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  2. Odds and Ends.

    NO wonder a titter went round the class as the lecturer prefaced his remarks on the gorilla with these words.I must beg you to give me your ...

    Article : 74 words
  3. Miscellaneous.

    MEXICO is the only American republic in which divorces are not granted. A Russian has invented an ioe-plough capable of breaking through ice from 12in. ...

    Article : 295 words
  4. SHORT STORY

    MARTHA and I sat planning together through the whole long afternoon; . a part of our time with tears in our eyes, for we were not rich and money came ...

    Article : 2,956 words
  5. BOILED BREAM AND EGG SAUCE.

    Ingredients :--One bream (about 21 to 3 lbs.), 1 tablespoonful each of salt and vinegar, half a lemon, and white of egg to garnish. ...

    Article : 159 words
  6. HAD NOT THOUGHT OF IT.

    Doctor : ' Do you Bleep with your mouth open ?' Irish Patient: ' Shure, Oi don't know, doother. Oi've never seen myself when ...

    Article : 40 words
  7. Housekeeper.

    MEASLES commence With all of the ordinary indications of a slight cold, such as running at the nose, red, watery eyes, and a cough. About the fourth day ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. TWO OR THEM.

    Mre. Gidday: ' Yes,Marie, I do hate to have my husband kiss me after he comes from the barber's. I detest the odour of that brilliantine so.' ...

    Article : 41 words
  9. EGG SAUCE.

    Ingredients:-- One ounce of butter, half an ounce of flour, half a pint of water, one bard boiled egg, salt and lemon juice. Method.--Melt the butter in a small ...

    Article : 74 words
  10. MISUNDERSTOOD.

    Colonel Lookwood once told a good story of a prominent man who called to condole with a lady on the death of her husband, and concluded by saying, ' Did he leave you ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. Science and Invention

    AMONG the prizes offered by the Paris Academy of Science to investors is one of £4,000, founded by Pierre Guzmann,which is to go to thd person who find a way ...

    Article : 62 words
  12. KEPT HIS EYE ON HER.

    Miss Lighted: 'I was very much admired at the wedding ceremony last night. I noticed one gentleman who never took his eyes off me the whole evening.' ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 68 words
  13. ROAST FILLET OF VEAL.

    Ingredients:--Five or six lbs. fillet of veal, half a lb. of bacon, about four table spoonsful each of breaderumbs, suet, 1 tea- spoonful of chopped parsley, half a ...

    Article : 201 words
  14. WHEN THE HANDS ARE SUNBURNT.

    Equal parts of lime water and lemon juice may be rubbed in after washing instead of the lotion given above; and a very useful lotion in these cases is ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. AN ENORMOUS METEORITE.

    The meteorite which fell in Ireland lately is insignificant in size when compared with one discovered by Professor Ward, of Rochester, New York, who has ...

    Article : 165 words
  16. HIGH-SPEED RAILWAYS.

    Berlin and Hamburg are about 155 miles apart in a straight line, with level country between presenting as good a field for a high-speed railway as any to be found in ...

    Article : 102 words
  17. FRECKLES.

    There is nothing that equals fresh buttermilk for removing freckles or sunburn. It has the great advantage that it does not injure the skin, but renders it soft. Take ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. STEAMED LEMON PUDDING.

    Ingredients:--Three ounces of sugar, Three ounces of butter, four ounces of flour, one small teaspoonful of baking powder, two small eggs, rind and juice of ...

    Article : 65 words
  19. EXTRAORDINARY DENTISTRY

    Perhaps tho greatest dental operation on record was performed upon an elephant some years ago in the city of Mexico. The aching tooth was twelve inches long and ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. SEA FOGS.

    There are indications that the problem of navigation during fog is likely to be solved --to a large extent at any rate. During the experimental teats recently carried out at ...

    Article : 173 words
  21. THAT MIGHT SUIT HIM.

    Travelling Parson : 'I say, my boy, can you tell me where I can get a night's lodging?' Boy: 'You'd better ask father, he's just ...

    Article : 35 words
  22. PERFUMES.

    Perfumed linen has been the delight of women in all ages, and most of us have experienced the luxury of sleeping in some country house in clean sheets and pillows ...

    Article : 259 words
  23. SAUCE FOR LEMON PUDDING.

