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  2. For the BOYS AND GIRLS

    Lachlan Macquarie, who succeeded Bligh as Governor of New South Wales, was born in December, 1761, on the Island of Diva, near Mull. He entered ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 599 words
  3. HARD NUTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 words
  4. TRICKS AND GAMES

    Great amusement will be caused by allowing people to see the ghost of their autograph. Get a piece of paper and fold it, then open it out and get the ...

    Article : 80 words
  5. NOTABLE EVENTS

    Thomas Gray, the English poet, was born in Gornhill, London. His father, a man of strange temper, refused to educate him, but he was sent by his mother ...

    Article : 347 words
  6. LITERARY COMPETITIONS

    Senior, First Prise.—Eunice Hanger, Calton Hill, Gympie. Subject: Charm of Shakespeare. Junior.—Jean Chadwick ...

    Article : 26 words
  7. SENIOR.—FIRST PRIZE.

    Books upon books have been.written about Shakespeare, criticising, appreciating, praising, condemning him, discussing him from all possible points of ...

    Article : 710 words
  8. Cotton Trick

    Here is an amusing trial. Place a reel of white cotton in the inside pocket of your coat, and then having threaded a needle with the beginning of the ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. The Big Sneeze

    This sounds well in a room, but better still in the open air. One-third of the company agree to say "Hish," another third to say "Hash," and the rest ...

    Article : 53 words
  10. MORE TO CRACK

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 171 words
  11. Floating Needle

    Get an ordinary sewing needle and rub slightly with greased fingers, then place it upon a piece of tissue paper and set them afloat in a glass of water. ...

    Article : 46 words
  12. Magic Sixpence

    Here is another good parlour conjuring trick. Open your hand naturally and place a sixpenny piece on the palm, and then ask someone to brush it out ...

    Article : 121 words
  13. PICTURES AND QUESTIONS—CAN YOU ANSWER THEM?

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 words
  14. Van Tromp

    "Van Tromp was an admiral brave and bold." So ran the words of the old song, and there is no doubt of his courage and determination. Martin Tromp ...

    Article : 133 words
  15. Alfred Deakin

    Alfred Deakin, one of Australia's greatest statesmen, was born at Fitzroy, Melbourne, and was educated at the Church of England Grammar ...

    Article : 1,030 words
  16. JUNIOR—FIRST PRIZE.

    What wonderful scope for imagination exists in that one word service! A train of pictures passes through the mind, pictures so vivid that words can ...

    Article : 627 words
  17. Slaves Emancipated

    This was the date on which the slaves in the British Colonies were assigned, not to their actual freedom, but to the so-called "apprenticeship," which was to ...

    Article : 195 words
  18. Sir Augustus Charles Gregory

    Augustus Charles Gregory was born at Farnsfield, in Nottinghamshire, and was, in 1829, brought to Western Australia by his father, who had ...

    Article : 357 words
  19. Richard Arkwright

    Richard Arkwright was born in Preston, Lancashire, on December 23, 1732, the youngest of 13 children. There was much talk in Lancashire in those days ...

    Article : 362 words
  20. Bottle Trick

    The following is a good catch:—Lay a wager with a person that to three observations that you will put to him he will not reply "a bottle of wine." You ...

    Article : 153 words
  21. GREAT LIBRARIES

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 311 words
  22. MISTAKES

    There was a large number of entrants in the Mistakes competition. Many discovered most of the mistakes, and ...

    Article : 177 words
  23. AUGUST

    In the old Roman calendar August bore the name of Sextilis, as the sixth month of the series and consisted of but 29 days. Julius Caesar, in reforming ...

    Article : 150 words
  24. WEEKLY ESSAYS

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

    Article : 86 words
  25. Advertising

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    Advertising : 128 words
  26. Marcus Clarke

    Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, only son of William Hislop Clarke, was born at Kensington on April 24, 1846, on the death of his father in 1863 he ...

    Article : 437 words
  27. Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish novelist, poet, and writer of fairy tales, was born of poor parents at Odense, on April 2, 1805. His father, who had been ...

    Article : 259 words
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