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  2. THE FUTURE OF THE EMPIRE.

    SIR,—The tremendous imports of food into England have almost annihilated her agriculture and left her dependent upon foreign supplies. Competition in shipping ...

    Article : 801 words
  3. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

    My Dear Children,—I think it is about time you had a column to yourselves every Saturday, and as our kind editor thinks the same, he has asked me to try and amuse ...

    Article : 127 words
  4. THE HUM OF THE CITY.

    Justpieced together by Lord Salisbury,gives unalloyed satisfaction to alt of those old colonists whom one hears chatting about it in the market places of the city. The other ...

    Article : 414 words
  5. THE SIGHTS OF LONDON.

    London is acknowledged to be the city of the world, and rightly so, for where will you find in any other part of the civilized world a city with between five and seven ...

    Article : 920 words
  6. FLAX CULTURE.

    The following is the text of the paper on the cultivation of flax read by Mr G. Smith at the last meeting of the Ballarat A. and P. Society:— ...

    Article : 1,595 words
  7. SELECTED POETRY.

    Home—but not to thee, sweet, Aa so oft before; Home—but home to thee, sweet, Never, nevermore. ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. BACCHUS . MARSH RE-DIS-COVERED.

    At the edge of the plateau we stretched ourselves down to enjoy the beauty and variety of the scene. Not far below us the miocene formation again cropped out, and ...

    Article : 1,264 words
  9. ENIGMAS.

    1.—Name 10 authors from the following; —‘I rang the bell and ordered my tonic (1), which was immediately brought by my cellarman (2) I told him I intended to ...

    Article : 227 words
  10. ALL ALONG THE RIVER.

    Everybody in Trelaseo and in the neighborhood seemed glad to see Colonel Disney again. All the best propie within driving distance came bearing down upon the ...

    Article : 2,402 words
  11. DISGUISED FLOWERS. 4. KUSRLRAP. 5. KBCOMSOCC. 6. WICSOPL.

    Our school was a rising one, and had been gradually becoming stronger in rowing and cricket. The bowling and batting of our captain, and the quick eye and hand of our ...

    Article : 302 words
  12. THE COMING EXHIBITION.

    There is a little school of cranks somewhere who argue that genius should not deserve the admiration of a people, or be immortalised in song and story. And ...

    Article : 368 words
  13. THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE.

    Hark to the low wind sighing, So sad, so bleak, so cold; It comes like the voice of a wailing ghost, Full of misery untold. ...

    Article : 178 words
  14. SEVEN POUNDS IN ONE WEEK.

    Not every man who is thin would thank you for fattening him. He doesn’t want to be fat, and for very good reasons. Unnecessary fat is a load to carry about; it interferes ...

    Article : 663 words
  15. SIR HENRY BESSEMER.

    Once an English civil servant, has accomplished at least one such silent revolution that is world-wide in its effects. He has presented England with an annual output of ...

    Article : 252 words
  16. HISTORICAL QUESTIONS.

    1. What foreign king was crowned when two years old; had a beard at four; whose hair was grey at fifteen; and was killed at twenty? ...

    Article : 85 words
  17. HEALTH NOTES.

    M. de Chateaubourg describes in 'Medscine Moderns' anew treatment of whooping cough, which consists in injecting subcutaneously two cubic centimetres and a-half ...

    Article : 249 words
  18. THE BALLARAT HOSPITAL.

    Appeals to the public for assistance to carry on its noble work on the same scale as at present while relieving it of some of its heavy burden of debt. lam sore the public ...

    Article : 291 words
  19. USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

    Comets are wandering stars. The word is derived from the Greek coma, hair. The centre or brightest point of a comet is called its nucleus, and the shining train is known as its tail. ...

    Article : 416 words
  20. THE DIVA AND HER PET.

    In an interesting account of an American opera tour with Madame Patti in the May Strand Musical Magazine, Mr Lionel S. Mapleson tells that the famous singer ...

    Article : 312 words
  21. DRUNKENNESS IN AFRICA.

    Drunkenness (says Archdeacon Farrar) is considered in Africa a European fashion, and in spite of the grief of the native authorities, this crying injury to a perishing ...

    Article : 188 words
  22. A BELLAMY COLONY.

    It may not be generally known that there is a Bellamy colony near Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. It has been in existence now nearly three years, and is said to have in ...

    Article : 114 words
  23. MISS JULIET WRAY.

    One more young, talented, and trained lady has set out from this city to try and capture the mimic world of song and burlesque. I read in The Star that the city of ...

    Article : 117 words
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