Articles from page 7: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. FIRES THAT NEVER GO OUT.

    In Siam is a fire that not only lasts for years, hut has what have been aptly termed "lineal descend-dants." It is to he found in a Bud- ...

    Article : 400 words
  3. FREIGHT JUMPING.

    To escape mutilation and possible death twice within a few hours is an experience not easily forgotten, and to-day, 25, years afterwards, the sud- ...

    Article : 663 words
  4. AT A DANCE.

    At public balls, and occasionally at dances given in private houses in the country, the guests are supplied with programmes, to each of which is at- ...

    Article : 596 words
  5. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

    In the year 1881 I was employed at one of the principal Loco. Stations in the Eastern Counties as an engine fitter. One day I had been repairing ...

    Article : 623 words
  6. A GOLD GALL.

    In negro households, especially in communities where negroes form a large portion of the population, it frequently happens that the woman ...

    Article : 192 words
  7. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Prisoners in the Montgomery City Jail, Chicago, are now permitted to go out and fish all day. A mail steamer with a speed of ...

    Article : 655 words
  8. HOW TO TACKLE A VICIOUS HORSE.

    It was at my own home in Proserpine, Queensland, that I first put a leg over a horse, and after some years spent helping to drove mobs of ...

    Article : 1,398 words
  9. THE LAST SWALLOW.

    All day he had heard the twitter of the gathering swallows on the telegraph-wires outside, hut his mother had fed him just the same; ...

    Article : 759 words
  10. LEGAL TERMS.

    The lawyer is a person who habitually talks In legal phraseology, and I quite believe he walks ...

    Article : 364 words
  11. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    There is at least on© country in the world where it costs nothing to die. In some of the cantons ol Switzerland all the dead., rich as "well ...

    Article : 432 words
  12. KNOWS HOW HE LOOKS.

    A man, hut lately married, went out to post a letter, and as the lamps had not been lit in the suburban road in which he dwelt, he ...

    Article : 289 words
  13. A FAMOUS MILLAIS.

    We all remember the joke in "Punch," where 'Arry, face to face with a gorgeous sunset, exclaims to his friend, "What a crib from Tur- ...

    Article : 530 words
  14. THE GAMP LANGUAGE.

    There is a language of umbrellas as of flowers. For instance, place your umbrella in a rack, and it will often indicate that it will change ...

    Article : 490 words
  15. NINE LIVES.

    He sat him down with a fountain pen, And of paper a ream or two; And started a story of three had ...

    Article : 172 words
  16. NO KEY FOR TIMMINS.

    "The other night," remarked Mr. Timmins, deferentially, after, he had waited two hours for an opening, "Brown was going home when he ...

    Article : 373 words
  17. THE MASTER MIND.

    "What I want to know is," said the proprietor of the Village Arms to the great lion tamer, who was in the bar, "how you have the nerve to ...

    Article : 242 words
  18. HANDED HIM THE LAUREL.

    The Prevaricators' Society af Ballarat and Woolloomooloo was proceeding in peace and harmony, till the snake-story man spoke. "Some ...

    Article : 214 words
  19. NO WONDER.

    Mr. Brown,, having bought a new bicycle of the most improved pattern presented his old one to Dennis O'Hara, who did errands and odd ...

    Article : 171 words
  20. A BATTLE OF WITS.

    A city clerk with a reputation for wit, while passing 'along a crowded thoroughfare, accompanied by some friends, noticed an oyster stall dis- ...

    Article : 139 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$