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  2. 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 : 676 words
  3. POPULAR SCIENCE Photographing in Colors.

    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 : 348 words
  4. THE YOUNG FOLKS. Five Little Girls.

    There were five little girls with golden hair Who played by the deep blue sea; Said they, "Wherever else you roam There's none so happy as we. ...

    Article : 242 words
  5. The Sultan and His Subjects.

    The Ottoman Committee of "Young Turkey" have issued a pamphlet in which they complain, bitterly of the treatment meted out by the Sultan to his ...

    Article : 690 words
  6. THE LAPSES' COLUMN. The Quiet Home.

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

    Article : 184 words
  7. A Bather's Singular Experience.

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

    Article : 508 words
  8. AGRICULTURAL COLUMN The Wheat Yield of the World.

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

    Article : 1,029 words
  9. 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 write—"Early to bed and ...

    Article : 179 words
  10. A Water Monkey.

    Monkeys, as is well known, are like cats in their dread of getting wet. On shipboard (says a correspondent) I have often laughed to see them scampering from a heavy spray ...

    Article : 475 words
  11. 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 : 257 words
  12. An Eccentric Bride.

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

    Article : 283 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 : 343 words
  14. Yawning.

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

    Article : 111 words
  15. 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 : 638 words
  16. The Arithmometer.

    " A mechanical arithmetician? Impossible! Mathematics by machinery? Never! Account-keeping without an accountant? Absurd! Sewing and writing ...

    Article : 609 words
  17. Dreaming True.

    "Peter Ibbetson," the hero of a strange novel by Mr George Du Maurier's, cultivated an extraordinary faculty for "dreaming true." But it does not appear that in all his ...

    Article : 144 words
  18. Home and Fireside.

    COCOANUT CANDI,—1lb oaf sugar, 1 large breakfast capful water, ¼lb grated cocoanut. Put the sugar and water in a saucepan till the sugar is dissolved, and set it on a clear ...

    Article : 757 words
  19. 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 : 485 words
  20. Hake Tour Parents Happy.

    Children, make your parents happy, Make them sing instead of sigh, For the mournful hour of parting May be very, very nigh. ...

    Article : 116 words
  21. 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 : 215 words
  22. One of the Family

    " Are you the editor that takes in the society items?" inquired the caller, an undersized man, with a timid, appealing look on his face. ...

    Article : 254 words
  23. 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 : 294 words
  24. Wives of Great Men.

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

    Article : 137 words
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