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  2. Light and Healthsome

    The corset has come to stay. With the drunkard life is reel Light infantry—Torch-bearers. Perfectly shocking—An earthquake. ...

    Article : 1,184 words
  3. Leaves from a New Primer.

    See the Suitor. His name is Mr. Doe. He has just won an Action against Mr. Roe. See how pleased he Looks He is inviting his Solicitor to Dinner and ...

    Article : 589 words
  4. Sunday School Books.

    Observing people will notice with impatience that the authors of Sunday School books do not seem well up in their work. There is no reason that these volumes should ...

    Article : 379 words
  5. Anecdote of M. Alexandre, the Ventriloquist.

    M. Alexandre, the, famous ventriloquist, had an extraordinary facility in counterfeiting all the expressions of countenance and bodily conditions common to humanity. ...

    Article : 713 words
  6. Straightfor'ard.

    Mr. John Shires made some very bad speculations in horse flesh, and when finally he was had up and narrowly escaped being sent to prison for having unwittingly ...

    Article : 2,839 words
  7. Something Rashershay.

    " I'm one of the right sort," he yelled, as he rolled into an all-night restaurant the other morning. "I'm a bad man, a very bad man!" He was in good humour with ...

    Article : 646 words
  8. Our Locomotive Oyster.

    The other night, at a late hour, our re- porter, who, as a matter of habit, rarely retires before midnight, had occasion at that "witching hour" to attend to the fire before ...

    Article : 363 words
  9. An Unsuccessful Canvasser.

    A very pushing young man, canvassing for a popular cyclopeadia, stepped into the shop of a suburban draper, and finding him apparently at leisure, asked him to loot at the ...

    Article : 232 words
  10. Very Sad.

    There is a young editor wandering in the wilds of Riverina who published a paper in the Western district He left the day after the issue of his last paper, and is supposed to ...

    Article : 203 words
  11. Counting Five Hundred.

    One of Jefferson's maxims runs as follows: When angry, count a hundred before you speak; if very angry, count five hundred." A Sandhurst man once squared his conduct ...

    Article : 516 words
  12. Agricultural, &c.

    Asparagus to produce good results must, have plenty, of room. Seven parts of milk to one part of, coal oil, and applied to a tree or shrub by means of a spray ...

    Article : 378 words
  13. A Severe Reproof.

    Here is a good story which illustrates the, desirability of elderly gentlemen strictly observing the truth in their communications with the third and fourth generation. A ...

    Article : 179 words
  14. Good News for Bald Heads.

    An invention of incalculable benefit to bald-headed persons of both sexes has just been made, viz., the transplanting, of the skin of hairy animals to human skulls, ...

    Article : 181 words
  15. Perfectly Legal.

    A worthy old gentleman in the country having employed an attorney of whom he had a pretty good opinion, to do some law, business in Melbourne, was greatly surprised, ...

    Article : 141 words
  16. Very Luscious.

    Ancient mariner on the wharf describing a wonderful tropical fruit et with in his travels:— Gent.—" What sort of fruit was it?" ...

    Article : 67 words
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