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  2. Plant Life.

    A WRITER on 'Humanity Past and Future,' says: 'A moans will be discovered to suspend animation, and thereby prolong interrupted life for ...

    Article : 1,841 words
  3. SHORT STORY

    From the deck of the 'Golden City,' lying at anchar in Delagoa Bay, the little town of Lorenzo Marques looked bright and cheerful. By order of the authorities the ...

    Article : 3,466 words
  4. Housekeeper.

    WASH the surface with clean water and let it dry; them rub it lightly over with a flannel dipped in a mixture of the following materials: Boil two cakes of ...

    Article : 80 words
  5. THE COMPLEXION.

    Persian ladies, who are said to have complexions whose bloom and velvety softness are simply wonderful, use no sort of cream or ointment for their faces. Instead, they ...

    Article : 104 words
  6. HOW TO BECOME GRACEFUL.

    Talking of America, the latest exercise for the cultivation of grace amongst the fair daughters of Uncle Sam is a renewal of the ancient pastime of disc throwing. ...

    Article : 135 words
  7. Science and Invention.

    SOME experiments that have been made in Germany and Sweden would seem to show that the gns gonorated from peat, oven when it is highly saturated with ...

    Article : 83 words
  8. Odds and Ends.

    TEACHER (to Tommy, who has been reading and has given no heed to punctuation marks): 'Tommy, where are your pauses?' ...

    Article : 42 words
  9. KILLING INSECTS BY ELECTRICITY.

    M. Lokuzejewski, in a paper to the Russian Technical Society at Odessa, describes a mode of killing the young of insects in fields by electricity. A dynamo ...

    Article : 79 words
  10. ASTHMA.

    Asthma is a disease which requites skilful medical treatment, and we can suggest only a few remedies which may relieve the paroxysms of coughing, etc, as they occur ...

    Article : 208 words
  11. THE MUSIC LESSON.

    Pupil's Mother: 'Will my daughter over become a good musician, Professor?' Professor: 'I can't zay. She may. She tell me zat she game of a long-lived ...

    Article : 30 words
  12. METHOD OF MAKING WOOD FIREPROOF.

    The following is a method of ranking wood fireproof, which although not quite original, is very little known. This can be used to great advantage in model ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. KEEPING UP THEIR REPUTATION.

    Muggins: 'They say cigarettes will turn the skin yellow.' Buggins: 'I should say that's right. Every time I catch my boy smoking he ...

    Article : 32 words
  14. WHAT HE WANTED.

    Irate parent: 'Tell that young Soft-leigh that he must cause his visits here. I forbid him the house.' Daughter: 'But, papa, he doesn't want ...

    Article : 40 words
  15. NATURE'S MEDICINE CHEST.

    Medical science nowadays, instead of prescribing drugs to keep the body in health, recommends fruit. People who make a practice of eating oranges at every meal ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. Items of Interest.

    THAT which history can give us best is the enthusiasm which it raises in our hearts. Fate is a name for facts not as yet passed ...

    Article : 398 words
  17. WANTED.

    'Wanted—A strong horse to do the work of a country minster,' is an advertisement which appeared in a newspaper the other day. ...

    Article : 27 words
  18. DO VEILS PRODUCE WEAK EYES?

    An American specialist—Dr C. A. Wood—declares that the wearing of veils produces weak eyesight, headaches, and sometimes vertigo and nausea, and that the mischief ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. FROM THE CITY.

    A dirty-looking stranger entered an hotel in the City tho other day. 'Where's the bar?' he naked of a waiter who was standing at the door. ...

    Article : 73 words
  20. THOSE BOLD MISS KITTIES.

    The late Rev. Stephen Hawkes, vicar of Morenstow, Cornwall, was often required to read the letters received by the peasants, and sometimes to write their answers. On ...

    Article : 246 words
  21. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

    IT is, as a rule, the ambition of most amateur cake-makers' to be able to ice and ornanament a cake; how much nicer it is, too, to have these cakes made at home ...

    Article : 1,149 words
  22. TREATMENT OF STEEL IN LARGE MASSES.

    A very interesting paper by Mr Cosmo Johns describes the practice of Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim in dealing with large masses of steel. He said many ...

    Article : 437 words
  23. CONUNDRUMS.

    What letter in the alphabet does an old lady like best?—A capital T (tea), of course. Why is a waiter like a race horse?— ...

    Article : 65 words
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