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  2. THE QUEEN'S WIT.

    MR. SYDNEY COOPER, R.A., was some years ago painting a picture at Osborne of a fine Guernsey heifer belonging to the royal farm, and ...

    Article : 220 words
  3. A GREEK FUNERAL.

    THERE must be something in the sunny air of Greece which makes people so cheerful in spite of themselves that they make even a burial ...

    Article : 214 words
  4. THE INDIAN BABY.

    IN the Indian household, as in our own, children bear an important part. The baby is the constant companion of its mother; not that ...

    Article : 243 words
  5. SOME ANIMAL DWARFS.

    PYGMIES are not confined to the human race, but are found among the lower animals. One of the most remarkable of these dwarfs ...

    Article : 295 words
  6. THUNDERBOLTS.

    WHEN lightning is prevalent we are accustomed to have a crop of thunderbolts as a result. There is however, no such thing as a ...

    Article : 406 words
  7. THE DEEPEST HOLE IN THE WORLD.

    THE deepest bore bole in the world (says SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN) is one of 6571ft. below the surface of the soil, made at Parnschowitz, near ...

    Article : 306 words
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  9. CYCLING AND CONSUMPTION.

    SOME time ago Dr. Hershel published a book on cycling and the cause of heart disease, and it attracted immense attention. Since ...

    Article : 205 words
  10. ATHLETICS FOR WOMEN.

    THOSE people who would banish cycling, boating, tennis, and athletic games generally from the ranks of the fair sex would do well to ...

    Article : 147 words
  11. PUNISHMENT IN PERSIA.

    THE ordinary punishments in vogue in Persia are flogging, fines, simple imprisonment, imprisonment in irons, maiming, and death. ...

    Article : 608 words
  12. REMARKABLE SHOOTING.

    IN the June number of PEARSON'S Magazine Mr. E. R. Suffling describes some remarkable shooting feats. "Undoubtedly the most ...

    Article : 413 words
  13. MAKING GUNPOWDER.

    ENGLISH gunpowder consists of 75 parts of saltpetre, 10 parts of sulphur,and 15 parts of charcoal. These are first separately ground very fine ...

    Article : 170 words
  14. HISTORICAL NOSES.

    LYCURGUS and Solon had noses six inches in length. The immortal Ovid, surnamed Naso, has a bottle nose. Scipio Nasica derived his ...

    Article : 238 words
  15. TO BEAUTIFY THE COMLEXION.

    "MY method of beautifying the complexion," says a beauty, "is simple, and a 'harmless and inexpensive nature.' I have myself ...

    Article : 188 words
  16. SELLING JAPANESE GIRLS.

    THE Japanese Government is issuing wholesale legal permits to destitute parents to sell their daughters. According to a letter recently ...

    Article : 425 words
  17. TWO CRICKET YARNS.

    MR. W. J. FORD has contributed some good cricket yarns. Here are a couple of them:—What is the umpire to do if a real "stinger" ...

    Article : 209 words
  18. HOW A GREAT CITY IS FED.

    THE Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society contains an article by Mr. Bear on "The Food Supply of Manchester." Vegetable ...

    Article : 442 words
  19. ELECTROCUTING A MURDERER.

    THEY have conquered the difficulties and cruelties that first attended the introduction of the electric chair in America as a ...

    Article : 422 words
  20. IN PRAISE OF THE EGG.

    THE value of egg albumen as food in certain diseased conditions is pointed out by Dr. C. E. Boynton. When fever is present ...

    Article : 184 words
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