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  2. for the BOYS AND GIRLS

    SENIOR.—G. Norma Whals, Macanlay-street, Coorparoo, Brisbane. Subject: Witches. JUNIOR.—First Prize, Muriel A. Hoffman, Isedale-street, Wooloowin. Subject: The Progress of Science ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 47 words
  3. HARD NUTS

    The answer to this poser is 2in, not 4½in. This seems very strange, but if you place three books together you will see where the first page of the first ...

    Article : 102 words
  4. HUMANE WEEK

    To all readers of this page the reminder is given that Humane Week begins to-day. This is the period annually set apart to call marked attention to the beneficent work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty ...

    Article : 168 words
  5. NOTABLE EVENTS

    William Penn, founder of the Colony of Pennsylvania, was born in London, and studied at Oxford, where he became a convert to Quakerism. The ...

    Article : 280 words
  6. OUR OWN COUNTRY

    The story of the organisation of Mitchell's first expedition makes interesting reading. Among the most notable convicts at that time in Australia was ...

    Article : 569 words
  7. SENIOR.—FIRST PRIZE.

    Anything savouring of potent magic in distasteful to the modern mind, which, with characteristic practicality, immediately dismisses any thought of ...

    Article : 757 words
  8. MORE TO CRACK

    (1) Levi bisected the obtuse angle. (2) Jane must return at once. (3) Why is the omnibus tardy today! (4) I want you to borrow Len's horse ...

    Article : 228 words
  9. SPECIAL LITERARY COMPETITION

    Martin Hambleton has pleasure in notifying a special Essay Competition, which will be divided into two classes—Senior and Junior. Boys and girls to the age of 16 will comprise the junior division, and the senior 'division will be open to adults to the age of 2l ...

    Article : 256 words
  10. SIR JOHN ROBERTSON

    Sir John Robertson was born at Bow Essex, on October 15, 1816. His father was a Scot, ana his mother English. In 1820 his father emigrated to Australia ...

    Article : 352 words
  11. Evangellista Torricelli

    Eangellista Torricelli (1608-47), mathematican and natural philosopher, was born at Piancalvqli, and educated by the Jesuits. In 1641 he ...

    Article : 153 words
  12. GREAT BATSMAN

    William Lloyd Murdoch was born at Sandhurst (now Bendigo), in Victoria, on October 18, 1855. He was a solicitor by profession, but cricket absorbed most ...

    Article : 299 words
  13. JUNIOR.—FIRST PRIZE.

    The advancement of science has been to rapid of late years that the civilised man of to-day regards the remarkable achievements of inventors and scientists ...

    Article : 525 words
  14. Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was the fourth daughter of Marie' Theresa and the Emperor Francis I She was born in 1755, and in 1770 was ...

    Article : 208 words
  15. WEEKLY ESSAYS

    This competition (for which book prizes will be awarded) will be continued. Senior and junior competitor to select, their own subjects. The ...

    Article : 88 words
  16. HOME COMPETITION

    THE FISHING PARTY . Last Sunday week you had to draw lines from each fish to its proper fish pole without having any of the lines ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 52 words
  17. FEARSOME CROCODILES

    There is an apt saying among the aborigines of North Queensland that the sea-going crocodile ia a "cheeky fellow," and would "round you up," but the ...

    Article : 856 words
  18. Rene Antoine de Reaumer

    Rene Antoine de Reanmer is remembered, strangely enough, for one of the least of his achievements in science. Had lie had not fixed a way of ...

    Article : 180 words
  19. START OF THE SEASON

    The Iron Hand in the Near-Velvet Glove. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 12 words
  20. JUNIOR—SECOND PRIZE.

    Once, as I eat resting in the gathering twilight, I dreamed of the old bush road. I pictured myself back among the tall gazes and busby shrubs. The vision ...

    Article : 331 words
  21. Jonathan Swift

    There axe probably few persons who have not read Gulliver's Travels. Its author was Dean Swift, born in Dublin in 1667, his father being a lawyer ...

    Article : 375 words
  22. DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

    Columbus, with his followers, landed on [?]ahani, or San Salvador, one of the Bahama Isles, and planted there the cross in token of gratitude to the Divine ...

    Article : 266 words
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