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  2. SHORT STORY.

    I think you're horrid! said jill from [?] where she reclined in semi[?] style.one foot encased in bandages [?] horrid; yee, I do!' and her ...

    Article : 3,664 words
  3. HOUSEKEEPER.

    To Polish Steal Articles.—Mix pure lime with alcohol, and rub on the article with a piece of leather. To clean white sheop-skin rugs, scrub ...

    Article : 602 words
  4. FARM AND GARDEN.

    It is important to keep the little pigs warm. Draughty styes are bad but wet ones are worse. The chili that originates from a damp bed is far worse than one ...

    Article : 209 words
  5. WAYS OF LIVING.

    The 'ALs-nt-minded Beggar' will always find some way of amusing himself, whether it is in barracks in time of peace, or on a battlefield when shot and shell ...

    Article : 732 words
  6. NATURALIST.

    The male butterflies have the proud privilege of a pocket, but the pocket of a butterfly is wonderfully made. It is really an extension of the under wing ...

    Article : 208 words
  7. WHAT IS TORTOISESHELL ?

    It is perhaps not generally known— certainly not so widely as it ought to be— that the so-called tortoiseshell of commerce is obtained at the cost of the ...

    Article : 835 words
  8. HOW TO DEAL WITH GREASY HEELS.

    An excellent lotion for dressing greasy heels in horses consists of loz. each of acetate of lead and sulphate of rinc, along ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN.

    Where soil dries quickly, and that is always the case with light ground, it is well to get in an early sowing of milan turnip seed on a warm border, putting the ...

    Article : 133 words
  10. SEAKALE.

    At no time does, the absence of plenty of Beak ale make itself more felt than now for, with other vegetables few and none too good, a good supply of sweet, blanched ...

    Article : 190 words
  11. DINNERS FOR THE WEEK.

    Roast Turkey.—Method: Choose a medium sized young bird, and, having trussed and stuffed it with whatever forcemeat is preferred, fasten a sheet of ...

    Article : 659 words
  12. BORN ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

    Three years ago a man died in Birmingham who had had the unique experience of being born on the famous battlefield of Waterloo, and although children are ...

    Article : 194 words
  13. PACKET SEEDS.

    One of the products of modern competition in seed trading has been the offering of seeds of so many descriptions in cheap packets, so that people may purchase ...

    Article : 151 words
  14. UNDER THE WHITE FLAG.

    When one of the enemy is sent with a flag of truce, he is blindfolded and taken to the officer commanding the outposts. If he brings a letter, he is given a receipt, ...

    Article : 54 words
  15. ROMANCES ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

    Strange as it may appear, even romances have their origin in war, although the battlefield is certainly not the place where one would expect anything of that kind to ...

    Article : 308 words
  16. WHAT BEING 'MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES' MEANS.

    The general in supreme command of an army, when sending home his reports, selects this or that officer for special commendation, either on account of his valour, ...

    Article : 73 words
  17. HARDY CLIMBERS.

    How correct is to term these plants as lovely. How much better is it where there is a house, a porch, an arbour, or any place or thing, that can be covered ...

    Article : 227 words
  18. LORD SHAFTESBURY AND THE ARTFUL DODGER.

    A good story is told of the Earl of Shaftesbury, who once lost his watch while walking in Whitechapel. He advertised his loss, as he valued his watch ...

    Article : 201 words
  19. NATURE AS A LIGHT-MAKER.

    The emission of light from 8 common potato in a state of decomposition is sometimes striking. Dr. Phipson, in his work on phosphorescence, mentions a case in ...

    Article : 61 words
  20. NATURE AS A DESIGNER.

    Remarkably pleasing patterns which adorn the cashmere shawls from the foot of the Himalaya Mountains are copied directly from the leaves of the begonia. ...

    Article : 50 words
  21. MOTIVES.

    The reward of a thing well done 'tis to have done it.—Emerson. Through labour to rest, through combat to victory.—THOMAS A KEMPIS. ...

    Article : 43 words
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