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  2. Short Story.

    "Now we are settled, Milly dear, we must hare some visiting cards printed." "Oh, I never thought of that, ...

    Article : 752 words
  3. Odds and Ends.

    Kate—"You ought to have heard Mr. Dearlove's ringing speech last night." Annie—"Why, I wasn't aware he could make a speech." Kate— ...

    Article : 263 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    There are 270 active volcanoes in the world, many of them, however, being quite small. Bequested to Poverty.—Johann ...

    Article : 63 words
  5. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS OVER

    Mist and rain so often follow great earthquakes, like that of Messina, that it is thought that there must be some connection, and Professor Milne now ...

    Article : 95 words
  6. HINDU PROVERBS.

    The habits of the cradle will last to the grave. The plant that could not be bent when it was a twig will not bend when ...

    Article : 174 words
  7. ABSOLUTE SECRET WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    A new no-spark system of wireless telegraphy and telephony, has just been invented by Dr. Lee De Forest, and is expected to alter the entire field ...

    Article : 176 words
  8. Housekeeper.

    The Swiss railway authorities, it is said, have decreed that women's hats with a diameter exceeding thirty-two inches shall-be classed as cycle of ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

    Ingredients—Puff pastry, sponge cake, jam. For the puff pastry one pound of butter. Method—Rub a piece of butter about the size of an ...

    Article : 148 words
  10. THE IDEAL WAIST.

    The models who ire employed by fashionable London dressmakers to display the new season's dresses are reported to be trying to bring their ...

    Article : 200 words
  11. AFFECTION'S SACRIFICE.

    An old couple in Glasgow were in a very depressed state owing to dull trade. Thinking their son in America ...

    Article : 81 words
  12. OLD ROME NOT RICH.

    Rome, even in the times of its splendour, was poor in comparison with the modern world; even in the second century after Christ, when it stood as ...

    Article : 289 words
  13. MADEIRA CAKE.

    Ingredients: 5 oz. butter, 5 oz. sugar, 4 eggs. 8 oz. flour, 2 oz. cornflour, 1 teaspoon baking powred, rind 1 lemon, piece Candied peel. ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. THE FIRST RACECOURSE FOR FLYING MACHINES.

    About twelve miles from Paris, in the centre of a large plain, the French Society for the Encouragement of Aviation, has established a trial ground ...

    Article : 135 words
  15. THE FRIEND OF WOMAN.

    The woman emancipationist had tackled the serene old bachelor, and was reading the Riot Act to him. He squirmed occasionally. but he ...

    Article : 55 words
  16. WHOLE-FRUIT STRAWBERRY PRESERVE.

    To preserve strawberries whole, chose sound, fresh-gathered fruit, and to every pound add six ounces of loaf surer. Pick the fruit, put it in the ...

    Article : 91 words
  17. PAY YOURSELF A VISIT.

    Every woman who has a house of her own should, once in a while, pay a call on herself. She should come into her own house as if it were a ...

    Article : 198 words
  18. CHATTERTON OUTDONE.

    A little boy wanted to Rive his mother a birthday present, and he did not know what to give her, so at last he decided to give her a Bible. ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. A WATCH THAT COUNTS THE PULSE BEATS.

    A new watch has been invented fer the use of physicians and nurses in counting the pulse. The watch indicates, without mental calculation, the ...

    Article : 195 words
  20. COCOANUT MERINGUES.

    Dainty little edibles for afternoon tea are cocoanut meringues, which are usually much appreciated. They require patience in the making, but are ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. NO MORE INSTALMENTS.

    After half an hour of silence, Hiram suddenly spoke. "Sally, I've been apaying my respects to you for five years come next August, ain't I?" ...

    Article : 57 words
  22. WHERE FORTUNES LIE BURIED.

    An American adventurer declares that he knows where wealth in the shape of ivory is to be picked up in handfuls. This El Dorado is the ...

    Article : 242 words
  23. A NEW KIND OF BOY.

    "You want a job, do you, young man?" asked the manager of the great drapery establishment. "Yes, sir." ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. HOUSEWIVES HARDER WORKED

    A German advocate of women's rights has made a curious calculation about the amount of labour done by housewives. He takes the average ...

    Article : 205 words
  25. A RICH PUDDING.

    To make Charlotte Russe, take three-quarters of an ounce of isinglass (or gelatine) and one vanilla bean or stick, and boil them in one pint of ...

    Article : 144 words
  26. Items of Interest.

    The w[?]est are the least sure. The fool has no doubts. It is always easier to discuss the duties of others than to do our own. ...

    Article : 278 words
  27. WHEN SMUTTS MET CUTTS.

    Cutts, the screaming comedian, and Smutts, the roaring humorist, chanced to hit upon the same town for their shows one night. Consequently when ...

    Article : 199 words
  28. THE WORD WHISKY.

    The origin of the name whisky has [?] the dictionary makers, but most of them have followed Johnson in making it derive from the Irish ...

    Article : 291 words
  29. CHAPTER II.

    The night of Kersham Hall dance came at last. The village had talked of nothing else for weeks, All the shops which had received orders ...

    Article : 1,338 words
  30. Science it Invention.

    The improved life-saving gun, which has been adopted for use on the new, United States revenue cutters, "Snohomish" and "Achushnet," has ...

    Article : 104 words
  31. CHANGES IN HAIRDRESSING.

    It is almost impossible nowadays to alter one part of our machinery without a general [?] bouleversemeat in other directions. To balance the increased ...

    Article : 58 words
  32. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL.

    When old Per[?]in[?] left the house in which he had lived for forty years and arrived with all his household g[?] and [?] at the home of ...

    Article : 203 words
  33. THE SECRET OF A PERFECT NECK.

    A famous stage beauty was asked the other day how she managed to have such a perfect neck. The length of the neck, she replied, is one of the ...

    Article : 229 words
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