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  2. ARSENIC IN APPLES.

    The growing use of arsenic as an insecticide by American apple-growers is causing some alarm. Only recently a child three years of age was fatally ...

    Article : 130 words
  3. Marriage Proposals.

    "Yes, I will go. I have had mad dreams, conceited and insolent, and have met with my deserts. Brute and fool as I am, I have aspired even to ...

    Article : 738 words
  4. FIGHTING CONSUMPTION.

    On a recent Saturday, Lady Plunket Formally Nurse Maude's consumption camp for women, situated in the sandi[?]s at Burwood (N.Z.). ...

    Article : 838 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 124 words
  6. HERE AND THERE.

    The loss of Port Arthur must seem a pretty small thing to the Czar just now.—"The Philadelphia Press." What Russia needs most of all for ...

    Article : 753 words
  7. A Canine Congress.

    My first impression as I entered was that the enormous canine gathering was a Dog Revival! There was no order of debate, no ...

    Article : 1,243 words
  8. WOMEN PHYSICIANS BETTER THAN MEN.

    One of the most famous of German physicians for the treatment of mental diseases, Professor Ludwig, is earnestly, advocating the employment at ...

    Article : 144 words
  9. BREVITIES.

    An endless source of amusement—A hoop. He who takes his own time generally takes other people's too. ...

    Article : 830 words
  10. SELECTED POETRY

    If you have a gray-haired mother In the old home far away, Sit down and write the letter You put off day by day. ...

    Article : 213 words
  11. AT THE REHEARSAL.

    Stage Manager: "What! you laugh while you're supposed to be dying?" Odd Man: "Certainly. At the wages you pay, why shouldn't death be ...

    Article : 36 words
  12. THE ANGLER'S LOGIC.

    The Vicar: "Don't you think it cruel for you to draw a fish out of his native element by a sharp iron hook?" The Boy: "It's no fault of mine. When I'm ...

    Article : 66 words
  13. PHILANTHROPIC CAMBLING.

    Dicc were, in accordance with the terms of a will, used in the Guildford Council Chamber for the purpose of selecting a recipient for £11 14s., left to ...

    Article : 44 words
  14. NUTS TO CRACK.

    On which side of a pitcher, is the handle?—The outside. What is that which can be right but, never wrong ?-An angle. ...

    Article : 179 words
  15. THIS AND THAT.

    Statistics show that the longest-lived people have been those who made breakfast the principal meal of the day. ...

    Article : 549 words
  16. NOISY WOMAN.

    "What an age of noise this, is!" exclaims "Madge,' in "London Truth." Everybody, talks, everybody talks loud, and woman, Mrs. Humphry is ...

    Article : 346 words
  17. An Unsuccessful Proposal.

    When Gabriel had gone about two hundred, yards along the down he heard a "hoi-hoi!" uttered behind him, in a piping note of more treble ...

    Article : 1,410 words
  18. DEATH FROM YAWNING.

    The landlord of the White Blackbird, at Loudwater, near High Wycombe, was talking to some friends when he remarked that he felt tired, ...

    Article : 45 words
  19. PREMATURE BURIAL.

    On January 3, at the village of Ricamarie, in the Department of the Loire, a young man named Choveaux, who had been subject to epileptic ...

    Article : 226 words
  20. A POISON FARM.

    A poison farm has been started by the American authorities, on Potoma[?] Flats, near Washington, with the idea of saving the £2,000,000 now annually ...

    Article : 54 words
  21. INSPECT YOUR STAMPS.

    Readers with keen eyes may see a pretty and interesting curiosity by carefully studying King Edward's profile as engraved on our postage ...

    Article : 89 words
  22. JAPANESE ADVERTISING.

    The Japanese advance in advertising as in all else. Here is an illustration:— "Our wrapping paper "is as strong as the hide of an elephant. Goods for ...

    Article : 84 words
  23. PREFERRED THE COLD.

    A conjurer was performing before a country audience, and to make his powers appear more remarkable, he asked for the loan of a sixpenny piece, ...

    Article : 137 words
  24. PRICE OF A SEAT IN NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

    The New York Stock Exchange scat of Mr. Sully, who was known as the Cotton King during the recent "corner," and who subsequently became ...

    Article : 45 words
  25. MODERN CREED.

    "Some folks wouldn't be happy i they had the moon," says a philosopher, "unless they threw in a few stars for good measure." ...

    Article : 26 words
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