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  2. FORTY YEARS AGO.

    It was about this time in the month of July nearly 40 years ago that the whole of Australia was appalled by a shipping disaster fearful in detail. ...

    Article : 737 words
  3. A PEASANT MILLIONAIRE.

    Johann Bagi, the peasant millionaire, of Hungary, never dropped the old patr[?] custom of presiding at table, around which the men and women and boys of his great ...

    Article : 749 words
  4. JAMES STANBURY.

    By the time the sun sets on Saturday next James Stanbury, one time champion of the sculling world, but who has for years almost allowed his name to sink into oblivion, will ...

    Article : 825 words
  5. FACING DEATH.

    It is announced in the American papers that Carlisle D. Graham has made an agreement with William J. Glover, jun., of Baltimore, to race through the Whirlpool rapids ...

    Article : 1,177 words
  6. THUMBS UP!

    We pay 7s 6d each week for the best paragraph for this column sent in by our readers. Contributors must write on one aide of the paper only, and each paragraph must bear the name and address of the sender. In case the paragraph is copied, the name of the paper from which it is taken should be given. Any item sent in may be used, ...

    Article : 2,233 words
  7. ROYAL MARRIAGES.

    That much-vexed question as to whether early marriages are advisable or inadvisable evidently troubles Royal personages but very little, for while statistics go to prove that ...

    Article : 883 words
  8. MR. G. W. WHATMORE.

    The erstwhile crack amateur cyclist, who is the originator of the successful motor boat club movement in Sydney. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  9. LORD LOCH.

    Son of the late ex-Governor of Victoria, who was recently married in London to Lady Margaret Compton. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 19 words
  10. WHEN GEORGE ELIOT VISITED FLORENCE.

    When, not very long before her death, George Eliot paid her second visit to Florence--her first visit having been made some years previously, in order to collect ...

    Article : 214 words
  11. REAR-ADMIRAL MIS[?]

    The only Japanese Admiral wounded in the great naval battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese annihilated the Baltic Fleet. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  12. LADY LOCH.

    Nee Lady Margaret Compton. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 8 words
  13. AUSTRALIANS AT COURT.

    Amongst those present at Their Majesties' Court at Buckingham Palace on June 2 (says an English paper) were Mr. E. W. Wallington, in attendance on the Prince of Wales, ...

    Article : 403 words
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  15. CHAUNCEY DEPEW.

    One of the best-known men in the United States. Declined the position of Secretary of State in 1892. He is the chairman of several big railway companies, and a director ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 90 words
  16. LADY MARY LYGON.

    Lady Mary Lygon, so popular in and around Strathearn, succeeded in being almost startling on her wedding day. Green and pearls for her wear and May for her ...

    Article : 46 words
  17. KING ALFONSO.

    King Alfonso, England's recent Royal visitor, who turned 19 in May last, has attracted the sympathetic interest of all Europe ever since his birth. A tall, slight, rather ...

    Article : 214 words
  18. UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.

    A prominent United States lawyer says that many years ago he went West, but as he got no clients and stood a good chance of starving to death, he decided to come East again. ...

    Article : 177 words
  19. A BRIDE OF 96.

    Mrs. Francis Vincent, formerly Mrs. Annie Harvey. Mrs. Annie Harvey, a widow of 96, married Mr. Francis Russell Vincent, a widower of 86, at Penzance, the other day. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 72 words
  20. SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

    Has conversation grown less refined? Are we too wedded to cards and sport? Are all our morals the slipshod kind Lately described in a certain court? ...

    Article : 84 words
  21. ON THEIR HONEYMOON.

    Lord Bute started the rumour that he had gone to shoot big game in order to avoid congratulations because he was so shy. Now the story goes that he intends to take ...

    Article : 48 words
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