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THE PLUCKY CAPTURE OF TWO NOTED BUSHRANGERS.
It was many years previous to the bushranging exploits of the far-famed and ill-famed Kelly gang that a brace of lawless villians named Connor and ...
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KING AS [?]
King Edward's journeyings are not without their amusing an well as their serious side. The story about the caretaker recognising the King ...
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SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.
In an article on the house fly in "London." Mr. Henry Hill says: One thing about the fly that strikes us is its incessant habit of rubbing ...
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THE COCKROACHES IN THE COSTUME.
Many interesting anecdotes of Sadler's Wells have been told by Miss Victor (rays "P.T.O."), whose death. at the age of 76, has just severed ...
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MARRIAGE CEREMONIES IN INDIA.
There are many picturesque and pretty rites, and feasting for days on end is the order at the day. But the chief incident of the better-class ...
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HOW THE BLIND AMUSE THEMSELVES.
People who think that sightless persons have no scope for enjoyment should pay a visit to one of the institutions for the blind. Here they ...
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THE LONLIEST ISLAND.
Which is the lonliest, most desolate, and most inaccessible island on the face of the globe ? Many people would doubtless plump for one of the ...
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REMEDIES FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.
Many are the devices for conquering insomania. One is to concentrate the thoughts on some unreal, intangible subject, such as a deeam or a fancy ...
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GENERAL INFORMATION.
The Albert Memorial in London cost £150.00. Covered carriages were first used in England in 1580. ...
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TWO FAMILIAR PROVERBS.
It was the habit of the great Greek painter, Apelles, never to let a day pass, however busy he chanced to be, without practising his hand by ...
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TOMMY'S VERSION.
Old Mrs. Jones borrowed old Mrs. Brown's receipe for making watermelon pickles. Being unable to rend and a trifle deaf, she got her ...
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HIGHLAND HOTEL KEEPER.
A traveller in the West Highlands, entering it hotel, asked the landlord if he could supply hint with it suite of two rooms and a bathroom ...
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BAD TEMPER.
A person complaining to Socrates that a man had not returned his salutation, and seeming to be angry about it, Socrates said to him—"It ...
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WANTED A CHANGE.
Bishop Do[?]ne, of Albany, when engaged in an earnest discussion of the causes of separation and family disunion, related the following [?] ...
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