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  2. SHORT STORY

    BY Jove, I have got the berth after all?' Lawrence Deane waved the letter triumphantly. His young wife, who was sitting at the breakfast-table, looked ...

    Article : 3,290 words
  3. Miscellaneous.

    THE chestnut bread used in North Italy and Corsica will keep fresh for fifteen days. There is now a settlement containing 600 ...

    Article : 377 words
  4. Odds and Ends

    A MAN'S hard hat was lifted from his head by a gust of wind, and in it's flight struck a woman in the face. Angry at the blow, and without considering the ...

    Article : 74 words
  5. BLACK VARNISH FOR IRON.

    A good black varnish for cast iron and forgings can be made of 1/2lb lamplack, 1/2lb resin, 1lb asphaltum, 1 quart turpentine spirits and a small quantity linseed oil. ...

    Article : 64 words
  6. HEALTH HINTS.

    Avoid foods that disagree with you. Do not wash the food down with liquids. Do not eat when fatigued or when overheated. ...

    Article : 321 words
  7. WORTH PASSING ALONG.

    Tipsy Dude: 'Say, old woman, when is your farm to sail?' Farmer's Wife, dryly: 'When someone comes along who can raise the wind.' ...

    Article : 29 words
  8. HYPNOTISM CURES HYSTERIA.

    M. Damoglou had related to his colleagues of the Society of Hypnology and Psychology, his hypnotic experience with a woman, aged 29 years, who suffered from ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE.

    'Is my husband's case serious, doctor?' 'It is very grave, madam. I have left an opiate.' 'How often shall I give it to him?' 'He needs absolute rest and quiet. Don't ...

    Article : 47 words
  10. NOT ALL ICE.

    Rural Adorer (bashfully): 'You didn't go to Millie Meadow's party. Don't you like kissin' games?' Pretty Maid: 'No, I don't.' Rural Adorer (weakly): 'Why ...

    Article : 47 words
  11. OILING ROADWAYS.

    As is generally known, oiling dusty roads and railway roadbeds has been practised for several years past in different parts of the United States with varying degrees of ...

    Article : 136 words
  12. AN APPROPRIATED UMBRELLA.

    Kifter: 'That's a nice umbrella you've got.' Lifter: 'Yes, it was a present.' Kifter: 'Indeed? Who gave it to you?' Lifter: 'Nobody gave it to me, but it has ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 53 words
  13. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

    Ingredients:—3 pts. of white stock (the water in which mutton has been boiled with vegetables would do for plainer use), 2ozs rice, 2ozs cheese, 1/2 gill cream. 1 onion ...

    Article : 204 words
  14. HYDROGEN BALLOONS.

    Small paper or rubber balloons, about 10ft. in diameter, are now largely used by meteorologists to explore the higher regions of the atmosphere. They are filled ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. FEAT IN TELEPHONING.

    An extraordinary feat in telephoning was recently accomplished between St. Petersburg and Boulogne, a distance of 2,456 miles. Conversation was kept up ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. THE SMALLEST FIREARM.

    A very diminutive firearm made by Mr Victor Bovy is undoubtedly the smallest in the world. The total length from handle to muzzle is one and a half inches, and the ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. A LITTLE INFORMATION.

    Musical Guest: 'Wouldn't you like to be able to sing and play, my little man?' Johnny: 'No. I wouldn't like to have folks say such things about me as they do ...

    Article : 39 words
  18. Items of Interest.

    THE best thing is to be respected, the next is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised. ...

    Article : 609 words
  19. ONE FOR MRS. TURNER.

    'I wish they'd invent a new expression occasionally,'said Turner as he perused the account of a recent wedding. 'It's always 'the blushing' bride.' ...

    Article : 57 words
  20. FATE OF DISCOVERERS.

    One of the saddest chapters in human history is that which relates to the fate of men who have been benefactors of their kind. As reformers, inventors, teachers of ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. SHARP STEAK.

    Ingredients:—3lbs steak, 1 teaspoonful sugar and salt, grated nugmeg, cayenne, 1 tablespoonful flour, 1 dessertspoonful each of vinegar, mushroom ketchup or ...

    Article : 122 words
  22. WHAT NEXT?

    Tom: 'Where's your brother?' Jack: 'Ill in bed.' Tom: 'What's the master with him?' Jack: 'Well, you see, it was raining, so ...

    Article : 60 words
  23. HIS WEDDING PRESENT.

    'Did your employer give you anything when you got married?' 'Yes, confound him I' 'What did he send you?' ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 33 words
  24. TO COOK ASPARAGUS.

    Tie the asparagus in bandies after scraping and washing, having the heads level; then cut the ends of the stalks equal, and stand the bundles upright in a ...

    Article : 83 words
  25. SEA TREASURES.

    The list of treasures lost in the sea would, indeed, be a long and melancholy one, instancing, for example, the Madagascar, from Australia, which, in the early ...

    Article : 200 words
  26. SAVOURY TOMATOES.

    Ingredients:—6 tomatoes, 1 gill white sauce (for which have 1 gill milk, 1 dessertspoonful each of butter and flour), l teaspoonful chopped parsley, 2 tablespoonsful ...

    Article : 137 words
  27. Housekeeper.

    NAIL-BITING is not always a wilful habit to be cured by some little punishment, but sometimes an indication of the first stage of nervous degeneration. ...

    Article : 68 words
  28. MISTAKEN IDEA.

    Mrs. Brown: 'Jane, has Mr. Brown come home yet? I thought I heard him just now.' Jane: 'No, mum; that was the dog that ...

    Article : 32 words
  29. THE SHAH'S JEWELS.

    The Shah of Persia's strong box consists of a small room, 20 feet by 14 feet, reached by a steep stair, and entered through a very small door. Here, spread upon ...

    Article : 248 words
  30. CARE OF FOOD.

    Every article of food should be covered until it appears on the table. Milk and butter should be kept in air-tight vessels, and kept covered. They both take up ...

    Article : 132 words
  31. THOUGHTFUL.

    'Doctor, I don't seem to be getting any better for all your medicine,' groaned the patient. 'Well,' replied the doctor jocosely ...

    Article : 67 words
  32. Science and Invention

    FOR raising sunken vessels, also for operating floating dooks, Pierre Hurzy, a Frenchman, proposes using calcium carbide in cans placed in the vessel ...

    Article : 185 words
  33. WHY SHE WEPT.

    Young Man (to editor): 'Here is a little poem of a pathetic nature, sir. I showed it to my mother, and she actually cried over it.' ...

    Article : 80 words
  34. SPREAD OF TUBERCULOSIS.

    A very eminent scientist is responsible for the following statement: 'If the habit of expectoration in public could be stopped, I am sure that in time tuberculosis would ...

    Article : 159 words
  35. A TALLISH STOR(E)Y.

    Australian: 'You have some pretty high buildings in Chicago, haven't you?' Chicagoer: 'I should say we have. Why, the tops of some of them are covered ...

    Article : 40 words
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