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  2. THOSE BRIDAL BOBBINS.

    The "bridal bobbin," which turned up the other day in a London auction room, is a reminder of the times when the manufacture of lace by ...

    Article : 117 words
  3. UMBRELLA ADVENTURE.

    Ever since, as a small boy, I was presented with an umbrella and forced to carry the thing, to the malicious joy of my chums, I have always ...

    Article : 574 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Madge: "He looked awfully silly when he proposed." Marjorie ' "No wonder. Look at the silly thing he was doing." ...

    Article : 792 words
  5. VISITING THE SICK.

    Don't sit where the invalid can't see and talk to you without moving. Nothing is more tiring than continually turning, even it it's only one's ...

    Article : 255 words
  6. A FISH OF MYSTERY.

    We are so accustomed to think of fish breathing by means of gills that it is difficult to imagine a species which have lungs and can breathe air ...

    Article : 226 words
  7. PARSONS IN UNIFORM.

    The appointment of a hew Chaplain-General of the Army in succession to the retiring Bishop Taylor Smith, in Britain, brings to notice ...

    Article : 227 words
  8. LAST OF THE GRAND JURIES.

    Grand Juries have been much discussed arid criticized, many holding that they are no longer necessary when cases are carefully considered by ...

    Article : 207 words
  9. SHAPING SHIPS FOR SPEED.

    To prophesy accurately the time that will be taken, by a ship, nearly 1,000 feet in length, on its maiden voyage from Great Britain to ...

    Article : 258 words
  10. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Perfume that is easily smelt at a distance of two yards is emitted by an Australian hedgeplant recently exhibited in London. ...

    Article : 374 words
  11. WIVES WHO ROB THEIR HUSBANDS.

    Is a wife entitled to anything she ran save from a housekeeping allowance made to her by her husband? As a rule, she assumes that she is, ...

    Article : 693 words
  12. STRANGE PRESENTS TO ROYALTY.

    When you think of presents sent to kings and princes your mind conjures up a picture of a sort of wonderful jeweller's window—gold caskets, ...

    Article : 569 words
  13. THE AUTOMATIC HELMSMAN.

    The helmsman used to be one of the most important men in a ship. His still enabled the vessel to take the shortest cuts across the ocean and ...

    Article : 298 words
  14. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    When boiling milk preparatory to mating costard or sauce, add the necessary quantity of sugar or salt, as the case requires, before placing ...

    Article : 469 words
  15. TEACHING "TECHNIQUE" TO TRAMPS.

    An experienced tramp has spent a profitable winter in town by hawking a handbook for vagrants, through the East End of London, at ...

    Article : 724 words
  16. WALKED FROM JERICHO.

    The man who, in a recent policecourt case, mentioned that he had tramped to London from Jericho, did not, of course, mean that he had ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. THE CAST SOLDIER FLOGGED.

    The tombstone erected in Heston (Middlesex) Churchyard to the memory of Private John White, who was the last man in the British Army to ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. WHERE IT REALLY RAINS.

    We often complain about the rainy weather, but really we do not know what rain means! One has to go to the Khasi Hills, in Assam, to see ...

    Article : 176 words
  19. NO MORE KITCHEN CRASHES.

    It is one of the tragedies of invention that unbreakable glass was once discovered and lost again! Nevertheless, although glass may still be ...

    Article : 150 words
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