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  2. IN STRANGE COMPANY

    Fortunately for the success of the escape from Valparaiso, the wind blew almost a hurricane from the schooner's most favorable quarter, and, as Captain Boulger was ...

    Article : 4,554 words
  3. THE HOUSEHOLD.

    HOT CAKES.—Work two ounces of lard into a pound of dough, adding one ounce of sugar, and two ounces of currants. Work all well together, form into a flat cake on an ...

    Article : 610 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOR.

    "Why do you cook your pastry in such unattractive shapes?" "The doctor said I must eat only plain food." "She is a great favourite with the male ...

    Article : 430 words
  5. THE AGRICULTURIST. MANURES FOR VINES.

    As regards the kind of manures most suitable for the vine, it has been shown that such as contain a considerable proportion of potash are the most valuable. M. Vides, ...

    Article : 100 words
  6. PLANTING TREES IN EXPOSED SITUATIONS.

    "Plant thickly, and thin out early," contains mach good advice for those who have undertaken the work of covering exposed situations with trees. The advantage of ...

    Article : 86 words
  7. CHAPTER VII.

    When, after leaving Papeete, Veneda came to consider the facts connected with his excursion ashore, he could not help seeing two things very clearly. In the first place, he ...

    Article : 2,770 words
  8. PROFITABLENESS OF EVAPORATORS.

    In Califoria men with portable evaporators visit the different orchards, and for a specified charge convert the fruit crop into a product that can be sold at any future ...

    Article : 116 words
  9. WATER FOR CHICKENS.

    Quite a number of young chicks are los every year by breeders using deep drinking vessels. A saucer or shallow tin with a flower pot stood in it will prevent chic ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. WASTEFUL FEEDING.

    As a rule chickens are given about twice as much food as they can eat up at once. Soft food soon sours, and besides this the hen scratches away at it if she has a chance. ...

    Article : 114 words
  11. SAY A GOOD WORD.

    To cultivate a habit of always seeing the awkward or ridiculous aspect of things is unwise. Cynical remarks can be passed respecting all men and all happenings. ...

    Article : 306 words
  12. A RIDE THROUGH SPACE.

    We had gone up the Oroya Railroad in [?]ne Andes, a wonderful piece of railway engineering. The sharp ascent began at noon, over terraces, through tunnels drilled ...

    Article : 541 words
  13. FEEDING CHICKENS OF VARIOUS SIZES.

    After chicks are left by the mother hen they are frequently put into a yard with others treated in a like manner some time previously. This is all right, one can't have ...

    Article : 230 words
  14. THE POULTRY YARD.

    December is about as good a time as you will get to clean up the poultry house. What is meant by "cleaning up? A good many people do not seem to know, if we can ...

    Article : 424 words
  15. NO FUN.

    There is a good anecdote told of Cham, the French caricaturist, and Philippe Gille, a man of letters. Once they had a violent quarrel in a theatre after the play was over. ...

    Article : 383 words
  16. STRAY THOUGHTS.

    Your really fine and noble gentleman and gentlewoman wear calico as tnough it were silk, and silk as though it were calico; eat from pewter as though it were silver, and ...

    Article : 202 words
  17. HOW THE RECORD WAS BROKEN.

    Here is the way the last eight seconds have been clipped off the trotting record since 1880, when Rarus made a mile in 2:11¾. In the same year Barus reduced his ...

    Article : 185 words
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