Articles from page 5: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. LEAP YEAR PROPOSALS.

    It was good Queen Margaret, who, reigned over Scotland in 1188, who invented Leap Year proposals. She decreed that every maiden in her ...

    Article : 84 words
  3. THE ALARM GAT.

    Among many odd inventions I have had placed in my hands for development few have been quainter than the brilliant conception of a ...

    Article : 701 words
  4. A ROYAL SPORTSMAN.

    There is not a keener sportsman in all England than King Edward VII. and he is always sorry when an end comes to the hunting season in ...

    Article : 629 words
  5. (All Rights Reserved.) Bonnie Barbara.

    I seemed to be alone in the world, and one fatal day, I turned to drink for consolation. Then came the news that I was rich. Imagine my ...

    Article : 1,911 words
  6. THE LOCUST PLAGUE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The "Empire Review" for May contains a rather picturesque description of a raid by locusts in South Africa from the pen of Mr. ...

    Article : 699 words
  7. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    In England 1,513 novels wore published last year. Move ships possess the name of "Mary" than any other. ...

    Article : 781 words
  8. AMUSING INCIDENT IN A THEATRE.

    In a provincial theatre some time back the following comical incident occurred. One of the principal actors in the ...

    Article : 106 words
  9. CHINESE IMMUNE TO HEAT.

    Chinese firemen seem to be immune to the fierce heat of the stoke-hole on ocean steamers, and can stand up to temperatures that would speedily ...

    Article : 125 words
  10. A STRANGE FISH.

    In Felorus Sound, near Nelson, New Zealand, there lives a fish, a species of white whale, known as Pelorus Jack, and much beloved by ...

    Article : 149 words
  11. AT THE AUTOMOBILE RACE.

    As the cars came spinning along in the trial for the mighty motor race, an imprudent spectator stopped forward, and was instantly bowled ...

    Article : 234 words
  12. CHAPTER XXIII.

    What could she do? How could she stand between her love and sorrow. This was the one, the dominant ...

    Article : 1,302 words
  13. GERMAN RED TAPE.

    That "red-tapeism" is not peculiar to this country is shown by the following incident reported from Germany. A woman who disappeared ...

    Article : 161 words
  14. STORKS AS MESSENGERS.

    A German nobleman of experimental turn of mind, curious as to the migratory Habits of the storks which return each spring to his park, ...

    Article : 150 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$