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  2. Varieties.

    A FUNNY story is told of a certain wealthy tradesman who, on retiring from business, erected a mansion in an aristocratic ...

    Article : 206 words
  3. SHORT STORY

    THERE were pirate craft quartering the Caribbean Sea from the Island of Trinidad to Havana, and from Nassau to the Bay of Honduras. They sailed up and down ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,309 words
  4. Personalities.

    UPON one occasion, at Vienna, a Bavarian noble was uttering a philippic against Hungarian spelling and orthoepy. Dr. ...

    Article : 84 words
  5. Ways of Living.

    AT Oxford, when Mr Barnum was interrupted in his lecture by the students, he quietly said to them, I see symptoms of a pretty jolly ...

    Article : 1,258 words
  6. Science.

    WHY are some bodies, as glass, transparent, and others, as stone. not?—The explanation is to be found in the fact ...

    Article : 410 words
  7. Naturalist

    A SNAKE'S foot is something more than a nonentity. This was proved to a representative of 'Current Literature' who called ...

    Article : 1,242 words
  8. PLON-PLON.

    The second son of Plon-Plon and of Clotilda of Savoy has for him not only his great name, but, if diplomatic gossip may be credited, the warm friendship of ...

    Article : 127 words
  9. IN PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR.

    A steam-launch belonging to a battleship sprung a leak while crossing Portsmouth Harbour and rapidly sank. Near by an old salt was leisurely rowing a ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. CONNAUGHT.

    The Duke of Connaught, though he preserves, as neither the King nor any of his sisters have done, a look of real youth and vigour, yet enters to-day his ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS, BEWARE!

    Fastened to the door of a large boot warehouse in a Midland county is the following list of solemn 'warnings to travellers':— ...

    Article : 187 words
  12. Housekeeper.

    RUB half a pound of icing sugar through a hair sieve. Put it in a very clean stewpan over a slow fire. ...

    Article : 106 words
  13. POPE STUDIES MEDICINES.

    Consternation wan displayed in the Vatican recently when Dr. Lapponi, Pope Leo's private physician, was seen going towards his holiness' apartments ...

    Article : 155 words
  14. CONDUCTOR'S MISTAKE.

    Among the passengers on a Glenside accommodation train the other afternoon was a very stout old woman. She occupied an entire seat, says the Philadelphia ...

    Article : 228 words
  15. DUTCH BRAWN.

    Cut into nicely small pieces any cold beef, pork, or veal, and pack them rather loosely in a mould alternately with layers of finely minced ham, bacon, or sausage. ...

    Article : 108 words
  16. THE PEARL OF SAVOY.

    If the Italians followed the example set by Queen Margherita there would be fewer complaints of the neglect of native artiste by their compatriots. Her love of ...

    Article : 182 words
  17. PRUNE WHIP.

    Wash one pound of large prunes and soak over night is cold water to cover. Cook in the same water until soft; remove the stones and measure one-third of the ...

    Article : 230 words
  18. A COUNTRY BANK MANAGER.

    The visit of the examiner, or travelling inspector, to a bank is an event of importance, and, if there are any irregularities, an occasion of anxiety as well. ...

    Article : 218 words
  19. VIVIAN.

    Mr. Herbert Vivian is always amusing the world with some new idea. The other day he chanced upon a set of Dr. Johnson's works, and noticed that the ...

    Article : 181 words
  20. SMOTHERED BEEF WITH ONIONS.

    Most cooks know well enough that the lower priced cute of beet are as nutritious as the moat expensive whose value lies in tenderness. But they either do not know ...

    Article : 241 words
  21. LONG CATTLE HORNS.

    The headquarters of the National Live Stock Association in the Quiney building will soon have hung up an adornment that will be the admiration of every ...

    Article : 89 words
  22. PRINCE HENRY.

    Prince Henry of Chartre's seema to possess many of the more odious and more brilliant qualities of his great-grandfather, Louis Philippe. While ...

    Article : 198 words
  23. THE POPULARITY OF PING-PONG.

    Birmingham magistrates do not view with favour the wholesale introduction of ping-pong tables into licensed houses and refreshment establishments, and it is ...

    Article : 101 words
  24. JAM.

    The man to whom Mr. Gladstone owed his famous advice to agriculturists, 'Make jam,' is recently deceased. Mr. T. W. Beach, of Eal[?]g, revolutionised ...

    Article : 81 words
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