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  2. ODDS AND ENDS.

    In the jungles of Sumatra large spiders are found. Some of the larger specimens measure 8 in. across the back and have 17 in. of leg spread. ...

    Article : 1,563 words
  3. ECHOES AND RE-ECHOES.

    Up and down the City road. In and out the Eagle; That’s the way the money goes, Pop goes the weasel. ...

    Article : 1,613 words
  4. HOW MEN PROPOSE.

    A Woman complains that, considering men have [?] the proposing to do since the world [?], they do it vey badly. She says that they [?]lk at the critical ...

    Article : 796 words
  5. MUSICAL NOTES.

    Mr. Mark Hambourg appears to have [?]ved a grat success at his recent pi[?] in Queen’s Hall, London and many of the [?] speak ...

    Article : 939 words
  6. LOG OF THE TRANSPORT THOMAS.

    Wednesday.—There arc 600 teachers aboard, 160 of them women. Some are mere girls— others are merely girlish. All are bound for the [?]pines. Many of them, ...

    Article : 461 words
  7. AN AUSTRIAN COURT ROMANCE.

    Circles wherein the “Almanach de Gotha” holds a sort of Biblical position will be seriously alarmed by the official announcement (made by tho Emperor ...

    Article : 347 words
  8. THE CONTROL OF STORMS.

    A characteristic of storms which meteorologists do not perhaps sufficiently consider is that they are the falling dawn or collapsing of unstable states of tho ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 598 words
  9. OTR ILLUSTRATIONS.

    The Rev. Edwin H. Ellis, who recently resigned the pastorate of the North Adelaide Baptist Church, will leave South Australia by the outward-bound mail steamer ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 313 words
  10. WHAT IS THE UNION JACK?

    We have been asked, says the “Genealogical Magazine,” to expdess our own opinions upon this subject, and mere particularly our objection to the proposals ...

    Article : 597 words
  11. A FATHER’S DREAM.

    An extraordinary story of a dream that proved to be a picture of a scene that was actually occurring thousands of miles away is told by a correspondent of the ...

    Article : 471 words
  12. A GREAT HUSBAND TRUST.

    They evidently mistrust husbands in New Jersey, else they would never have formed a husband trust. This remarkable association is known by the mystic initials of the ...

    Article : 346 words
  13. THE LATE MR. J. COCK.

    The late Mr. James Cock. formerly member of Parliament for the District of Victoria who died at his residence, Mount Gambier, on Monday last, was born in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 289 words
  14. THE PRISON GOVERNOR AND HIS PRISONER.

    Great changes have taken place in the manegement of prisons. Within the recollection of many people a prison was a very free-and -easy place where the inmates ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 240 words
  15. A YORKSHIRE CRICKET STORY.

    It was the yearly fair week in a village near Keighley, in Yorkshire. The folks had planned to make the most of their holiday, and besides the usual fun and frolic ...

    Article : 316 words
  16. THE GREAT DUKE.

    Does any one, asks the “Chronicle,” remember that Holy Cross Day, September 14, is the anniversary of the day on which the Duke of Wellington died in 1852? ...

    Article : 315 words
  17. A RAILWAY WITHOUT A CURVE FOR 45 MILES.

    The Khartoum line leaves Wadi Haifa and goes in a south-easterly direction through the Nubian Desert to Abu Hamed, which is 230 miles from Wadi Haifa. The ...

    Article : 227 words
  18. HOW HIGH DO BIRDS FLY.

    Among other scientific discoveries due to recent experiments in ballooning is one concerning the height to which birds fly. Dr. Hegersell, a Strasburg aeronaut, says ...

    Article : 258 words
  19. ARE WOMEN WEAKER THAN MEN ?

    For all his gaiety Max O'Rell has time to turn his thoughts to serious subjects now and again. For instance, he has lately been considering whether women are weaker ...

    Article : 400 words
  20. MORN ON THE MOUNTAINS.

    There is beauty in this world of ours for him with eyes lo see; There is beauty smiles at harvest on the prairies broad and free; ...

    Article : 360 words
  21. ODD NUMBER UNLUCKY.

    During a course of lectures on “Scotland and the Scots” an Oxford professor delivered a feeling tribute to the intrepidity and endurance of the sons of the north. “These ...

    Article : 112 words
  22. A HOSPITAL SKETCH.

    I took him in my arms, a little bundle of dirty ra[?] with big, black, beady eyes peeping out from his wizen face, and I loved him then and there. When he was ...

    Article : 392 words
  23. SCIENCE AND THE COBRA.

    Mr. W. A. Fraser gives in the “Idler” some thrilling stories of snakes in the Borongo Islands, which seem to be a sort of serpent’s paradise. Science stops, he says, ...

    Article : 144 words
  24. A POPULAR BUSH SONG.

    A bush poem entitled “Waltzing Matilda'” is all the rage here just now (says the “N.Q. Herald”) and some clever fellow has managed to fit the quaint trifle with an ...

    Article : 258 words
  25. WOMEN HIGHWAY ROBBERS

    The deeds of Cartouche, alias Bourguignon, the notorious highwayman, who was broken on the wheel on the Place de Greve in 1721, have been imitated by two ...

    Article : 207 words
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  27. A REAL HERO.

    Daring sixty-two years of a seafaring life, Captain John Glover, who has just died at Harwich, saved no less than 300 lives. His is probably a record in life-saving.—“Evening Paper.” ...

    Article : 186 words
  28. DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD’S RAILWAYS.

    From statistics in “Engineering” it appears that the average increase to the length of railways throughout the world is about [?],000 miles per annum. Of the 44.570 miles ...

    Article : 105 words
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