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  2. AN OLD CHUM’S EXPERIENCES OF THE EARLY DAYS.

    “Youth must have been a strange life, take it altogether, I should say,” said I to my old crony, Joe Pennythorne, as we sat together last Christmas Day after dinner, smoking on ...

    Article : 4,537 words
  3. RECIPES.

    ORANGE T[?]HT.—Extract the juice of three oranges, and ball the rind and [?] till quite under add to the juice, and [?] sugar two ounces of butter line a ...

    Article : 654 words
  4. Science.

    Sm. WILLIAM THOMSON, the great physicist, thinks there are at least six senses, instead of only five, and he even suggests that there may be seven. His sixth sense is the sense of ...

    Article : 63 words
  5. Stock of All Kinds.

    FIRST, see that the working horses and oxen are in good order and well fed, groomed, have a plentiful supply of pure water, are decently housed and bedded, that they may be better ...

    Article : 72 words
  6. Electricity as a Motive Power.

    Sra WILLIAM SIEMENS predicts that electricity, will prove very useful as a motive power for small boats. Electric storage batteries will be about as expensive as steam for the ...

    Article : 94 words
  7. Blinkers.

    THE Lancet stoutly opposes the practice of putting blinkers on horses. It says: “It seems to us that they are useless, ugly, and, to some extent, injurious to the eyesight. The ...

    Article : 74 words
  8. Terrestrial Magnetism.

    A DISCUSSION has been going on in the columns of the French scientific journal, Lee Mendes, on the question whether terrestrial magnetism has any such influence on ...

    Article : 604 words
  9. Essayist.

    THE curse of drunkenness, on the side of its physical devastations, has been abundantly depicted by the advocates of the temperance reform. The amount of grain consumed in ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  10. An Ear of Corn Shaped like a Hand.

    THESE is on exhibition at San Luis Obispo an ear of corn grown in the exact form of the hand of a child, showing the wrist, hand, thumb and fingers all perfect except the little ...

    Article : 144 words
  11. The Farmer.

    NOTHING like an exact amount of food required per 1,000 pounds live weight for any animal, either for its support in health or for fattening, can be ascertained, owing to the ...

    Article : 481 words
  12. Bops’ Column.

    WE want all the boys who are in the habit of smoking cigarettes, or who are beginning to learn how to smoke them, to pay attention while we cell them of a sad event that recently ...

    Article : 1,466 words
  13. Miscellaneous.

    WHY ALEXANDER WEFT.—THE RIVER OF HEAVEN. —ASTROLOGY. The autumnal harvest of falling stars still continuing every year draws to the heavens ...

    Article : 1,271 words
  14. [?]umour.

    ONE day my father he was a reading the Evening Post, an all to once he give a long wissel and said he be gum dasted I Then Uncle Ned he looked up and sed, “Wot is ...

    Article : 328 words
  15. Ladies’ Column.

    IT requires a certain amount of patience to achieve success in making feather flowers, while satisfactory results are sure to add a smiling beauty to the adorning of an ...

    Article : 253 words
  16. I’ve Quit Drinking Whisky.

    “I’ve quit drinking whisky,” said anti-prohibitionist to a temperance woman. “That heaven for that,” was her earnest reply. ...

    Article : 213 words
  17. Practical Hints on Growing Fruit.

    IF you want large crops of the finest straw berries, plough or spade the ground deep. Keep them well worked with cultivator or hoe, and mulch heavily with straw, hay, ...

    Article : 504 words
  18. A Watering Place Farewell.

    What she says: Good-bye. What he says: Good-bye. What she does not say: We have had such lovely times together; and after all that has ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. Diphtheria.

    PHYSICIANS ascribe the prevalence of diphtheria at the present day largely to badly-trimmed, smoky, kerosene lamps, which are sometimes left burning in chambers all night, turned ...

    Article : 112 words
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