Articles from page 3: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. Sundries

    Always believe in farming so long as it pays. Always blanket the warm horse standing int he wind. ...

    Article : 235 words
  3. Sketcher.

    Mr. Goschen once made, and announced to the world, a startling discovery. In the course of one of his speeches he stated that the increase of consumption of tobacco in ...

    Article : 1,104 words
  4. Humour.

    Many a girl who marries for leisure repents in haste. A good blow tells even when a yacht beats another. ...

    Article : 672 words
  5. Here and There

    The author of ''Bulgaria B fore tb War" says that the Turks devote to sleep a[?]spare half hour that may happen to be at their disposal. At night, he says, all his companions ...

    Article : 563 words
  6. ENGLISH THE WORLD-SPEECH.

    Dr. Schroer advocates making the study of English obligatory, not necessarily to the exclusion of the classical tongues, but at least in conjunction with them. 'This,' ...

    Article : 459 words
  7. The Sacred Mountain of Japan.

    Gotemba is the starting-point for the ascent of Fujiyama, which may to made at any time during July or August, when the rein-houses on the mountain are open, and ...

    Article : 503 words
  8. A HERMIT NATION.

    Buried deep in the heart of Asia, and separated from the burning plains of India and from the populous regions of China by stupendous ranges of snowy mountains, ...

    Article : 1,094 words
  9. THE WAY WE WRITE.

    About the year 450 R.C. the Ionians introduced the present system of writing from left to right. Previous to that date the custom was to ran from right to left. At ...

    Article : 109 words
  10. The Traveller.

    Juan Fernandez, or Mas-a-Tierra, a rook, bound, sea-girt islet in the Pacific Ocean, is the real Robinson Crusoe's island. For here did that hardy buccaneer, Alexander ...

    Article : 184 words
  11. Art and Literature

    Thoughtful women almost always spring from households which in some form or other have known trouble, menetary or domestic, --the pressure of circumstances without, or ...

    Article : 782 words
  12. Debt.

    It was debt that caused Leod Byron the humiliation of seeing his house more that once invaded by the bailiffs, and, to use his own phrase, 'his household gods shivered ...

    Article : 166 words
  13. The Curiosities of Cath-Taking.

    A Chinese witness on entering the box immediately knelt down, and a china saucer having been handed to him he, still to the same posture, smashed it against the rail. ...

    Article : 837 words
  14. THE FOOD OF PRE HISTORIC AMERICANS FOUND

    Primitive man could scarcely have entered North America anywhere outside of the Arctic regions without finding a great variety of excellent fool awaiting him. ...

    Article : 981 words
  15. Some Last Words.

    When Boilean was asked, when tying, how he felt, he replied, in the words of Malherbe, 'Je suis vaincu,temps, je cede a see outrages,' which one might well do at ...

    Article : 201 words
  16. Varieties.

    A writer has figured that an average of 27,000 widowers remarry, as against 18,500 widows. The French War Office cow accepts ...

    Article : 837 words
  17. Death and Sleep.

    The angel of Sleep and the angel of Death were hovering over the earth in fraternal embrace. It was evening. They alighted upon a lofty mountain, not far from the ...

    Article : 439 words
  18. A STORY OF THE SEA.

    Mr Snow in his reminiscences, which he unfortunately never finished, tells in commotion with his sufferings a gruesome tale of a sea-monster, who flogged his apprentice so ...

    Article : 314 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$