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  2. POPULAR SCIENCE

    The question which aroused such a lively interest and such warm discussion in all circles of society, as to the possibility of photographing colors directly from nature ...

    Article : 349 words
  3. A Bather's Singular Experience.

    Louis Norton, a New Haven merchant, was washed ashore at Atlantic City, New to Jersey lately. Some officials were walking of along the beach near the pier at 11.30 p.m., ...

    Article : 536 words
  4. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Oh, mothers, worn and weary, With cores which never cease, With never time for pleasure, With days that have no peace, ...

    Article : 184 words
  5. HERE AND THERE.

    I spent a couple of pleasant hours on the Flemington course a few days before the opening of the Cup Carnival. Thu object of the visit was to admire Mrs Ellis Rowan's ...

    Article : 1,963 words
  6. Improved Fruit

    A fair amount of fame and fortune awaits the competent young man who will undertake as his life work the improvement of the best varieties of fruit and trees. A good many men. ...

    Article : 852 words
  7. AGRICULTURAL COLUMN

    "Beerbohm's Evening Corn Trade List" for years been pessimistic, prophesying of deficiencies in stocks and advances in are prices which have not occurred. Our ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  8. How to Keep Well and Good-Looking.

    Lotta, the actress, is a level-headed little woman. In a letter to a friend, who wanted to know how she keeps well and good. looking, she writes:— " Early to bed and ...

    Article : 182 words
  9. Home and Fireside.

    RHUBARB WINE.—The following is a well-tested recipe; it has been kept for eight years and proved excellent:—To every Jib of rhubarb(trimmed and cut in pieces), add ...

    Article : 804 words
  10. Meat Eating and Bad Temper.

    One desplorable result of excessive meat eating in England is the ill-temper which is a chronic complaint amoung us. "In no country," declares Mr Ernest Hart in the "Hospital," ...

    Article : 251 words
  11. An Eccentric Bride.

    A writer of ladies' gossip in the " New York Herald" tells the following story :— The oddest wedding I ever heard of occurred recently in a new and fashionable ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 353 words
  12. The Old Camp Fire.

    Now shift the blanket-pad before your saddle back you fling, And draw your sinch up tighter till the sweat drops from the ring; ...

    Article : 629 words
  13. The Indian Colonel a Munchausen.

    Mr Edward Braddon, writing in "Blackwood " on " Thirty Years of Shikar," deals with the Indian colonel as Munchausen. " I wonder," he says, "If the Indian colonel ...

    Article : 340 words
  14. Yawning.

    "Not only is it very healthy to yawn," rays a French physician, "but artificial yawning should be resorted to in cases of sore throat, buzzing of the ears, catarrh and like troubles." ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. Cultivating Young Orchards.

    The man who plants an orchard and thinks because he has ploughed his ground deep, and then harrowed it well, that he can let it stand to until the weeds begin to grow, and then use a ...

    Article : 268 words
  16. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Relative Impecuniosity.—" I pity you, Jack, when I see your creditors pushing you. That's is a trouble I never had." Jack : "No. You probably never had any credit ...

    Article : 707 words
  17. Proverbial Dairy Philosophy.

    Milk adulteration may be brought about in many indirect ways. The dairyman who keeps his milk pure can be trusted as an honest man. ...

    Article : 308 words
  18. A Gang of Forgers.

    For some time past the detective force both of the Criminal Investigation department and the City Police has been occupied with the closest investigation of some ...

    Article : 467 words
  19. Developing a Milking Propensity

    The question of not only strong milking habit in cows, and health and vigor to back it up, is a question that every dairyman is interested in, and that the great milker is to be ...

    Article : 302 words
  20. Ladies' Gossip

    Madame Patti is at present busily engaged in rehearsing a new one-act opera, entitled "Gabriella,' for production in the provinces during her forthcoming tour. Signor Pizzi, ...

    Article : 665 words
  21. Stringhalt.

    Veterinariaus have been unable to decide as to the case of this singular affection. Some believe that it is the result of a disease of the black, or arises from some malformation of it, ...

    Article : 282 words
  22. A Steam Quadricycle.

    Imagine two safety bicycles, the wheels about the size of ordinaries, joined catamaran fashion, with a small boiler and engine and a complicated rigging of machinery hanging ...

    Article : 204 words
  23. Wives of Great Men.

    Sir Thomas More's wife scolded him on the eve of his execution. Hazitt's wife cared nothing for his abilities, and kept him in hot water by her ...

    Article : 152 words
  24. The Sheep's Teeth.

    The lamb when about a month old possessee eight temporary incisor teeth-usually termed the "milk teeth." The after dentition is considerably affected by the nature of the feeding. ...

    Article : 126 words
  25. Iron and Water.

    The water supply of Antwerp is drawn from the river Nethe, and is purifled by passing through cylinders containing iron filings. The water which leaves the river is the filthiest ...

    Article : 111 words
  26. She Wanted Half a Million.

    "You are old enough to he my father," said the girl to the ancient millionaire who had proposed to her. " Yes, my dear, I know that," he replied, ...

    Article : 83 words
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