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  2. POLITICAL FROTH.

    NOW, Mars, anoint my pen, for I shall tell tales of a warring week. Beside them the troubles of the Soudan or the massacres of Alexandria shall pale into insignificance; and ...

    Article : 1,924 words
  3. TO MY DOG BLANCO.

    MY dear dumb friend, low lying there, A willing vassal at my feet, Glad partner of my home and fare, My shadow in the street. ...

    Article : 198 words
  4. SPORTING GOSSIP.

    MR. JACKSON is in the field with the conditions of the Rockhampton Jockey Club Sires' Produce Stakes for 1886, which conditions differ somewhat from the usual form, as the ...

    Article : 1,437 words
  5. THE SCOTTISH PLOUGHMAN.

    "CONTENTED with little, and happy with more," is the motto of the Scottish ploughman. Perhaps we might say, rather, that it was, for in many places the lad who whistled at the ...

    Article : 1,690 words
  6. GO AWAY!

    WITH a bumpy swish and a curdled roar, Sweet Mary's churn goes drumming; Young Reuben leans on the low half-door, And hopes that the butter's coming; ...

    Article : 285 words
  7. A ROSE GARDEN.

    THE Queenslander's agricultural reporter writes:—For a grand display of the rose--the queen of flowers—in almost endless variety, there is but little left to be desired after a visit to Mr. ...

    Article : 1,280 words
  8. THE SETTLEMENT OF OUR WESTERN COUNTRY.

    THE close settlement of the Western lands is becoming something (writes "W. H. C." to the Queenslander) more than a theory in the vicinity of Blackall. The area of ...

    Article : 1,465 words
  9. HAND-SHAKING AND HAND-SHAKERS.

    I AM not unsociable, but I had rather not shake hands with everybody; and I am quite sure a good many people would rather not shake hands with me. Then why do we do ...

    Article : 871 words
  10. A CHANCE TO WORK "INCOG."

    YESTERDAY a man came into the office with the air of a man who is tired of this earth and wants to wing his way to a land of forgetfulness and plunge into the lethean depths of oblivion. ...

    Article : 807 words
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