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  2. After Dinner Stories.

    It was winter. There had been a blizzard. The crackling wood fire in Sisghortner's private dining-room in Lafayette-place was all the cosier for the snow-drifting wind ...

    Article : 1,384 words
  3. Miscellaneous.

    Champagne contains much less alcohol, in proportion, than port, sherry, or Madeira. African cat-fish have the power of ...

    Article : 289 words
  4. Housekeeper.

    After washing the coffee pot, set it on the window-sill with the lid off and let it air for a few hours. About once every week, or even ...

    Article : 377 words
  5. Short Story.

    The fool was composing a rondeau. He as in love. There was no doubt of it. It is a matter of jest in the court Every [?] laughed over the matter of jest in the ...

    Article : 2,122 words
  6. NEW NOAH'S ARK STORY.

    Carl Lumholtz, the well known explorer, has visited and reported on a wonderful and almost practically unknown tribe of Indiana in Mexico. He ...

    Article : 182 words
  7. Odds and Ends.

    "Were you ever in a railroad disaster?" "Yes—I once kissed tho wrong girl while going through a tunnel." In the beginning, the woman sits ...

    Article : 318 words
  8. THE FLOWING OF METALS.

    It is perhaps not generally known that one of the most important properties of metals employed in striking coins and medals, and stamping and ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. Scientific Notes.

    Dr. Hesse has carried out a series of experiments as to the influence of tobacco. In the great majority of 25 subjects from 20 to 57 years of age he ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. MAKING FLANNEL UNDERWEAR.

    When making up flannel garments, it is a wise plan to wash the flannel before cutting out the garment. Even good qualities of flannel have an ...

    Article : 82 words
  11. STILL IN THE STONE AGE.

    That a Stone Age industry still continues in our highly civilised country was lately brought to notice by the death of a flint worker at Brandon, ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. THE AEROBOAT.

    The first English-built aero motorboat has been launched at East Cowes. The craft, which was designed by a young Frenchman, M. Rovaud, is 20ft. ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. BUILDING UP BEAUTY.

    Too many think that to secure a good complexion all that is necessary is to rub on some magical cream or lotion, and, presto! the skin will clear, ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. THREE REAR-WHEEL MOTOR-CYCLE.

    An inventor in Camden, Maine, U.S.A., has attached two extra wheels to the rear of his motor-cycle, converting it into a unique, but, according to ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. VEGETABLE UMBRELLAS.

    The umbrella-producing plant grows on the bank of the Mississipi, near its source. When full-grown it resembles an umbrella so much that at a distance ...

    Article : 119 words
  16. HUMOUR

    The duty of other people is always very clear to us.— Dallas News. When a man talks in a telephone what he says goes.—Buffalo Courier. ...

    Article : 382 words
  17. FOOD AND HEALTH.

    A famous physician once declared that "It matters little what food you eat, but it matters much the way you eat it,"—by which he meant to infer ...

    Article : 246 words
  18. ILLUSTRATING HIS POINT.

    Two little country urchins were not old enough to go to school. "What makes a horse act naughty when he sees a motor?" asked one. ...

    Article : 79 words
  19. SUBSTITUTE FOR RUBBER.

    The American Consul-General at Frankfort-on-Main says that according to a publication in that city, a German patent has been secured for the ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. MISERIES OF THE RED SEA.

    In the waters of the Red Sea the cessation of the engines on a steamer for an hour means extreme physical suffering for passengers; for a day it ...

    Article : 133 words
  21. MILK AND WATER.

    A clergyman had been for some time displeased with the quality of the milk served him. At length he determined to remonstrate with his milkman for ...

    Article : 97 words
  22. ELECTRICITY AND COAL.

    Two engineers in Munich have completed the plans of a huge airship of a capacity of 100,000 cubic metres. It win be driven by sit Motors, with a ...

    Article : 66 words
  23. MAKING ARTIFICIAL EYES.

    Most of the artificial eyes in use all over the world have been manufactured in Thuringia, where a large number of the houses are factories on a small ...

    Article : 136 words
  24. ALL HAD A TURN.

    A doctor recently ordered a pair of trousers from a tailor. On trying them on they proved to be several inches too long. It being late on ...

    Article : 188 words
  25. RECIPES.

    Orange Biscuits: To make orange biscuits, take 4 eggs 2 Seville oranges, ¼lb. of flour, ¼lb. of butter, ½lb. of sugar, and some candied orange peel. ...

    Article : 524 words
  26. ABSORBING HEAT.

    An interesting instance of the application on a large scale of the principle that black coloured substances readily absorb the heat of the sun, has been ...

    Article : 151 words
  27. BICYCLE TROTTING SULKY.

    In order to make a sulky that will be very light, and one in which the weight of the driver will be entirely removed from the shafts, an American inventor ...

    Article : 115 words
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