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  2. INTERNATIONAL SPORT.

    There is a new interest in international sport sweeping around the world to-day. There is no nation that is not striving, according to the system of society which ...

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  3. DENIZENS OF THE BOSH.

    "Cornstalk" (Merredin) says that when in Queensland he once found a nest in an ant-hill. "The builders," he writes, "were kingfishers, as I afterwards learnt, ...

    Article : 1,651 words
  4. FAR AND NEAR.

    Two women students at the Royal Veterinary College, Camden Town, will shortly become the only women veterinary in London and probably the ...

    Article : 1,568 words
  5. FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY.

    There is a mellow account book, lying in the State Treasury whose faded-ink records (and not very faded at that) are full of interest. They go right back to ...

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  6. PERTH'S ARCHITECTURE.

    I am always afraid that one of these days an engineering expert will say that the Perth Town Hall tower must be nulled down. Even if he never says that ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,476 words
  7. MIDLAND RAILWAY.

    A few years ago, far up above the roar of London's traffic, I was seated in a well-equipped office talking with another man about that belt of country that runs ...

    Article : 1,650 words
  8. CHILD GARDENS.

    People often say that Perth is such a small place that everyone's business is known to everyone else. It is not true. What is true is that, unless they ...

    Article : 1,598 words
  9. THE GREAT COMET OF 1843.

    Among the dozen or so of comets that are classed as the great comets of modern times, that which appeared in 1843 was probably the most magnificent. It was ...

    Article : 602 words
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    Writing in Chambers's Journal, a correspondent suggests a solution as to the origin of the place-name Rotten Row, in Hyde Park. He says: "Edward Walford, ...

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    What is the oldest bottle of port wine in existence? Probably one which forms part of the collection of historical relics belonging to Devonshire House, ...

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    A London paper prints a curious story in connection with the Funeral of Charles Darwin, the eminent scientist: "An old oak colfin had stood for years in the corner ...

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    One of George Robey's "After Dinner Stories": "In the suburbs of Manchester, there is a glue factory, with a rather obnoxious smell, A lady who was often ...

    Article : 121 words
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