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  2. BANNOCKBURN.

    After six hundred years "Bannockburn" is still as fresh a word on Scottish lips as "Waterloo" on British. It was not merely a victory ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  3. Perils of Diver's Work.

    Referring to the death of a diver engaged on the Empress of Ireland wreck, a writer lit the "Manchester Guardian" says that the first ...

    Article : 355 words
  4. Wild Woman of the Woods

    The case of a woman who has taken to the woods and is living the life of a primitive human being, is puzzling the police and people of ...

    Article : 235 words
  5. THE WAR-LORD'S FIGHTING MACHINE.

    We hear much talk of militarism, but Australians cannot possibly form any idea of that blindly worshipped fetish unless they have spent some ...

    Article : 825 words
  6. OUR SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    Statistics show that Australia heads the list as the world's biggest sugar consumer; but notwithstanding this fact the Commonwealth is ...

    Article : 462 words
  7. CONVICT DAYS.

    "It can be no other than that scoundrel and murderer," he thought, "and yet if it were a friend?" As his eyes became more ...

    Article : 2,477 words
  8. Trivial Cause for a Duel.

    One morning a Prussian officer came to an inn and ordered a pickled herring, which was soon brought to him in a caper sauce. ...

    Article : 269 words
  9. Why Things Have Rainbow Hues.

    To break open an opal In order to observe its hues would be the equivalent to Killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. Neither ...

    Article : 291 words
  10. Women on Horseback.

    Among other things that men tell women they should not do, may be mentioned the practice of riding astride, and the German ...

    Article : 176 words
  11. Struck by Lightning.

    Last summer in France was one of the most stormy remembered for some years. An intensely tragic event took place during the ...

    Article : 193 words
  12. THE HORSE IN WAR.

    All along the line the horse has played an important part in the making and development of nations. In warfare this animal has been ...

    Article : 425 words
  13. Got It.

    A certain good-looking portrait painter got a commission to paint the portrait of a rich city magnate, He improvised a studio down ...

    Article : 349 words
  14. Laying a Ghost.

    During the month of June, 1803, a ghost began to walk at dusk In the neighbourhood of Hammersmith, where it frightened the ...

    Article : 458 words
  15. Pearls of Great Price.

    There has lately been exhibited at a Court Jeweller's in Bond Street a striking collection of pearls. One magnificent rope is valued at no ...

    Article : 297 words
  16. THE TELEPHONE IN ONTARIO.

    Most of the farmers in Ontario are connected by telephone, and the enormous importance of this in the marketing is quite obvious. The farmer ...

    Article : 155 words
  17. BULLS-NOT IRISH.

    It was a Scotswoman who sold that the butcher of her town only killed half a brast at a time. It was a British magistrate who, ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. NEW ZEALAND SHEEP.

    New Zealand is fast gaining an enviable reputation for the high quality of its wool and mutton sheep, Representative of the United States ...

    Article : 82 words
  19. VICTORIA'S LOW DEATH-RATE.

    The year 1913-14 shows a marked Increase in the Victorian death-rate. There were 15,475 deaths or 1,120 Power than in the previous year : the ...

    Article : 79 words
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