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  2. GOLD MINING IN EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN.

    Hundreds of European and American tourists in pursuit of health or pleasure, now travel on the Nile, between Cairo and Assouan, every ...

    Article : 549 words
  3. AUSTRALIAN TOPICAL ARTICLE.

    If the question were asked, “What is the more pressing need of Australia at the present time,” the answer of ninety people out of a ...

    Article : 1,223 words
  4. THE DOG AND THE WHISKY.

    On board of a sleep that the writer served in a magnificent retriever dog had been left by the late captain who had been invalided ...

    Article : 245 words
  5. Bonnie Barbara.

    The September sunshine had been broken all day by heavy clouds and fitful gusts of rain. Summer had been late in Coining, ...

    Article : 2,695 words
  6. A HANDY MAN OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

    I have had an opportunity (writes “Looker-On”) of a chat with a petty officer in the Royal Navy, a native of Birmingham, recently returned ...

    Article : 270 words
  7. SALTING A GOLD MINE.

    “ Lots of people think,” said the grizzled Forty-niner, “ that nowadays ‘salting’ a gold mine is a lost art. Those people were never ...

    Article : 1,139 words
  8. DOES BROWN HAIR DENOTE INDIVIDUALITY.

    From the colour of man’s hair may be learned a good deal in regard to his intellectual ability. Schoolboys with chestnut hair are ...

    Article : 116 words
  9. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Stammering is practically unknown among savage tribes. Herrings bring in £2,900,000 over hall of England’s annual fish take. ...

    Article : 388 words
  10. SHIPWRECKED AT SEA; A TRUE TALE.

    An ocean, liner crossing the Banks in seas that swept the docks sighted a fishing vessel with the flag flying the union down—everywhere the ...

    Article : 510 words
  11. AMUSING SCENE IN A THEATRE.

    A correspondent of a contemporary tells a good story of an eminent tragedian who once played “ King John ” at Leicester. ...

    Article : 306 words
  12. WANTED TO BE CORRECT.

    An Irishman was employed by a builder to carry bricks on condition that he would carry ten bricks in the had every time. ...

    Article : 85 words
  13. A NARROW ESCAPE.

    Some years ago a cou[?] a hardware shop in the North of Ireland town and asked to be supplied with a certain article. An ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. A HIDEOUS DANCE OF DEATH.

    People generally greatly fear the hairy hideous spider, [?] as the [?] and [?] are one of two reported cases of death from its bite ...

    Article : 89 words
  15. AT THE ASSIZES.

    A barrister came into court one day with his [?] caused a general [?] ...

    Article : 15 words
  16. FAR ENOUGH APART.

    A gentleman bought a new variety of potatoes and told [?] be sure and plant them far enough apart [?] ...

    Article : 15 words
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