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  2. A PLEASURE TRIP.

    There were four of us, and we were holiday-making. You know what a holiday by the seaside is. You go for rest, for loafs and long smokes to make up for the ...

    Article : 1,305 words
  3. MOONEY, THE CONSPIRATOR.

    One of the most charming and amiable thirst[?] for English gore I ever met was Mooney—whom I have named the Conspirator for reasons which will appear ...

    Article : 529 words
  4. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

    On Monday, 27th November, at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society in the theatre of the University of London. Burlington gardens, Dr John Murray, of the ...

    Article : 202 words
  5. CORNERISMS.

    “The highest [?] of says is to sat what everybody [?] has been thinking [?] a way as to make it news the grea[?] triump[?] of art is to make us [?] poetical side of the [?] ...

    Article : 20 words
  6. MISPLACED SYMPATHY.

    I never could take pleasure in throwing water on a drowned rat, and when I see two dogs fighting my sympathise generally go to the an [?] one I have had little ...

    Article : 709 words
  7. FREEDOM OF CONTRACT IN SICILY.

    R. J. Meath translates from the Corriere della Sera of the 17th of October an article on white slavery in Sicily. He says the facts stated, are so terrible that the ...

    Article : 226 words
  8. WIT AMD HUMOR.

    “Please, ma’am,” said the boy, “can’t you help me? I has to support a wife and three children.” “You? Why, you’re not old enough to be married,” “No; but ...

    Article : 38 words
  9. THE ROMANCE OF THE ROPE.

    Truly, groans and grins are near relations in this queer world of ours. If we take the picture of a laughing child, we find that a little touch of the pencil or brush at the ...

    Article : 300 words
  10. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CONVICT.

    Major Arthur Griffith’s Secrets of the Prison-house,” has just been issued from the press To start with Major Griffiths has many interesting things to say about the ...

    Article : 123 words
  11. A DESCENDANT OF OLIVES CROMWELL.

    A correspondent Ireland, died reference to the death of Mrs Avarilla Oliveria Cromwell Bush, which was announced in the Times on Saturday, 25th November:—“Mrs Bush was ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. A MARVELLOUS MECHANICAL CALCULATOR.

    In our school days we used to have a doggerel verse which expressed the view that Multiplication ...

    Article : 186 words
  13. CHICAGO.

    When the idea of the great American exhibition was started, New York and Chicago had a great battle for the site. It seemed to me then, and it seems to me now, ...

    Article : 369 words
  14. THE UNCROWNED KING OF SOUTH AFRICA.

    “The man of the moment.” Mr Rhodes, who is pictured in the last Westminster Budget to hand as the “Napoleon of South Africa,” is a man who is evidently very easy ...

    Article : 177 words
  15. A NEW YORK MINISTER’S REMINISCENCES ABOUT MARRIAGE.

    The Rev. Dr Robert Collyer, of the Church of the Messiah, of New York, was in reminiscent mood in his first sermon of the season, says a contemporary Among ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. SOMETHING YOU CANNOT FIND HERE.

    One evening I sat in a country town hall, Compelled to endure the [?] sights of a ball; As over the scene I had [?] to glance, I saw there were many engaged in the dance. ...

    Article : 9 words
  17. BALLARAT MEDICAL BENEFIT SOCIETY, REGISTERED.

    The quarterly committee meeting of the above society was held at the office. Lydiard street south, on Wednesday last; the president Mr Daul Smith, in the chair. The medical ...

    Article : 29 words
  18. THE HARRIERS.

    That most instructive and pleasing naturalist the Rev. J. C. Wood, in his “Common Objects of the Country,” has a very amusing little essay on “legs” Says he:—“As in ...

    Article : 269 words
  19. CHESS.

    “I find chess for myself a most useful means of turning my thoughts out of any too deeply-[?] channel. And I would teach it to boys and girls just as I would ...

    Article : 2 words
  20. [?] SABBATH DAY.

    [?] that I was a little [?] to [?] Courier that my cour[?] M’Leaman, has again [?] long letter on the ...

    Article : 1,011 words
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