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  2. THE ROMANCE OF DOR FIRST CENTURY. VIVID & REALISTIC PICTURES OF THE PAST. PART XIV.

    One of the most notable gangs of bushrangers, in the early days of the settlement Df Van Diemen’s Land, was organised and led by a convict named Brady. This fellow ...

    Article : 653 words
  3. They Own Half The Kingdom.

    The largest landowner in Great Britain is that extremely fortunate young nobleman, the Duke of Sutherland. The territorial possessions of this family comprise no less ...

    Article : 1,409 words
  4. TELEGRAPHIC "BULLS."

    The telegraphic supplies of a certain railroad are kept at the small station of K——. situated a few miles from the principal terminus of tho road. One day the ...

    Article : 1,053 words
  5. A SPELLING LESSON.

    The most skilful gauger I ever know was a maligned cobbler, armed with a poniard and a ferule, who drove a pedlar's wagon, using a mellein-stalk as an instrument of coercfon, ...

    Article : 321 words
  6. The Musical Prodigy.

    The amateur Chopin is an interuhtiug study With him rests the musical destiny of those that come after us. When I say those that come after us, I do not refer particularly to ...

    Article : 926 words
  7. NORFOLK ISLAND.

    There is irony in the circumstance that one of the fairest spots on earth was devoted to the reoeption of some of the foulest of human nature; and that, amidst the loveliest ...

    Article : 2,191 words
  8. A TRAMCAR INCIDENT.

    One evening I took my accustomed place in a car returning from town to the suburb in which I dwell. The car was quite full, and a goodly ...

    Article : 507 words
  9. THE BLACK WAR.

    It was, however, not only with the bushrangers the settlers had to deal—the blacks were a terrible nuisance. These poor creatures, who at first made overtures of ...

    Article : 940 words
  10. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    ORANGE MARMALADE.—Take six or eight pounds of bitter oranges, and the same weight of lump sugar. Pare off the yellow skins of the oranges, ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. Shrank from the Test.

    'Excuse me, sir,' said the thin railway pas senger-with the sandy side whiskers, ‘but I judge from your conversation that you are Hurlaton, the Modern Hercules?' ...

    Article : 151 words
  12. SAGE—WITHOUT ONIONS.

    Adversity.—A "spill" on the road of life. Youth.—The time for tolerating age. Credulity.—A safe with its door left open. Parliament.—An assembly of talkers, in ...

    Article : 162 words
  13. ADVICE ABOUT MARRIAGE.

    A physician writes to young men as follows:—"My profession has thrown me among women of all classes, and my experience ...

    Article : 179 words
  14. Thinning Down Fat People.

    "Banting," the artifical thinning-down process, is just now a craze in London. Thousands of people are perplexed over the problem of how to rid themselves of superfluous flesh, and ...

    Article : 165 words
  15. ESTEEM YOUR BUSINESS.

    A common trouble with us all is that we fail in our business because we think little of it. No man truly succeeds in any calling who has a poor opinion of it. No ...

    Article : 156 words
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