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Newspaper
Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal
Location
Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Date
May 15, 1869
Page
2
The speaker ponders the moment to marry and suggests that true readiness comes when women and men share duties, homes, and mutual support. He declares openness to marriage if societal roles and patience align, humorously lamenting singleness and proposing a wife to brighten his life.
A verse depiction allegorically portrays forcing a free spirit to labor through fire iron and control. It mocks exploitation by turning natural power into a industrial system that moves ships mines plows and mills, keeping the captive spirit confined and driven to toil.
A Berlin wag bet on New Year's Day drew crowds as he sat four hours in a hairdresser window prop wearing a white sheet and large wig with a fez. Street boys taunted him with rewards but he held still until the fever broke, then bowed and left.
A travelogue discusses the Clarence River in New South Wales, detailing its 300 mile course from source to ocean, the diverse landscapes from rugged highlands to fertile alluvial flats, and the growth of free selectors transforming land use. It highlights towns like Grafton, Dimarra, and North Grafton, the river’s islands such as Woodford, crops like maize and sugarcane, and notes on soil richness, floods, and shipping along the Clarence.
A correspondent recounts a pair of live Egyptian scorpions sent from Heliopolis fighting a mouse after being observed in a glass globe. The account describes the scorpions’ aggressive moves, the mouse’s counterattacks, and the chaotic battle as observers intervene to separate them.
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