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  2. THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

    Fish and onions, or strongly flavoured foods, should be kept well apart from other things. After slicing onions, the knife should be ...

    Article : 314 words
  3. QUIPS.

    A woman will jump to a conclusion while a man is crawling towards it. Women can be as young as they please until they look as old its they are. ...

    Article : 608 words
  4. Household and Cookery.

    "Mater."—I will give you two recipes, 1. Potted Head: Cleanse perfectly half a bullock's head and a cow heel. Put them nto lukewarm water, and let them soak ...

    Article : 1,314 words
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  6. LADIES' COLUMN

    Russian girls have a peculiar way of learning their matrimonial prospects. A number of girls take off their rings and conccal them in a shallow basket of corn: ...

    Article : 978 words
  7. JOTTINGS.

    The largest dog know weighs 234lb. Canine shows in India have a class for soldiers' dogs. The greyhound is the only dog which ...

    Article : 2,132 words
  8. PRESERVATION OF CHILDREN'S TEETH.

    The following rules, recommended by the School Children's Committee of the British Dental Association, have been circulated for the information of managers ...

    Article : 299 words
  9. WOMAN SEA CAPTAIN.

    A woman as a sea captain has just been revealed by the recent American census. Only a few weeks ago she gave conclusive proof that the best traditions ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. USES OF LIQUID AIR.

    Mr. Rudolph Cordova, in an article in "Cassell's Magazine" for July, remarks that liquid air is "the most sensational thing in the scientific world to-day. ...

    Article : 386 words
  11. ARTIFICIAL SILK.

    A new process of manufacturing artificial silk has just been patented in this country by J. Duquennoy, of Paris, Cellulose is first converted into nitro-cellulose ...

    Article : 146 words
  12. OIL WELLS.

    American oil wells, apart from the recent finds in Texas, are less productive than formerly. They begin with "gushors," when the force pent up for ages first ...

    Article : 120 words
  13. GUESSING EXTRAORDINARY.

    Considerable time before the British census was taken a Dundee contemporary offered a prize of £100 to any reader who guessed he exact population of Scotland ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. 124 MILES AN HOUR BY STEAM.

    After all, steam as a traction force for express trains does not intend to succumb to electricity without a struggle. Indeed, the prospects of a rapid train service, ...

    Article : 96 words
  15. "JINGO."

    Everybody knows what Jingo means, but it may be interesting to quote the definition of the word as given by Dr. Murray in the latest instalment of the Oxford ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. TO THE POLAR REGIONS BY CANAL.

    The Russian Government have had under consideration a waterway from the Gulf of Finland in the White Sea in the Far North. The project, ...

    Article : 219 words
  17. THE TURKISH CRESCENT.

    The crescent, which has for centurion been the emblem of Turkey, is not derived from the new moon, as has hitherto been supposed, but as we are now ...

    Article : 129 words
  18. ACTION OF COLD ON BACTERIA.

    Bacteria possesses extraordinary powers of resisting cold. This Pictet and Young exposed cultivations of anthrax bacilli to a temperature of—76deg. C. for twenty ...

    Article : 203 words
  19. THE LOST MEMORY.

    All the available skill of the medical men at Guy's Hospital has been brough to bear upon the [?]a case of the loss of memory of Miss Maud Pryce, but up to the present ...

    Article : 158 words
  20. THE FAIRFAX PEERAGE.

    Albert Kirby Fairfax, a clerk employed in the New York banking house of Barling, Magoun, and Co., is about to present a formal claim to the Peerage. Mr. ...

    Article : 154 words
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