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  2. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    CANAL LOCKS.—Canals have been constructed in Belgium in which, instead of locks, the boats are hoisted by lifts from one level to another. One of these canals ...

    Article : 858 words
  3. THE HOUSEHOLD.

    BRAISED VEGETABLE PIE.—Any kind of vegetables, cooked macaroni or rice, oil or butter, water, pastry. Cut the vegetables into slices, fry them for ten minutes in ...

    Article : 572 words
  4. An Unexpected Hero.

    Mrs Skimpley's houseboat was always one of the prettiest at Henley, as the party gathered on it was generally one of the merriest. ...

    Article : 2,416 words
  5. FINDING THE LUCK.

    He was a Russian, and the first time we met was on the mountain path that leads from Monte Carlo to La Turbie. After a bad evening at the tables, ...

    Article : 2,320 words
  6. THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

    There are no fewer than 11,000 rooms in the Papal palace, and many of them never receive a ray of sunlight. Every day the Thames scoops out of its ...

    Article : 900 words
  7. THE AGRICULTURIST.

    The indigenous timber growths in the Mallee areas consist for the most part of blue bush, "bull" mallee, balar, pine, and needle bush. Before the land can be ...

    Article : 623 words
  8. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    A remedy for soft corns:—Bind on a piece of cotton wool soaked in castor oil. Horse radish applied to the temples is said to be an excellent remedy for neuralgia, ...

    Article : 168 words
  9. ABOUT MILDURA.

    Apropos of the recent investigation into Mildura affairs, the subjoined paragraph is of interest. It is taken from the evidence of. Mr. N. McKay (editor and part ...

    Article : 181 words
  10. VULGARITY.

    it is one of the pleasant features of modern times, that the humbler classes are no longer condemned to the exclusive possession of the title of the Vulgar. They ...

    Article : 594 words
  11. MISCELLANEOUS.

    In transplanting trees, all the roots which may have become bruised or broken in the process of lifting should be cut clean away behind the broken part, as they then ...

    Article : 145 words
  12. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    "What do they mean by a test case?" "A test case is one which is brought to see how much the lawyers can make out of it." ...

    Article : 348 words
  13. THE WRONG WORD.

    One often hears quaint stories of the mistakes that arise from telegrams that are altered in transmission. The "Lady" says one occurred, the results of which ...

    Article : 258 words
  14. ON THE OTHER SIDE.

    An old couple who lived in the Highlands once had a rather amusing experience. They lived in a house that was only one storey high, and one wet night when they ...

    Article : 157 words
  15. ZADOC'S FACE.

    Sitting alone on a bench by the deer park in the Zoological Gardens the other sunny day was a wrinkled-faced old-woman hard on to sixty years of age, and she had a clay ...

    Article : 392 words
  16. A WOMAN'S KINGDOM.

    In one of the Dutch Colonial dependen Bantam, which although tributary. [?] Holland, is still an independent little kingdom, governed and defended by women. ...

    Article : 275 words
  17. THE DANGER OF DOGS.

    A seamstress of Berlin, who was in the habit of allowing her dog to lick her face, was attacked the other day with a severe inflammation of the right eye. Oculists ...

    Article : 219 words
  18. THEY ALL DO IT.

    "Father," said the little son of a clergy-man. "I think you told a lie in the pulpit this morning." "Why, what do you mean?" asked the ...

    Article : 121 words
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