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  2. NOVELETTE

    Of course, I love you, Jack, you know that. But I think it is only right- that you should announce our engagement to--to those two dear old ...

    Article : 2,607 words
  3. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Czar has a hundred palaces scattered throughout the length and breadth of his dominions. These Imperial residences have a ...

    Article : 113 words
  4. MOUNTAIN AIR AND DIABETES.

    Dr. Dutiot mentions the fact that high altitudes exert a favourable influence on diabetes, and adds that thus far no satisfactory explanation of this ...

    Article : 155 words
  5. HISTORIC KISSES.

    In the year 1794 the beautiful, charming, and famous Duchess of Gordon founded and raised the Gordon Highlanders, one of the most notable ...

    Article : 457 words
  6. SHELLFISH THAT SING.

    In Ceylon there is a shell-fish--a kind of mussel--which sings. In still weather, when the water has ebbed away from the mussel-beds for a few hours, ...

    Article : 102 words
  7. HOUSEKEEPER.

    From whatever cause deafness' arises, the following rules should be always followed, unless indeed it be a radical deafness occasioned by the total ...

    Article : 154 words
  8. USEFUL RECEIPES.

    Apple Snow: Ingredients.--2 apples, 2oz. sugar, 1 white of egg 1 sheet .of gelatine. Method: Peel and cut up the apples. Stew these and beat into a ...

    Article : 541 words
  9. AMERICA'S OLDEST FOSSIL.

    The discovery of the most ancient skeleton of a fossil mammal ever found in America has just been announced by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. AMMONIA DISINFECTANT.

    Recent experiments by Dr. Riegler, of the Institute of Hygiene of BudaPesth, have the highly important result of proving that ordinary ammonia ...

    Article : 216 words
  11. SIGNATURES ON PAINTINGS.

    Experts rarely rely on signatures alone to determine the authenticity of an old paitning, but trust rather to their knowledge of the painter's ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. FRUITS AS HEALTH GIVERS.

    Now that fruit is plentiful, many people will, no doubt, be glad to take the opportunity of beginning the day with a fruit meal. Most doctors agree ...

    Article : 146 words
  13. OXY-ACETYLENE TORCH.

    Indianopolis, U.S.A., has recently been engaged in removing with fire the wreckage caused by flood waters. Two bridges which crossed the White River ...

    Article : 232 words
  14. TEA STATISTICS.

    Nearly 3000 cups of tea are annually drunk by each individual in Great Britain, for the estimate per head is about 6½lb., and, roughly speaking, ...

    Article : 209 words
  15. AIDS TO HEALTH.

    The health value of the daily bath depends to a certain extent on the temperature of the water. It is not all who can bear the chill of quite cold water, ...

    Article : 144 words
  16. ODDS AND ENDS.

    Johnny: "Pa, what's political knavery?" Pa: "What the other side's doing, my son." Brown: ""What's the hurry?" Smith: ...

    Article : 390 words
  17. THE HARMONIOUS LIFE.

    Great things spring from little sources; the little rift widens into a chasm. In family life it is the little daily frets that ruffle the temper and ...

    Article : 308 words
  18. COLLARS AND CARBUNCLES.

    The back of the neck is the commonest place for a carbuncle to appear, it is a most sensitive spot, not so much on the surface of the skin as in the ...

    Article : 242 words
  19. A SPIDER ANGLER.

    Specimens of the spider known as Thalassius Spenceri are in the museum at Durban, Natal, and the curator, Mr. E. C. Chubb, has just made scientific ...

    Article : 170 words
  20. SCIENCE NOTES.

    By a patent by Mr. A. Pollak, 7 Avenue de Cog, Paris, clothes are provided with heating-resistance, consisting of insulated wires attached to the ...

    Article : 215 words
  21. DRIED YEAST INDUSTRY.

    A remarkable development of the dried yeast industry has taken place in Germany during the past three years. Heretofore the thousands of tons of ...

    Article : 202 words
  22. WORSHIPPING A SACRED TOOTH.

    At Kandy, in Ceylon, is kept Buddha's tooth, which is the object of the unbounded reverence of more than 400,000,000 people. ...

    Article : 274 words
  23. THE ENGAGED GIRL.

    The age of engagement is a gloriously selfish one--perhaps the most selfish of all woman's seven ages. She and another being are all the world--no one ...

    Article : 419 words
  24. NEXT.

    "I saw you out on your bicycle the other day when there was such a high wind blowing." "Yes; I punctured both tyres before ...

    Article : 57 words
  25. MINIMUM LUNG CAPACITY.

    Using what is known as the pneumothorax method, Bernard and Le Play showed in France that the minimum lung capacity which is compatible with ...

    Article : 136 words
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