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  2. Clever Animals.

    Never has London seen such a unique, interesting and fascinating show as that which has been installed under the spurious roof of ...

    Article : 679 words
  3. Isles You Daren't Explore.

    News has just come that still another explorer has met his fate on Tiburon Island. His name is Wayne, and he is said to have been ...

    Article : 764 words
  4. With the Wireless.

    The cruiser is well out in the chops of the Channel, driving her way homewards through the night. It is close on four o'clock in the ...

    Article : 807 words
  5. LUXURIOUS COLLEGE GIRLS

    When an American girl goes to college certain necessarles are specified for her dally use. Her unofficial outfit is much more instructive than the ...

    Article : 241 words
  6. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHER[?].

    Cellulose, the plant fibre that has so large a place in our clothing, dwellings, and other belongings, is given a new applicati[?] by Dr. ...

    Article : 131 words
  7. THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL NORTH TO SOUTH LINE.

    That bugbear of Australian railway travelling, the break of gauge, is apparently to be again thrust upon us in the Queensland ...

    Article : 531 words
  8. QUEENSLAND'S COTTON.

    Many and varied opinions have been advanced as to the suitability of Queensland, from a climatic standpoint, to become one of the ...

    Article : 523 words
  9. RECORDS OF GLUTTONY.

    Not so long ago J. T. Harris, of Boulder, Col., tried to win a £2 bet by devouring a dinner that had been prepared for a family of twelve. He ...

    Article : 245 words
  10. DARING DESCENT INTO CRATER.

    Films were actually taken in the crater of Vesuvius. Mr. Frederic Burlingham, well known as an Alpine climber, was the intrepid operator ...

    Article : 206 words
  11. AMERICAN WIT.

    An American newspaper publishes the following examples of American wit:—Disappointment comes oftenest to ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. FORTUNATE EMPLOYEES.

    A sum of £200,000 has been distributed among 400 employee of the late Mr. Benjamin Altman, owner of New York's famous department store. ...

    Article : 99 words
  13. BELATED BATTLE HONOUR FOR FAMOUS CORPS.

    The King has approved of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) and the King's Royal Rifle Corps being permitted to bear the honorary ...

    Article : 276 words
  14. LAND SETTLEMENT POLICY.

    The Queensland Government is determined to adopt the best possible land policy, and in order that the experiments tried by the other States ...

    Article : 408 words
  15. HEART ON THE WRONG SIDE.

    What was stated by a medical man to be the most remarkable case he had ever known was mentioned at a coroner's inquiry held at Wigan ...

    Article : 158 words
  16. AN ABLE CRITIC.

    In obtaining the advice, criticism, and impression of so able an officer as General Sir Ia[?] Hamilton, the Australian Military Forces and the ...

    Article : 417 words
  17. PINS AND NEEDLES SOON TURN TO DUST.

    What becomes of the millions and millions of pins that are turned out annually by the factories? They "get lost." Yes, but i[?] they ...

    Article : 108 words
  18. Greenbacks.

    Few people, perhaps. are aware why the national American currency is printed with gieen backs. Ever since the adoption of paper ...

    Article : 202 words
  19. DESERVED IT.

    Able Seaman Murphy, of H.M.S. somespeed. was the inventor of the most ingenious excuses in order to obtain "leave." ...

    Article : 198 words
  20. JUST SUIT HIM.

    "What pawt have you—aw—weserved fo[?] me Miss Coa[?]m?" asked young Sapleigh of the fair manager of the amateur theatricals. ...

    Article : 169 words
  21. EXTRAORDINARY FATALITY.

    Strain or exertion in fastening his collar was the medical explanation at a Liverpool inquest of the sudden death of James Hewitt, telegraph ...

    Article : 144 words
  22. HOUSELESS BRIGADE.

    Very noon horses will be unknown in the London Fire Brigade which is rapidly becoming a completely motor equipped fire-fighting organisation. ...

    Article : 159 words
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