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  2. Odds and Ends

    THE other dry a man and a boy came into a shop to buy a hat. After a time the man was fitted to one. Looking in the glass he said to the ...

    Article : 96 words
  3. SHORT STORY

    ELLA and Doris Chesney were two little girls of nine and seven years old, Although they were slaters, they were ...

    Article : 3,186 words
  4. THE MOST POWERFUL LOCOMOTIVE.

    What is said to be the heaviest passenger engine over built has been delivered to the Lake Shore and Michigan southern Railroad; it weighs 244 700lb, of which ...

    Article : 135 words
  5. KENNY'S REPLY.

    A man named Kenny who was entertaining some friends at dinner, accidentally swallowed a bit of cork with his wine, which brought on a coughing fit. ...

    Article : 64 words
  6. ATMOSPHERIC DUST AND ELECTRICITY.

    In a recent German paper Mr G C. Simpson deals with the question whether the dust floating in our atmosphere carries an electric charge. If the earth be ...

    Article : 373 words
  7. Miscellaneous.

    A NOTABLE discovery of the expedition to Lake Chad was a tree new to science, the wood of which is lighter than cork. ...

    Article : 186 words
  8. WITH A DIFFERENCE.

    Some have no respect for truth, And frequently abuse it; White others have all due respect, And so they seldom use it, ...

    Article : 27 words
  9. A JOB LOT.

    A widow lady who was very fond of bargain-hunting brought a gentleman home with her one day and addressing her children said, 'This gentleman, de[?]rs, is going ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 66 words
  10. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

    Ingredients:—1 calt's foot, 1 pint water, 2 inches cinnamon, 1 pint milk, rind of half a lemon, 1 tablespoonful sugar. Method.—Scald the foot and scrape it ...

    Article : 502 words
  11. NOVEL FISHING.

    A curious mo[?]e of catching turtles is practised in the West Indies. It consists in attaching a ring and a line to the tail of a species of sucker fish, which is then ...

    Article : 78 words
  12. A TERRIBLE RESULT OF WAR.

    Woman (twice married): 'Hers a here lies. You would not be my husband today, Dick had John not been killed at Pa[?]rdeburg.' ...

    Article : 41 words
  13. A REMARKABLE SPRING.

    One of the most remarkable springs in the world has recently been discovered in New Mexico. It is literally a spring saturated with sodium sulphate. Distilled ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. Housekeeper

    TO cure baldness or a mixture that will bring back the hair if the roots are not already gone:—Ten parts crude cod-oil, ten parts of the expressed juice of onions, ...

    Article : 63 words
  15. JAPS' HEADS: CURIOUS PECULIARITY.

    The most eminent Chinese experts, Von Siebold, Abelsdorff, and Schlegel, are of the opinion that the eyes of the yellow people are straight. To be convinced of ...

    Article : 245 words
  16. EVOLUTION OF THE PARVENU.

    'Is your daughter going to make her debut this season, Mrs Parvenu?' 'No, indeed. Madame Pakin attends to all that We don't have to do our sewing ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. HIGH IN PRICE.

    A married man complains of the high price of 'ducks.' He says his wife recently paid for three of them—a duck of a bonnet, a duck of a dress, and a duck of a par[?]ol, ...

    Article : 50 words
  18. HAIR RESTORATIVE.

    To two parts of the beat olive oil add one of spirits of wine or of good rum; put them into a bottle and shake well together. With this anoint the head well morning ...

    Article : 82 words
  19. MILITARY PIGEONS.

    In the Italian army all cavalry regiments are supplied with carrier pigeons, which are used for the transmission of information during all their military ma[?]vred to ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. A NECESSARY PRECAUTION.

    Judge: 'We are now going to read you a list of your former convictions.' Prisoner: 'In that case perhaps your lordship will allow me to sit down.' ...

    Article : 34 words
  21. WILLING TO OBLIGE.

    'Johnny,' said the pretty teacher, 'what's a kiss?' 'I can't exactly put it in words,' returned the boy, 'but if yer really wanter ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  22. CARE OF THE TOOTH BRUSH.

    The care or tooth brashes is not sufficiently observed. In our boosts, a writer very properly remarks, they stand in their caps or hang on their racks above the set ...

    Article : 94 words
  23. SWEDISH WOMEN.

    The girls of Sweden within the last generation have entered fully into the movement for opening new careers to women, and if one of them decides to ...

    Article : 116 words
  24. Items of Interest.

    NO one comes across or near us, but it is through an intention of God, that we may help to soothe and cheer them.—Faber. ...

    Article : 555 words
  25. BILE.

    One of the moat remarkable facto concerning the bile is its apparently small importance in the digestion of food. It is doubtless to a large extent excretory, but ...

    Article : 189 words
  26. Science and Invention.

    IN an alleged new German process of hardening, the iron is heated in a powder of bone-dust to which are added 300gr. of yellow prussiate, 250gr. of cynaide ...

    Article : 310 words
  27. PEKIN'S MUSICAL DOVES.

    One of the first things that surprise a foreigner on arriving at Pekin is the strange sound that seems to come down from the clouds, but which really comes ...

    Article : 197 words
  28. FAITHFUL TILL DEATH.

    'My uncle,' she said, 'wa[?] once a Member of Parliament.' 'Never mind, darling,' he replied, 'I love you too much to let that stand in the ...

    Article : 38 words
  29. NOT IN THE KNOW.

    Mrs Frugal: 'We had a beautiful arrangement at our church bazaar. Every woman contributed five shillings, which she had earned herself by hard work.' ...

    Article : 75 words
  30. BEAUTY AND THE BATH.

    When the woman who has refused to keep pace with the world looks solemnly at yon and shakes her head when she says, 'My dear, you bath[?] much too often; you ...

    Article : 538 words
  31. OPALS AND ILL-LUCK.

    Many people regard the opal as an omen of ill-luck, and the following will show how this superstition resolved itself. Two or three centuries ago the stone was very ...

    Article : 163 words
  32. DELICATELY PUT.

    'Do you think these carnations are becoming to me?' she asked. 'Oh, yes,' he replied, 'but there are other flowers that I would rather see you ...

    Article : 64 words
  33. AN AIR-WATER SHIP.

    Dr. Alexander Graham Bell is said to be working on an airship which will also he designed to sail on water. A despatch from Sydney, Nova S[?]tia, says that Dr. ...

    Article : 73 words
  34. NONSENSE RHYME.

    There was a young man of Madrid Who got on a housetop, and hid; he shouted 'Alfen[?]! How can you go on so? ...

    Article : 35 words
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