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  2. FARM, STATION, AND DAIRY.

    There are many pests and troubles which afflict the Australian farmer. in common with his fellows all over the world. He has to contend with rust, smuts, and other fungus diseases on ...

    Article : 1,999 words
  3. THE ARMORED TRAIN.

    Armored trains are at present somewhat under a cloud. It has been found that they are rather dangerous to those who manage them and really accomplish very little good. The troops in an armored train are at the mercy of any Boers who succeed in tearing up the railway metals, and the British soldiers are in greater danger within the train than they would be on the open veldt. The above is a photograph taken inside one of the last armored trains to go north from Estcourt. It shows exactly how the interior of the tram looks and how closely the men are ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 163 words
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  5. THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

    "Amateur." -- The reason of your rose cuttings not rooting, after having started into growth, is either because you have chosen the wrong class of cuttings, or that the weather has been unpropitious at the most critical stage ...

    Article : 1,308 words
  6. POULTRY.

    (Inquiries must be received not later than Thursday to be answered in the following Saturday's issue.) "Constant Reader," Carlingford. -- 1. As a general rule, in mating it is better to have the drake younger than ...

    Article : 1,291 words
  7. HUMOR.

    Village Doctor: "And what do you intend to make of tills little man, Mrs. Brisket?" Proud mother: "Butcher, sir. "E's bound to be a butcher. Why, 'e's that fond o' animals ...

    Article : 162 words
  8. DEPRESSING EFFECT OF THE WAR.

    T. P. O'Connor, writing on December 9 about the war, says: -- "It strikes me that the terrible business is affecting the spirits of everybody; and the highest in station as well as the lowliest ...

    Article : 334 words
  9. THE LIBRARIAN AND THE POET.

    A correspondent of the "Outlook" recalls an amusing specimen of "how the circulating libraries encourage the public taste." Some eighteen months ago (says the correspondent) my ...

    Article : 183 words
  10. FULL INSIDE.

    "I believe," said the tender-hearted Dutchman, "that after the war is over we shall see an era of universal peace in South Africa; we shall, I am more than convinced, see the British lion ...

    Article : 63 words
  11. THE ORCHARD.

    Cherries will now have been all gathered, excepting the very latest varieties, and in the latest districts. The trees should now be gone over, and all branches that may have been broken in the ...

    Article : 406 words
  12. THE GENTLE ART OF INSINUATION.

    "Jock, come in to your parritch," cried Mrs. M'Pherson to the cowboy, "or the files 'ill a' droon in the milk." "Nae fear o" that, they'll wade through it," ...

    Article : 69 words
  13. NOT AN EASY TASK.

    A new military prison chaplain was recently appointed in a certain town in Scotland. He was a man who greatly magnified his office and, entering one of the cells on his first round of ...

    Article : 148 words
  14. "LET NOT YOUR RIGHT HAND KNOW WHAT YOUR LEFT HAND DOETH."

    Sir, -- The Railway Commissioners have given us a striking illustration of the above within the last week. Anyone travelling to Redfern station on Sunday last was struck with the great ...

    Article : 351 words
  15. BULLER'S PRESS CENSOR.

    The best-abused man in South Africa (writes "M.A.P.") will soon be Major Jones, of the Wiltshire Regiment, who is the principal press censor to Sir Redvers Duller. There are clear symptoms ...

    Article : 385 words
  16. NOT TO BE "HAD."

    A party was being shown over tho British Museum. In one of the rooms the keeper pointed out a collection of antique vases, which had been recently dug up at Hereulaneum. ...

    Article : 123 words
  17. NO BETTER THAN A BOER.

    At Manchester recently the proprietor of a travelling exhibition was loudly inviting the pubic to "be in time." and offering, as an inducement, to present each child in the audience with ...

    Article : 94 words
  18. CURIOUS TRADE NOTICES.

    Among amusing and interesting trade notices the following are as good as any we have heard for some time: -- Mr. Farr, a. tobacconist, recently started ...

    Article : 102 words
  19. HE GOT THE JOB.

    A Brighton hotel manager employed a [?]y man going by the name of "Bill' to do his window washing. One morning Bill, instead of doing his work, was amusing himself by reading ...

    Article : 253 words
  20. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN.

    A small sowing of carrots will now have every chance of being successful, owing to the late rains. Carrots will make the finest and best- flavored roots if grown in a sandy loam that has ...

    Article : 226 words
  21. A COMPLIMENT TO BRITISH GUNNERS.

    The German Emperor, as all the world knows, has a mind stored with universal knowledge, and among other things he has studied the British army an fond. It was at his special desire that ...

    Article : 159 words
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  23. AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL.

    The strain caused by the war on the Arsenal authorities at Woolwich, has been so great that double time has been the order of the day. Happily, the outbreak of hostilities did not find those ...

    Article : 139 words
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  25. SAID IN A JOKE.

    The Rev. Dr. Lindsay Alexander once told me following story: -- There resided in Peebles-shire a half-witted sort of man who had a notion that he was rather religious, and who was in the ...

    Article : 167 words
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