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  2. Sketcher.

    One of the best-known of the sea-birds is stormy petrel. It is oftenest seen during cums flying above the waves in search of shell-fish and other small animals which ...

    Article : 542 words
  3. Original Sketch.

    The fragment of history ran: The first night in my quarters I shall mot soon forget. They were a part of a low-set long building of iron walls and slated roof, ...

    Article : 1,560 words
  4. Varieties.

    Arab horses seldom exceed 14¾ hands. 100,000 tons of apples are raised on English soil yearly. One 1b. of sheep's wool is capable of ...

    Article : 332 words
  5. THE OLD SLAVE-SHIP.

    It would be a matter of some little difficulty to say, out of the many vanished types of ships, which of them all was most terrible, in its appeal to the human passions. Perhaps ...

    Article : 821 words
  6. THE EMBER GOOSE AND THE EIDER DUCK.

    The ember goose, or loon, is a native of many countries, for it is a winter visitor of the British coasts, and is found in most parts of Europe, the north of Asia and in North ...

    Article : 313 words
  7. The Naturalist.

    The Stickeen Indians positively assert that within the last five years they have frequently seen animals which, from the descriptions given, must be mastodons. ...

    Article : 253 words
  8. The Housekeeper.

    Boil a cup and a half of sugar in a quart of water, skimming when necessary; when cold, add the juice of a lemon, strain into the freezer and freeze like cream. ...

    Article : 37 words
  9. SHOWING THE WAY AT SEA.

    The policy of Showing the way rarely pays at sea, particularly if there is more engine power in the chasing boat, and it makes defeat unpleasantly conspicuous. A few ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. Art and Literature

    Mr. Bradlaugh once remarked to me that the great difference between Gladstone and Disraeli was that the former had a conscience, which he could never stifle, and to ...

    Article : 748 words
  11. THE BRIGANDS IN THE BURNING MILL.

    As I lay groaning (from my fearful plunge off te mill-sail), I heard a sound like bonder. It was the assassins running up he stairs. They must have found that I ...

    Article : 500 words
  12. TO COLOR PRESERVES PINK.

    Put the fruit in with a little cochineal powdered fine then finish in the syrup. ...

    Article : 20 words
  13. THE PLAYFUL MOUNTAIN-GOAT.

    A mountain-goat that I once kept in confinement was about as conning as the average street Arab, and bad he lived to maturity and kept on acquiring knowledge ...

    Article : 432 words
  14. TO COLOR FRUIT YELLOW.

    Boil fruit with fresh lemon skin in water to cover till tender, then take up, spread on dishes to cool and finish as may be directed for each kind. ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. FRUIT PUFFS.

    Make a puff pastry and roll into pieces the size of a saucer, and into each piece put a spoonful of stewed and sweetened fruit which has been flavored with grated ...

    Article : 67 words
  16. A SINGULAR WILL.

    An inhabitant of Montgaillard left the following testamentary disposition:-- 'It is my will that any one of my relations who shall presume to shed tears at my ...

    Article : 163 words
  17. SWEET PICKLED BEANS.

    Take seven pounds fruit; put them in a jar with three and one half pounds sugar, one quart best vinegar, two ounces of stick cinnamon, two ounces cloves; the whole ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. APPLE CUSTARD.

    The yolks of two eggs, two tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of batter, four tablespoons of stewed apples that have been sweetened to taste. Mix and Rake in lower ...

    Article : 69 words
  19. THE UNIFORMITY OF NATURE.

    The lark now carols the same song, and in the same key, as when Adam first turned his enraptured[ear to catch the moral. The owl first hooted in B flat; it still loves. ...

    Article : 209 words
  20. PEACH MARMALADE.

    Peel ripe, peaches, stone them and cut them small; weigh three-quarters of a pound a teacup of water for each pound of cut fruit, and a teacup of water for each pound of ...

    Article : 117 words
  21. A SNAKE-CHARMING STORY.

    'Well,' said the young sub, 'this afternoon I was watching a gang of convicts dismantling that ruinous fort at the corner of the North-parade. Suddenly, one of ...

    Article : 672 words
  22. SALMON AND POTATO BALES.

    These may be made with canned salmon. Add to potato that has been mashed with a little cream, one third of its bulk of canned salmon. Mix well together, season with a ...

    Article : 101 words
  23. SENTRY-GO!

    The foregoing is the cry that authoritatively rings out j every two hours from, the sentry's post on all military guards, informing the occupants of the guardroom and vicinity ...

    Article : 851 words
  24. SOME STRANGE CUSTOMS.

    In some parts of England a queer custom is still in vogue, which is repeated whenever a death occurs. It is called the 'bite of sin' and whenever some one in a house dies ...

    Article : 201 words
  25. WILD NIGHT IN A TURRETSHIP.

    In the lower deck mess cans, cooking [?], ditty boxes, and other unsecured [?]s banged about with a clatter and the resembling pandemonium, while mixed ...

    Article : 474 words
  26. GREEN CORN PUDDING.

    An excellent dish from corn is green com pudding. Grate carefully eight large ears, avoiding the horny part of the cob and saving the milk that cozes out. To this ...

    Article : 270 words
  27. QUEER FADS.

    I am well acquainted with the descendants of a venerable lady, an active, healthy woman of good position, who, to judge from many of her children and ...

    Article : 447 words
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