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  2. Combined Chair and Cabinet.

    Pictured in the accompanying engraving is a chair which is formed into a cabinet in which various garments may be hung. The cabinet is so arranged as to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 250 words
  3. LOOKS LIKE WORK.

    Weary : "Wotcha fihin' fer ?" Willie: "I like it." Weary : "Chee ! Dat looks like worte me," ...

    Article : 963 words
  4. Secret Societies.

    The very mention of secret societies suggests Nihilism. During the past few months we have been repeatedly shocked by accounts of the ...

    Article : 1,321 words
  5. What is Suicide?

    Dr. Wynn Westcott, the well-known coroner for the north-eastern district of London, whose observation of the motives and methods of suicides during the past ...

    Article : 891 words
  6. Woman's Utopia.

    A friend of mine, just back from Utopia, has given me a description of the sort of homes working men inhabit there. In quite a number of ways ...

    Article : 1,608 words
  7. A Simple Garden Implement.

    The man who raises his own vegetables, should be interested in the simple implement shown in the accompanying drawing. It contends of a combined hoe or ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 243 words
  8. A Novel Churn.

    Something decidedly novel in the way of a churn is provided by the invention which is pictured herewith. The churn comprises a cream receptacle which is ...

    Article : 194 words
  9. THE BITER BIT.

    "The only lessons in sleight of hand." says Mr. Devant, "that I ever received was from a roan who was giving conjuring and second sight performances in a ...

    Article : 174 words
  10. VEGETABLES AND MEDICINES.

    Nearly an vegetables have a medicinal action of some kind, and the subject is certainly worth studying. Asparagus, for instance forms part of the cure for ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. THE UNFLANNELLED FOOL.

    From a daily paper report of the last test match :—"England blazed up into magnificent might from the dying members of black despair, and as the prospect ...

    Article : 349 words
  12. IN THE SOUP.

    Birds' nest soup is not a delicacy which has its yet figured on a European restaurant menu, but in China it is esteemed as a most nourishing and wholesome daint. ...

    Article : 273 words
  13. AN ANCIENT INDUSTRY.

    It would be difficult to say where exactly and at what date the manufacture of cotton fabrics began in comparatively modern times, says "Country Life," ...

    Article : 170 words
  14. SKIMMING BOATS.

    Of recent years quite a number of small vessels, built primarily for racing purposes, have been evolved usually termed "hydroplanes," having two or more ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 564 words
  15. AUTHORS AND FAME.

    An English writer has been counting up the authors who have jumped suddenly into fame. Trollope wrote for many a year before he attained any success, yet ...

    Article : 375 words
  16. THE EARNINGS OF DOCTORS.

    The financial position of the medical profession in everywhere unsatisfactory, the "British Medical Journal" maintains. In most European countries a practitioner ...

    Article : 334 words
  17. LION-HUNTING WITH A CAMERA.

    When we had almost despaired of getting any more lion pictures we found a partly-eaten hartebeest, which had evidently been killed during the past night ...

    Article : 317 words
  18. MAXIMS.

    Divorce-court witnesses are born, not made. The only philanthropist who really despairs of man is the horse dealer. ...

    Article : 144 words
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