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  2. THE Brooke Entanglement OF THE Romance of Limpetrock.

    If the crowd who had assembled at the opening of the trial was great, that at its resumption was greater still. The whole evidence had been kept seething and ...

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  3. The Home Circle.

    COFFEE CUSTARD.—Make less than half a pint of very strong coffee with milk, add a well-beaten egg, and sugar to taste. Stir over a gentle heat until ...

    Article : 139 words
  4. Orchard and Farm.

    Every dairy farmer should study his cows closely ; learn their individualities and needs, supply such needs, tempered by judgment ; seek by careful selection ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. Grave and Gay.

    "Johnny," asked the teacher, "what letter comes after A?" "All the rest of them !" was the triumphant reply. " I am sensible of the honour you do ...

    Article : 260 words
  6. LOOK AFTER THE MACHINES.

    Good authorities estimate the tools and machines required by the average farmer, at fifteen or twenty per cent. of the value of the real estate, and if this proportion ...

    Article : 116 words
  7. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    A cracked egg can be safely boiled if wrapped in a piece of greased paper. Stained table linen should be put into pure boiling water before putting any ...

    Article : 307 words
  8. PUMPKINS AND POTATOES.

    Gather pumpkins regularly when the stems begin to wither. They should be stored, if not at once sent to market, on platforms, under cover, so placed that the ...

    Article : 198 words
  9. HE EXPECTED HER BACK.

    A young man was sitting in a station waiting-room nursing a wailing baby. He held it very gingerly, and awkwardly attempted to soothe it, casting anxious ...

    Article : 343 words
  10. SUSTAINING ANIMAL LIFE.

    Repeated experiments have shown that it takes 2 per cent of the live weight of an animal, per day, to live. If an animal weighs a thousand pounds, it will take ...

    Article : 135 words
  11. Effect of Coloured Lights on the Nerves.

    French scientists have made some very interesting experiments in connection with the effect of certain colours on the nervous system. And people who have been ...

    Article : 252 words
  12. SHEEP AND LAMB SKINS.

    For sheep and lamb skins, a strong suds is usually first made with hot water, in which the skins are washed carefully, squeezing them between the hands to get ...

    Article : 192 words
  13. HE HADN'T GOT THERE.

    A country gentleman was riding across a bog which he thought was not quite safe. Hailing a lad who was standing close ...

    Article : 91 words
  14. HE MARRIED THEM.

    That encouragement is often needed quite as much as warnings at a wedding should be remembered by the clergyman who performs the ceremony. The ...

    Article : 290 words
  15. DUBBING FOR HARNESS.

    The following emulsion for harness was discovered some years ago by a farmer in San Jose. He gives the following directions for making the emulsion :— " Take ...

    Article : 264 words
  16. 'Twas Realised.

    Benjamin West's celebrated picture of the "Death of Nelson" is closely connected with an anecdote of the great sailor. Just before he went to sea for the last time ...

    Article : 227 words
  17. Man.

    Man riseth up to-day and flourisheth like weeds, and to-morrow or the day after the doctor is called in to him. He goeth forth in the morning warbling ...

    Article : 343 words
  18. PROPER FORM OF A PIG.

    The form of the pig would be improved were breeding animals deeper-bodied and longer-ribbed, thus giving more side meat. Too many pigs have very broad ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. Free of Charge.—An unloaded gun.

    "Spell it with an ' E.' "—" Please don't drag my name into print in connection with tins absurd affair," cried the indignant citizen to the reporter; "but, if you ...

    Article : 96 words
  20. THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR !

    Counsel, examining witness : "You say you saw the shots fired ?" Witness : " Yes, sir." " How near were you to the scene of ...

    Article : 97 words
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    Advertising : 87 words
  22. A MOMENT OF TORTURE.

    Sir F. Hastings Doyle, in his autobiography, relates how one day, during the 'fifties, Lord Halifax was walking with Lord Dundas. when the latter ...

    Article : 128 words
  23. THE "CRUST " OF CONTENTION.

    Some time ago, at a certain village in Berkshire, an old man of eighty was engaged to a woman of seventy-eight. After a betrothal of some six months it ...

    Article : 105 words
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