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  2. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUATTED.

    "It is in vain to look for anything sublime in the story of the colonisation of Australia," writes Mr. A. G. M'Hvaine in "Harper's Magazine" for April. "It had no ...

    Article : 648 words
  3. FEMININE FACES AND FANCIES.

    The trimming of skirts round the hips is fashion's latest freak. We have grown accustomed to a few rows of tucks over the hips, and even to flue gathering in muslins, ...

    Article : 1,440 words
  4. MUSICAL NOTES.

    According to information received from Paris, M. Messager, besides reorganising the Covent Garden chorus, hopes to secure an increased number of genuine full ...

    Article : 959 words
  5. THE GIRLS OF THE HOUSE.

    "Mrs. Brooke tells me that you are taking up singing as a profession, Miss Selwood," said Lady Hiltonwick. "We all think it so brave of you--so very brave ...

    Article : 5,110 words
  6. HEARTH AND HOME.

    Bigamy (writes a woman) is becoming almost as common as divorce, and the laws which cover it were made for the occasional case which used to be heard of. It is a ...

    Article : 607 words
  7. FAMINE IN SIBERIA.

    News just received from Siberia says the "Daily Chronicle," gives the most distressing accounts of the great famine which has overtaken the greater part of Western and ...

    Article : 613 words
  8. A RIVAL TO THE STEAM ENGINE.

    The "Diesel engine" is a new thing rich with promise. It has no boiler and no furnace; it requires no stoker; it emits no steam or smoke. Its fuel is various. It ...

    Article : 646 words
  9. DENTISTRY IN VICTORIA.

    Sir,--Permit me with others to thank you for the opportunities you afford in your columns for ventilating this important subject. Discussion it can scarcely be called, ...

    Article : 564 words
  10. TEN THOUSAND MURDERS A YEAR.

    Statistics of murders form such a gruesome topic that they are not often set before the public in n concrete form. Yet such is the inconsistency of human nature ...

    Article : 520 words
  11. CRUELTY TO A SERVANT GIRL.

    At the Leeds West Riding Court recently, Elizabeth Ann Peck, wife of a colliery agent, was at the instance it the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...

    Article : 201 words
  12. DOES FOOTBALL BRUTALISE PLAYERS?

    A Glasgow schoolmaster has delivered an attack upon football, on the ground that it is brutal and infallibly brutalises whoever is addicted to it. The "football face," this ...

    Article : 243 words
  13. EDISON'S NEW MARVEL.

    The story of how Edison discovered the process of transforming low-grade non-Bessemer ores into high-grade Bessemer ores is in itself a small romance. ...

    Article : 309 words
  14. THE COUPON SYSTEM.

    Sir,--On behalf of the executive of the Victorian Grocers' Employes' Association, I desire, through the columns of your journal, to recommend shopkeepers' and an ...

    Article : 141 words
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