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  2. Playing it Low Down.

    An Adelaide landlord had a tenant who was a drummer. He was a real bon fide musician, and pounded on a large bass drum. He was a shabbily dressed man, Who looked ...

    Article : 360 words
  3. OUR ILLUSTRATION.

    The Right Hon. Archibald Phillip Prim. rose (the present Earl of Rosebery) is the eldest son of the late Lord Dalminy; his mother being the only daughter of the 4th ...

    Article : 360 words
  4. An Australian Ghost Story.

    One christmas I received an invitation stay a few weeks at a schoolfellow's farm up in the north of Gippsland, so I packed up my traps with alacrity, and in less than ...

    Article : 1,362 words
  5. Tax the Poor Orphan.

    Mr. Shackell sir, bend, your head this way and open up your acoustic apparatus. I would hold some converse with you. Tit- Bits' mission is to expose injustice and core ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,152 words
  6. The Capuchin Catacombs.

    The soil upon which the Capuchin Monastery it Palermo, Italy, is built, possesses to such degree the singular property of hastening the decomposition of a corpse, that in one ...

    Article : 852 words
  7. Raceline

    The following is display in front of a Boston restaurant : "Civil Service rules care fully observed." Here is a kind word for the publican. ...

    Article : 1,181 words
  8. The Most Useful Weapon.

    The proof of a boy's mechanical skill is usually what he can do with a jackknife ; the proof of a woman's is what she can. do with a hairpin. Few women take naturally ...

    Article : 376 words
  9. Couldn't Be.

    De Beriot was once asked by a pupil how long it required to learn the violin. " If the learner possesses brains, talent and patience, ten hours a day for ten years," was the ...

    Article : 55 words
  10. His First Shave.

    This is a momentous event in a boy's life, as it is to him the line demarcation between boyhood and manhood. The microscopic indications under his chin ...

    Article : 436 words
  11. Disappointing.

    One of the heavy weeklies has a writer whose bald ignorance of common physical principles greatly irritates us. He had an article last week headed," How to re-cover ...

    Article : 190 words
  12. Getting at the Point.

    Of course it was a sin For him to sick a pin In the chair Where his parent often sat ; ...

    Article : 176 words
  13. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    BILL NO, we don't know who is the author of the line " The proper study of mankind is women." TRINITY wants an example of a syllogism. ...

    Article : 383 words
  14. A Picnic Cake.

    " You first see that the pan is well greased" "Oh, of course." "Then put It on the oven." " Yes " ...

    Article : 52 words
  15. He was Dead.

    A crowd was gathered round a form Which lay upon the floor, And everyone had turned his eyes Towards the open door. ...

    Article : 148 words
  16. Theological.

    " can any little boy or girl tell me why the lions would not hurt Daniel " said a Visitor, addressing a suburban sunday school. ...

    Article : 110 words
  17. Embarrassing Richness.

    A " Humorist " meeting the editor of a daily paper, said " I say, you've cut me off your exchange list. " Yes ." " Why, you ought not 'to have done that. ...

    Article : 92 words
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