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  2. TWENTIETH CENTURY VERSION.

    Mary had a little pug— Its nose as black as sin, And everywhere that Mary went He stuck his black nose in. ...

    Article : 154 words
  3. HOW "BOBS" WAS TAKEN PRISONER.

    An army officer who was with Lord Roberts during the Afghan campaign has confided to us (says the "Golden Penny") the following authentic and amusing ...

    Article : 280 words
  4. EXPORT OF GREEN PORK.

    There are many difficulties in the way of establishing the much-desired export trade in Australian bacon. Other countries which have managed their ...

    Article : 429 words
  5. A STRANGE LAKE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Lake George, situated about four miles from the railway station at Bungendore, near Goulburn, has for many years engaged the attention of scientific ...

    Article : 542 words
  6. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    In the Lobby of the House two members of Parliament were discussing the honour being paid to Ireland and Irish troops. One was a Scotchman, the other an ...

    Article : 156 words
  7. GENERAL NEWS.

    A man is generally at his heaviest in his fortieth year. Over 100 stokers are required to feed the fires of a fast Atlantic liner. ...

    Article : 841 words
  8. "A BIRD IN THE HAND—"

    'I am a lawyer's daughter, you know, George, dear,' she said, after he had proposed and been accepted, 'and you wouldn't think it strange if I asked you to sign a little paper ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. HOW UPRISINGS BEGIN IN THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE.

    Sidelights on the Situation in China By a Teacher and Missionary Who Has Lived in Pekin for Years. ...

    Article : 1,648 words
  10. HOW THE BOERS TRAIN THEIR HORSES.

    An Englishman, who spent several years among the Boers in South Africa, was recently asked whether the Boers kept their horses in the trenches with them, and this ...

    Article : 305 words
  11. SHE WOULD GO FOR IT.

    An Irishman recently applied at a London post-office to know the cost of sending a telegram to his mother, who resided in a remote part of Ireland ; and upon being ...

    Article : 141 words
  12. WELL LOOKED AFTER.

    'DEAR Bon,—Just a line to say I have had only one letter from my girl since I left Sydney twelve months ago. Are you looking after her, as you promised? Reply ...

    Article : 82 words
  13. KING EDWARD VII.

    Some time after the Franco-Prussian War, the Prince of Wales (now King Edward VII. of England), accompanied by General Teesdale, visited the ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. THE WICKED DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

    The duel between the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shrewsbury took place in the reign of Charles II., and the grossness of the story attached to it is at least ...

    Article : 244 words
  15. WHAT HE DID WITH HIS PANTS.

    The other day there was travelling on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway a man over seven feet in height, when a party of colliers got in the same compartment. The ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. THE WORLD'S CABLES.

    The submarine telegraphs of the world number 1,500; their aggregate length is over 170,000 miles, and about 6,000,000 messages are transmitted over them ...

    Article : 270 words
  17. THE PAY OF THE CABINET.

    The annual " wages bill " of the English Cabinet is no light sum-at present it nearly reaches £100,000; or, to be exact, it amounts to £93,550. Of the ...

    Article : 159 words
  18. ALL SHINE THERE.

    'Don't you want to go to the better world, Tommy ?' asked a Sydney Sunday-school teacher of the new scholar. 'No, mum,' promptly replied the frank ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. A DRUNKEN LOT.

    At a public dinner the toast of 'The Army, Navy, and Reserve Forces,' was proposed in terms of equivocal compliment. In submitting the toast the chairman said: ...

    Article : 104 words
  20. TRANSVAAL GOLD MINES.

    Although the Johannesburg gold mines have escaped the destruction threatened them in the earlier history of the war, nearly two years' neglect, the injury caused ...

    Article : 158 words
  21. Chinese Symbolic Art.

    One unregrettable result of the trouble in China will be a better understanding of Chinese art and ornament among everyday people. They have truths ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. LAUGHTER A HEALTH PROMOTER.

    Dr. Greene tells us that there is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood-vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the ...

    Article : 103 words
  23. THE SAME OULD COMPLAINT.

    In a Sydney workshop, when the men absented themselves, they were expected to produce a doctor's certificate. An Irishman, absent, however, on a second ...

    Article : 73 words
  24. BEGGING-LETTER WRITERS.

    Miss Helen Gould, one of the wealthiest and most philanthropic women in the world, has adopted a novel plan to protect herself against the importunities ...

    Article : 108 words
  25. WHAT A BREEZE!

    Chickens are now plucked in a wholesale manner by the use of pneumatic machinery. There is a receptacle in which the fowl is placed after being ...

    Article : 94 words
  26. COULD "WAKE" HIM.

    Lynch: 'I say, Artie, which would you rather sea dead-an Englishman or an Irishman ?' Artie: 'I don't know. But stay; an ...

    Article : 58 words
  27. STORY OF SIR REDVERS BULLER.

    Many years ago, during the Red River expedition, a soldier in the King's Royal Rifles, who in now a messenger in the Bank of England, was much in need of a pipeful ...

    Article : 160 words
  28. DUCHESS OF SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA.

    The widowed Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has an income of £6,000 a year from the British Treasury, besides a jointure from tho Coburg Duchy estates. ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. WHERE HE PLANTS THEM.

    A well-known bishop some time ago lost his third wife. A former curate of his, who had known the first wife, returned from Africa recently, and ...

    Article : 75 words
  30. WANTED SHORT MEASURE.

    A little boy on entering a chemist's shop: 'Please give me two pennyworth of castor oil, and give me short measure.' Chemist: ' Short measure! Why ?' ...

    Article : 44 words
  31. HIS MISTAKE

    A school not many miles from Hay it presided over by a cross-eyed teacher. A few days ago he called out:'That boy whom I am looking at, ...

    Article : 49 words
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