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  2. OUR TELEPHONE.

    Hello, "Sunday Times"! Man on the Corner speaking. Yes? Do you observe that Archbishop Kelly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,004 words
  3. HERE AND THERE.

    In time of war Russia is said to be capable of raising an army of 3,460,000 men, with 3500 guns, and this number does not include the last reserves. ...

    Article : 93 words
  4. CAN THE MELBOURNE MAN WORK HARDER THAN THE SYDNEY MAN?

    Those who have followed the Sydney v. Melbourne symposium, week by week, will recollect that whilst the principal Sydney argument has been "coal," that of ...

    Article : 486 words
  5. "DADS" WAYBACK On Gambling and "Mugs."

    Dads believed in Sunday rest—"after six days' slogging er cove wants er bit of er spello," he said. So it came about that on the Sabbath, Mums and the girls only ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. A ROMANTIC RAILWAY.

    Sir Harry Johnston, speaking at the Author's Club dinner, said: "The most romantic thing I know about Africa is the Uganda railway. It is a romance that a ...

    Article : 189 words
  8. ICE CREAM SOCIALS FOR CHURCHES.

    A new church building, with a gymnasium and a roof garden, is about to be erected by the Metropolitan Church of Christ, at Chicago. The pastor, the Rev. ...

    Article : 107 words
  9. JAPAN'S AMBITIONS.

    Captain F. Brinkley, an American officer, resident in Japan, has written a comprehensive work on the Jap and Chinese peoples, in which he speaks in the highest ...

    Article : 242 words
  10. NOVEL KIND OF RAIN.

    "Caustic rain" is the latest curious phenomenon. Its appearance is notified by the British consul et Naples. Vesuvius is continually pouring out a large cloud of ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

    Apropos of Five Dock, Rookwood, &c., wanting to change their names, an anecdote of fifty years ago is worth repeating. After the occurrence of the notorious Rugeley ...

    Article : 103 words
  12. NEW STORY OF CECIL RHODES.

    A well-known peer asked Mr. Rhodes to stand godfather to his son, and he replied that he would on one condition, which was that he might invest at once £100 in the ...

    Article : 124 words
  13. USES FOR OLD WOMEN.

    In connection with the uses of old women in working class homes, it is said that in some districts of Norway the old dames past doing enough work to support ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. JACK'S CHANCE OF BECOMING AN ADMIRAL.

    If it is difficult to rise from the ranks in the British Army, it is well nigh impossible in the Navy, for three lieutenancies only have been given to naval rankers in a ...

    Article : 197 words
  15. NOT A PENNYWORTH OF DIFFERENCE.

    The head of one of the warehouse firms, having establishments both in Sydney and Melbourne, objected to seeing his name in print, but talked freely of the relative ...

    Article : 587 words
  16. CURZON'S EPITAPH.

    Lord Curzon is said to be the author of the following verse, engraved on the brass memorial tablet in the Cathedral at Calcutta to the memory of members of the ...

    Article : 69 words
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  18. AMERICAN "METHODS OF BARBARISM."

    Whilst the pro-Boer newspapers of America are calling on high Heaven to judge Great Britain for the cruelties alleged to be practised by brutal Englishmen on ...

    Article : 209 words
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  21. A MONSTER COD.

    Says a Mackay (Q.) paper of a recent date:—"A big rock cod got stranded in a waterhole at Plane Creek. It was discovered there by Mr. J. Douglas and two ...

    Article : 93 words
  22. THE DRAMATISING CRAZE.

    The dramatising craze has certainly run mad in the United States. Ministers now live in a state of constant fear lest their sermons he worked up into melodramas; ...

    Article : 51 words
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  24. KIPLING ON CRUEL SENTIMENTALISTS.

    A copy of Mr. Walter Murdoch's criticism of Kipling, recently published in the columns of "The Argus," Melbourne, was forwarded to the poet, and Mr. Murdoch ...

    Article : 144 words
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