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  2. BREVETIES.

    Women are not permitted to be photographed in China. There are seventy-four gold-mining companies in the Transvaal. ...

    Article : 522 words
  3. HISTORY OF PRESIDENT KRUGER.

    Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, President of the Transvaal, is a very interesting public character, writes one who has seen him recently. Upon ...

    Article : 1,394 words
  4. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    A captain in a regiment stationed In Natal when paying his company the other day chanced to give a man a Transvaal half-crown, which, as one ...

    Article : 153 words
  5. [COPYRIGHT.] NARRATIVES OF THE BUSHRANGING TIMES

    ' We are lost,' said Glenmore in a resigned way. ' The boat must have gone out of this last night cither to come round to us make out to sea. ...

    Article : 3,116 words
  6. FOWL TICK.

    The following letter from Mr. C. W. Bowyer Smyth "will be of interest to poultry keepers :—" I notice in a recent number of the Agricultural Gazette a ...

    Article : 672 words
  7. Turning the Tables.

    Professor Thompson, a well-known man at a well-known university, was very unpopular with several students. One night, for a joke, they put a good ...

    Article : 121 words
  8. Roosting Rent.

    The following is an amusing and clever defence pleaded by a man who was charged with stealing a turkey : ' You admit you stole, killed, and ...

    Article : 71 words
  9. Scarecrows.

    Scarecrows, indeed, boys,' said Pat Murphy. 'You don't know anything about scarecrows. ' If you saw one my uncle Mike made ...

    Article : 74 words
  10. Did What He was Told.

    A witness at a recent trial, who had been cautioned to give a precise answer to every question put to him, was interrogated by a blustering counsel a ...

    Article : 94 words
  11. ALL ABOUT A PENNY.

    A penny lying in the street ; Two "toffs" stoop down, their " shiners" meet. The blow is such, to their surprise, ...

    Article : 400 words
  12. Thought it was a Fight.

    In connection with the recent Royal visit to Edinburgh, a somewhat amusing incident occurred. A countryman who happened to be in the town that day, ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. A Problem.

    An Irishman, one of a gang of railway repairers at Chatswood, was one day remarking in a public-house on the cheapness of provisions in Ireland. ...

    Article : 82 words
  14. Parisians Like Horseflesh.

    The consumption of horseflesh in Paris has become enormous. Its use as food began in 1866, but was viewed with extreme prejudice, and it was not until ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. The Way to Ryde.

    A gentleman, whilst riding near Hunter's Hill the other day, was overtaken by a dense duststorm and completely lost his way. ...

    Article : 90 words
  16. Two Celebrities.

    The deadliest modern explosive Is certainly truculent Joseph ; What ho ought to conceal He is sure to reveal : ...

    Article : 65 words
  17. Is "Transvaal" Correct?

    It would appear that the name "Transvaal," in common use in our daily papers, is not applied with exact justice. In the year 1881, when the ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. PAT'S CONTRIBUTION.

    An Irishman from the most remote part of Ireland, went to church for the first time. At the collection his mate, who had been ...

    Article : 86 words
  19. An Electric Fire-Engine.

    The first electric fire-engine of the firemen of Paris is now running on the streets and has already begun its work of saving life and property. It is a ...

    Article : 82 words
  20. The Answer.

    An English gentleman was once dining in a Sydney restaurant. In his soup he found a great black hair. He was very cross, and made the waiter call the ...

    Article : 83 words
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