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  2. POETRY.

    THE shades of evening now are falling, Phœbus setting gilds the west; The murmuring zephyrs now are calling Earthly souls to peaceful rest; ...

    Article : 431 words
  3. NOTES OF TRAVEL.

    A LATE NUMBER of the London Athenœum contains an interesting article from the pen of Selah Merrill, descriptive of his explorations in Palestine. He says:—I have a feeling that what I call the tell system of the Jordan ...

    Article : 1,966 words
  4. SCIENTIFIC & USEFUL.

    A HYDROCARBON GAS LAMP.—A form of self-generating gas lamp, which is worthy of more than passing notice, says the Polytechnic Review, both on account of the mechanical in genuity displayed in its details and its admirable ...

    Article : 2,191 words
  5. BITS OF PLEASANTRY.

    THE proper material for card-tables—Deal boards. When a humming-bird darts at a woman's bonnet nobody need be much astonished except the humming-bird. When a young lady and gentleman have a controversy ...

    Article : 275 words
  6. OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

    ON our first page is representation of "new country" in North Australia. The settler had just mustered his packs, when a vessel announces her arrival by the report of a gun, and off go the bush-bred horses in full fright, and it will ...

    Article : 63 words
  7. TOWNSVILLE.

    Our landscape is a view from the fair-way buoy, Cleveland Bay, looking into the Ross Creek, on which this important township is established, at the foot and around the picturesque granite mountain named, from the peculiar ...

    Article : 197 words
  8. NINETY IN THE SHADE.

    I cannot laugh, I cannot weep, I cannot work, I cannot sleep, I cannot walk, I cannot leap, But sit all disarrayed, ...

    Article : 1,476 words
  9. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

    CLARET CUP.—Well pound some ice, mix with it about 2 lbs. of common salt, put it into a wooden bucket; put a white ware jug into the middle of it, so that the ice and salt is all round the jug up to the top of the bucket; next lay ...

    Article : 550 words
  10. CARDWELL.

    Cardwell is a township 1627 miles north-west of Brisbane, situated at the foot of a range of mountains, in the county of North Kennedy, near Saltwater Creek. It is the port of Buckingham Bay, possesses one of the finest ...

    Article : 109 words
  11. BUSH PORT-OFFICE—FREE SELECTION.

    We present to our readers pictures of the newly-formed townships of Townsville and Cardwell in Queensland; also, a view of a rustic post-office and a "free-selection." For the sketches from which these engravings are copied we are ...

    Article : 216 words
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