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  2. AT THE CLUB WINDOW.

    Dr. George Brandes, the distinguished Danish literary critic, declares that the Americans 'are telephone slaves. The telephone, the says, robs them of their ...

    Article : 1,382 words
  3. FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    Mr. T. J. K. Bakhap last night returned from the North-West Coast, where, in conjunction with Mr. Plummer, the Launceston candidate for ...

    Article : 78 words
  4. NATURE NOTES.

    The animal possessing the largest heart is the Greenland whale. Its heart is one yard in diameter, and more than three yards round the largest part. ...

    Article : 266 words
  5. HOME REMEDIES FOR STOCK.

    One of the weaknesses in human nature is that it fails to appreciate adequately the commonplace things in life. Often these, although available at little cost ...

    Article : 953 words
  6. TO-DAY'S MEETINGS.

    8 p.m.—Mr. E. Mulcahy, Penguin. 8 p.m.—Mr. L. Atkinson, Longford. 8 p.m.—Mr. D. J. O'Keefe, Gladstone. ...

    Article : 27 words
  7. THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

    Discontent is so infectious that people who habitually allow their discontent to get the' upper hand really ought to be isolated for the benefit of the ...

    Article : 29 words
  8. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 201 words
  9. NOTES AND QUERIES.

    A. G. Webster and Sons, Limited, report having sold at the Hobart rail. way on Wednesday, 1 truck chaff at £3 18s to £4 14s ton. ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. GET OUT OF THE RUT.

    Humiliating as the admission may be, there may be a tendency to remain in the mental rut into which father and grandfather, have put the vast majority of ...

    Article : 158 words
  11. TRAMWAY RETURNS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 286 words
  12. THE MARKETS—LATEST VALUES

    The s. Kakapo shipped to-day for Sydney 9446 bags potatoes, including 794 for Queensland, 2012 bags oats, 98 bags peas, 15 bags turnips, 3711 bags ...

    Article : 74 words
  13. INCREDIBLY FORMIDABLE.

    The mouth of the snail is armed with a very formidable instrument, in the shape of a remarkable saw-like tongue. It resembles a long, narrow ribbon, coiled ...

    Article : 222 words
  14. PIONEERS.

    All must be pioneers who would be free! Trails of old thoughts but backward lead the soul; Follow them. not, but forward turn thy ...

    Article : 186 words
  15. FRUIT MARKETS.

    In the Western Market to-day Tasmanian apples sold at from 3s to 6s per Case. ...

    Article : 18 words
  16. MRS. GARDINER FUND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 17 words
  17. INTERSTATE QUOTATIONS.

    Wheat was firmer, prices being from 4s 6d to 4s 6½d. Flour, £9 15s; bran, £6 5s; pollard, £6 10s. Barley sold at 3s to 3s 9d. Cape was firm at 2s 6d to ...

    Article : 271 words
  18. LESSONS OF WAR.

    In the event of these being a big naval battle between British and German fleets. apart from the keen national interest which will be taken in the ...

    Article : 803 words
  19. BEACONSFIELD COMPETITIONS.

    The annual competitions in connection with the Methodist Church were opened at Beaconsfield. on Tuesday night by the Rev. Mr. Higgs, Who, in the ...

    Article : 493 words
  20. AS STUPID AS A—HORSE.

    Mr. E. T. Brewster says that the horse is so stupid that he can be taught anything—any habit, that is—and having no mind to be taken up with his own affairs, ...

    Article : 193 words
  21. REFORM.

    There is on place where a man can make every possible reform, and carry out every noble plan, without outside obstacles. That is in his own heart and ...

    Article : 55 words
  22. IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

    Lieutenant-Colonel H. F. Kellie, who: retires from the command of the 1st, Battalion. Cheshire Regiment, on the completion of his period of service, ...

    Article : 125 words
  23. A SENSE OF PROPORTION.

    The great source of misery to multitudes is the delusion that they are clever. It is alos a very helpful thing to be able to discern the compensations ...

    Article : 140 words
  24. NEW ZEALAND MARKETS.

    Messrs. Reilly, Gill, and Co., Dunedin U(N.Z.), report:—Business for the past week has been practically dead, with the exception of a few lines of produce, such ...

    Article : 183 words
  25. THE ORIGINAL MERMAIDS.

    The manatee is a strange-looking creature, which belongs to a group the rubbers of which are decreasing year by year. Manatees are found in and neat ...

    Article : 131 words
  26. EARL'S COMING-OF-AGE.

    The coming-of-ago of the Earl of Air. lie recalls a tragic incident of the South African war, the young Earl having succeeded to the title upon his father ...

    Article : 152 words
  27. EARN IT.

    If you crave a word of cheer, Earn it; If you sigh for glory here, Earn it. ...

    Article : 86 words
  28. THEIR OWN SURGEONS.

    Animals, when wild, constantly die a lingering death from injury to the skin, whether caused, as usually happens in tropical countries, by wounds aggravased ...

    Article : 139 words
  29. THE ENGLISH MARKETS.

    Wheat—Wheat is steady and unchanged. Sellers offer sparingly. There is very little bidding for Australian spot at 44s. Flour.—Flour is quite, Australian ...

    Article : 92 words
  30. EVERYDAY PLEASURES.

    Men need to realise the raw material for happiness lies just at hand all the time" if they will but reach out and take it. Gold can be refined out of the dust ...

    Article : 354 words
  31. PRESIDENT OF THE R.C.S.

    The new President of the Royal College' of Surgeons is Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Watson Cheyne, Bart. Sir William was born rather more than ...

    Article : 104 words
  32. ALL THAT CONCERNED HIM.

    Mr. Latehours, who belongs to several clubs, walked into the police station. "I hear," he said to the sergeant at the desk, "that you have caught the burglar ...

    Article : 110 words
  33. AN ARTFUL CRAB.

    Crabs, and especially tropical crabs, are often overgrown with seaweed which by assimilating them to the bottom hides them from enemies and their ...

    Article : 102 words
  34. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

    The war is not causing any stoppage in the admission of new members to the Loyal Cornwall Lodge, No. 1. 'he usual batch of candidates was admitted at the ...

    Article : 257 words
  35. AN ASTRONOMER'S LIFE-WORK.

    After labouring at the famous Yerkes Observatory since it began operations a in 1898, Professor .S. W. Burnham has retired on a pension in his 17th year. ...

    Article : 135 words
  36. Advertising

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    Advertising : 240 words
  37. THAT DANGEROUS HACKING COUGH.

    That "dangerous hacking cough" cannot be cured unless the internal irritation that provokes the cough is removed and the torn membranes repaired and ...

    Article : 168 words
  38. PEDIC POMADE FOR THE HEAD.

    Strikes infesting vermin dead. One application destroys vermin, kills nits, heals sores, cures ringworm, end makes the hair grow thick, strong, and curly. Kills lice ...

    Article : 70 words
  39. LOVE OR HATE.

    Two great nations. which touch so nearly in Asia sad over so large an extent as Great Britain and Russia do, have a choice of only two sets of ...

    Article : 53 words
  40. TRUTH.

    Veracity might seen of On virtues, to have the most plausible claim to being natural, since, in the absence of motives to the contrary, speech, usually ...

    Article : 225 words
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