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  2. General Information.

    The first smoking pipes were made of siver. Russia is about to build two battleships of 12,675 tons each. ...

    Article : 971 words
  3. A Pocket Doctor.

    If you wish to know the conditions of your body without consulting a doctor, carry a silver pencil or a silver matchbox in your vest pocket. Whichever article ...

    Article : 275 words
  4. Lost and Won.

    Before the bright summer ended I had grown quite accustomed to St. Etheldreda's. I found myself forgetting the outer world, thinking less ...

    Article : 1,483 words
  5. The Best He Could Do.

    'You couldn't give me a suite of two rooms with a bath room adjoining, could you?' asked a young and aesthetic man of a West Hebridcan inn keeper. ...

    Article : 189 words
  6. Successful Method of Ensilage.

    The Department has been advised that a large stack of ensilage which Mr. Thompson supervised the building of at Mr. William Yabsley's Farm, Coraki, ...

    Article : 662 words
  7. A SAFE WIN.

    An elderly gentleman got into a railway carriage, and had hardly taken his seat when he was surprised by the conversation of a man whose every word was an ...

    Article : 183 words
  8. Drinking Water and Dipsomania.

    Few people thoroughly realise the value of water as a beverage, or know how to obtain the greatest advantage from it. The effects produced by the drinking of ...

    Article : 249 words
  9. WHY HE DIDN'T TELL.

    The teacher bad been explaining to the boys on two or three occasions during the week the sources of our food supply and various processes connected with the ...

    Article : 162 words
  10. Cavalry Horses.

    A veteran cavalry horse partakes of the hopes and fears of battle just the same as his rider. As the column swings into line and waits, the horse ...

    Article : 288 words
  11. Tea-Poisoning.

    'Are you aware that there is such a disease as chronic tea-poisoning?' asked a doctor. 'Whenever I hear of a man with, an uncontrollable love of tea I ...

    Article : 171 words
  12. WORKING TO MUSIC.

    A lady, who had a very slow servant, noticed that it took the girl almost half the day to scrub the kitchen, a piece of work that should have been accomplished ...

    Article : 130 words
  13. How to Raise Tomato Plants.

    As early in the spring as I can get around to it, usually by the middle or last of March, I plant tomato seed in small wooden boxes that will fit upon the ...

    Article : 250 words
  14. CHAPTER XXI.

    So we remained, mother and child —she on her knees, I with my eyes fixed on her. I cannot say that I was altogether astonished; in some subtle ...

    Article : 923 words
  15. HE LICKED IT.

    A stupid looking recruit halted before a blacksmith's shop, the proprietor of which was forging a shoe, and eyed the performance with much interest. ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. Restoring Sight to the Blind.

    A few months ago the world was sta[?]tled by the suggestion of an optimistic oculist that the blind might be made to see by means of the X rays. Now it appears ...

    Article : 187 words
  17. NEVER GAVE LESS.

    A gentleman recently entered a London fashionable church, where a female pewopener expects grituities. Twiddling a half crown between finger ...

    Article : 105 words
  18. Growing Musk-Melons,

    The reasons for failure with muskmelons seem to be insufficient culture, destructive insects, careless selection of varieties, and lack of fertilisation of the ...

    Article : 277 words
  19. What Happens in a Minute.

    'Only a minute' is a common expression, and the tone in which it is used implies that in the opinion of the speaker a minute is an unimportant ...

    Article : 150 words
  20. The Coco Palm.

    The coco palm is; perhaps, the most useful tree on earth. Fresh water is procured from the nut before it is ripe, a single one often containing three or four ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. AN ILLIGANT RIDE.

    Mistress: 'You got back very early, Bridget.' Bridget: 'Yis, mum. Oi rode in a kerrage—leastwise, it was as good as a ...

    Article : 112 words
  22. The Eucalyptus Tree.

    No worm is ever found upon the eucalyptus tree, or in the earth where its roots permeate, A row of these trees planted through an orchard or vineyard ...

    Article : 114 words
  23. SUCCESS AT LAST.

    The other day a young arab, having found a bad sixpence, was trying to make use of it at different places, but to no purpose. At last he went into a ...

    Article : 111 words
  24. Adding Insult to Injury.

    The other day at a public meeting a reverend gentleman in taking his seat upon the platform contrived to miss his chair and measured his ...

    Article : 72 words
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