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  2. SKEGNESS.

    A recent item of cabled news in this paper informed us that the Australian beam station at Skegness would not be completed until June at the earliest. Probably a number of ...

    Article : 1,173 words
  3. BLIGHT'S ADVOCATE.

    Adjoining the big two-story house at La Perouse stands, encircled by an iron railing, an altar-shaped tombstone, on which is inscribed: "George Crossley, Gentleman, who ...

    Article : 1,627 words
  4. VALLEYS OF THE UPPER MURRAY.

    ABOVE TOWONG—PIGUENET'S PICTURE, WITH MOUNT KOSCIUSKO AND THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS BEHIND. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 16 words
  5. THE MURRAY VALLEY

    What does the Murray River mean to Australia? Why does it remain a mere stream instead of taking its place among the rivers of the world as a highway and a powerful ...

    Article : 1,577 words
  6. PAGE LETTERS.

    Of all the utterances of President Wilson, probably the answer,to Pope Benedict XV., in August 1917, gave Mr. Page the greatest satisfaction. His Holiness had appealed to ...

    Article : 1,515 words
  7. OLD STONE AGE RELICS.

    Aoulef Cheurf, Algeria, Dec. 12 (by native runner to In Salah, thence by wireless to Paris and by cable to United States):—Fifteen stone implements, representing one of the oldest of ...

    Article : 511 words
  8. A GREAT BIOGRAPHY.

    Dr. Leslie Gordon Davidson writes:—Apropos of my review of Professor Harvey Cushing's epochal "Life of Sir William Osier" (I learned from another distinguished Ilterary ...

    Article : 376 words
  9. LIGHTS OF LONDON.

    That Sunday everyone in the East End was cooking kippers. The smell of them was like a solid wall through which the 'bus bored its way. Also it had been raining for a ...

    Article : 855 words
  10. MEXICO.

    The news of the bandit outrage in Mexica is particularly horrifying in that it should have happened in the peaceful State of Jalisco. That State has long been regarded as one of ...

    Article : 897 words
  11. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Down they come dancing And skipping and prancing, Capering round, and again; All things they would dare, ...

    Article : 112 words
  12. SECRET OF BURNING CLAY.

    A little statue of Venus, made of burnt clay, has set the date when man blundered on the secret of firing clay objects back to at least the old stone age. The Venus is one ...

    Article : 507 words
  13. MR. MONTGOMERY JINKS.

    Mr. Montgomery Jinks is dead; He slept on a perch instead of in bed— For he was the rooster that lived in our shed. But "Montgomery Jinks" was too long, We ...

    Article : 264 words
  14. THE OVERBURY MYSTERY.

    The review in a recent "Herald" of "The Overbury Mystery" recalls the epitaph on himself written by Sir Thomas Overbury: Now, measuring out my days, 'tis here I rest: ...

    Article : 484 words
  15. "DISCONTENT."

    There is no more certain way of poisoning our peace of mind than by encouraging the habit of comparing our own lot with that of someone who we think is more fortunate, ...

    Article : 219 words
  16. HECTOR AT THE ZOO.

    When Hector the Bold went along to the zoo He did all the things that they let a boy do. He fed the flamingoes, gave buns to the bears. Watched lions and tigers lie down in their ...

    Article : 185 words
  17. TWENTY-ONE.

    The world, all busy round us here of late. Is yet unchanged; but you are twenty-one. The mind, victorious with the rising sun. Steps boldly and blithely through the imagined ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. BRINGIN' 'EM BACK.

    Riding rough-shod on a sprightly young back. Out past, the boundary, bringin' 'em back Bringin' 'em back, all the years that have fied. Raising up days that are gone, form the dead. ...

    Article : 73 words
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