Householders in this State have recently been busily employed in compiling various interesting information in connection with the taking of the Census by the Federal Government, and as this ...
Article : 196 wordsMrs. Chapman Catt, the famous American suffragist in whose honour the Women's Suffrage Societies gave a banquet at the Coronation Exhibition is President of the International ...
Article : 130 wordsSilent and motionless she stood, Tall, slender, all in white; The night had spread her dusky plumes, But in the room was light. ...
Article : 79 wordsA survey party from the Federal Capital arrived in Braidwood on Thursday last, on their way to Jervis Bay to mark out the Federal territory at that port, and presumably ...
Article : 520 wordsEach period of life has its special glory.— ...
Article : 14 wordsFew peers can boast of so many titles as the Duke of Buccleugh, who, as Captain-General of the Royal Company of Archers, the King's Body Guard for Scotland, has been summoned to give ...
Article : 176 wordsCall no man happy until he has endeavoured to open out the opportunity for others to the privileges which he enjoys.— ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Englishman succeeds because he never debates his motives; never questions that he is right all through.— ...
Article : 22 wordsA few years ago, in the Dublin Zoological Gardens, one cage was inhabited by a very old lioness, who had lived there for many years. In fact, she was so old that her cubs ...
Article : 203 wordsThe doctor should not be paid according to each small individual job, but as the policeman of health, acting for the protection of the whole nation.— ...
Article : 32 wordsHarry Vardon, who has won the golf championship for the fifth time, thus equalling Braid's record is forty-one years of age, having been born at Grouville, Jersey, on May 7, 1870. ...
Article : 131 wordsIt is astonishing that the English peasant should have retained so many sterling qualities under the treatment he has received.— ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is fifty-nine years since Sir Francis Sharp Powell fought his first election fight. It was at Wigan, his native place, and each candidate on the day of election had a procession with three ...
Article : 176 wordsChatsbury.—Please forward name. This will not be published, but it is necessary to have a guarantee of bona-fides. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe ideal of education at present is not to stock the mind of the pupil with the facts of the past, but to develop the personality of the pupil.— ...
Article : 34 wordsI certainly do not think that the man who has ample opportunities for games during the week should play them on Sundays. On the other hand, I would not deny the clerk ...
Article : 80 wordsMany lovers of Kew Gardens are no doubt ignorant that the excellent condition and remarkable beauty of these gardens are due to the experience of Sir Joseph Hooker, who was for ...
Article : 150 wordsWhen the long summer days are here, And out of doors it's warm and clear, The nicest thing of all to me. Is when we have a picnic tea, ...
Article : 115 wordsThe world is apt to regard spiritually-minded men as narrow, exclusive, dull, morbid, and suspicious.— ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Walter Winans, the well-known exhibitor of champion horses, who has decided to sell his stud in the old country, has other claims to fame. He is the champion shot of the world with the ...
Article : 223 wordsThe machinery necessary to provide the smart world with an evening's so-called amusement becomes more and more formidable and complicated.— ...
Article : 26 wordsEvery time we put a beautiful thought or scene before a child's mind, or eye we are helping to build up the Empire.—Mr. Percy Alden, M.P. ...
Article : 28 words"Let's catch Ponto and give him his bath," said Jack to Noel. But it was easier said than done, for Ponto heard what Jack said, and as he, like every other wise dog, hated ...
Article : 233 wordsThe new Prime Minister of Franco, M. Joseph Caillaux, was Minister of Finance in the Government which came to a sudden and dramatic end a week or two ago. He had served as ...
Article : 100 wordsIt is much more difficult to learn to be a good merchant than to be a lawyer or doctor or preacher.— ...
Article : 28 wordsFew women can go through life cheerfully and contentedly, conscious of lined foreheads or bad complexions.— ...
Article : 21 wordsWhen people go for their holidays they leave their religion at home and spend the collection.— ...
Article : 20 wordsLord Colebrooke, C.V.O., who has been appointed Captain of the Gentleman-at-Arms, in succession to Lord Denman, also succeeded the same peer as Chief Government Whip in the ...
Article : 145 wordsOne of Lord Derby's predecessors might, if the fates had proved propitious, have founded a Stanley dynasty. This was Ferdinando, the fifth Earl, to whom it was proposed that he should ...
Article : 179 wordsThe advance of democracy has broken down the barriers which formerly made the House of Commons a select preserve for the privileged few.— ...
Article : 29 wordsPolitical.—Notwithstanding the fact that we of Gininderra are just now disfranchised as regards both Federal and State Parliaments, considerable interest is being manifested by our ...
Article : 511 wordsEducation has made the working classes see with new eves and think with new minds; and we cannot be surprised if it arouses within them a strong sense of discontent.— ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the vast material improvements effected by modern civilisation nothing is more striking than the advance shown in the methods by which the great organs of public opinion ...
Article : 38 wordsI wonder, oh, I wonder, why the sea is never still, Why the wee waves sometimes ripple, just like kisses at their will? ...
Article : 170 wordsMr. A. D. Steel-Maitland, who has been appointed to take charge of the Conservative Central Office, is one of the coming men of his party. He is only thirty-five years of age, and did not ...
Article : 132 wordsEmpire is an aggregate of administrative units, of diverse constituent elements professing allegiance to a central sovereign authority, and the true temper of Empire is ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Bishop of Peterborough, the Hon. Edward Carr Glyn, D.D., who has been presented with a magnificent cope by the clergy and laity of his diocese, is the ninth son of the first Lord ...
Article : 215 wordsMany of us think that the marriage bond as it is tied at present permits of many nearly intolerable cruelties and tyrannies, that it puts great numbers of women into a ...
Article : 67 wordsSir John Anderson, G.C.M.G., Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States, has been appointed Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the ...
Article : 145 wordsJohn was in a very bad temner. "Look here, John, I want you to— —" began Tom, who was sitting on the table swinging his legs. ...
Article : 378 wordsThe friendships of grown-up people are incomprehensible to children because they seem so unintelligible and so dreary.— ...
Article : 24 wordsIn most democratic States, where no titles of nobility are granted or recognised by law, such attributes are more eagerly coveted than in ancient nations.— ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is said that not even Dr. Sven Hedin knows Thibet as well as Colonel Sir Francis Young-husband, who has met with a serious motor-car accident in Belgium. It is by reason of his ...
Article : 186 wordsMost men are content with one profession, but Major Barry has three. He is a soldier of distinction, a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and a barrister, having ...
Article : 141 wordsCivilised nations, of whom the distinguishing mark is the protection of the weak, thrive, whilst the barbarous nations, who do not protect the weak, go down before them.— ...
Article : 34 wordsThe true prosperity of a nation lies not in the number of its multi-millionaires, but in the comfort, content, and well-doing of its people at large.—Rev. G. J. Emanuel. ...
Article : 106 wordsAs we expected, good rains fell in July, and the land generally is in good order for cropping. All seasonable crops can be readily sown. We advise growers, especially dairymen, to get in ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Archbishop of York, who preached the Coronation sermon, can enjoy a joke against himself. The following is one of his favourite stories. Some years ago, when preaching in ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Sat 12 Aug 1911, Page 2
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