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  2. A Land-Grant Railway Fact.

    THE following extract refers to that wretched and down-trodden coutnry which Archibald Forbes told us was, crushed rader the heel of a tyrannical money-grubbing land-grant railway Syndicate. Read it and ...

    Article : 240 words
  3. Signs of the Times.

    WHEN a man makes his wife a handsome present, it is a sign they have been quarelling recently. When a young lady "has a very bad cold, or else she'd be delighted" &c., it is rather a dangerous sign ...

    Article : 275 words
  4. A Charters Towers Shindy.

    Now let me sing with all my powers, About a row at Charters Towers. That did occur the other day Twixt Messrs. Simpson and M'Kay. ...

    Article : 719 words
  5. Whatever.

    THE Ipswich Advocate, noticing our recent article headed, "A Contemptible Rat," and referring to the saintly Ebenezer Thorne, says:— "Whatever Mr. Thome may be politically, socially, or morally, ...

    Article : 85 words
  6. The Wedding-Ring and its Substitutes.

    THE first inventor of the wedding-ring, as is reported, was one Prometheus. The workman who made it, was Tubal-Cain, who, by the counsel of our first parent Adam, gave it unto his son to his end, ...

    Article : 455 words
  7. Mr. Pink's Pets.

    AMONGST the pets at present under the care of Mr. Pink, Curator of our Botanic Gardens, are two interesting cassowaries from the far North 01 Queensland. These seem to be a sort of half stage between the ...

    Article : 490 words
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