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  2. Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa.

    "WHAT is this I hear about your father creating a panic in a dry-goods store?" said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he took a butter tryer and run it into a pumpkin a few ...

    Article : 1,308 words
  3. MAPS AS A JOURNALIST

    I HAVE before me a newspaper which is quite a curiosity in its way: one that I am sure nine hundred out of a thousand reading men have sever seen the like of. It is a military ...

    Article : 1,901 words
  4. The Farmer.

    THE sunflower has long been grown for its oil seeds in Russia and India, and the cultivation has been more recently taken up in Germany and Italy. The plant grown readily ...

    Article : 472 words
  5. Product of the Hen.

    THE hen has in her ovaries, in round numbers, more than 600 egg germs, which develop gradually and are successfully laid. Of these 600 the hen will lay 20 in her first year, 135 ...

    Article : 106 words
  6. Beside the Sea.

    BESIDE the beach, one sunny day's fair close. While slow the wide-stretching sea murmured by, Kissing the shore, the lyric of its woes ...

    Article : 1,489 words
  7. Miscellaneous.

    I SAW Balzac some weeks before his last day. He came to the Theatre Francsis, hut as his usual heart disease did not allow him to mount up the stairs, I was requested to go ...

    Article : 1,007 words
  8. Waterproof Canvas

    SACKLOTH or canvas is made as impervious to wet as leather by steeping it in a docoction of 1 1b. of oakbark in 14lbs. of boiling water. This quantity of liquor is sufficient ...

    Article : 70 words
  9. Ladies Column.

    THERE is no power of love to hard to get and keep as a kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and dumb. It may be rough in flesh and blood, yet do the work of a self heart, and ...

    Article : 365 words
  10. Copying Fossil Prints.

    A SIMPLE method of getting prints in ink of fossil forms has been communicated to the Society of St. Etienue Engineers by M. Fayor. It consists in painting the object with ink and ...

    Article : 85 words
  11. A Tricycle Boat.

    THE novel experiment of crowing thE Channel on a tricycle was recently accomplished successfully by a seafaring man named Terry. The tricycle is an invention of his ...

    Article : 208 words
  12. Transfusion of Blood.

    THE Press, of Vienna, lately described an operation of the above kind successfully carried out by Professor Nothnagel in conjunction with Herr Ritter von Hacker. On ...

    Article : 158 words
  13. A Convenient Poultry House.

    IT is very essential that fowls should be housed in a warm place, have plenty of light and plenty of warm nourishing feed, to do well in winter. Not having good ...

    Article : 297 words
  14. A Double Artesian Well.

    SELMA has the west wonderful artesian well in the world. Two separate streams of water of entirely different properties flow from this well. This effect is produced by the insertion ...

    Article : 95 words
  15. Fans.

    HON few women know how to hold a fan. I noticed that a Spanish girl my acquaintance held hers hall open. I asked for the philosophy of the thing. I have a profound ...

    Article : 513 words
  16. Humour.

    A little peach in an orchard greven; A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew, It grew. ...

    Article : 365 words
  17. Starters for Stories.

    Following the prevailing literary fashion: Slush, slush, slush!—I first saw the light of day—" Push the eglantine aside, Hester."— It was night—night in the great city.—It was ...

    Article : 248 words
  18. Science.

    The [?] a food is do[?] in a degree to the [?] producing properties, though in the perfect it is [?] by tally and amy[?] It is as a dance building ...

    Article : 314 words
  19. Early Marriages.

    TO THOSE who believe in early marriages, as we do, the following story, taken from Notes and Queries, will prove of interest:— Lady Sarah Cadogan, daughter of William, first ...

    Article : 288 words
  20. Authentic.

    CHORUS of excited boys—"Then the lightning struck, you?" Skipper (indifferently—"Oh, yes; I was leaning agin the mainmast when it struck it." Excited boys:—"Didn't ...

    Article : 335 words
  21. Was he a Dude?

    "WHOA, Carl Schurz!" The eleventh Duke of Galway leaned listlesaly over the dashboard of the street-car as he spoke these fateful words in an imperious ...

    Article : 267 words
  22. RECIPES.

    This excellent dish may be proposed with [?]boiled egg ghapped,or with new eggs [?] into the [?] for one small [?] of ball a good [?] ...

    Article : 420 words
  23. Weight of Children.

    TWO illustrations may be given of changes worth noting in illness. A boy, ten years old, after scarlet favor, had lost 1 lbs. in weight; this he regained in one month after ...

    Article : 423 words
  24. A Useful Bath Bed.

    A correspondent in the l[?] writing from [?] and recommends the following [?] which has been introduced into an infirmary ...

    Article : 283 words
  25. That Microscopical Wonder, the Baby Oyster.

    Past. B. J. [?] employed to attend to experiments to [?] back[?] said, addressing a reporter:—"I will show you the probocis of an oyster something [?] seen except by ...

    Article : 294 words
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