    Put half a pint of water on to boil; blend ateaspoonful of arrowroot with a little water, stir it in, and boil for about two minutes; add the juice of half a lemon ...

    Article : 55 words
  24. AS HE READ IT.

    The shopkeeper who hung up the sign,'Umbrellas recoveredin an hour,' was surprised when a young man came in and frankly told him he had left his in the ...

    Article : 42 words
  25. EAR-RINGS FOR CATTLE.

    One often Bees a bull with a ring in its nose, hut to meat a cow with earrings is not such an everyday occurrence, Earrings were never made for cows, but every ...

    Article : 129 words
  26. APRICOT GATEAN.

    Ingredients:--One tin of apricots, one lemon, three ounces of sugar, one ounoe of gelatine; one gill cream, whipped and flavored with icing sugar and vanilla. ...

    Article : 107 words
  27. SO VERY AWKWARD.

    Cyclist: ' Hi there, call off your dog.' Owner: I can't.' 'Can't? Ain't he yours ?' Yes, but I've only just bought him and ...

    Article : 36 words
  28. LOSS OF HEAT IN STEAM

    M. Marechal engineer of the Association Normande des Proprietaires d'Appareils a Vapour, who has carried on interesting investigations on the steam-engine and the ...

    Article : 80 words
  29. ROUGH ON THE BUTCHER.

    Hodgson, the butcher, and Brown, the shoemaker, were always taking each other off' with jokes. One day, while going for a walk, the butcher happened to be passing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 87 words
  30. Items of Interest.

    WE view the world with out own eyes, each of us; and we make from within us the world we see.--Thackeray. ' I've never any pity for conceited people ...

    Article : 451 words
  31. A BIG BOWL OF PUNCH.

    In 1691 Admiral Edward Russell; commander of the English Mediterranean Fleet, entertained six thousand people in a large garden in Alicante, where he served ...

    Article : 134 words
  32. RADIUM TONER.

    Mr, D, Ireland, becoming dissatisfied with the existing formulas, worked oat the bath for himself. Prints toned with it are, he claims, absolutely permanent, and the ...

    Article : 90 words
  33. BLOODSHOT EYE.

    Bloodshot eye may arise from a blow o fall, the act of retching, vomiting, or violent coughing or crying. The eye pre-[?]ts a bright scarlet appearance in most ...

    Article : 310 words
  34. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.

    Sir Oliver Lodge has his doubts as to the "possibility of life being engendered out of death:--' Life may be something not only ultra-terrestrial, but even immaterial ...

    Article : 389 words
  35. COLOURED SILK.

    A curious experiment in silk-culture is described in a German paper. Silk, which is a Eecretion of two glands situated close to the digestive canal of the silkworm, is ...

    Article : 110 words
  36. NO NEED TO FEAR.

    Photographer: 'Excuse me, sir, but if you would look a little more pleasant--Wild-looking Countryman:'Don't be nervous, young man; I'm not so fierce as I ...

    Article : 36 words
  37. BRICKLAYING-MACHINE.

    Machinery has been applied to most processes which were formerly carried out by hand-labour ; but the art of bricklaying has hitherto remained one of those handicrafts ...

    Article : 176 words
  38. WHAT ELSE.

    Would-be Purchaser (to boy left for the moment in charge of the stall): 'I say, sonny, what are you selling oranges for to-day? ...

    Article : 47 words
  39. NOT TO BE EXPECTED.

    First Boy (contemptuously): 'Huh! Your mother takes in washing.' Second Boy: 'Of Course yer didn't suppose she'd leave it hangin' out at night ...

    Article : 35 words
  40. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES

    Ingredients:--Five pints stock, one apple, one onion, juice of half a lemon, 1 12 ounoes of flour,1 12 ozs of curry powder, 1 12ozs., of butter or clarifled fat, half a ...

    Article : 156 words
  41. A DEFINITION

    Ruins Choate onco tried to get a Boston witness to give his idea of absent mindedness. 'Well,' said the witness, who was a typical New England. Yankee. 'I Should ...

    Article : 67 words
  42. A GLOBULAR BOAT.

    The captain of a tug-boat which was cruising in the English Channel recently, observing a curious object in the sea, steamed up to it, and found it to be a ...

    Article : 270 words
  43. CONUNDRUM

    Why are fishmongers useful to men seeking employment?--They can generally supply them with a pla(i)ce or two. ...

    Article : 20 words
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