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  2. SHORT STORY.

    (Continued from last week.) WITH the recollection of Constance Maxwell's indiguan wonder still fresh in his recollection, he could not ...

    Article : 2,235 words
  3. Odds and Ends

    A CLERGYMAN in the West, who had unfortunately quarrelled with his parisbioners, had the misfortune to have a shirt stolen from the hadge where it hung ...

    Article : 94 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    THE first guinea bore the impression of an elephant. Needies were first made in 1515, when the making of ten was a good day's work. ...

    Article : 240 words
  5. APPLE CHEESE TARTLETS.

    Ingredients:—½lb short crust, about 3 apples, 1oz butter 1oz sugar, 2 tablespoonsful water, 2 eggs, 2 oz cake crumbs, a little lemon rind. ...

    Article : 153 words
  6. WHAT SHE TOLD THE TELLER.

    The lady approached the teller's window at the bank, opened her pocket book, book out a cheque, and asked the young man to cash it. ...

    Article : 85 words
  7. AS THE BOY UNDERSTOOD IT.

    At a certain draper's shop they employ a small boy to run errands. The other day, while he was waiting in the shop, a lady came in and asked the assistant for a yard ...

    Article : 107 words
  8. RICE FRITTERS.

    Ingredients:—4oz rice, ½ pt water, 2ozs sugar, ¾ pt milk, 2 eggs, essence vanilla, bread crumbs, jam, castor sugar. Method.—Wash the rice and cook in the ...

    Article : 100 words
  9. DOMAIN OF FOSSIL IVORY.

    The most valuable desolate islands in the world are the Ltakovs, in the Arotic Ocean, off the mouth of the Lena, in Siberia. They are frost-bound and utterly barren ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. A BAD SIGN.

    Junior Pattern: 'The bookkeeper has been married nearly six months now. Senior Partner: 'Well?' Junior Partner: 'Well, be hasn't asked ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 44 words
  11. ALMOND CHEESE TARTLETS.

    IngredientS:—½lb pastry, 4ozs almonds, 4ozs sugar, 2ozs butter, 1 lemon, whites of eggs. Method.—Biench and pound the ...

    Article : 84 words
  12. Housekeeper.

    ONE of the best treatments for in growing too-neil, with suppuration around the nail and inflammation of the tissues in the vicinity, is a serious ...

    Article : 65 words
  13. A SENSITIVE PLANT.

    A singular species of acacia which grows in Virginia, Nevada, shows all the characteristics of a sensitive plant. When the sun sets its leaven told [?]gether, and the ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. STEAMED DATE PUDDING.

    Ingredients:—3ozs butter, 3ors sugar, 6 ozs flour, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 2 small eggs, ½ gill milk, 4 ozs dates, little lemon juice. ...

    Article : 68 words
  15. A MORNING TONIC.

    Take a plat of hot water, squeeze into it the juice of one lemon and season with a half teaspoonful of salt. Drink slowly half an hour before breakfast for two weeks at ...

    Article : 72 words
  16. THE HERMIT CRAB.

    The hermit crab differs from the ordinary crab in that his abdomen is soft and unprotected by a covering of shell. He also possesses a tall something like that at a ...

    Article : 144 words
  17. Items of Interest.

    NO Government under heaven can do half as much for any man at every man can do for himself.—Dean Lefroy. By what right shall England stand, she ...

    Article : 605 words
  18. CRUSHED FINGERS

    A crushed finger should be plunged into water as hot as possibly be borne. The application of hot water causes the nall to expand and so[?]sen, and the blood pouring ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. MOTHER AND SON

    Standing on the platform of a small country station, I was interested in watching a woman of the 'country' type, who had come to send her son off to his 'first ...

    Article : 87 words
  20. THE COMMON HOUSE-FLY.

    In ordinary flight it makes with its wings about 600 strokes, which carry it 5 feet every second; but it alarmed their velocity cab be increased six or sevenfold ...

    Article : 184 words
  21. ACID FRUITS AND RHEUMATISM.

    The idea that acid fruits induce rheumatism is a very popular error. It is based on a complete misconception. The acids of fruit are different from mineral acids. ...

    Article : 89 words
  22. WERE QUITE DISTINCT.

    Guest (indignantly): 'Walter, there are feathers in this soup.' Walter (inspecting it): 'Why, so there are I thought I was giving you gravy ...

    Article : 44 words
  23. TWO LEFF.

    Here is a story of a judge who had a notorious scoundrel brought him. In the course of his examination, his Honour asked: 'What has become of your ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. NOW TO CLARK A PAPERED WALL.

    Make a dough of flour and cold water and knead, as you would breed, until it is free from stickiness and becomes perfectly smooth. A place of this rubbed over the ...

    Article : 127 words
  25. A NEW DEFINITION.

    'What is a spinster?' asked the master of one of the boys. 'A syinster,' was the reply, 'is—a bacholor's wife. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 33 words
  26. COUNTERIES WITHOUT CLOCKS.

    Liberia, in Africa, has neither clock nor timepiece of any sort. The reckoning of time is made entirely by the movement and position of the sun, which rises at six ...

    Article : 234 words
  27. CHAPTER VII.

    It was late that evening, and James Ceriton sat in the library at the Hall, a weary and much-perplexed man. The lamp was lighted, but the blinds ...

    Article : 2,190 words
  28. CAFE OF THE FEET.

    It is a dainty habit to keep the nails of the feet in as good condition as those of the hands. The same preparations are suitable for both purposes. ...

    Article : 204 words
  29. LIGHT AND HAIRPINS.

    They call it electric light,' Pat confided to his lordship, 'but it do beat me how they make the hairpins burn in a bottle,' ...

    Article : 28 words
  30. THE KISSING CUSTOM.

    Editing in England was certainly known and practised in the sixteenth and seven-teenth centuries, and practised with an easy familiarity which shows the custom ...

    Article : 218 words
  31. BARBEROUS.

    Barber: 'Shall I take a little of the ends of your hair off, six?" Customer: 'Yes, I think you had better take it off the ends unless you can get it ...

    Article : 43 words
  32. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

    Ingredients:—½lb short crust, 4ozs sugar, 2ozs butter, 2 eggs, rind of 1 and juice of 2 lemons, 1 tablespoonful castor sugar. ...

    Article : 183 words
  33. WHY HE CAME BACK. OUR OPENING MATCH.

    'Did yon deliver my message to Mr. Smith?' asked the merchant. New Office Boy: 'No, sir, he was out, and the office was looked up.' 'I say, Bill, you've get the pad on the wrong leg.' 'Yus, I know, I thought I were goin' in t' othre and!' ...

    Article : 97 words
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