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  2. Honsehold Hints.

    A cracked egg can be safely boiled if wrapped in a piece of greased paper. Gilt frames may be cleaned as follows Mix with a pint of water enough flowers of ...

    Article : 646 words
  3. Short Story.

    Bill Miller and Alice Moore first met face to face at a "donation." "tendered," according to animal custom, as a makeweight for his decidedly slender salary, ...

    Article : 711 words
  4. Pith and Point.

    It is said that, a kangaroo has been known to make a leap of 90ft. Among recent "creations" for the Jewellery trade are gold lemon squeezers. ...

    Article : 1,094 words
  5. The Thoughts of a Leper.

    There is a sound of singing that travels on the road, long, sweet, monotonous; the deep voices of men answering the high flute-like notes of children, ...

    Article : 957 words
  6. Spray.

    In Liverpool recently a young married lady gave a dinner party, and on the day of the dinner her cook announced that she "couldn't abide no such carryings ...

    Article : 138 words
  7. Rain-gambling in Bengal.

    At a recent meeting of the Bengal Legislative Council, the Hon. Mr. Bolton, in introducing the bill for suppressing rain-gambling in Bengal, stated it ...

    Article : 624 words
  8. Military Pigeon Organisation.

    It is in Germany that the military pigeon organisation has been brought to the greatest perfection. At each large fortress a number of birds are ...

    Article : 125 words
  9. Exploding Eggs.

    Very few people would have imagined that any kind of eggs could be dangerous to human life. Yet it is now declared that ostrich eggs sometimes ...

    Article : 111 words
  10. Electricity in Birds.

    A plant has recently been discovered in Nicaragua which appears to be charged with electricity. If one of its branches is touched with the naked ...

    Article : 141 words
  11. IV.

    It was late in the following August before any of the Barkley Corners folks beard or saw anything more of Bill Miller. His disappearance had caused ...

    Article : 987 words
  12. A Youth's Adventures.

    When riding in the tramear through the wildest parts of Peekham Rye. (writes a contributor to the London "News") with a friend—we were bound ...

    Article : 643 words
  13. Writer's Cramp.

    Doctor: "From the condition of your hand and arm, I should say you are suffering from writer's cramp—too much exercise of one set of muscles." ...

    Article : 69 words
  14. Losses in Ocean Traffic.

    The biggest item of incidental loss in ocean traffic during the stormy seasons of the year is that of breakages in the wine stores. No matter how securely ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. The Age of Romance.

    Scene: A London drawing-room. Dinner Is over, and the men have just come up from the dining-room. Captain Cave (Coldstream Guards, Joining ...

    Article : 456 words
  16. II.

    When Jim Simmons left the schoolhouse the next afternoon at 4 o'clock, after a day that he had made very trying to the young schoolma'am, he was met ...

    Article : 322 words
  17. Convincing Evidence.

    "Somebody told me that that young man who was just introduced to us is an actor," remarked Maud. "No," replied Mamie positively, "I'm ...

    Article : 73 words
  18. Experiments With Ants.

    Boyle, the well-known zoologist, once noticed a swarm of ante, and found that when two of the ants met they put their heads together, as if they had something ...

    Article : 184 words
  19. A Reporting Machine.

    Reporting machines, for lightening the labours of the shorthand writer, are not new, for several, shorthand machines have already been produced, hot for various ...

    Article : 385 words
  20. The Greatest Murderess.

    Aqua Tofano, the poisoner, who lived in the latter part of the Seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, was probably the greatest murderess the world ...

    Article : 133 words
  21. A Banevelent King.

    Oscar, the good King of Sweden, celebrated nest September the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to the throne, and the Swedes in America are ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. III.

    Miss Alice Moore was greatly amazed at the almost perfect deportment of Jim Simmons from that time on. Although she had some suspicion of the cause of ...

    Article : 603 words
  23. Value of Wild Animals.

    The small boy who measures the standard of the circus by the number of Its elephants is very nearly right, as to method. The pachydermata proboscides is the most costly ...

    Article : 141 words
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