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  2. His Prize Story.

    It was a winter's evening, bleak and cold. Rain had been falling all day in Melbourne, and the streets were consequently covered with mud and slush, and pedestrians, hurrying ...

    Article : 2,317 words
  3. The Household.

    BOTTLING EGGS.—The office of the airtight fruit jar may be enlarged to preserve eggs as well as fruit. As soon as the eggs are collected pat the jars into hot water, and ...

    Article : 675 words
  4. Browny on Babies.

    A great many people have told the undersigned that he was an old idiot on the subject of babies. They have said that he was soft enough to get mashed on every baby ...

    Article : 1,631 words
  5. Scientific notes

    Recent determinations give light a velocity of 185,420 miles per second (Cornu), or 186,380 miles per second (Michelson.) Measurements have shown the thickness ...

    Article : 512 words
  6. Pity the Poor Pressman.

    What a life the pressman knoweth When the scorching hot wind bloweth, And water comes, and water goeth, Without a warning. ...

    Article : 283 words
  7. Agricultural, & r.

    All profit from a dairy cow comes from the food over and above that which it necessary to sustain the mere functions of life. Near Stockholm, Sweden, a farmer and ...

    Article : 332 words
  8. Wit and Humor

    The only coolness that should come between two fond hearts is ice-cream. Tramp—" I have lost an arm, sir; will—." Passer-by (in great haste)—"Sorry, but I ...

    Article : 1,009 words
  9. A HOOF-CLEANER.

    A handy little affair is made of three eights of an inch of squire iron, about six inches long. The edges are hammered or filed down so they will not cut the hand ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. A Would-Be Humorist.

    It has always been the height of my lofty ambition to be a humorist. This has been my aim ever since I first read Fun, but I have never known what it is to want to be, and ...

    Article : 473 words
  11. A RAIL FOR KICKING HORSES.

    Some horses seem to be born with the kicking propensity largely developed; others acquire the habit, and do not readily part with it. To prevent each horses from doing ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. Chasing a Rat.

    Soon after dinner yesterday a boy who was very much out of breath stopped a man in St. Kilda and informed him that he had seen a rat ran under a shed in a lane near ...

    Article : 395 words
  13. The Sensitive Servant.

    We have had servants of all kinds—honest, dishonest, sober, tippling, good-natured, ill-tempered, Irish, German, black, white, polite, impudent, industrious, lazy, ...

    Article : 667 words
  14. HIRED MEN ON THE FARM.

    Mrs. F. N. D. writes us that she would earnestly urge all farmers' wives to protest against the boarding of farm hands. She considers that the average hired man is the ...

    Article : 194 words
  15. Symptoms of an Old Bachelor.

    When he cuts a certain number of little square bits of paper every night, and lays them on his toilet table, ready to wipe his razor when he shaves in the morning—that's ...

    Article : 235 words
  16. How an Engine Driver Scented a Danger Signal.

    "Did you ever hear tell of Jim Fielding, the fireman ?" "No!" "Well, Jim is dead. He never got an engine; but he was a sharp one. Drink was his weakness; he was a ...

    Article : 229 words
  17. What One Child Can Do.

    The baby can wear out a new pair of kid shoes in twenty-four hours. It can keep its father busy advertising in the newspapers for a nurse. ...

    Article : 145 words
  18. The Tarriff of Art.

    Marc Anthony Grig (the distinguished tragedian on a starring tour)—"Me friend, how is this? The house was cold last night —cold—cold—ca-hold! And yet I had ...

    Article : 89 words
  19. A Dog Story.

    Lovers of dogs will be interested in the following true story:—A lady was visiting friends at the seaside, where there was a fine dog whose master was in the habit of giving ...

    Article : 171 words
  20. Hints.

    Avoid domestic coolness. If your wife speaks coldly to you put on your overcoat and take a brisk walk. Do not carry a poem on summer to an ...

    Article : 137 words
  21. Poetical.

    A reporter upon a country paper, speaking of a certain noted beauty, remarked that the " profusion and color of her hair would lead one to look upon it as though it was ...

    Article : 76 words
  22. Never Talks Shop.

    Mother—"And you think the good Lord will look out for my son while he is on the vasty deep [?]" Parson—"Pardon me, Mrs. Harper, I never ...

    Article : 38 words
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