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  2. BIRD LIFE.

    Lying hidden between heath ridges, near the coast at Black Rock —five miles below Sandringham, and 13 miles from Melbourne—is a ...

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  3. POULTRY NOTES.

    Don't hesitate to use an axe on a non-laying hen. Pullets should be nine or ten months old to breed from, but they should ...

    Article : 689 words
  4. SOME USES FOR OLIVE OIL.

    A tablespoonful of olive oil a day taken internally. will help liver trouble and indigestion. It is also healing for throat or ...

    Article : 180 words
  5. THE BOUNDARY RIDER.

    The wayback boundary rider is natueally a single man. He lives in a bark or slab hut, shaded by a clump of myall or coolabah, and backed by a ...

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  6. ECCENTRIC WAGER.

    For an eccentric wager, the strangest w one laid at the beginning of the present century. The sum staked was only five hill lingo, but the interest was very great when ...

    Article : 220 words
  7. A CLEVER SURGEON.

    Fifty years ago, the famous surgeon of London was Sir Astley Cooper. He was remarkable for his manual dexterity and also for the quickness and accuracy with which ...

    Article : 130 words
  8. MARY'S GHOST.

    "Twas in the middle of the night, To sleep young William tried; When Mary's ghost came stealing in, And stood at his bedside. ...

    Article : 299 words
  9. NEW PAINLESS DENTISTRY.

    professor Redard, of Geneva, has discovered a new anesthetic, by which a tooth may be painlessly extracted with none of the after effects of other and ...

    Article : 104 words
  10. JUST AS HE SUPPOSED.

    "During the Florida War," said one of a party of non-commissioned officers, " I was in the American army. One day I shouldered my gun, and went in search of game ...

    Article : 203 words
  11. THE FARM.

    The first consideration of the beginner who has selected his site is how to clear the area for cultivation. It is a great mistake to undertake the ...

    Article : 436 words
  12. PICKING UP AND BURNING OFF.

    The inner life of a job at picking up and burning off in the Gippsland scrub is portrayed by a rhyming contributor of "The Gippslander":— ...

    Article : 395 words
  13. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES.

    The late King of Prussia once sent in to an aide-de camp,. Colonel Malachowi, who was brave but poor. a small portfolio, bound like a book, in which were deposited five ...

    Article : 118 words
  14. ONLY A THISTLE.

    In popular opinion only Scotchmen and donkeys ate fond of thistles; but, if so, we must ray they show very good taste. Among hardy plants there are few finer subjects in ...

    Article : 302 words
  15. MEXICAN DANCING.

    The Mexican ladies dress in the most vivid colours and striking contrasts; they combine the handsomest articles of attire with the commonest and poorest. ...

    Article : 118 words
  16. MORE REASON STILL.

    " Hans," said one German to another in the streets of Frankfort, " what are you crying about?" '" Because Rothschild is dead," was the ...

    Article : 71 words
  17. THE BRIGHT SIDE.

    Look on the bright side. It is the proper side. The times may be hard, but it will make them no easier to wear a sad and heavy countenance. It is the sunshine and not the ...

    Article : 277 words
  18. MIXING RABBIT POISON.

    The following ingredients are necessary for the pollard mixture used on the Wagga Experimental Farm, and which is always readily taken. even ...

    Article : 385 words
  19. WHAT TO DO.

    When eating fish do not use a dessert knife instead of the fish knife if there be no fish knife. use a small crust of your bread, but leave that ...

    Article : 279 words
  20. KEEP THE YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE FARM.

    From an address by Col. R. A. Wilkinson at Minnesota Dairy Convention:—There is no more mournful spectacla ...

    Article : 469 words
  21. PLUMBERY.

    A plumbing establishment, a few days ago, took on a new hand just arrived from Wales. On the day after his arrival a water-pipe in a large establishment burst. He was told ...

    Article : 249 words
  22. "THE SONG OF THE DOCTOR."

    He must, not walk his rounds for fear his patients think him poor, Because they dearly love to see a carriage at the door; ...

    Article : 225 words
  23. ARDOUR IN BETTING.

    Two gentlemen at a tavern, having summoned a waiter, the poor fellow had hardly entered, when he fell down in a fit of apop lexy. ...

    Article : 202 words
  24. HISTORICAL LESSONS FROM A BRICK.

    Who would suppose that a humble brick could be capable of imparting valuable and important information, even to corroborate the sacred writings? But an Austrian savam ...

    Article : 207 words
  25. MENDING LEAKY TINWARE.

    How exasperating it is to have a pan or pail spring a leak just when there.. is no time to hate it mended and then these little expenses are apt ...

    Article : 127 words
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    To scald milk, set it in a jug or basin in a pan of cold water over the fire. When the water boils the milk is scalded. ...

    Article : 88 words
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