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  2. A LINE TOO MANY.

    A man who made a business of writing obituaries, epitaphs, &c., used to solicit patronage far and near. Hearing of the death of a man in a distant part of the country, and business being a little dull he made a ...

    Article : 109 words
  3. NOVELTY.

    A man out West has invented a device to prevent marketmen from palming off old eggs. The invention is thus described:-- He proposes to arrange a rubber stamp in the nest of every hen, with a movable date. This ...

    Article : 200 words
  4. LONG WORDS.

    "Rob," said Tom, " which is the most dangerous word in all the English language to pronounce?" "Don't know," said Rob, "unless it is a swearing word." ...

    Article : 139 words
  5. A DEVOUT PARROT.

    Mr. M. D. Conway is the authority for the following anecdote connected with the late Lady Stanley:-- Once Lady Augusta Stanley's parrot escaped, and the dean and a number of the clergy including the archbishop ...

    Article : 112 words
  6. LADY COOKS.

    Now that many ladies of the highest society in France show much interest and perseverance in the acquisition of the art of cookery, it may, perhaps, be interesting to recall some bygone celebrities who were avowed cooks. ...

    Article : 230 words
  7. SCIENTIFIC & USEFUL.

    Printing type made out of hardened glass is as hard as steel. They last longer than the metallic; are not: liable to be crushed by the printing cylinder; they do not suffer in the least from sudden cooling in ...

    Article : 109 words
  8. ARITHMETICAL LOVE.

    2 lovers sat beneath the shade, And I un2 the other said: "How 14-8 that you beg Have smiled upon this suit of mine ; ...

    Article : 67 words
  9. ANY LETTERS FOR THE WATTSES?

    A lantern-jawed young man stopped at the Post Office last Saturday and yelled out: 'Anything for the Wattses?' George Poteet, our polite Postmaster, replied, 'No, ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. MARRIAGES BY THE MICROSCOPE.

    Dr. C. Heitzman tells us that "Marriages should" be allowed in doubtful cases only upon the permit of a reliable microscope. "Last season," he says," ayoung physician asked me whether I believed in the marriages, ...

    Article : 164 words
  11. A FATAL SWIM AMONG SHARKS.

    On the evening of Chrismas Day, one of the privates of the 89th Regiment, named Kenney, went out to the bay, at Port Blair, to have a swim-- a daily recreation-- between 5 and 6 p.m. When he was out a distance of ...

    Article : 331 words
  12. FRIED OYSTERS.

    Select the largest, dip them in beaten egg, and then in bread crumbs; fry them in equal parts of butter and lard until they are brown. They are very good when dipped in corn-meal instead of crumbs. ...

    Article : 40 words
  13. LION TAMING.

    When Forrest was a young man, Van Amburg, the lion tamer, was an intimate friend of his. Mr. Forrest always admired courage, and had often bantered Van Amburg that it required very little to enter a lion's ...

    Article : 235 words
  14. NOISE IN SHELLS.

    There are few who do not remember the childish wonder they once felt at hearing the resonance produced by placing a sea-shell to the ear-- an effect which fancy has likened to" the roar of the sea." This is caused ...

    Article : 75 words
  15. TO REMOVE RUST.

    To remove rust from steel, cover with sweet oil, well rubbed on it; in forty-eight hours, use unslacked lime powdered very fine. Rub it till the rust disappears. To prevent the rust, mix with fat oil varnish, four fifths ...

    Article : 87 words
  16. HOW THEY CURED THE TUTOR.

    He was the pink of perfection. If the cream of human excellence was to be churned, the butter would lump up in the shape of Professor Porteous Pyre, tutor. He had contracted the bad habit of stealing ...

    Article : 391 words
  17. TO CEMENT WOOD TO GLASS.

    Make a solution of isinglass in ascetic acid so thick: as to be solid when cold. Heat this and apply it. This has been tested by fastening the end of a glass tube to pinewood; the wood gave way sooner than the ...

    Article : 49 words
  18. DOMESTIC SLAVERY IN LONDON.

    A correspondent sends the following statement of the life led during the last eight months by a young servant girl, of 17 years, in a fashionable lodging-house, near Piccadilly:-- During the latter part of her service three ...

    Article : 323 words
  19. AROMA OF BUTTER.

    The grateful aroma of many superior kinds of butter highly prized by the connoisseur is attributable to the presence of certain fragrant herbs in the pasturage on which the cows from whose milk it is made have been ...

    Article : 204 words
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