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  2. AGRICULTURAL COLUMN.

    The word "economy" is a very common one; the compulsory practice of which is, by far, too common to be plesant and yet it is one, the meaning of which very ...

    Article : 1,205 words
  3. POPULAR SCIENCE Destroying a Dyke,

    A very remarkable blasting operation at Llanberis is picturesquely described in the "London Telegraph." For many years (says the correspondent of that journal) a ...

    Article : 463 words
  4. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    In the old times there was once a quaint ittie dwarf who was known as the Kaboutermanneken of Kaboutermannekensburg. In the very ancient times of good King ...

    Article : 2,154 words
  5. THE LADIES' COLUMN. A Withered Rose.

    'TIS only a faded rose, my dear, With its petals dry and dead; Since its birth in a fragrant country lane, Some thirty years have fled. ...

    Article : 186 words
  6. De Grand Confidence.

    The following hit at the times, written by Geo. P. Morris more than 50 years ago apropos to the money panic of that period, exactly fits the present situation, says the ...

    Article : 493 words
  7. Home and Fireside.

    FISH-SCALE WORK.—The worker must be careful in preparing the fish-scales before using. They must be washed in cold water with plenty of yellow soap, and after rinsed ...

    Article : 745 words
  8. Ladies' Gossip.

    Much trouble is taken with petticoats, which are shaped exactly on the form of the skirts, and occasionally are as much, as five yards round. They are distended at the fest. ...

    Article : 819 words
  9. The Age of the Earth.

    Among the wider problems of natural science toward the solution of which contributions have been made recently, the most striking is that of the age of the ...

    Article : 172 words
  10. A Battle Incident.

    The following is an incident from the battle of Bentonville, N.C., told by a writer in the "Detroit Free Press," and is illustrative of the pathos of the soldier's ...

    Article : 239 words
  11. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    In Lapland—Courtship. Why is a prudent man like a pin? Because his head prevents his going too far. "When was your late uncle's insanity ...

    Article : 735 words
  12. St. Petersburg to Paris on a Bicycle.

    M. Terront, the French bicyclist, who has just ridden from St Petersburg to Paris, has given our correspondent in the latter city some account of his journey. The ...

    Article : 416 words
  13. Financial Affairs in the States.

    "When we disembarked at Liverpool," said an American who has just arrived in London from New York, "I went to one of the principal hotels. As I had met the ...

    Article : 547 words
  14. Sweet Peas and Flies.

    The "Scientific American," quoting from the "Louisville Journal," gives the following. The accuracy of the statement can be tested by those of our readers who ...

    Article : 194 words
  15. Horticultural Notes

    The very height of strawberry eating is with coffee. Nobody ever really tasted coffee who has not drunk it ill alternate mouthfuls with strawberries, and nobody knows the strawberry ...

    Article : 486 words
  16. Physical "Culture" for Our Daughters.

    As physical training is engaging the attention and consuming the time of young women everywhere, Mrs Bridget Maguire, Fraulein Gretchen Schmidt, Fru. Johanna ...

    Article : 568 words
  17. Scene at a Circus.

    One of the most exciting spectacles ever seen in Chicago was witneseed there on 25th September at a circus in the middle of the Plaisance Fair Grounds. ...

    Article : 277 words
  18. Little Things.

    A good-bye kiss is a little thing, With your hand on the door to go, Bat it takes the venom out of the sting Of a thoughtless word or a cruel fling ...

    Article : 163 words
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