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  2. Spray.

    Mr. George Grossmith occasionally permits himself some relaxations from his labours in amusing the public. The other evening, at a big "at [?]me," he got behind ...

    Article : 125 words
  3. Manufacture of Kerosene.

    How many housekeepers, as they fill their lamps with kerosene oil or their summer stoves with gasoline, have any idea bow these oils are made? And yet a few miles ...

    Article : 623 words
  4. Giants and Dwarfs.

    The paper read by Mr. Hastings Gilford at a recent meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society raised some very interesting questions as to ...

    Article : 474 words
  5. Household Hints.

    A glue which will not barden in the [?] or pot is made by taking five parts of glue and dissolving this in water by the fire, then add one part of nitric acid. ...

    Article : 443 words
  6. Short Story.

    "Eva, would you mind very much if I asked you to give up cycling?" "Give up cycling?" Eva Maynard repeated, opening her pretty blue eyes ...

    Article : 3,805 words
  7. Young Chamberlain.

    The remarkable youthfulness of Mr. Chamberlain's appearance has given rise to many stories. Here is one of them, in the days when he was a member of Mr. ...

    Article : 121 words
  8. "No Place Like Home."

    Mrs. Chase (returning home after four months at a fashionable seaside, resort): "Ah, well! after all, there is no place like home." Mr. Chase (rushing from the ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. How He Wiped It.

    (Scene I., county schoolroom):—Young Lady Teacher: "Tommy, you had better go out and wash your face." (Scene 11., the room two minutes and ...

    Article : 85 words
  10. Good Stuff.

    A Northern Free Church minister recently visiting Edinburgh came across a Highlander standing in Princess-street. Edinburgh, gazing at every car that passed. ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. Flowers in Bedrooms.

    An American actress, it is announced, has recently escaped death only by a hairsbreadth in consequence of the too oppressive odour of violets in her ...

    Article : 448 words
  12. Glycerine.

    Glycerine is often used as a akin application. This is a wrong proceeding, for glycerine has a faculty of abstracting water from any part to which it is applied, ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. Asleep Nearly Twenty Years.

    Herman Harms, a German living in Minnesota, may fairly claim to be the champion sleeper of the world. Until the summer of 1878 or 1879 there was nothing specially ...

    Article : 389 words
  14. A Rhyme.

    She was smart, and she was pretty, and her elders thought her witty, and she tripped the light fantastic like a fay. She could read both French and Latin, and was ...

    Article : 87 words
  15. Thymol in toothache.

    Dr. Hartmann has employed thymol in toothache from hollow teeth in place of arsenious acid. He fills the cavity of the tooth with a tuft of cotton, on which a few ...

    Article : 101 words
  16. Havana-Cigars.

    The price of Havana cigars is likely to be very high during the next year or two. Owing to the war in Cuba the supply of tobacco from that unhappy country is ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. To Harden Plaster Casts.

    To a thin milk of lime or lime water add ten or fifteen drops of liquid silicate of soda for every pint of fluid used; then thicken with plaster to a thick cream. ...

    Article : 77 words
  18. A Useful Hint.

    A mixture for restoring plated cruet-stands and other articles when the silver is worn off is as follows :—Get two penny worth of mercury and a halfpenny worth of ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. The Czar in Paris.

    An Englishman says that no pen has adequately described the extraordinary beauty and variety of the decorations in Paris in honour of the Russian Emperor ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. Generosity Rewardee.

    A few years ago when Lord Dufferin was Viceroy of India the Rajah of Holkar paid the Viceroy a visit. While he was there he saw Lord Dufferin take up some illustrated ...

    Article : 178 words
  21. Her Old Blue Muslin Gown.

    When waxlights shine on diamonds' blaze, On snowy shoulders gleam. There comes a thought of other days; I see, as in a dream, ...

    Article : 197 words
  22. The Timekeeper.

    A marked man at race meetings of all sorts is the official timekeeper. And as be knows that everybody else is aware of the fact that be carries a watch valued at ninety ...

    Article : 140 words
  23. He Was Disappointed.

    She opened the door to her father's den, but hesitated on the threshold. "Well?" he growled inquiringly. Then, as he saw her indecision, he said in a more ...

    Article : 396 words
  24. A Curiously Named Garden.

    There is a garden in Brixton kept by an old gentleman which presents some curiosities in floral nomenclature. The owner has been seized with a desire to label his flowers ...

    Article : 140 words
  25. In the Same Old Way.

    Long, long ago, in days when I was youthful, Cats were a perfect plague; All the best china they, out of malice. ...

    Article : 130 words
  26. Seeing Him Off.

    A man jumped off a tramcar in B the other day, and went running down the street at a mad pace, muttering: "Confound my luck!" and, "The ...

    Article : 260 words
  27. Had His Orders.

    "John," said a gentleman to his man, "I am going to church, and if as it now has the appearance, It should rain, I wish you to come with the umbrella for me: ...

    Article : 211 words
  28. Fashionable Attire.

    The Queen of Portugal is the most dressy woman in Europe. She buys costumes, bonnets, and hats wholesale. Her pale complexion and auburn hair permit of any ...

    Article : 183 words
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