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  2. Mrs. Basant's Message for Australia.

    Mrs. Besant, the High Friestess of Theosophy, and born propogandist of new theories, has expressed herself unflinchingly regarding our ...

    Article : 635 words
  3. The Land of Promise.

    The evergreen problem of opening up and developing Australia's great lone Northern Territory, is one which the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 413 words
  4. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE,

    The new route from New Zealand to Liverpool via the Panama Canal is about 900 miles shorter than the old route round Cape ...

    Article : 245 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS. WHAT HE USED.

    An Irishman in the poor quarter of Baltimore lately received a visit from a woman interested in the betterment of the unfortunate. ...

    Article : 136 words
  6. The Real Dick Turpin.

    Prominent among the features of the May "Windsor Magazine" is an interesting survey of the records of famous highwaymen, in tradition ...

    Article : 505 words
  7. FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS.

    Stories are being told of the feats of blind people who go in for gymnastics and play cards, but the most remarkable instance, perhaps, ...

    Article : 965 words
  8. The Orange Blossom.

    Once upon a time there lived an Eastern king who was much interested in the growing of trees and plants. To many distant lands he ...

    Article : 456 words
  9. PLAUSIBLE PUNNING.

    A certain well-known professor had a habit of imagining the most hair-raising adventures, which he would recount as having happened to ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. AS INSECT WITH THE TOBACCO HABIT.

    An insect with the tobacco habit—only it eats cigars and cigarettes instead of smoking them—is causing much trouble in the factories in Key ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. CLAIM INVALID.

    His arm was in a sling. His nose was out of shape. One of his eyes hail been blackened. He was limping badly. And thus, a ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. WHALE STOPS A LINER.

    The Elder Dempster liner Sangara, on her last voyage to West Africa, was stopped for three-quarters of an hour oy a whale. At ...

    Article : 116 words
  13. TAXING TITLES.

    Mr. Cunninghame Graham's suggestion that a tax should be levied on hereditary titles has already been adopted in Spain, where the ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. Hints for Smokers.

    A good meerschaum pipe demands plenty of attention. If you carry it loose in your pocket pieces of grit will probably scratch it. Keep ...

    Article : 301 words
  15. HOT, RATHER.

    A party of commercial travellers seated round the coffee-room fire were drawing the long bow and spinning yarns of wonderful ...

    Article : 125 words
  16. French Family Life.

    Perhaps the last thing that hasty English visitors to Paris become aware of is the quietness, the thoroughness, and the simplicity of ...

    Article : 429 words
  17. INNOCULATED RABBITS STOLEN

    A theft likely tone fraught with the direst consequences to the perpetrators, and perhaps to many innocent people as well, has been ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. Australian Federal Spirit.

    Although it may sound cheaply theoretical or trite to insist that the ultimate destiny of Australia depends upon the cultivation of a ...

    Article : 251 words
  19. TELEPHONE CALL FOR SLEEPERS.

    If you want to catch an early train there is no need now to buy a special alarm clock; if you want, in fact, to do anything at any ...

    Article : 309 words
  20. RURAL SIMPLICITY.

    Two great tears shone in her hazel eyes as she stood by the slot machine outside the wayside inn—two tears so large that a ...

    Article : 153 words
  21. MOST EXPENSIVE GOLF CLUB.

    Chicago has started a golf club, limited to 150 members, with £45,000 in the treasury, derived from entrance fees fixed at £300 ...

    Article : 162 words
  22. Smart Business.

    A waggon loaded with lamp globes had just collided with a truck, and many of the globes were smashed. ...

    Article : 163 words
  23. KING GUSTAV ON ADVERTISING

    Speaking to one of the organisers of the Baltic Exhibition at Malmo (in the south of Sweden), King Gustav of Sweden expressed great ...

    Article : 138 words
  24. CHICKENS TO KILL SCORPIONS.

    A correspondent in Tunis wrote to a French scientific newspaper asking for advice as to the best way of ridding his farm of ...

    Article : 158 words
  25. SUITABLE.

    During the hearing of a law case a man began to move about in the back of the Court-room, pushing back chairs, and disturbing ...

    Article : 89 words
  26. A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.

    Fond Mamma: Oh, look, papa, how solid baby feels this morning. Catch hold of him. Papa: Yes; there certainly seems ...

    Article : 36 words
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