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  2. Housekeeper.

    To remove a fishbone from the throat, cut a lemon in half and such, the juice slowly. This will dissolve the fishbone and give instant relief. ...

    Article : 219 words
  3. NOVELETTE,

    The winter of 1861 was noted for the amount of snow that fell over England during the months of December and January. Coaches were stopped, ...

    Article : 3,395 words
  4. STRENGTH OF INSECTS.

    If asked to name the strongest animals, most persons begin with the largest, the elephant, and continue with oxen, horses, etc. This is, of ...

    Article : 164 words
  5. TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT.

    Many sanguine aviators Assert that crossing the Atlantic Ocean by aeroplane is by no means impossible, and some predict that the feat will be ...

    Article : 172 words
  6. MAKING ROME A SEAPORT.

    Several projects for making Rome a seaport by providing a waterway from the coast to the city have been discussed for some years past. One of ...

    Article : 172 words
  7. IMPORTANCE OF BEING SOCIABLE.

    To simply live alone, with no provision for the gratification of the social instincts, is apt to prove too severe a strain upon the reserve forces ...

    Article : 156 words
  8. Miscellaneous.

    An Epping policeman is declared to have established the ownership of a stolen fowl by tying a piece of string to its leg. He followed it, and it went ...

    Article : 424 words
  9. Scientific Notes.

    Wireless telegraphy is being used for train signaling purposes on the Pennsylvania railroad. During the stormy weather of February and ...

    Article : 41 words
  10. THE OLDEST SAILING SHIP.

    The old Australian convict ship Sue-, cess, which for some years has been on exhibition in various British ports, left Glassondock, Lancaster, last week ...

    Article : 267 words
  11. FAN COQUETRY.

    In prehistoric days, when France was peopled, by fire worshippers, the king of a subject state had a daughter, a princess of great beauty— ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. A BIG SAVING.

    Owing to the tar-spraying of macadam roads the cost of scavenging, watering, and maintenance is greatly reduced. For instance, in ...

    Article : 58 words
  13. ELECTRIC GUIDES.

    Submarines, airships, and the like can be steered along the path of a previously laid electric cable in the following way:—On the vessel are two ...

    Article : 131 words
  14. LOOK ON THE SUNNY SIDE.

    Since there is a sunny side of life as well as a seamy, why not hunt it out? Do not be one of the mopers— by disposition or pose; force yourself ...

    Article : 173 words
  15. Odds and Ends.

    New Minister How old are you little man? Slum Child: I ain't old. I's five years young, Wife (looking up from paper): ...

    Article : 332 words
  16. AN AVALANCHE WALL.

    The new railway that will pass through the Loetschberg tunnel, in the Bernese Alps, is protected from avalanches by great fortifications. At ...

    Article : 157 words
  17. HIDING THE "THREADS OF SILVER."

    When the first "threads of silver" appear among dark locks, they can generally be prevented from spreading if the hair is given a little extra ...

    Article : 203 words
  18. SOIL IMPORTED FOR EMPEROR TO BE BORN ON.

    Prince Victor Napoleon, the Imper ial Pretender to the French throne, is most anxious that his expected heir shall be born on French soil. Finding ...

    Article : 114 words
  19. A NEW FODDER.

    The directors of the agricultural experiment station at Posen, Germany, announce that cocoa-shells are an excellent and comparatively cheap ...

    Article : 177 words
  20. THE ARCHER FISH.

    The excellence of the sight of some fishes for even minute objects passing in the air above the water in which the fish is swimming, is unmistakably ...

    Article : 203 words
  21. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.

    A horse dealer in a northern town had hired a horse to a solicitor, who killed the horse through bad usage. The dealer insisted on payment, and ...

    Article : 111 words
  22. RECIPES.

    An Excellent Gingerbread: Take a pound and a half of well-dried flour, four ounces of butter, four ounces of brown sugar, one, pound of treacle, ...

    Article : 420 words
  23. THE STEAM SHOVEL AT PANAMA.

    When the Panama Canal was taken over by the Americans in May, 1904, a great deal of mechanical development, which has since proved of great ...

    Article : 203 words
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