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  2. TOPICAL TAPS ON TAPPABLE TOPICS. THE WOMAN'S WAY.

    "No person on earth deserves more sympathy than a respectable, well-conducted woman who is a drunkard's wife," writes a correspondent. This is all very nice, but ...

    Article : 111 words
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  4. "BOMBASTES FURIOSO."

    Two of the primest political hocussers in Australian public life are undoubtedly "Billee" Hughes and Willie Watt. We have the authority of the more or less unreliable ...

    Article : 644 words
  5. Truth

    The events of quite recent times have revealed to the peoples of the world the existence of two Christian prelates whose utterances, at critical ...

    Article : 1,461 words
  6. THE CENSOR'S LATEST.

    Many of the communications received by newspapers from the Censor are more or less cryptic, either by reason of the illegibility of the writing or of the mysterious nature ...

    Article : 145 words
  7. CANADA REJECTS CONSCRIPTION.

    The conscription cranks are fond of holding up Canada as an example to Australia; but they carefully omit to inform us that the great Dominion has definitely rejected ...

    Article : 299 words
  8. GOING TO THE DOGS.

    A chap up Yarrawonga way seems nearly distracted about the dogs of the township, and he writes, more in sorrow than in anger, to the local "Chronicle" begging somebody ...

    Article : 199 words
  9. DAYLESFORD DRAMA.

    As a rule, the most crocked tin-pot show that dodges about the country, paying its way where it cannot escape doing so, is landed to the skies by the more or less ...

    Article : 177 words
  10. JAY PEES ON STRIKE.

    An instance of the perverted ideas which some honorary magistrates have of their duties occurred at the South Melbourne Court last Saturday morning, when Messrs. ...

    Article : 322 words
  11. A BROTHEL "BULLY."

    The police have been doing a bit of drumbeating over in Wellington (N.Z.) lately; but one of the landladies of a "maison de joie" recently before the Court was charged ...

    Article : 241 words
  12. OUR DEAD CHIEF. A TRIBUTE FROM TASMANIA.

    Sir,—If any proof were wanted of the respect in which John Norton was held in every State of the Commonwealth, it has been abundantly furnished by the encomiuma ...

    Article : 375 words
  13. CARLTON'S WHITE ELEPHANT.

    The ways of the City Council, like those of the heathen Chince, are peculiar. Some months ago there wag a great agitation to have swimming baths in Carlton, and a ...

    Article : 351 words
  14. SEXUAL OFFENDERS.

    Alarming as has been the growth of sexual offences in Australia, a striking feature being the instances where mere children are concerned, things appear to be no better across ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. "THE GOLDEN RULE."

    On Sunday night at the Political Labor Council's hall, Palmerston-street, Carlton, the Rev. J. B. Ronald, whom the chairman described as "that most persecuted of men," ...

    Article : 443 words
  16. AN ADELAIDE ADMIRER.

    Sir,—In your last issue I noticed a paragraph above the signature of "Ake Ake," of Te Mata, Auckland. After paying a sorrowful tribute to the late Mr. John Norton, ...

    Article : 385 words
  17. WOES OF A WAIF.

    Sir,—In your article, "The Woes of a Waif," in your last issue, you say that "Ransom had put himself in the wrong by not bringing up the child as a Roman ...

    Article : 489 words
  18. PIPE DREAMS.

    Another monomaniac has come to town, and is now busily declaiming in print against "the nation's tobacco bill." The bill for tobacco amounted to £38,500,000 in Britain ...

    Article : 220 words
  19. PRUDES AND THE NUDE.

    O. D. T. Glover, the Chicago artist, is a bit of an O.D.T. The other day, when an art dealer was being tried for exposing for sale a copy of Paul Chapas's celebrated ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE.

    An anticipated, and duly commented on at the time in this column, many of the profuse promises made by psendo-patriotic employers as to the future prospects of the returned ...

    Article : 269 words
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