I firmly believe.' she said, 'that woman should have the right to propose.' 'Of course, if woman proposes,' he replied, 'she would give an engagementring ...
Article : 61 wordsSable fur being this season very dear marmot, looking much like it, is often used instead. In Germany it is far more difficult to ...
Article : 501 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 125 wordsTwo Americans in London inspected a certain fire-engine station. One of them remarked to the chief engineer. Do you know, in New York we use a nine-inch ...
Article : 152 words'Young man,' said the mother of the family, confronting him, 'you have been coming to see my daughter for more than a year. Have you any reason to think she ...
Article : 90 wordsGood flour is essential; it need not be the dearest or whitest, but it must be dry and good, and when pressed in the hand it should cake together. If through any ...
Article : 1,113 wordsTradition has it that in the year A.D. 1259 an enormous whale was stranded off Flamborough Head in a state of great exhaustion, with a church steeple ...
Article : 90 wordsA certain American railway magnate once owned a Western line, along the route of which he established a series of luncheon rooms, at which employees were ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Pope had four different hammers presented to him for the ceremony of opening the Holy Door in St. Pater's on Christimas Eve. Only one could he use, ...
Article : 384 words'Charlotte, my dear, how is it I find you weeping? Have you bad news from your husband?' 'Oh, worse than that! My Arthur ...
Article : 126 wordsShe is shoulder-high to her shortest charge; Shoulder-high—not a morsel more; But ahe could not reign, were she twice as ...
Article : 242 wordsA little London boy and his aunt, while paying a visit in the country, one day crossed a pasture together. When they were half-way across the lady noticed two ...
Article : 140 wordsA kindergarten teacher has tried a pleasant way of teaching her scholars by reading them a poem and then asking them to draw a picture of it. ...
Article : 130 wordsMrs Millionaire was passe, it is true, and no longer in the full freshness of her girlhood; but the dear deceased had died very rich, and the surviving moiety was ...
Article : 102 wordsI feel rather inclined to hesitate in giving my dear friends a little piece of news which, if I know them well enough to judge, will be as unwelcome to them as ...
Article : 935 wordsEven an extremely aggressive enemy can be easily conquered by strategy; it is only a question of employing the stratagem exactly fitted to the case. ...
Article : 182 wordsIn France many of the peasantry still stick to medicines calculated to turn the average doctor's hair grey with horror. Wine is an ingredient of every ...
Article : 145 wordsIncidents in the career of Sir Henry Irving are always interesting. It is not generally known that when he was a boy he lived with an aunt who is a Cornish ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Maori is musical if anything, and the Maori is also a creature of leisure; he has not learnt the fever and worry of hurry. Happier than the Pakeha in that ...
Article : 429 wordsThe proprietor of an establishment dear to the hearts of ladies, that is to say, a milliner's shop, tells the following very good story of a late customer. He lays ...
Article : 314 wordsA boy was summoned to testify in a case of assault ill which one man had hit another with a hoe. A host of witnesses had been called, who 'beat about the ...
Article : 286 wordsEven in these days of prolific writing, Jules Verne is probably the only living man who has written more than one novel for every year of his life; and seeing that ...
Article : 252 wordsThere is in an important German City a business called the Ruck-Compagnie, or 'Flitting-Company,' and their business is the slightly unlawful one of assisting ...
Article : 274 wordsIf an inquiry were made among a party of women folks as to which of their sex possessed the largest wardrobe, few would probably guess aright. As a matter of ...
Article : 202 words'There's only one fault to be found with your comedy work,' said the dramatic critic. 'What's that?' asked the aspiring ...
Article : 31 wordsHappiness, wrote a preacher who has crossed the vale, consists not in the abundance of our possessions, but in the limitation of our wants. To have many ...
Article : 1,577 words'That woman next door went and got hat exactly like mine.' 'Did you make a fuss about it?' 'No; I gave mine to the cook.' ...
Article : 29 words'Are you fond of music?' 'Vary,' answered the young man with wide ears. 'How do you make the distinction ...
Article : 64 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1894 - 1954), Sat 14 Apr 1900, Page 4
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: