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  2. Household Hints.

    Take [?] quantity of whiting on [?] over the surface gently and you will to [?] with the results ...

    Article : 33 words
  3. Then He Retreated.

    "Some [?] i was called one day in a tag hotel in give [?] to a young woman who was about to under [?] ...

    Article : 269 words
  4. The Table.

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    Article : 218 words
  5. The Home.

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    Article : 148 words
  6. Household Hints.

    The expressed juice of garlic is an overlasting comment for broken china, glass, &c., leaving no sigh of fracture if the edges be neatly joined. The pieces should be united ...

    Article : 62 words
  7. Comic Cutting.

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    Article : 872 words
  8. Our Sporting Story.

    The way of the tranag[?]for to popularly supposed to be hard, [?] rule [?] transgressor diagulses [?] lot wonderfully well. Many [?] under ...

    Article : 2,397 words
  9. A Clear Fire for Grilling.

    The can be quietly obtained by spring hug over it a little powdered [?]. This [?] great deal by first-class cooks and chefs. ...

    Article : 33 words
  10. Brass Polish.

    In preparing a blacklead polish for brass, take 1/2lb. of blacklead finely powdered, mix with it the whites of three eggs well beaten; then dilate it with sour beer or ...

    Article : 59 words
  11. Concerning the Moth Pest.

    The great preventative is to have the grawers, cupboard &c., carefully wiped over and the corners thoroughly cleared then the whole surface wiped over with ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. To Prevent Knives Getting Rusty.

    Thoroughly clean, roll in brown paper, and then in a piece of flannel or old blanket, and keep in the driest cupboard you have. Of course, the ones in dally use will ...

    Article : 45 words
  13. No Time for Friendship.

    Friendship is said to be out of date. We certainly have not much time; to spare nowadays, even to reflect on what the rush and hurry and bustle of modern life ...

    Article : 242 words
  14. Sunstroke.

    A patient suffering from sunstroke should be carried into a cool room, and cloths wrung out of cold or ice water applied to the head. These should be large enough ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. Stewed Mushrooms.

    Peel thin, and place in cold water for a few minutes, then drain, and put into a saucepan without any liquid. Set on the cool part of the move till the Juice is drawn ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. A Hint About Eggs.

    When the whites of eggs have been used for jellies and other purposes, and the yolks are not wanted till next day, beat them up with a little warm water, and ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. Tree-planting Extraordinary.

    In the grounds of the Duke of Athol, and near Blair Castle, stands a very high rocky craig, named Craiglebarns. It looked grim and bare in the midst of beauty, and its ...

    Article : 269 words
  18. A Face Tonic.

    Wash the face once a day in rain or distilled water, to which a few drops of tincture of benzoin and rosewater have been added. Any chemist will mix the ...

    Article : 47 words
  19. Brilliantine.

    This is easily made at home. Mix together two drachms of castor oil, six drachms of almond oil, one drachm of "essence of bergamot or jockey club, and ...

    Article : 43 words
  20. Salad of Cooked Vegetables.

    Take equal quantities of cold cooked beetroot, potatoes, carrots, turnips, sprigs of cauliflower, and cut them into neat little dice with the exception of the latter. Mix ...

    Article : 76 words
  21. Doll Industry of Thuringia.

    The American Consul at Coburg, in a recent report, states that while the toy trade of Thuringia may be traced back to the Middle Ages, the doll trade is much ...

    Article : 669 words
  22. To Wash a Bread Board.

    Always use cold water and soap if you wish to keep your broad board a good colour. Never wash this board in an iron pan, or sink, for the iron is apt to ...

    Article : 70 words
  23. Home-life.

    The home life must be the sweetest. Keep out all bickering and strife. The world is full of backbiting and misunder-standing and envy; the home must be a ...

    Article : 143 words
  24. Veal and Mushrooms.

    Take a pound of veal cutlet; cut it into pieces about two inches square; sprinkle them with a dust of salt and pepper. Beat up an egg, and chop some fresh mushrooms ...

    Article : 177 words
  25. Boiled Bacon Fat.

    The fact of boiled bacon is often wasted because the cook does not know how to utilise it after all the lean part of the bacon is finished. If cut into pieces and placed in ...

    Article : 85 words
  26. The Meat Safe.

    How many people purchase a meat-safe and, if large or small, hang it in position, and take no more notice of its condition? The food is taken out and put in, and ...

    Article : 204 words
  27. My Crime.

    She lay before me dead; And can I say my hard heart felt no sadness To see her lithesome form all still, and ...

    Article : 164 words
  28. Fight with a Tiger.

    Throwing all thought of prudence to the wind,. I approached his Highness, bowed, and craved his permission to descend and execute his errand. This having been ...

    Article : 705 words
  29. Fried Chicken.

    Cut a fowl into neat joints, remove the skin; put about two tablespoonfuls of flour on a plate, and add to it one teaspoonful of salt, a few grains of cayenne, and a dust of ...

    Article : 136 words
  30. An Echo of War.

    I have tried (writes a famous war correspondent), not altogether to my own satisfaction, to analyse the comparative unconcern with which one comes to ...

    Article : 414 words
  31. A Life Insurance Story.

    Individually and collectively the Skinners were mean—to put it mildly. There were five of them—the mother, three sons, and a daughter. The men were too mean to ...

    Article : 786 words
  32. An Englishman in China.

    A correspondent of the "Sketch" writes:— A Chinese "boy" is a very faithful servant, and when he leaves his master for no cause there is sure to be mischief abroad, ...

    Article : 519 words
  33. "Look in the Tool Bag."

    Riding home in company with a few friends recently we had just reached the top of a goad, stiff hill when we came upon a young lady seated by the roadside, whose ...

    Article : 209 words
  34. Where Gold is Eaten.

    The amount of gold turned into coin each year by the minis of the world is a more nothing to the huge quantity used in gilding picture-frames, painting signs, binding books, designing on ...

    Article : 175 words
  35. Ambassadors Who Were Killed.

    So strong is the protection accorded to an instances at the actual complicity of a Government being traced to outrages upon ...

    Article : 502 words
  36. Shot a Pair of Braces.

    The late Duke of Saxe Coburg, like all sailors, was fond of a yarn, and many and varied were the anecdotes in his repertoire. He was particularly fond of relating how a French friend of ...

    Article : 224 words
  37. A Creditor.

    Nothing grieved Mr. Macpherson more than gasbills. "Man," he lamented to his friend Mr. M Taggart, "the amount o' gas that's bur-r-ned in ma hoose it's awfu' to think of." ...

    Article : 215 words
  38. Lived to be 169.

    In the small churchyaid of Bolton-on-Swale, in Yorkshire, there is a gawestone with this fascription:— "Henry Jenkins, aged 169." He was thus one of the oldest if not be oldest man of ...

    Article : 240 words
  39. Told by Lord Roberts.

    A distinguished retired officer who met Lord Roberts at the last dinner-party attended by the latter before he heard of the death of his son tells how, the conversation having turned on the ...

    Article : 294 words
  40. A Sea Captain's Story.

    On one of her most recent trips to Edinburgh (to be precise, a few days before penning this story) a certain steamer carried a deck passenger who retired at nightfall, ...

    Article : 231 words
  41. What "Foreign Devil" Means.

    "It must not be supposed that the term foreign devils," which tho Chinese apply to their visitors from Europe and elsewhere, is necessarily a term of contempt. ...

    Article : 231 words
  42. On a Mississippi Steamboat.

    Thirty years ago, although the "Hush" times had already passed away on the Mississippi, they still had some queer customers on the river boats. During the year ...

    Article : 257 words
  43. Some Amusement After All.

    An English nobleman, whose entertainments are noticcably dult, is nevertheless himself a man of much dry humour. One evening he was leaning against a wall for a few moments' refreshment. ...

    Article : 192 words
  44. Always in Want.

    Catterson: "Look here, old man! Let me tell you how I manage my wife. I always give her money when she doesn't want it, and when she does, I refer to the ...

    Article : 83 words
  45. INTELLIGENCE OF FLOWERS

    Proofs of the intelligence of plants are innumerable and continual. Though there be plants and flowers that are awkward or unlucky, there is none that is wholly devoid of wisdom and ingenuity. ...

    Article : 1,326 words
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