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  2. SURFING AND CELEBRITIES.

    It is an aspect of the eternal fitness of things that surfing, perhaps the most virile and most health-giving of all our sports, should have originated, as far as ...

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  3. WHEATBELT PHENOMENON.

    Freak distributions of small plants are usually of interest chiefly to botanists, but when such a thing occurs in the case of the jarrah tree, whose name is so ...

    Article : 607 words
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  5. RUSSIAN SCENES.

    Thursday was the day of the weekly market, and, with Marnia, the housemaid, or Oostia, the cook, I would set off by sleigh in winter, or tarantass (springless ...

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  6. FRAGMENTS FROM MALAYA.

    The Malays are a race of poets. Their literature is no mere collection of written words—it is a vehicle of everyday speech. Just as the commonest rice-bowl ...

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  7. "TO HANG BY THE NECK."

    The prisoner smiled. A sense of humour, it would seem, was his only attribute, for with morals he was not burdened and of looks he had none. His front ...

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  8. RUINS OF A FOREST CITY.

    WASHINGTON.—A volcano wrecked Pompeii; tropical plants and trees with incredibly strong fingers pulled down the ancient American city of Calakmul. ...

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  9. IN THE EIGHTIES.

    From the outset the Queen evinced a warm interest in the great Empire display at South Kensington, of which the Prince of Wales was the mainspring, and, as a ...

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  10. LUDOVICO ARIOSTO.

    It is difficult not to notice how national a literature Italian poetry is—national in its growth, national in its richness and sentiment, and national in its glorious ...

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  11. THE WHITTINGTON LEGEND.

    Sir,—In his interesting and comprehensive account of the genesis of the Whittington legend in "The West Australian" of February 11, "Grat" omits one possible ...

    Article : 187 words
  12. COOL SOUNDS.

    "A wise old owl sat in an oak; The more he saw, the 1ess he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard; Why can't we all be like that bird?" ...

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    The late John Burns, when a member of the London County Council, in discussing the asylums under the Council's administration, once remarked that few of ...

    Article : 90 words
  14. LONDON LIGHTS.

    LONDON, Jan. 18.—All great or well-known authors are supposed to harbour some personal idiosyncrasy. Lamb stuttered, Johnson touched lamp-posts and drank ...

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  15. MUSIC AND THE THEATRE.

    Lovers of organ music will rejoice to hear that Dr. Edgar Ford, an English master of the instrument, well known in Perth, is to give a recital at St. Mary's ...

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    Back in the 'nineties, the smiling little Italian who was the proprietor of "Romano's," in the Strand, was on one occasion pursued to his ruin by a certain ...

    Article : 142 words
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  18. New Records.

    Ganne's "Extase" is a song that gives Herr Tauber the sort of material he is particularly at home in, enabling him to sing most fervently broad phrases about ...

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