Articles from page 6: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. RAISING THE WIND.

    I was wandering rather aimlessly along the Strand, when a hand was placed on my shoulder. I looked round and saw my old schoolfellow Travers. ...

    Article : 3,015 words
  3. SECRETS THAT BAFFLE. CHEMISTS.

    It was announced that a distinguished chemist of the Imperial Technical School of Moscow had solved the problem of making artificial rubber, and ...

    Article : 605 words
  4. WHEN THE NIGHT EXPRESS WAS WRECKED.

    "Good heavens! Norma—you." Paul! I—I mean Mr. Playden." "Always Paul to you, Norma. I could answer to no formal name from ...

    Article : 907 words
  5. GOOD FOR THE NERVES.

    A well-known nerve specialist has said that "all neurasthenics (that is, people with unhealthy nerves) have desiccated nerves and suffer from an ...

    Article : 420 words
  6. III.

    "Lady Grandison is remaining all night—you will not be required," said Paul Playden to the chauffeur, when he reached The Lilacs at ...

    Article : 2,242 words
  7. SAVED.

    When John Kendrick Bangs, the American writer and humorist, was staying at a well-known seaside resort last summer, he played golf almost ...

    Article : 221 words
  8. A CHINESE HEADACHE CURE.

    What struck me most on my first introduction to John Chinaman in Hong Kong were the peculiar lumps nearly every Celestial had at the ...

    Article : 195 words
  9. MORAL REFLECTIONS.

    An honorable defeat is better than a mean victory. Our ideals are not worth much if we surrender them at the first attack. ...

    Article : 388 words
  10. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

    Here is an anecdote told by Andrew Lang in the "Sign of the Ship" in "Longman's." A man and his wife in town were congratulating ...

    Article : 206 words
  11. A RAILWAY HERO.

    It was in the infancy of the railway, in May, 1847, that one of the castiron girders of the bridge over the Dee, on the Chester and Holyhead ...

    Article : 241 words
  12. II.

    "Norma, I asked you not to go to the theatricals to-night, and I hoped that you would fall in with my wishes." Sir John's voice had an unusually ...

    Article : 877 words
  13. THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD.

    The Cerro Mercada, called after its discoverer, Vasquez del Mercada, is the famous iron mountain of Mexico. Humboldt pronounced it the eighth ...

    Article : 144 words
  14. A WONDERFUL BELL.

    The distinguishing feature of the temples at Crota, in Japan, is the great bell which swings in a monster wooden belfry, halfway up the hillside, ...

    Article : 246 words
  15. A HEROIC ENGAGEMENT.

    When the late Lord Wolseley was a lieutenant serving in the trenches of Crimea, he, with the help of a brother officer, devoted the Christmas Eve ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. Ignorance!

    The editor of the woman's page in a weekly paper was on holiday, and her duties were being performed by a male member of the editorial staff. ...

    Article : 77 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$