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  2. Women's Ways.

    WHEN a woman "knits her brows" it is probably because she is out of yarn. THE bold young man who tried to kiss the pretty widow says that the power of the widow's smite has been greatly ...

    Article : 398 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 256 words
  4. CORRESPONDENCE.

    SIR,—This is a great and free country. I went out with a friend of mine to spend a few days in the country. We took guns to have a little shooting. We had it. My friend will see out of one ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. A THRONE TO LET.

    IF we were not bloated millionaires and Mallee scrubbers on a grand scale, we should undoubtedly put in an application for the vacant crown of Bulgaria, which seems to have somehow gone a-begging, ...

    Article : 183 words
  6. IN THE SWIM.

    SIR,—Me and some other fellows went out to thoroughly enjoy ourselves this Christmas. We went out picnicking, and as none of us could swim, we, of course, went into bathe. Only one of us was ...

    Article : 89 words
  7. White and Yellow.

    A WILLIAMSTOWN rough, who plundered a Chinaman's garden and wilfully destroyed the poor Celestial's property, got off with the sentence of days. And yet Chinamen cannot understand ...

    Article : 47 words
  8. ON THE BLAZE.

    DEAR SIR,—These holidays are a fraud. My place was burned to the ground. Plenty of firemen about but no water. I wasn't insured.—Yours, in the dumps, ...

    Article : 57 words
  9. Cons.

    HAD the Chaffey Brothers founded their irrigation colony in Victoria what well-known piece of verse would they have illustrated ?—"The way that the water comes down at Lodore." ...

    Article : 82 words
  10. A SATISFIED PARTY.

    Mr. Caraway Bones, undertaker, begs to report, for the benefit of the public that business has been brisk this season. Christmas comes but once a year, but when it comes it brings good cheer. ...

    Article : 37 words
  11. REMNANTS.

    IT is stated that Archer's will will be proved to be a little over £100,000. His infant girl, two years old, receives £40,000, and the rest has been divided amongst his other relatives and friends. Charles Archer, his brother ...

    Article : 1,007 words
  12. A DISSATISFIED PARTY.

    The City Coroner presents his compliments to the holiday-making public, and he thinks they are working him too hard these holidays. There must fewer inquests or more pay ; otherwise, he must ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. Important Telegrams from Russia.

    THE Czar has become insane. He saw one of his aides-de-camp smoking a cigar and came to the conclusion that he was lighting the fuse of a dynamite bomb with his teeth. The Czar drew a ...

    Article : 222 words
  14. Ladys Letter

    MY DEAR ISA,—Since my last letter to you Christmas has passed, with its flood of happy memories. Christmas ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,493 words
  15. A Relationship.

    HE was a very old man, who earned a precarious living as a check-taker at the theatre. One night — it was at Christmas time—a masher interviewed him and said : ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. A Deadly Christmas.

    THE usual greeting in Melbourne is, "How are you popping up ?" Remembering the number of fatal accidents that have occurred during the holidays, one feels that the query should be altered to, " How ...

    Article : 42 words
  17. A Better Title.

    SINCE the celebrated Colin Campbell divorce case has been on the tapis it has been suggested that the nobleman's title might be appropriately altered to Lord Colin Scandal. ...

    Article : 31 words
  18. Cause and Effect.

    IT does seem superfluous to read so often in the papers the line, "A policeman found the body and removed it to the morgue," and then the unnecessary addendum, "there was no money in the ...

    Article : 45 words
  19. Strange but True.

    THE fireworks on the East Melbourne Cricket Ground have given many thousands of spectators great pleasure, and yet they are the works of Pain. THE Sketcher of this month has a picture entitled ...

    Article : 71 words
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