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  2. Essayist. SOME MASCULINE AFFECTATIONS.

    It is said on excellent authority that the idiotic stare is still in favor among the exotic youth of swelldom, and any fashionable young man who cannot learn how to abstract ...

    Article : 384 words
  3. THE TROUT ON THE CAMPSIE FELLS.

    Looking westward from Stirling Castle, the eye travels over the level alluvium of the Carse, through which the sluggish Forth meanders in countless loops and curves. On ...

    Article : 334 words
  4. FEEDING BARLEY STRAW.

    Barley straw, when the crop is secured in good condition, should come from the thresher bright colored and well broken up by the action of the threshing cylinder, and if the ...

    Article : 272 words
  5. CHINESE BABIES.

    Chinese babies and young children wear so many clothes that one would think their lives must be wretched. I have seen no less than four coats, one over another, on a little ...

    Article : 112 words
  6. SAYINGS.

    If you have two spoons in your cup it is a sign that you will figure prominently at a wedding before the year is out. If cream or milk is put in your cup before ...

    Article : 551 words
  7. STARTING A FRUIT GARDEN.

    Fruit may be cultivated with success in almost any situation except in wet soil. Hence, where there is a choice, a piece of ground somewhat elevated should be chosen, ...

    Article : 594 words
  8. Animal Life. DO ANIMALS LOVE FUN?

    There seems no reason to doubt it. Monkeys are full of frolic for its own sake, and enjoy themselves most of all when playing mischievous jokes. Mr. Romanes's ...

    Article : 151 words
  9. LUCK IN WAR.

    Independently of Napeleon s failure to destroy his enemy after the battle of Dresden, he made several mistakes tibia year (1813). But they were more mistakes of ...

    Article : 404 words
  10. II. RYLSTONE.

    Not only is Rylstone itself a high ground, but it is almost encircled by stall higher hills some of them isolated peaks and crowns, backed by the dark blue mass of the ...

    Article : 1,401 words
  11. Scientific Notes. TELAUTOGRAPHY.

    By means of Gray's telautograph it is possible to transmit over a wire for several hundred miles a diagram or outline drawing. With that apparatus the pen of the ...

    Article : 50 words
  12. DOMESTIC PIGEONS.

    Pigeons will pick their own living about any group of farm buildings, and if rightly managed are by many considered as a source of profit, but if managed in the usual manner ...

    Article : 154 words
  13. NETTLE FIBRE.

    Among the products which science has put to valuable service is the nettle, a weed which is now being cultivated in some parts of Europe, its fibre proving useful for a ...

    Article : 60 words
  14. Agriculturalist, BLANKETING HORSES.

    The practice of keeping horses continually blanketed while in the stable is not a commendable one. This should be done only during severe winter weather, and even then ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. TAKING THE SUN'S TEMPERATURE.

    Some extraordinary guesses have from time to time been indulged in as to the heat of the sun. Certain theorists have placed its temperature as high as 100,000 degrees ...

    Article : 129 words
  16. GRAFTING TREES.

    Knowing how to graft and bud is a useful accomplishment and only needs practice to meet with very fair success. Supply yourself with good tools, thread, wax, and other ...

    Article : 80 words
  17. AN ALASKA PRODUCT.

    For a queer and unusual article of freight a rat's nest can hardly be excelled, especially the nest of a wood rat that was built by those strange little animal architects in far-off ...

    Article : 493 words
  18. HOTEL STORIES.

    Really, some of the large hotel keepers of the world should tarn their experiences to good account, and write a book concerning the various strange customers they have had ...

    Article : 514 words
  19. WONDERS OF ANCIENT GLASS BLOWING.

    The glass blowers of ancient Thebes are known to have been equally as proficient in that particular art as is the most scientific craftsman of the same trade of the present ...

    Article : 287 words
  20. POINTERS FOR POTATO GROWERS.

    1. Select only choice seed. 2. Do not allow seed to sprout before planting. 3. Cut seed so as not to put more than four eyes in a hill. 4. Plough deep and do it well. 5. ...

    Article : 115 words
  21. COLOR OF SWINE.

    Some years ago white was the favorite color for swine; but gradually the idea gained credence that a white color made them more subject to sun scald and mange. ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. Far and Near. WORRY.

    Worry retards, rather than forwards work. It tries the mind before the work is began. It makes one fretful, sours the temper and disturbs the peace of the ...

    Article : 67 words
  23. RAISING COLTS FOR SALE.

    There are altogether too many geldings on many farms. Mares are, in every respect, as good for work, and will lose hardly a month in the year producing a colt that will make ...

    Article : 148 words
  24. NUTS AS FOOD.

    Quite a stir has recently been created in Europe with reference to the value of nuts as food for human beings, and if this movement spreads, as there appears to be every ...

    Article : 189 words
  25. CHRISTIANITY

    Nowhere more so than in India, has promoted the dignity of woman, the sanctity of marriage and the brotherhood of man. Where it has not actually converted it has ...

    Article : 63 words
  26. SHARPENING A CAST-IRON PLOUGH POINT.

    Many farmers are not aware that when a cast-iron plough point has become very dull, or even thrown aside as worthless, its usefulness can be prolonged, for the ploughing ...

    Article : 200 words
  27. THE GENTLE READER.

    Charles Dickens once received an invitation to a Walter Scott party, each guest being expected to appear in the character of one or other of Scott's heroes. On ...

    Article : 87 words
  28. Original Sketch. Over Old Ground.

    THE changes effected in twenty years, by railways, etc., naturally enough, give one's travels over 'Old Ground' a spice of newness; though on a recent holiday tour along the ...

    Article : 577 words
  29. TANNING SKINS WITH THE FUR ON.

    Ordinary skins, like those of the beaver, otter and mink, are readily tanned by stretching them when fresh oven or on a hoard with the fresh side out. Make a ...

    Article : 207 words
  30. THE GREAT AUK.

    The great auk was common in the Orkneys and Hebrides and in Iceland, and traces of it in the shape of bones half fossilised have been recently (1885) found in ...

    Article : 255 words
  31. A REGIMENT OF NOSES.

    In the Russian army there is one particular regiment of infantry of the guards, formed by Emperor Paul, the men of which are recruited, not so much with ...

    Article : 102 words
  32. APRICOT CULTURE.

    Before planting the trees, the ground is thoroughly ploughed and pulverized. They are usually planted twenty feet apart. This gives one hundred and eight trees to the acre. ...

    Article : 179 words
  33. HOT CROSS BUNS.

    In an old work called 'The Book of Days, a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities,' I find some curious facts, or theories, rather, regarding the familiar 'hot cross bun.' In ...

    Article : 676 words
  34. THE ORIGIN OF LEAP YEAR.

    Leap year, it appears, is due to the enterprise of the canny Scotch lassies. In the year 1288 a statute was polished by the Scotch parliament ordaining that during the ...

    Article : 140 words
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