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  2. The Fortune Teller.

    Anybody who cares to peruse the columns of miscellaneous advertisements in the Melbourne Evening Bubbler will have noticed, with a sense of amusement, that a considerable ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,156 words
  3. Poetry.

    The boats lay stranded on the beach, Tangled with seaweed, dark and green; A decolate and dreary scene, Far as the eye could reach; ...

    Article : 119 words
  4. Chinese Floating Gardens.

    The following description of the manner in which floating fields and garden are formed in China was condensed for publication in the Garden irons an article by Dr. ...

    Article : 345 words
  5. The Widower and the Widow.

    When Mr. Thomas Thompson was courting the widow who became his sixth wife, said he, taking a pinch of snuff and looking wise.— ...

    Article : 519 words
  6. General Gatherings.

    Geneva is said to be the cheapest city in Europe for a permanent residence. An epidemic of typhoid prevails in Jersey any, New York. ...

    Article : 2,334 words
  7. A Word For The Little Ones.

    Many a child goes astray simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as much as flowers need sunshine. If home is the place where faces are sour and words ...

    Article : 369 words
  8. A Wonderful Mathematician.

    A Kentucky negro, Summers by name, is astonishing his part of the world by the exercise of a wonderful natural skill in mathematics. He is thirty-four years old, ...

    Article : 272 words
  9. In the World's Eye.

    Henry M. Stanley, the great explorer, about whom everybody is now talking, was born fifty years ago in Denbigh, Wales. His parents were named Rowlands, and, being ...

    Article : 335 words
  10. There was a Change.

    Two or three gentlemen, including among them a commissioner, were travelling together on the Ballarat and Melbourne line, when the train drew up at the Meredith ...

    Article : 245 words
  11. The Velocity of Light.

    Light moves with tile amazing velocity of 185,000 miles a second, a speed a million times as greats as that of a ride bullet. It would make the circuit of the earth's ...

    Article : 505 words
  12. Mending Broken Articles.

    Shellac cement is made of two parts shellac and one part of Venetian turpentine, fused together and formed into sticks. In mending glass or china warm the latter ...

    Article : 279 words
  13. Servants in Bucnos Ayres.

    Girls willing to do what is called general housework are unknown. For the smallest family one needs a cook, a housemaid, and instead of a maid-of-all-work, a boy of any ...

    Article : 271 words
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