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  2. THE JESTER.

    When most people say "our faults" they usually mean yours. Many a man who demands justice would whine for mercy if the got it. ...

    Article : 467 words
  3. VARIOUS VERSES.

    Come deaf or come blind, or come cripple O come, any ane o' ye a’! Better be married to something, Than no’ to be married at a'! ...

    Article : 38 words
  4. THE SKETCHER.

    In a ground-floor room in one of the public buildings in Whitehall sat a man writing at a table covered with papers. He was a short, strongly-built figure, ...

    Article : 702 words
  5. NEW SERIES OF STORIES.

    Petrov Petrovitch had been married for over three years, but that did not prevent him from being still very fond of his wife: and therefore he noticed with groat and ...

    Article : 3,447 words
  6. ANN-STREET CHURCH.

    A special meeting of Aun-street Presbyterian Church cocongregation was held last evening for the purpose of deciding whether or not a call should be given to ...

    Article : 540 words
  7. CLONCURRY LINE.

    The Chief Engineer for Railways (Mr. W. Pagan) returned to Brisbane this morning after a flying visit to the Cloncurry district. He arrived there about the time ...

    Article : 330 words
  8. ON THE TILES.

    A cat upon our backyard wall Discoursing [?] sweet Disturbed my slumbers, and I sent A jug that eat to meet. ...

    Article : 99 words
  9. A TOAST TO KATE.

    I drink a toast to lovely K8, Whose charms few maids can duplics. Here's wishing her a happy f8. And health and wealth and high [?] ...

    Article : 60 words
  10. DO THE HARD THINGS FIRST.

    If you have something hard to do, Just go to work and do it. If you conclude to put it off You're pretty sure to rue it ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. COORPAROO COUNCIL.

    At the monthly meeting of the Coorparoo Shire Council held last evening there were present—Councillers J. Farquharson (chairman), A. M. Kirkland, S. Robertson, F. T. ...

    Article : 697 words
  12. LOGIC.

    He who as feared by many fears many. To be intellectual is good, but to be intelligent is better. Only the survivors believe in the survival ...

    Article : 266 words
  13. THE SPELL OF THE STUARTS.

    The precise spell of the Stuarts can hardly be defined save in, the eluaiva word "romance." The Jacobites had over before them that ...

    Article : 252 words
  14. ROSEWOOD SHIRE.

    In the High Court appeal case Hodge and others v. 0’Sullivan and others, Mr. O’Sullivan submitted, inter alia, that the ouster did not be under section 23 of the ...

    Article : 126 words
  15. SIX MILES UP IN THE AIR.

    The report that two German [?] succeeded the other day in ascending in a hydrogon-inflated balloon, to a height of 31,000ft. (nearly six miles) lends fresh ...

    Article : 303 words
  16. ACROBATS ARE MADE.

    "There are born musician and born poets" said a circus proprietor "but so far as my experience goes, there are no born acrobats. ...

    Article : 160 words
  17. THE KAISER'S VISIT.

    I am enabled to state (writes a Berlin correspondent on October 30) that are Kaiser is taking particular care of his [?] at present, for the reason[?]as he ...

    Article : 378 words
  18. SHIRLEY BROOKS.

    An early writer of "limericks" was Shirley Brooks, the second editor of "Punch." Nor even, such a place-name as Carshalton was too much for his powers. Here is one ...

    Article : 240 words
  19. WEALTH FROM GARBAGE.

    Some forty thousand people in Paris alone depend for their livelihood on the refuse of the city. These are the chiffoniers, or scavengers, ...

    Article : 155 words
  20. LIGHTING UP PICTURES.

    Professor R, W. Wood, the distinguished American physicist, has been struck with an original idea in the way of picture illumination. He constructs a ...

    Article : 336 words
  21. A KILLARNEY SHOWER.

    We were an eight and-twenty hours excursion party from London to Killarmey and back. The weather was glorious—in a few very brief intervals between the ...

    Article : 210 words
  22. BITTER BITS.

    Wise men miss a lot of fun by being wise Few men have courage enough to admit they are airaid. ...

    Article : 156 words
  23. PEASANT AND SOULPTOR.

    Jean Baptiste Corspeaux, the famous French sculptor, was among the great artiste who seem to have escaped the laws of heredity. Born with the passion ...

    Article : 225 words
  24. THOUGHTS.

    It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. The man without friends doesn't have to worry about losing them. ...

    Article : 125 words
  25. POST OFFICE HUMOUR.

    An amusing story comes from one of the ontlying country towns of New Zealand, where the postmaster exercised his ingenuity, and (says the "British ...

    Article : 273 words
  26. The Wily Microbe.

    There may be some hope of Brisbane bathers some day getting a dip in clean water, but the City Council seems to be moving slowly—oh, how slowly—in the ...

    Article : 312 words
  27. WARSHIP BOMBARDS A TOWN.

    [?] was the scene to-day (says a St. Petersburg message of October 30) of a recurrence in more serious form of yesterday’s mutiny, when soliders attacked the ...

    Article : 244 words
  28. LONDON SMOKE.

    The smoke nuisance in London is so old that those who work in the metropolis have come to regard it as an unpleasant but inevitable feature of the capital. Even ...

    Article : 262 words
  29. TRAGEDIES OF MONT BLANC.

    Mont Blanc, the great white mountain standing like a watchtower between France and Italy, clothed and capped in eternal snows, is at once the [?] ...

    Article : 239 words
  30. STEERAGE PASSENGERS.

    If you want to see human nature in some of its most interesting aspects, remarked the liner steward to a representative of " Cassell's Saturday Journal," take ...

    Article : 194 words
  31. JOHN, JUNIOR.

    The son of John Burma, M.P., gives full promise of being as fine a man as his father, and his parents have determined to give him every chance of developing ...

    Article : 140 words
  32. THINKING OF WORK.

    When you take your vacation you will find for the first day or two that something seems to have gone out of your life; you have become so much accustomed to ...

    Article : 126 words
  33. THIS PRESENT HOUR.

    There is an old sundial motto that runs [?]:—"The hour [?] readest now on me Will never more be offered [?]; ...

    Article : 51 words
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