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  2. Household Hints.

    Apple Pie.—A piquant flavour is given to an apple tart by adding to it a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg. Chocolate.—A dash each of sherry and ...

    Article : 486 words
  3. General Items.

    Surnames were not in use at all before the Norman Conquest. In Hungary whisky it distilled from turnips, maise, potatoes, and molasses. ...

    Article : 1,081 words
  4. An Emancipated Woman.

    She looked just that kind of a woman when she came into the sanotum, and all the seniors became instinctively very busy, and so absorbed in their work that they did not ...

    Article : 871 words
  5. Agricultural Notes.

    I like to out oats before they are fairly ripe, If harvested when the kernels are just beginning to harden the straw will be almost as good to feed as hay, ...

    Article : 444 words
  6. FIVE YEARS AGO,

    At that moment Tom rejoined us. The opportunity was lost, gone for ever; and, seizing the locket that had been the innocent cause ...

    Article : 2,292 words
  7. A VENTRILOQUIST'S JOKE.

    An amusing incident occurred very recently on the wharf at Savanna. Two athletic darkies were engaged in [?]umbling about a bale of cotton on the dock, ...

    Article : 245 words
  8. JERRY'S MISTAKE.

    Jerry and Mike were two dock labourers, and both partial to a 'dbrop o' the craythur.' 'Could ye dbrink a wee dhrop o' ...

    Article : 242 words
  9. A BOLSTER OF HIS STOMACH.

    At breakfast one morning, in a quiet and comfortable old inn at York, a foreigner made quick despatch with his eggs. ...

    Article : 146 words
  10. PAID IN HIS OWN COIN.

    An old sailor once appeared to "give evidence in a case of assault, when he was asked the following questions :- Judge: 'Where was plaintiff standing ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. IT CERTAINLY SOUNDED VERY DANGEROUS.

    A Rood story it told as follows: An Episcopal bishop was a guest at a dinner party. 'By the way,' said one of the guests, a ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. A Remarkable Discovery.

    By the discovery of Professor Elfisio Marini, of Italy, the human body is actually reudered immortal, or at least so the inventorclaims. Death loses its all-destroying ...

    Article : 472 words
  13. A PRIVATE TELEGRAM.

    Dick O'Connor entered a telegraph office one day and asked the clerk to write a message for him. The clerk, commencing, inquired: ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. THE OLD LADY WARNED HIM.

    An old lady of Fife, noted for possessing a sharp tongue and a tendency towards taking down conceited people, was entertaining a number of young ...

    Article : 104 words
  15. A FOOTBALL STORY.

    A football captain who resident near Narandera could not raise a team to go to Junee, so he wired to that effect to the secretary of the opposing team. ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. INQUISITIVENESS.

    Inquisitive people sometimes find satisfaction in catechiaing little boys about their names and affairs. This is, how one of these curious bodies recently ...

    Article : 87 words
  17. HIS ONLY QUESTION.

    While on a visit to a mining town, which boasts of no professional barber, a gentleman had perforce to submit his noble countenance to the tender and ...

    Article : 143 words
  18. AN AMERICAN WAR STORY.

    When Theodore Roosevelt was giving his farewell address to the Roughriders at Camp Wikoff recently, he concluded with this little story: ...

    Article : 88 words
  19. A WARNING TO TIN-WHISTLERS.

    A band of Germans, who were ordered to play before the Emperor, played so well that he ordered his servant to fill all their instruments with sold. ...

    Article : 107 words
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