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  2. HISTORICAL NOTES.

    The Jameson Raid took place on January 1st, 1896. An earthquake occurred in Sydney in 1800. ...

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  3. THE KISS AT THE DOOR.

    In the days of the lance and the spur, When the hero went forth to the fight, Oft he carried a token from her ...

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  4. ON THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN.

    God gave her of His earthly gifts the Crown; Hor life, now ended, sees her talent spent ...

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  5. A POLICEMAN'S LITTLE JOKE.

    Even a policeman likes his little joke. The other day in Sydney a police recruit was accosted by a man who said he thought he should like to join the ...

    Article : 316 words
  6. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    In a country town in New South Wales an old worthy, who carries on a small business of his own as shoemaker. One day, on taking a stroll down the ...

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  7. "TALKATIVE SAL" AND THE PARSON.

    In a certain town in Victoria there lives an old lady known as "Talkative Sal." The parson showed too much linen at his wrist for her liking, so one day, meeting ...

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  8. WHEN MARRIAGES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND IRISH WERE FORBIDDEN BY LAW.

    For a very long time after the invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century, the invaders kept entirely to themselves, so much so that, as Sir John Davies ...

    Article : 306 words
  9. ONLY A CLOUD.

    One winter's day There walked so gay, A maiden, free from care. Her eyes I knew ...

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  10. TALLEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD.

    Miss Elsie Ewing, the Missouri giantess, who is 8ft. in height-an ordinary door is only 7ft, high-has built a house for herself at Govin, ...

    Article : 211 words
  11. IN A BOER'S HOME.

    But it was not to be to-morrow after all that she was to see him. It was with a sinking heart Vivien heard her uncle arranging with Ivan to be busy near ...

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  12. KNEW THE BELL.

    A very fussy old fellow entered a Sydney restaurant one busy market day recently, and kept up an incessant ringing for the overworked waiter. Eventually he was ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. STRIKE OF EXECUTIONERS IN CHINA.

    A very peculiar "strike" is recorded as having been in progress in Canton, China. The executioners, who do the beheading, are complaining that, unless ...

    Article : 132 words
  14. CRIME AND CRIMINALS IN SIBERIA.

    The Russian authorities have to deal with a stratum of population for below any that exists with us-a brutish, hopeless, irreclaimable mass of human ...

    Article : 280 words
  15. SORRY SHE SAID IT.

    At an evening party recently held in Parramatta, the hostess had bustled out of the room to arrange some detail of supper or something. During her absence a young ...

    Article : 104 words
  16. SOLDIERS AND PEERAGES.

    Soldiers, unfortunately, are seldom rich, and it had been wisely decided by our late Queen that it is against the interests of the State to confer peerages ...

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  17. THE LOST FOUND.

    There used to be a bacon-and-bean dinner given periodically to the prisoners of North-country gaol. One day an old gaol-bird, after gazing pensively on the moderate ...

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  18. THE BAND PLAYED THE SAME OLD TUNE

    Jimkins had a habit of keeping late hours, and although his better-half made it uncomfortable for him at times, she failed to once him of his nocturnal ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. TO PRACTISE ON.

    Not a hundred miles from Trafalgarsquare a big rawboned youth was gazing at a placard announcing the advantages of the Army, when he was accosted by a recruiting ...

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  20. A MOVING MOUNTAIN.

    The latest scientific observations positively assert as a fact that a large chain of mountains in the Cascades of British Columbia are in constant motion, ...

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  21. INTEMPERANCE AND-THE LAWS OF HEALTH.

    A word to those who, with their whole hearts and souls, are crusading against the evils caused by alcoholic drink, not in the way of drunkenness alone, but ...

    Article : 209 words
  22. THEY PUT IT.

    Post Orderly (to last-joined recruit, whose letters, addressed "Mr. Johen," have caused the former much trouble in discovering right owner): ' My lad, every man has a ...

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  23. HIS ANSWER.

    A Lincolushire farmer, having a horse to dispose of at a fair, sold it to an army contractor. Meeting him at the same fair the following year, the army buyer ...

    Article : 82 words
  24. MOST HAVE BEEN SEASICK.

    Petted Daughter: 'They asked me to lay at Mrs. Highup's this evening, and did; but:- Fond Mother (proudly): 'Were they ...

    Article : 70 words
  25. CARRIAGE FREE.

    'Plaze, sir,' said an Irishman to a traveller, ' would ye be so obliging as to take me overcoat, here, to Moree wid yez?' ' Yes,' said the man in the waggon ; 'but ...

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  26. WHAT HE EXPECTED.

    Tom (who is accustomed to put up with his elder brother's old clothes and cast-of toys): 'Mother' 'Mother: 'Well, Tom?' ...

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  27. PROMOTION OF OFFICERS.

    Baden-Powell is now a richer man than he was, for the promotions of officers have a financial side which most people forget. As a colonel of the 5th ...

    Article : 87 words
  28. A FEDERAL CANDIDATE.

    A labour candidate who is new to public life had been interviewed by a reporter in reference to his opinion of the Federal campaign, and he felt very ...

    Article : 100 words
  29. TOOK THEM AS THEY CAME.

    In one of the police-courts in Sydney a ton of Erin's Isle was charged with picking pockets, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. ...

    Article : 70 words
  30. QUITE SAFE.

    Bertha: Grandma, are your teeth good?' Grandma: 'No, darling ; I have none now, unfortunately.' Bertha: 'Then I'll give you my Wainuts ...

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