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  2. BACK FROM THE WARS AGAIN.

    1.Back from the wars they come, With trumpet-sound and drum, Across the rolling main. ...

    Article : 208 words
  3. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    Gibbs was a commercial traveller, and had gone on a journey to the north. A few days afterwards the Gibbs household was increased by one-a boy. As the ...

    Article : 269 words
  4. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Woman may be the weaker vessel, but man is often broke. The porcelain tower at Nankin was 248 feet high. ...

    Article : 937 words
  5. A PROPHECY REALISED.

    There was probably no European more qualified to express an opinion of the Chinese than Chinese Gordon. His military association with China during ...

    Article : 486 words
  6. LORD KITCHENER, THE NEW COMMANDER OF AFRICA.

    Mr. Hales tells the story of a smart, good looking married woman of about thirty years of age who acted as a Boer spy. She was married to a Russian ...

    Article : 277 words
  7. A LITTLE MISTAKE.

    A Parliamentary candidate for one of the Southern divisions, after moat affectionately kissing and praising an assortment of eleven children, and ...

    Article : 104 words
  8. HOW FLIES GARRY DISEASE.

    According to a letter in the " English Mechanic," disease, in one form or another, is carried and promulgated by insects. This fact has been long ...

    Article : 174 words
  9. LIVERPOOL TO AUSTRALIA.

    NED RAYMOND and myself had seen some years of service in the navy. When our time had expired, we went home together— ...

    Article : 1,978 words
  10. HIS ONLY CHANCE.

    An amusing incident took place a short time ago at a Volunteer range not far from Sydney. A recruit was taking a lesson in firing ...

    Article : 102 words
  11. EFFECT OF WOMEN SUFFRAGE IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The Hon. W. T. Reeves, Agent-General for New Zealand, in a speech in London, declared that the passing of the Act, giving a vote to every woman ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. NOT HER STATION.

    It is characteristic of the perversity of human intelligence to find the most amusing things in the midst of the most serious circumstances—such as railway ...

    Article : 121 words
  13. FOREST RESOURCES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A report has been prepared by the late Mr. Ednie Brown, the Conservator of Forests of Western Australia, upon the forest resources of that colony, from ...

    Article : 235 words
  14. WATCHING A BOY'S HEART BEAT.

    The pulsations of a human heart were watched by scores of trained eyes the other day in London. Standing between a Crooke's tube and a large box, in ...

    Article : 157 words
  15. NOBLE, THE CRICKETER'S PUN.

    Noble, the New South Wales cricketer, who always preserves an air of lofty self-possession, would rather get a " pair of spectacles" in a test-match than look ...

    Article : 120 words
  16. BOER WOMEN ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

    A letter from a nurse at one of the hospitals at Cape Town throws new light upon a very unpleasant feature of the war in South Africa. ...

    Article : 225 words
  17. LORD CREWE ON OLD GE PENSIONS.

    Whatever advantages working men may obtain by having men of other classes—lords, etc.—to preside over their meetings, it cannot be that ...

    Article : 156 words
  18. WHY HE CHEERED KRUGER.

    When the Cork Militia were marching through the city to embark for South Africa, one man repeatedly called from the ranks for cheers for Kruger. When ...

    Article : 110 words
  19. PHILOSOPHY OF PERSPIRATION.

    The hotter tho healthy human body becomes, the more freely it perspires; and yet the more freely it perspires, the cooler it grows. Many persons try to ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. SMALL FOR IT'S AGE.

    Pat called as usual one morning at the Pig and Whistle Hotel for his three-penny worth of whisky, when the following conversation ensued between the ...

    Article : 82 words
  21. FIRST CHINESE RAILWAY.

    The first railway built in China was completed in 1876. Although only twenty-eight miles long, it was enormously expensive, as all the materials ...

    Article : 147 words
  22. HOMING PIGEONS.

    The carrier pigeon, when travelling, never feeds. If the distance be long it flies on without stopping to take nutriment, and atlast arrives thin, exhausted, ...

    Article : 128 words
  23. THE FIRST MAGISTRATE AT THE CENTRAL

    The first magistrate who presided at the Central Police Court, Sydney, was Captain Rossi, who succeeded Mr. D'Arcy Wentworth in 1825. ...

    Article : 92 words
  24. MUST HAVE BEEN A BOER, "PA."

    Tommy : 'Did you do much fighting during the war, Pa?' Pa: 'I did my share of it, Tommy. 'Did you make the enemy run ?' ...

    Article : 50 words
  25. A PIOUS SCOTCH PARMER.

    A pious Scotch farmer once remarked with regard to the potato disease, that at first he '[?] it was a dispensation of Almichty God, but now he believed ...

    Article : 40 words
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