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  2. That Electric Bell.

    " Is our door bell an electric bell?" queried Mrs. Bowser the other evening after tucking up young Bowser for the night. "Out of order again, I suppose?" growled ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  3. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    [Some readers who have been kind enough to send in contributions for this column evidently do not understand that only bush songs are wanted. The majority of so-called songs sent in are simply poems, ...

    Article : 247 words
  4. Electrical Fact.

    The flash of lightning which recently struck the new Palace of Potsdam may be congratulated on a measure of tact and consideration seldom seen in connection with the electric ...

    Article : 82 words
  5. Facts and Fancies.

    The trouble with the blessing in disguise is that we can't see it. The farmer is one man who succeeds by running his business into the ground. ...

    Article : 995 words
  6. Stump Speeches.

    Just after the last Russo-Turkish war the author of " An Englishman in Paris" happened to have some business to transact with a wellknown maker of surgical appliances, and, ...

    Article : 89 words
  7. SONG OF THE SQUATTER.

    The subjoined is one of the " Songs of the Squatters," written by the Hon. Robert Lowe (afterwards Viscount Sherbrooke), while resident in New South Wales. The Commissioner bet me a pony—I won; ...

    Article : 481 words
  8. Another Deadly Weapon.

    A professor in one of the principal colleges in Paris has proposed to the French Minister of War that large blowflies should be bred and kept in large cages, being fed upon blood ...

    Article : 120 words
  9. A Rich Snore.

    Lord Aberdeen once left London at midnight in a sleeping-car for the north. In the morning he saw a stranger opposite him. " Excuse me," said the stranger, " may I ask if you are ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. They Objected.

    In the days of the First Empire the Paris students formed a cabal against the dramatist Lemercier. One first night the disturbance was reported to Napoleon, who gave orders for ...

    Article : 112 words
  11. LICENSE HUNTING TO-DAY.

    AIR.—" The Gay Cavalier." The morning was fine, The sun brightly did shine, And the diggers were working away; ...

    Article : 220 words
  12. A Powder Keg Duel.

    Some four years before the War of Independence Putnam offended a haughty regular officer (who looked upon the provincials with contempt) by asserting that the latter were as ...

    Article : 254 words
  13. THE BUSHMAN'S FAREWELL.

    Queensland, thou art a land of pests, For flies and fleas one never rests; E'en now mosquitoes round me revel, In fact they are the very devil; ...

    Article : 234 words
  14. A Good Mark.

    Though military experts speak in terms of high praise of the soldierly qualities and drill of the Chinese artillery and infantry, especially those of Manchoo blood, who have inherited ...

    Article : 252 words
  15. Death on Teeth.

    A dentist who died in a rural town in England, some time ago, had made it a hobby to keep all the teeth which he had drawn in the course of his professional career. His ...

    Article : 104 words
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