Articles from page 4: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. AS IT WORKED OUT.

    When Freddy was five years old a friend of the family interested in his welfare said to him:— "What are you going to be when ...

    Article : 280 words
  3. POOR POLLY!

    As they walked down the dim city street on their way to the station after their day's work, they were a living contract. One was sad and ...

    Article : 575 words
  4. A GIGANTIC TELESCOPE.

    The form that American wealth has selected on more than one occasion, when anxious to advance astronomical science, has been, says ...

    Article : 489 words
  5. LIVING IN PINE TREES TO CURE CONSUMPTION.

    Living in a tree top in mid-winter is the way Mr. Charles Battersby is regaining health and vigour after a struggle with consumption. Three ...

    Article : 608 words
  6. SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.

    A tremendous disturbance is taking place upon the surface of the sun wrote Mary Procter recently compared with which the fiercest cyclone ...

    Article : 1,251 words
  7. HOW WILL THE LAST MAN DIE?

    Astronomers say that the day must come when this earth will, like the moon, wheel through the heavens a dead and barren hall of matter— ...

    Article : 648 words
  8. THE SILVER-TONGUED PREMIER.

    Ten years ago one of the world's greatest men was knighted. That man is Sir Wilfred Laurier, Premier of Canada, and "the man with the ...

    Article : 203 words
  9. FORCETTING THE TUNNEL.

    A story of the early days of the Belgian railways has recently been told. It describes what the Belgian engineers did when they came home ...

    Article : 161 words
  10. SOLD AGAIN.

    The newly appointed master at one of our public schools thought he know all about "cribbing," and such little dodges as little boys indulge in. ...

    Article : 133 words
  11. JAPANESE LAW COURTS.

    As Japan has borrowed its naval training from Britain and its military system from Germany so it has introduced its judicial arrangements ...

    Article : 382 words
  12. 126-FOOT TELEPHONE POLE.

    One of the tallest, telephone poles in the world is where the wires of the Pacific States Telephone Company cross the Chehalis River, near ...

    Article : 185 words
  13. HIS NEXT QUESTION.

    On one occasion, when an Eastern potentate was the guest of English Royalty, he was taken to Epson to see the Derby run. ...

    Article : 212 words
  14. SINGING M.P.'S.

    An Irish member of Parliament once suggested that a few comic songs sung in the House of Commons would considerably culiven the ...

    Article : 539 words
  15. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    The pulse bents considerably faster in women than in men. Whales are never found in the Gulf Stream. ...

    Article : 413 words
  16. POULTRY.

    Always shield the drinking water from the rays of the sun. Make fowls stretch for every grain they eat, and they will he healthy. ...

    Article : 396 words
  17. ENDED IN SMOKE.

    "A little over four years ago," remarked Jones, "I made up my mind to give up smoking. When I reckoned up the amount of money I spent ...

    Article : 243 words
  18. PROBABLY CATCHING.

    A young matron of Baltimore, upon entering her nursery, found her youngest in tears. "Why, what's the matter with ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. NO HOPE FOR HER.

    In a dim and dingy little apartment on the third storey of a house in the salubrious district of Covent Garden, the theatrical agent looked ...

    Article : 241 words
  20. BLIND AS A BAT.

    "If you blind a bat," said a biologist, "the creature somehow will see. If you doubt this, consult Levy. "Levy, the great authority, once ...

    Article : 196 words
  21. SIDELIGHTS ON BALLET-DANCING.

    There are very few professions concerning which the general public knows so little as it does of ballet dancing. ...

    Article : 162 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.

$