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  2. Educated Ears.

    In course of time the telegraphist's ear becomes marvellously acute. The slightest variation in time or sound is as plain to him as a dropped note to a musician. Any good operator ...

    Article : 296 words
  3. FUNNY BITS.

    Bacon: I suppose, like most women, your wife wants the earth? Egbert Well, yes ; but I have learnt that she doesn't want it on her best carpet. ...

    Article : 1,573 words
  4. LITERARY NOTES.

    Mr. Leslie Stephen intends writing a life of George Eliot. An edition of "Shakespeares" in 20 volumes, illustrated, is about to be ...

    Article : 1,557 words
  5. RELIGION AND TEMPERANCE

    Dr. Dunne has been consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst by Cardinal Moran, who was assisted in the ceremony by the Bishops of Maitland, Lismore. ...

    Article : 1,485 words
  6. A RUBY FROM THE SEA

    An hour or so later, also took my departure My interest in the surroundings had vanished, and I was in that reckless mood wherein a man invariably finds ...

    Article : 1,386 words
  7. Ladies It You Were Men -What Then ?

    An interesting and amusing hobby (says a writer in Pearson’s Weekly,) is to beep by you an autography book, and devote half of it to the ladies, and the other to gentlemen, to ...

    Article : 875 words
  8. The Art of longevity.

    According to Louis Comoro, who wrote at some length upon the art of prolonging life, we oat far more than is good for us, the result being that instead of our food supporting us we ...

    Article : 276 words
  9. Where You Wear A High Hat.

    One of the indications of the proable disrupt tion of the Austrian Empire at no distant date, on the death of the present sovereign, for instance, is the antipathy of the Czechs to the ...

    Article : 238 words
  10. Divorce Laws in The United. States.

    There is a charming variety about the divorce laws of the United Slates of America probably unrivalled in those of any other country. The following are a few grounds on which divorce ...

    Article : 155 words
  11. A Spider in A Balloon.

    It is a common notion that spiders can fly and many people will aver that they have seen them, fly over a piece of water from a flower in the centre. What happens is really this : ...

    Article : 241 words
  12. Adequate Grounds.

    At one time (says a correspondent) the cricket club to which I belonged used to hold annually althletic sports, consisting of hurdle races, steeplechase, also flat races. These races were run ...

    Article : 118 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,425 words
  14. But His Stumps Hadn’t.

    During the cricket match at Old Trafford between the rival Roses a number of spectatorwere chaffing each other about the merits of certain players. ...

    Article : 128 words
  15. A FREE VETERINARY BOOK.

    We learn that a most useful Veterinary Book is attached to every bottle of Condy’s Fluid. This Book contains instructions for curing most of the ailments and accidents ...

    Article : 1,382 words
  16. When It Rains Indian Ocean

    When the rain fails on your high hat, or descends just as you are about to go out for a pleasant trip, you don't care a brass farthing where that rains comes from. But when you are ...

    Article : 96 words
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