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  2. Art and Literature

    A picture seems to the ordinary man a particularly destructible sort of property, expose to every description of risk, from gas explosions to housemaid's brooms; hut, as a ...

    Article : 909 words
  3. Sketcher.

    Dickens was The Man Who was Always in Time. unpunctuality, indeed, was the sin against Dickens:—There never existed, I think, in all the world, a more thoroughly ...

    Article : 339 words
  4. Ladies' Column.

    Bangs were first worn in the court of Louis XIV. Greek ladies had 137 different styles of dressing the hair. ...

    Article : 647 words
  5. The Naturalise.

    The chameleon has for ages been an object of curiosity, not only on account of its ability to change it color at will, as one might suppose who had read accounts which ...

    Article : 285 words
  6. IN A DEN OF LIONS.

    'I am just from Texas,'said a gentleman who lives a few miles from Denver. 'Oh, I have had a great time! I went away out in Texas to Buchel County. I wish some of ...

    Article : 1,514 words
  7. THE HUNTING ANTS.

    Writing in Longman's Magazine of 'Day and Night in the Guiana Forest,' Mr. James Rodway graphically describes the hunting ants. 'On the ground, swarming up the ...

    Article : 426 words
  8. OPALS.

    The Empress Enginie had a superatitions dread amounting to positive aversion for the beautiful opal, and the stone was a stranger at the brilliant court. It is ...

    Article : 541 words
  9. ROOH VENTILATION.

    Accepting the suggestion that the ideal in ventilation is the plenum system, by which pure warm air in winter and cool air in summer is impelled through the building ...

    Article : 928 words
  10. COMMUNISTIC INSECTS.

    Never among mankind can we find so absolute and complete absorption of the individual by the social group as in the cities of ant anti bees, where individual property ...

    Article : 198 words
  11. JAPANESE WOMEN.

    A letter I have seen from Japan says that the Japanese newspapers of the conservative sort are filled with complaints of the effects upon their young women of the ...

    Article : 231 words
  12. TOAST.

    A schoolmaster, being called on to give a toast, produced this sentiment:— Addition to the friends of old England, subtraction to her wants, multiplication to her ...

    Article : 140 words
  13. SLAVERY IN ENGLAND.

    In 'In Bygone England' (Hutchinson & Co.) Mr. William Andrews has brought together a budget of 'social studies in historic byways and highways.'Mr. Andrews ...

    Article : 776 words
  14. Varieties.

    A woman's chance to be married is calculated to be only 2½ per cent when she reaches her fortieth year. In 4844 each individual consumed thirteen ...

    Article : 971 words
  15. JUDGES AND THEIR NOTES.

    There is a great difference in judges as regards the quantity of their memoranda. Like the wily Eidon, who when writing letter in court to his private friends, always ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. THE TEAGOWN.

    The reign of the teagown is by no means over, though the shape is in many cases so modified that it is not easy to tell it from a dinner dress. Here, however, is a real one. ...

    Article : 223 words
  17. TEA.

    Black tea is prepared in a different manner from the green. The leaves are allowed to his spread out on bamboo trays for a considerable time; then they are thrown up in ...

    Article : 113 words
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