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  2. Heifer Attacks Children

    A marvellous escape from being gored to death by a two-year-old heifer was experienced last night by Bessie Rowley, aged about eight years, ...

    Article : 180 words
  3. Beet Sugar Industry

    Dr. Maxwell, the sugar expert, who has just returned to Australia from the United States, has been engaged in the inspection of the experimental beet ...

    Article : 355 words
  4. ROYAL CRADLES.

    All sorts and conditions of people look upon the inhabited cradle as the mos[?] delightful object in the family circle. Consequently, the world and ...

    Article : 900 words
  5. Pastoral & Agricultural

    Many months ago the Government promised that an agricultural high school would he opened in Mildura in January next, and the local shire ...

    Article : 681 words
  6. THE NEED OF SLEEP.

    It is probable that the effect of night on individuals differs greatly, and that a process of natural selection is continually at work, men who ...

    Article : 350 words
  7. GENERAL NEWS.

    An invention having for its object the enabling of railway trains to pass from one gauge to another has been brought under the notice of Mr. C. E. ...

    Article : 1,021 words
  8. AN OVERWORKED ELOCUTIONIST

    Once there was a little boy, whose name was Robert Recce, And every Friday afternoon he had to speak a piece. ...

    Article : 231 words
  9. From Various Sources

    "Henry,” asked Mrs. Jorkins, “what’s the matter with those sausages? You haven’t even tasted the one I gave you. Something’s wrong. ...

    Article : 1,275 words
  10. Harvest in Riverina.

    Notwithstanding the dry weather during November, the harvest throughout Eastern Riverina is turning out wonderfully, well, and in many cases ...

    Article : 282 words
  11. THE PASSING OF THE SHEEP.

    At a very early hour one morning, in Florence, I lay half asleep, when the bleating of a sheep brought [?]me quickly to my senses, and I ...

    Article : 343 words
  12. THOUGHTS FOR YOUNG MEN.

    A man can always climb to the heights he can see—if he will. It is hard to think and many shrink from the pain of it; but if a young ...

    Article : 241 words
  13. After Sixteen Years.

    After an extraordinary delay of 16 years, a letter, addressed to a business firm at Fitzroy, and posted at the General Post Office, was delivered ...

    Article : 121 words
  14. VICISSITUDES OF AUTHORS’ MANUSCRIPTS.

    Whilst the world of literature is occasionally overjoyed by the discovery of some old manuscript which had been deemed irrecoverably lost, there are ...

    Article : 486 words
  15. Fowl Cholera

    Messrs. H. V. Hawkins, Government poultry expert and lecturer, and Mr. Marshall, assistant to Dr. Brown of the bacteriological department, ...

    Article : 127 words
  16. 'BY THE WORKS YE SHALL KNOW THEM."

    One day an unknown lady in distress called at the studio of G. F. Watts, the famous painter. She explained that she was an American ...

    Article : 259 words
  17. LINCOLN’S PROMISE.

    Once, when Lincoln was a member of the United States Congress, according to a well-known story, a friend criticised, him for his seeming ...

    Article : 174 words
  18. Sensational Capsize.

    A few days ago a serious bay fatality was narrowly averted. H.M.S. Paluma had got opposite the Red Bluff, near St. Leonards, and had sent out ...

    Article : 188 words
  19. Women Inebriates.

    Commissioner Hay, as the outcome of reports made to him by Salvation Army social work officers, has decided to open a large home in Melbourne for ...

    Article : 162 words
  20. A SWARM OF HOUSEHOLD B'S.

    Be careful. Care prevents many dropped stitches and bad breaks. Be careful. Be prompt. Slackness makes ...

    Article : 442 words
  21. A MATTER OF MOOD.

    The great millionaire was entertaining, at his country house, some friends of his boyhood; and he allowed the conversation to drift into the channel ...

    Article : 270 words
  22. WHAT MODERN SCIENTISTS CANNOT FIND OUT.

    What was the combination of metals from which the Egyptians, Aztecs and inhabitants of Peru manufactured their tools and arms? Though ...

    Article : 247 words
  23. Woman Defends Herself

    A remarkable shooting affair is reported from Kellerberrin, near Perth (W.A.). The wife of Mr. Robert Wolfe, a squatter, was, in the absence of her ...

    Article : 138 words
  24. The Dairying Industry

    What is claimed to be a record price for milking cows was obtained at the Melbourne corporation market, when a leading firm of auctioneers sold, on ...

    Article : 215 words
  25. TREATMENT FOR SPRAIN.

    A method of treatment strongly advocated by the "Hospital” for sprains of the ankle, in preference to the usual plan of rest and elevation, is that of ...

    Article : 99 words
  26. Remedy.

    Mix the following proportions:— Three-quarters of a pint of strong commercial sulphuric acid in a gallon of water. Add the acid slowly to the ...

    Article : 156 words
  27. THE FIRST OF THE “GLIDERS."

    Who was the first of the “gliders,” that school of aeronauts of which the Wright Brothers are such famous exponents? The answer will probably ...

    Article : 193 words
  28. A Wife Attacked.

    A sensational occurrence took place at Katanning, an agricultural town on the Great Southern railway line, 236 miles from Perth. A man named ...

    Article : 138 words
  29. FROM THREE HEADS OF WHEAT.

    Nearly a century ago David Fife a Scotsman who had emigrated to Canada, sent to a friend in Glasgow for a small bag of seed wheat to try in a ...

    Article : 162 words
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