  3. A SUMMER SCENE.

    Laden come the maidens home, With poppies and wild rose[?], Singing ditties as they come, And blushing like their posies. ...

    Article : 93 words
  4. THE CURIOSITY SHOP. Tumblers Were First Made of S[?]ver and Came Honestly by Their Name.

    How many times a day do we use a word without stopping to think what it means? Every day we drink out of a tumbler. Why is the large glass that ...

    Article : 301 words
  5. OUR YOUNG FOLKS. A Little Sketch of Casabianca, a Real Hero In a Famous Naval Battle.

    The boy who stood on the burning deck has been a familiar figure in the mind of every school child, but it is surprising to learn how few people know ...

    Article : 452 words
  6. OLD MILITARY LORE. Regulations That Guided Soldiers In the Sixteenth Century.

    "Too Pathwaie of Martiall Discipline" (1581), by Thomas Styward, is full of plates and abounds in quaint remarks. Giving the duties of a provost ...

    Article : 417 words
  7. How Do You Spell Shakespeare?

    Seeing that spalling appears to be, after all, somewhat a matter of taste, it need not surprise us that there has been, and still is, much difference of opinion ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 107 words
  8. POLICE MAGISTRATE'S COURTS, 1900

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 words
  9. Where Kissing Is Unknown.

    Excepting where they have adopted the habit from other more civilized folk, kissing is unknown to the Australians, New Zealanders, Papaans and Eskimos. ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. White House of the Confederacy.

    Within a short time the old home of Jefferson Davis in Richmond will be thrown open to the public as a Confederate museum. The "White House of ...

    Article : 207 words
  11. A Devoted Father.

    You’ve heard perhaps of Mr. Long A lion fiaree and great, and strong, And what to him befell. Well, now. a song of him I’ll sing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 353 words
  12. "The Cricket on the Hearth."

    The original idea of the "Cricket" was connected with the weekly periodical which Charles Dickens had long had in his mind, but which had to wait for ...

    Article : 171 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,043 words
  14. Old Sayings and Proverbs.

    No less an authority than Lord Chesterfield advised against the use of old sayings and common proverbs, which, be said, are so many proofs of having ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. Shortening the Time.

    Friend—Doesn’t the journey to and from the country every day seem very long? Mr. Suburb—Long? It’s too short. ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. When Elevators Were Invented.

    The late[?] cyclopedia says that elevators in som[?] forms have been used for many your, moved by horse or man power, but that the modern elevator ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. Not So Awfully Superior.

    Paleface—Why don't you get a civilized name for yourself, now that you have become a civilized Indian? Noble Red Man—Ugh! What your ...

    Article : 152 words
  18. Three True Kisses.

    An English writer says that there are three kisses in a world of miscellaneous osculation which may be counted true— the kiss the mother lightly lays upon ...

    Article : 79 words
  19. The Laughing Plant.

    Among curious plants one of the most notable has been discovered recently in Arabia, where it is known by the natives as the "laughing plant." It does ...

    Article : 63 words
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