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  2. HEAT AND MOTION.

    A Correspondent from Cairo asked:— "Could not the beat of the desert be utilised to make the camel move faster Certainly. It ta ray easy. Show your camel a bottle of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 78 words
  3. SOME INDIAN SERVANTS.

    Servants in India individually, are cheap but their caste laws are such that it takes a large number of them to from an establishment ...

    Article : 1,377 words
  4. When Father Packs the Trunk.

    When mother packs the trunk she lays Each garment in its place; She folds things neatly, smoothes ...

    Article : 122 words
  5. Ladies' Column.

    At the time of year when new potatoes are expensive expensive an old ones are poor, serve boiled rice as a substitute. Where the family must be ...

    Article : 642 words
  6. Ammonia as a Disinfectant.

    Recent experiments by Dr. Reigler of the institute of Hygiens of Buda-Posth have the highly important result of proving that ...

    Article : 224 words
  7. Accommodating Diners.

    It is a great thing to be able to substitute one sort of food for another cheerfully, as the lady did who, when ordered the too-costly ...

    Article : 561 words
  8. Colouring a Pipe.

    A Continental contemporary tells an entertaining story of how a pipe was coloured "by order of the Czar." An artist, who had spent some years ...

    Article : 186 words
  9. Why an Angry Child Stamps Its Feet.

    There are a few universal habits in the human race which have strange primitive origins, and there are come which arc universal ...

    Article : 521 words
  10. 'The Mysterious Problem.

    The following combination of two old principles makes a pleasing conjuring experiment for parlour presentation. It is very simple in ...

    Article : 314 words
  11. To Tell Artificial Silks.

    Artificial silk is fast coming to be a very important textile material, and is being used in ever-increasing quantities by the trade. It is ...

    Article : 431 words
  12. Ostrich Feathers.

    A very small proportion of our ostrich feathers comes from the wild birds nowadays. Twenty years ago there were but few ostrich ...

    Article : 419 words
  13. Household Hints.

    Cut flowers with woody stems will last much longer in water if the stalks are scraped for about three inches up ...

    Article : 282 words
  14. Lights that Never Go Out.

    In the vault of the Fortress Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in St. Petersburg, the place of interment of the Curs, two great ...

    Article : 251 words
  15. An Unusual Brake.

    For use in the mountainous parts of Switzerland, a car has bean developed in which the usual brakes are supplemented by a large fan ...

    Article : 141 words
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