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  2. Optical Illusions.

    WHEN the eye is deceived and a person misled by things seeming to be what they are not, it is spoken of as an "optical illusion." The familiar expression that" seeing is believing" ...

    Article : 1,463 words
  3. The Farmer.

    LAST year I was induced to try an experiment in chrysanthemum growing, and for this purpose I purchased one pound of subphate of ammonia, which I bottled and ...

    Article : 190 words
  4. The Last Resort.

    I was mighty good Jenkin' when I was young Peert and black eyed an' slim, With fullers a courtin me Sunday nights, 'Specially Tim. ...

    Article : 129 words
  5. The Parasites of Money.

    THE Frankfurter Zeiturp states that Dr. Relnseh has found, as the result of a long series of minute investigations, that the surface of 50 pfennig pieces (sixpences) which ...

    Article : 244 words
  6. He Had the Oxberence.

    THE events in Wall street called in up an "oxberence[?] story that may be old, but is not quite decayed yet, anyway. "So," said a business man to a German acquaintance. ...

    Article : 209 words
  7. Salting Walks.

    THE best way, says a correspondent, to apply salt to paths, to destroy weeds, is as follows—Boil the salt in water, I pound to 1 gallon, and apply the mixture boiling with a ...

    Article : 73 words
  8. Humor

    THEY were seated in the parlor, and the clock had struck the hour of ten (Hills clock never struck any more than ten on these evenings when court was in session). ...

    Article : 575 words
  9. Digging Wells.

    THE Massachusetts Ploughman some time since had the following directions in regard to digging wells: The old way of digging a well and stoning ...

    Article : 465 words
  10. Not Proud of her Countryman.

    SAM JONES, of Gold Hill, who dearly loves a joke, has a domestic in his house who is a countrywoman of Sullivan. The other morning he and Evan Williams were eating ...

    Article : 324 words
  11. "Beware."

    PEETTY little maiden, Byes of hazel hue, Hair of darkest color, Tresses not a few. ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. Individuality of Style.

    OF course no woman is in be blamed far making herself look as well as possible. It is the feminine instinct, and a perfectly correct one. It is all nonsense to say that it is better ...

    Article : 508 words
  13. The Burgle Song.

    The darkness falls on Villa walls, The family's in the lower story, This is the hour for jewel-hauls, The burgiar now is in his glory. ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. English v. Arab Swords.

    AN English manufacturer of cavalry swords has recently made some severe criticisms on the manner of testing swords for the British army. The sword blades are taken to an ...

    Article : 357 words
  15. Supposing He Had.

    ON a Bay City train coming into Detroit the other day was a big hulk of a fellow with a voice deep enough to shake the foundations of a house, and a disposition to eat somebody up. ...

    Article : 366 words
  16. Science.

    THE metropolis is again threatened with an epidemic of small pox. The disease, which broke out some weeks ago in the northeastern district, is now prevalent in Hackney ...

    Article : 381 words
  17. Keep Your Lips.

    IN the desire to make a girl feel at home and pleased with her place, the young housekeeper is sometimes apt to take her t[?] closely into her confidence, especially if he is a pleasant ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. Household Hints.

    TO MAKE a good jam: Place one finger in the crack of a door. Shut the door slowly but firmly, and keep it closed at least ten seconds. Then open the door remove the finger, ...

    Article : 238 words
  19. A Sheet Iron Hen.

    THE Inter Ocean describes a novel invention as fellows:—An ingenious fellow in Ohio has constructed a sheet iron hen that promises to lay him a golden egg. It is finished up to ...

    Article : 249 words
  20. Fun.

    IT is the proud boast of the Georgia editors that not one of them has ever been sent to the lunatic asylum. This is strong circumstantial evidence that they do not exchange ...

    Article : 258 words
  21. Miscellaneous.

    THE importance of selecting dry locations for a residence is very aptly illustrated in the following extract from an address by Prof. R. C. Kedzie before the Michigan The Makers' ...

    Article : 362 words
  22. Marble Pictures.

    DR. HAND SMITH has been engaged in studying the movement of colored particles within marble, ivory, and other dense substances; and the result is a process of developing ...

    Article : 137 words
  23. A Dentist Takes a Mean Advantage.

    A PRACTICAL joker of the sly order is Dr. Henderson, a Brooklyn dentist. The Doctor does not look unlike a pious divine, and his mode of conducting himself, coupled with a ...

    Article : 273 words
  24. Shakspeare's Autograph.

    IT may be of interest to those who make the subject a study to know that there are only five genuine signatures of Shakspeare's known to be in existence. One is in the ...

    Article : 56 words
  25. Great Britain's Drink Bill

    MR. W. HOYLE, in a letter to the Times, points out how the nation's expenditure upon intoxicating liquors during 1883 amounted to £125,477,275, a decrease of £774,084 as ...

    Article : 168 words
  26. Remedy for Phthisis.

    ALUMINUM and its compounds are affirmed by Dr. Pick, in the Pharmaccutical Journal, to constitute a most effective remedy against pulmonary tuberculosis, this opinion being ...

    Article : 104 words
  27. Ladies Column.

    In women feel that they must paint their faces, why don't they take a few lessons in the science of "make up," and use paint, rouge and powder in an artistic manner. An ...

    Article : 441 words
  28. Nature.

    IN 1862 the writer was residing in the British West Indies. His house was on the hillside and below it, at a short distance, was a stream of beautiful water. In flowed round a piece ...

    Article : 1,394 words
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