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  2. DEATH OE AN AUSTRALIAN REBEL.

    The famous Eureka stockade, epfsode is brought to mind by the dearth recently of John Lynch, who, as ayoung man of 24, led and drilled the ...

    Article : 197 words
  3. THE KING'S DERBY.

    Who would not gladly change places with the King's candidate for the Derby? Win or lose the life of a horse ...

    Article : 731 words
  4. MEMORY AND MORALS.

    "This seems to me to be a good subject," remarked recently the king of the world's humorists. "You see, everybody has a memory, and, of ...

    Article : 595 words
  5. THE CYCLIST'S SONG.

    Oh it's a joy to be up in the morning when the dew is yet on the And the air is full of sweetness that makes a draught devine; ...

    Article : 152 words
  6. A FLOATING COAL MINE.

    Most people would think, naturally enough, that the obvious way to discharge a coal cargo would be from the top. But, nowadays, it is ...

    Article : 314 words
  7. DEPORTATION "TOMMY TANNA."

    In old Queensland days it was a picturesque and interesting sight to see the returning time-expired Kanaka "boys" clustered together at the ...

    Article : 344 words
  8. BAMBAATA AND "JOHN BULL."

    The Briton is over-prone to despise his enemy, and he has had to swallow some pretty sharp lessons in consequence. The coloured gentleman ...

    Article : 549 words
  9. SOME OCEAN NEWSPAPERS.

    The ocean daily newspaper may be described as a bye-product of wireless telegraphy. Prior to the arrival of Marconi in the world of science, ...

    Article : 849 words
  10. HONEYMOON IN A COAL MINE.

    Mr. and Mrs. Mel Spence, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, chose perhaps the strangest place in the world to spend their honeymoon, through an" ...

    Article : 161 words
  11. CATCHING A WIZARD.

    Japan is the land of Jugglers, and fashionable Japanese always have them at any large entertainment they give. One very clever old man ...

    Article : 252 words
  12. IS THE COLD BATH BENEFICIAL?

    It is just a question whether at the present day there is not a tendency to over-indulgence in cold baths. A cold bath is, of course, a ...

    Article : 360 words
  13. "WHITE COLLARS ONLY"

    William K. Vanderbilt, the American multi-millionaire, was twice refused entrance to the Casino during his visit there. On the day of his ...

    Article : 220 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The first steamer built in England appeared in 1815. The first black-lead pencil was sharpened in 1565. ...

    Article : 371 words
  15. NIAGARA CLAIMED FOR INDUSTRY.

    Considerable interest attaches to the present agitation in the United Stales and Canada, says the "Electrical Magazine." as to what shall ...

    Article : 393 words
  16. WILL FOUND IN A GARTER.

    Despatches from Montreal describe how a will made by one Jules Chambord 70 years ago has been found in a garter worn by his bride, and ...

    Article : 373 words
  17. NO HURRY!

    All innocent-looking little boy accosted a portly old gentleman in the street one day, and asked: "If yon please will yon tell me ...

    Article : 196 words
  18. PRINCE’S VALUABLE FEATHERS.

    The apex of the Prince of Wales’s crown is a tuft of feathers tipped with gold, said to be worth £10,000 The feathers took twenty years to ...

    Article : 118 words
  19. LAZY! THEN DONT VISIT HOLLAND.

    The man who is too lazy to work keeps out of Holland if he is wise, or makes his escape as soon as he discovers that there, at least, a ...

    Article : 180 words
  20. SAILOR AND CARVING KNIFE.

    To celebrate the return of the Prince and Princess from India a well-known naval officer gave a sort of informal supper-party to certain ...

    Article : 114 words
  21. THE HORSES OF THE LLANDOS.

    In describing the rich resources and the vast extent of half developed, or almost entirely undeveloped, country belonging to Brazil, the traveller ...

    Article : 191 words
  22. A POLAR BEAR AND HER CUBS.

    A party of whalers once chased a female bear and two cubs across a field of ice. The mother, anxious for her children, ran ahead every now ...

    Article : 160 words
  23. HUGH’S EWE WILL AMUSE YOU.

    My one and only darling Ewe, I write these lines beseeching you To have some pity on your Hugh. I really am in love with you, ...

    Article : 139 words
  24. HAPPY THOUGHT.

    There is a very pretty girl, who, with the best of motives and most kind intent, is generally, as she herself expresses it, "in a mess." To ...

    Article : 107 words
  25. THE WORLD'S CABLES.

    There are at the present time about 225,000 miles of electric cables lying on the bottom of the sea. Each line has cost on the average about £200 ...

    Article : 87 words
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