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  2. YOUNG AUSTRALIA.

    There is boys, and there is gels. Some a boys is smart, and up to anythink; some is stoopid and well behaved, and wears singlets, like gals, and everybody praises 'em, and ...

    Article : 2,066 words
  3. AT MARKET VALUE.

    "Bet you solemnly declared to me, only sir month since you hadn't a debt in the world except the ones 1 paid for you" Kathleen ...

    Article : 1,455 words
  4. HERE AND THERE.

    A man owes me some money, and a solicitor whom I work for now and then says that I have a good case. Be it so. I shall let that man slide. If he has a ...

    Article : 1,433 words
  5. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    ANTHROPOLOGICAL.— Professor: "Look at this skull, gentlemen; now tell me to what human being did this belong" Smart Student ; "To a corpse, sir." ...

    Article : 1,315 words
  6. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    Writing on this subject in the "Leisure Hour," Dr Schofield says that the hair should be kept short in childhood in both sexes, but not shaved off a is sometimes ...

    Article : 349 words
  7. GENERAL BREVITIES.

    Dutchmen succeed in capturing the Ballinese rajah's stronghold in the Island of Lombok. Much loss of life on both sides. ...

    Article : 984 words
  8. PLAYS AND PLAYERS

    Under the title of The Gay Widow, a version by Mr F. C. Burnand of La Belle Maman, was played at the Court Theatre, London, on Saturday, 13th October, Messrs ...

    Article : 416 words
  9. A Railway Through Houses.

    While London is preparing to be honey. combed with electric railways, Chicago, with the same growing tendency, proposes a novel extension of its elevated railway system. In ...

    Article : 161 words
  10. Forging by Hydraulic Pressure.

    A very interesting paper on " Forging by Hydraulic Pressure" was lately read before the Institution of Civil Engineers by Mr B. H. Tweddell. After giving a brief history of ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. An Extraordinary Blunder.

    An extraordinary blunder has been discovered at Braintree, Essex. At the local Police Court on 15th August last, John Algar, a laborer, was sentenced to fourteen ...

    Article : 305 words
  12. Ankle Supporters.

    The pneumatic roller skate which was invented some months ago bad one defect in it which was a serious drawback to its use. The height of the "rollers " threw a strain ...

    Article : 158 words
  13. Some Uses of Hot Water.

    Hot water is far more of a medical property than many believe or know. Because it is to be had for the making thousands think it valueless, on the theory that what comes ...

    Article : 217 words
  14. Mr Gladstone's Eyesight.

    We are glad to be able to state (says the "British Medical Journal") that the operation for cataract performed on Mr Gladsone's right eye last May has given an excellent ...

    Article : 174 words
  15. An Au[?]tral Spring.

    The evening of the [?]ear is spent, The morning breaks [?]merriment, And life, triumphan[?] over death, Broods o'er the earl whose fragrant breath ...

    Article : 321 words
  16. CHAPTER XVII.—THE HEART OF THE DECOY DUCK.

    It was about these same days that the brand. new Lord Axminster, strolling down the Row one afternoon arm in arm with his impecunious friend Captain Bourchier, nodded a little ...

    Article : 1,649 words
  17. The Stages of Life.

    Dr Schofield contributes an interesting paper on the three stages of the journey of life to the "Home Messenger." The stages are, according to Dr Schofield—1st, Growth, ...

    Article : 206 words
  18. A Unique Bath.

    Dr W. B. Noyes, of New York, recommends the following entirely new process of giving a bath to a fever patient. A rubber blanket is placed underneath the patient, ...

    Article : 160 words
  19. Lord Rosebery's Dog.

    An anecdote about Lord Rosebery is going the round of some French and German papers and is cautiously reproduced in the "Daily News." It is alleged that once, while cross. ...

    Article : 133 words
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