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  2. fa's Patent Gate.

    A PALE-FACED anxious-looking man, who looks as though he supped with sorrow every week, lives out on North Hill with his wife and seven lovely blooming daughters. He has, with ...

    Article : 1,165 words
  3. Mending.

    AS soon as children have learned to darn on canvas perfectly by taking up one stitch and leaving one, and are also equally perfect in crossing their darns by the same rules as I gave in ...

    Article : 811 words
  4. Marine Life on the North-east Coast.

    THE following paper was read by its author at the March meeting of the Linnean Society in Sydney. It has been published separately in a pamphlet form, and as it will interest Queensland ...

    Article : 2,545 words
  5. The Discovery of Ice-Cream.

    IT was in Lactia, and the king of the country was such a grand king that he wore his gold crown even at night, though it made the worst kind of a night-cap. The wise men of Lactia ...

    Article : 939 words
  6. Music.

    IN local musical events I have little to record since the appearance of my last notes. The various schools in the city have celebrated the breaking-up by the usual entertainments to ...

    Article : 1,599 words
  7. The Parisian Fashions.

    ARISTOCRATIC society in France is imitating English customs in one respect—its members do not return to the capital for the early winter months, but spend a portion of the season in the ...

    Article : 1,515 words
  8. Curtain Lectures.

    I HAVE no doubt that Douglas Jerrold was well acquainted with a facetious book written in the early part of the last century by the celebrated Edward, "commonly called Ned," Ward, ...

    Article : 444 words
  9. Current Notes on Natural History.

    THE NEST OF THE BOWER-BIRD.— W.T.W.," dating from Toowoomba, sends the following satisfactory communication on the above subject. He writes:—"I can give some information about the ...

    Article : 890 words
  10. The Alligator.

    VARIOUS men have written various things regarding the alligator, but we are not bound to believe any of them. He is classed as a reptile, but we can put him in any other class we think ...

    Article : 825 words
  11. Mrs. Higginbottom's Effort to Make Home Attractive.

    MRS. HIGGINBOTTOM, as a first step, visited her husband's favorite concert saloon under the protection of a disguise and a detective officer. When she had learned what were the attractions ...

    Article : 554 words
  12. "Gents,"

    A WRITER in the Atlantic describes how he was once taught to use the English language correctly: One day, several years ago, when I was rather a young man, the editor of one of the great New ...

    Article : 418 words
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