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  2. TELEGRAPHIC "BULLS."

    The telegraphic supplies of a certain railroad are kept at the small station of K-- situated a few miles from the principal terminus of the road. One day the ...

    Article : 1,101 words
  3. A SPELLING LESSON.

    The most skillful ganger I ever knew was a maligned cobbler armed with a poniard and a ferule, who drove a pedlar's wagon, using a meilein stalk as an instrument of coercion, ...

    Article : 318 words
  4. THE ROMANCE OF OUR FIRST CENTURY.

    One of the most notable gangs of bushrangers, in the early days of the settlement of Van Diemen's, Land was organised and fed by a convict named Brady. This fellow ...

    Article : 615 words
  5. They Own Half The Kingdom.

    The largest landowner in Great Britain is that extremely fortunate young nobleman, the Duke of Sutherland. The territorial possessions of this family comprise no less ...

    Article : 1,462 words
  6. The Musical Prodigy.

    The amateur Chopin is an interesting study with him rests the musical destiny of those that come after us. When I say those that come after us, I do not refer particularly to ...

    Article : 941 words
  7. NORFOLK ISLAND.

    There is irony in the circumstance that one of the fairest spots on earth was devoted to the reception of some of the foulest of human nature; and that, amidst the loveliest ...

    Article : 2,215 words
  8. A TRAMCAR INCIDENT.

    One evening I took my accustomed place fn a car returning from town to the suburb in which I dwell. The car was quite full, and a goodly ...

    Article : 527 words
  9. THE BLACK WAR.

    It was however, not only with the bushrangers the settlers had to deal--the blacks were a terrible nuisance. These poor creatures, who at first made overturns of ...

    Article : 794 words
  10. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    ORANGE MARMALADE.--Take six or eight pounds of bitter oranges, and the same weight of lump sugar. Pare off the yellow skins of the oranges, ...

    Article : 276 words
  11. Shrank from the Test.

    "Excuse me, sir," said the thin railway passenger with the sandy side whiskers, 'but I judge from your conversation that you are Hurlaton, the Modern Hercules?' ...

    Article : 162 words
  12. SAGE--WITHOUT ONIONS.

    Adversity.--A "spill" on the road of life. Youth.--The time for tolerating age. Credulity.--A safe with its door left open. Parliament.--An assembly of talkers, in ...

    Article : 188 words
  13. ADVICE ABOUT MARRIAGE.

    A physician writes to young men as follows:-- "My profession has thrown me among women of all classes, and my experience ...

    Article : 181 words
  14. Thinning Down Fat People.

    "Banting," the artifical thinning-down Process, is just now a craze in London. Thousands of people are perplexed over the problem of how to rid themselves of superfluous flesh, and ...

    Article : 163 words
  15. ESTEEM YOUR BUSINESS.

    A common trouble with us all is that we fail in our business because we think little of it. No man truly succeeds in any calling who has a poor opinion of it. No ...

    Article : 180 words
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