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  2. GENERAL ITEMS.

    Volunteers were first enrolled in Australia in 1854. The New South Wales Naval Brigade was formed in 1863. ...

    Article : 822 words
  3. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    Bismarck, on behalf of the old King William, had once to present the Iron Cross, which corresponds to our Victoria Cross, to a soldier. ...

    Article : 917 words
  4. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    In a church in the North n wedding was about to take place between a woman of some fifty summers and a "beardless boy," when the mother of ...

    Article : 187 words
  5. MAIZE CULTURE.

    Some kinds of corn will do better than others on certain soils, I have been experimenting with seed corn for six years, and have a variety that I plant on ...

    Article : 405 words
  6. CHINESE LANGUAGE NOT SO VERY HARD.

    The Chinese is the chief of the monosyllabic group of languages, to which belong also the Burmese, Thibetan, and Corean. It is the most primitive form ...

    Article : 243 words
  7. LIVERPOOL TO AUSTRALIA.

    We left the mouth of the Mersey with a drunken crew, as a matter of course. And when we came to tell off the watches, I made up my mind ...

    Article : 1,769 words
  8. SALVATION BY FAITH.

    "To-day" has a good story of a certain candidate for Holy Orders who was told as " a tip " that his examining bishop attached the greatest importance ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. AT THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING.

    What an imperturbable garrison was that shut up and starved in Mafeking. Major Karri Davis and eight men of the Imperial Light Horse rode in after ...

    Article : 249 words
  10. What is Lyddite?

    Recent accounts from the seat of the war in South Africa have shown what a weapon in skilled hands is lyddite. We believe that the preparation of lyddite ...

    Article : 233 words
  11. VERY MUCH MISTAKEN.

    'i beg your pardon ! I thought you were Mr.White.' 'So I am.' 'Then I am gold to find that when I ...

    Article : 146 words
  12. A COLONIAL'S IMPRESSION OF THE BOER LANGUAGE.

    The Australian correspondent of the " Daily News," Mr. A. G. Hales, gives an amusing description of the Boor language. We quote the following ...

    Article : 284 words
  13. AN ARITHMETICAL QUESTION.

    Grocer: 'What do you want, my boy?' Boy:'One pound of coffee, one-and-four : one pound of sugar, twopence ; ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. An "Iron Man" Wonder.

    The latest mechanical marvel from America takes the form of an iron man 7 1/2ft. high, who (or which) is to start from New York shortly for a trip to San ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. SWAGGER ENOUGH FOR ONE.

    A well-known Scottish laird, who is pompous in manner, and never forgets that he is a laird, was the other day walking up and down the Dundee ...

    Article : 107 words
  16. ONLY A REPORTER.

    A short time ago an account was published in a daily paper of the trial of a hulking blackguard for an assault with violence. When he had been sentenced ...

    Article : 78 words
  17. Time is Not Made for the Chinese.

    We have lately had convincing proof that the Chinese do not know the value of time for they were certainly in no hurry to let the world know that ...

    Article : 157 words
  18. KITCHENER AND HIS SOLDIERS.

    It was in providing unusually good rations for his men that Kitchener made his first hit in tho Soudan campaign of 1884, and his determination to have the ...

    Article : 268 words
  19. TWOPENN'ORTH.

    During the Commonwealth festivities the writer was having his dinner in a restaurant in Sydney. On his right hand at the table was a 'yokel' (in from ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. The Best of Bowlers.

    The following epitaph on a cricketer may bo seen in a cemetery near Salisbury: "I bowled, I struck, I caught, I ...

    Article : 58 words
  21. ANXIOUS.

    Penurious Philanthropist (handing halfpenny to small boy who has been holding hit horse for about an hour): "There, my lad, there's something for ...

    Article : 48 words
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