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  2. GENERAL EXTRACTS.

    The Matabeleland despatches state that Colonel-Goold Adams has captured and shot a notorious witch-doctor. The witch-doctor had visited the kraals in the ...

    Article : 1,161 words
  3. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    Hundreds of queer theories have been advanced to account for the phenomenon of hair turning grey in toe genus homo, the latest being this: Each hair is a hollow tube filled ...

    Article : 146 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Doctor (as the night-bell rings): " Well ? Caller: "Naw: sick!" Extinguishing a lamp is like a small supper--it is a light blow out. ...

    Article : 1,416 words
  5. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    You say I am happy-- Pray how you tell The heart of a maid Is as deep as a well ...

    Article : 192 words
  6. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    Come, little tired one, All your day's work is done Sleepy time's come, dear. We'll launch our light cance, ...

    Article : 95 words
  7. AGRICULTURAL COLUMN.

    It is a common experience (writes S. Henry to an American contemporary) that almost everything has its special use, for which it is best fitted by its special character. Very few ...

    Article : 785 words
  8. A Plea for Cremation.

    Referring to the cremation of Sir S. Baker, the London "Daily Telegraph" says in hundreds of instances the dead kill the living, the air of localities bordering upon cemeteries ...

    Article : 363 words
  9. The Bunyip's Prophecy.

    'Have you got a story tor me to-night, under?" a lively ten-year-old boy of his Uncle Tom. His uncle was in the habit of telling him a ...

    Article : 1,449 words
  10. Ladies' Gossip.

    Another woman of mark--Mme. Koecklin Schwartz, many years of whose life have been devoted to good works--has received what is still to be considered, where a woman is ...

    Article : 699 words
  11. The Art of Breathing

    Of all the cures which have emerged into public notice from time to time, toe simplest and most easy is that which Major General Drayson describes in the "Nineteenth Century." He calls ...

    Article : 289 words
  12. Can Cows be Educated.

    Is there such a thing as educating cows to be rapid milkers ? And can all cows be educated thus? When a boy the writer worked on a dairy farm, the proprietor of which had the ...

    Article : 277 words
  13. Chemical Molcules.

    The actual dimensions of chemical molecules are such as to elude comprehension and confound the imagination. A cubic inch of oxygen at ordinary temperature and pressure ...

    Article : 156 words
  14. The Value of Tuberculin.

    Further experiments have been made at the Agricultural Experiment Station of Virginia, in the United States, to test the value of tuberculin as a test of discovering the presence of ...

    Article : 356 words
  15. Electric Vehicles.

    The electric dog-cart of Mr Magnus Volk, of Brighton, England, has been followed by the electric phaeton of M. Paul Pouchain, of Armentieres, in France. The hind wheels are ...

    Article : 109 words
  16. How the Women Voted.

    The alleged lords of creation--the men--have [?]lways admitted that it is a great difficulty to get many of their number to record their votes at election time. They hare always attributed ...

    Article : 316 words
  17. Collision With an Iceberg.

    The San Joaquin, a sailing vessel, while going from Yokohama to New York, on 2nd September, at right o'clock at night, crashed into an iceberg. The berg appeared like ...

    Article : 309 words
  18. Horse and Man.

    This is how a contemporary from abroad dilates, under the above heading, about tbs horse's foot:-- The Creator has taken the greatest care to ...

    Article : 231 words
  19. Home and Fireside.

    TO PRESERVE PINEAPPLES WITHOUT COOKING.--One pound of white sugar to each pound of pineapple. Pare off the rough outside of the pine and cut it into thin slices; have ready 11b. ...

    Article : 1,960 words
  20. Cure for "Blown" Cattle.

    A homoeopathic doctor, whose authority is vouched for, has been recommending a very simple care for cattle that happen to be blown. He pours from three to four drops of the ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. Active Horses Best.

    Fanners' horses should be light and quick, not slow and heavy like elephants. They should be kept well cleaned, well fed, bedded in whitewashed stables, so to be always ready ...

    Article : 74 words
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