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  2. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

    The bush-honey industry in some districts attracts many votaries and almost approaches commercial importance, though the quality of the ...

    Article : 309 words
  3. A MODERN UTOPIA.

    Many Socialistic schemes and colonies have been tried, and have ended in disheartening failure, But widently Professor Macmilian Brown ...

    Article : 332 words
  4. ADVERTISING THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Millions Club is adopting a specified programme for the purpose of advertising Australia, promoting immigration, and encouraging ...

    Article : 215 words
  5. RETALIATION [?]

    Cinema plot? No. Real life [?] Some civilised prisoners take their sentences philosophically enough; others rage for a bit, and then ...

    Article : 776 words
  6. WISE AND OTHERWISE. A COOLER [?]

    An Englishman and a Frenchman were travelling together in a railway train, and both smoking. The Frenchman did all in his power to ...

    Article : 116 words
  7. Feats of Sleep Walkers.

    A well-known physician gives an account of an Irish gentleman who swam more than two miles down a river, got ashore, and was ...

    Article : 946 words
  8. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    George Copoland, "King of the Coiners," was recently buried at Highgate with Salvation Army honours, After spending the best part ...

    Article : 756 words
  9. TO RAISE THE WIND.

    A negro preacher, whose supply of hominy and bacon was running low, decided to take radical steps to impress upon his flock the ...

    Article : 169 words
  10. DIVORCE BY WIRELESS.

    Mrs. Mary King, who until recently was a resident of San Francisco, has just distinguished herself by being the first to secure a ...

    Article : 144 words
  11. COULDN'T BE DONE.

    Paddy Dolan bought a watch from the local jeweller, with a guarantee to keep it in order for twelve months. ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. DIAMOND METEORS.

    An expedition is shortly starting for Disco Island. off the coast, of Greenland, with the object of breaking up and bringing away the big ...

    Article : 175 words
  13. AVIATION FIGURES.

    There is a golden harvest waiting for the aviator who goes in for carrying passengess In Australia. The late Hamel was the only man ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. SMART AUSTRALIANS.

    Mr. Bachelet, the inventor of the "flying train" or the "railway that runs on a road-bed of Invisible impulses," as he terms the wonderful ...

    Article : 130 words
  15. GOOD ADVICE.

    A land-agent in the West of Ireland mot a countryman, and, having heard of his marriage, saluted him with: ...

    Article : 101 words
  16. TATTERSALL'S SWEEPS.

    Tasmania, the home of Tattersall's Sweep, has derided to raise an additionnl twelve thousand a year by increasing the tax upon the sweep ...

    Article : 283 words
  17. BRAINY ANIMALS.

    Psychologists are claiming more and more recognition of the minds, which animals undoubtedly possess. Science having vouched for their ...

    Article : 301 words
  18. TELEPHONES EVERYWHERE.

    The one American, perhaps, who made the best use of the telephone was the late F. H.Hari[?]n. He piled up a railroad fortune of ...

    Article : 426 words
  19. A BEAUTY.

    A draper's assistant was showing the lady some parasols. The assistant had a' good command of language, and knew how to ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. A NEW "BAIT."

    A solitary angler was sitting on the bank of a river a few days ago. The weather was very trying, and it was a difficult job to ...

    Article : 132 words
  21. PREFERRED THE EARTHQUAKE.

    From America comes the story of a father who—fearing an earthquake in the region of his home—sent his three boys to a distant ...

    Article : 178 words
  22. PERMANENTLY CURED.

    "This," said the guide, who was piloting a hunch of tourists through Egypt, as he pointed to the mummy, "was a high priest, the wisest ...

    Article : 125 words
  23. THE HETORT SARCASTIC.

    Since breakfast-time old Peter Kassidy had been digging in his front-garden—the moisture of honest toil was on his brow. He was sick ...

    Article : 141 words
  24. REGULATION OF MOTOR TRAFFIC.

    The increasing number of motorcars—and consequently motor accidents—which occur in the streets of our cities makes new and more ...

    Article : 105 words
  25. BIRD MUSIC BY TELEPHONE.

    Two naturalists have succeeded in transferring the song of the nightingale from one village to another by means of the telephone. The ...

    Article : 110 words
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