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  2. GENERAL ITEMS.

    Volunteers were first enrolled, in Australia in 1854. The New South Wales Naval Brigade was formed in 1863. ...

    Article : 788 words
  3. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    In a church in the North a wedding was about to take place between a woman of some fifty summers and a “beardless boy,” when the mother of ...

    Article : 191 words
  4. MAIZE CULTURE.

    Some kinds of corn will do better than others on certain soils. I have been experimenting with seed corn for six years, and have a variety that I plant on ...

    Article : 400 words
  5. CHINESE LANGUAGE NOT SO VERY HARD.

    The Chinese is the chief of the monosyllabic group, of languages, to which belong also the Burmese, Th[?]tan, and Corean. It is the most primitive form ...

    Article : 228 words
  6. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    Bismarck, on behalf of the old King William, had once to present the Iron Cross, which corresponds to our Victoria Cross, to a soldier. ...

    Article : 833 words
  7. LIVERPOOL TO AUSTRALIA.

    We left the mouth of the Mersey with a drunken crew as a matter of course.” And when we came to tell off the watches, I made up my mind ...

    Article : 1,682 words
  8. SALVATION BY FAITH.

    “To-day” has a good story of a certain candidate for Holy Orders who was told as “a tip.” that his examining bishop ausehed the greatest importance ...

    Article : 169 words
  9. AT THE RELIEF, OF M[?]KING

    What an imperturbable garrison was that shut up and starved in Mafeking. Major Karri Davis and sight men of the Imperial Light Horse rode in after ...

    Article : 234 words
  10. What is Lyddite?

    Recent accounts from the seat of the war in South Africa have shown what a weapon in skilled hands is lyddite. We believe that the preparation of lyddite ...

    Article : 227 words
  11. VERY MUCH MISTAKEN.

    ‘I beg your pardon I thought you were Mr. White.’ ‘So I am.’ ‘Them I am glad to find that when, I ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. A COLONIAL’S IMPRESSION OF THE BOER LANGUAGE.

    The Australian correspondent of the “Daily News,” Mr. A. G. Hales, gives an amusing description of the Boer language. We quote the following ...

    Article : 255 words
  13. AN ARITHMETICAL QUESTION.

    Grocer: ‘What do you want, my boy?’ Boy : One pound of coffee, one-and four ; one pound of sugar two pence; ...

    Article : 107 words
  14. An “Iron Man” Wonder.

    The latest mechanical marvel from America takes the form of an iron man 7½ft. high (or for which) is to start from New York shortly for a trip to ...

    Article : 168 words
  15. SWAGGER ENOUGH FOR ONE.

    A well-known Scottish laird, who is pompons in manner, and never forgets that he is a laird, was the other day walking up and down the Dundee ...

    Article : 89 words
  16. ONLY A REPORTER.

    A short time ago an account was published in a daily paper of the trial of a hulking blackguard for an assault with violence. When he had been sentenced ...

    Article : 57 words
  17. Time is Not Made for the Chinese.

    We have lately had convincing proof that the Chinese do not know, the value, of time, for they, were certainly in no harry to let the world know that ...

    Article : 139 words
  18. KITCHENER AND HIS SOLDIERS.

    It was in providing unusually good rations for his men that Kitchener made his first hit in the Soudan campaign of 1884, and his determination to have the ...

    Article : 204 words
  19. TWO [?]

    Daring the Commonwealth festivities the writer was having his dinner in a [?] in Sydney. On his right hand at the table was ‘yokel’ (in from ...

    Article : 79 words
  20. The Best of Bowlers.

    The following epitaph on a cricketer may be seen in a cemetery, near Salisbury “I bowled, I struck, I caught I ...

    Article : 47 words
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    Penurious Philanthropist (handling halfpenny to smell boy who has been holding his horse for about an hour). ‘There, my lad, there’s something for ...

    Article : 46 words
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