Articles from page 1: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. A Comedy at the Sydney Post Office.

    Scene: The Bank Chamber of the Post Office, at noon, on English mail day. Many people pursuing divers errands. ...

    Article : 1,602 words
  3. THE HOME CIRCLE.

    TO BOLT RICE.—Wash in cold water and drain; throw into salted boiling water in the proportion of one quart to every quarter of a pound or cupful of rice, and ...

    Article : 536 words
  4. USEFUL INFORMATION

    Benzine rubbed on the edges of carpets is a sure preventative of moths. Green tea will revive rusty black lace, and make it look as good as new. ...

    Article : 497 words
  5. THE EYE OF THE SUN

    The distance from the fence over which the fugitives had vaulted and the small cabin toward which they were desperately running was perhaps 200 yards. The ...

    Article : 4,277 words
  6. Wit About Women.

    I have sometimes met irredeemable old bachelors, and heard their extraordinary pronouncements on the subject of woman, and one of them is that "Woman is a ...

    Article : 340 words
  7. GRAVE AND GAY.

    Officer—" How is this, Murphy ? The sergeant complains that you call him names." Private Murphy—" Plaze, surr, I never called him ony names at all. All ...

    Article : 499 words
  8. GRAINS OF GOLD.

    What most men want is not talent, but purpose—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour. It is with narrow-souled people as with ...

    Article : 318 words
  9. He Beat the Bank.

    An amusing adventure is related as having happened to the Bank of England, which had committed the unpardonable sin of refusing to discount a large bill ...

    Article : 428 words
  10. A Selfish Diner.

    Kant, the world-famed philosopher, was on one occasion dining at a table in the public room of an hotel, when a dish of certain vegetables, of which ho was ...

    Article : 173 words
  11. He Was Fly.

    A cheap-jack was trying to attract an audience in a market town the other day, and by way of astonishing people he first of all offered a genuine half-sovereign for ...

    Article : 167 words
  12. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 163 words
  13. The Wriggling Eel and the Turning Wheel.

    A very remarkable occurrence has recently been reported from the Trion Cotton Factory in the heart of the mountains on the Chattooga River in ...

    Article : 184 words
  14. A Stopper.

    A company of ladies and gentlemen were loud in their praise of the conduct of a policeman who had stopped a runaway horse. ...

    Article : 88 words
  15. An Unrehearsed Item.

    In a certain Scottish town, not long since, the gas bill of a theatre leased by a company on tour had not boon paid for the preceding month's consumption. ...

    Article : 191 words
  16. A FISH-COVERED ISLAND.

    When the Seine recently subsided after the heavy floods the water ran down so rapidly that the little island under the Pont Nouf was literally covered with ...

    Article : 70 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.

$