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  2. Miscellaneous.

    IN Germany even housemaids, butlers, end chimney sweeps may receive in special technical schools all the correct fundamental preparation for their humble ...

    Article : 239 words
  3. SHORT STORY

    IT was the last week in September, but few hot, sultry summer days had returned after a touch of autumn weather; and, feeling tired and [?] after a busy ...

    Article : 3,040 words
  4. A MERCURY PURIFIER.

    A simple arrangement of purifying mercury is described by Messrs. G. A. Hulett and H. D. Minchin in the 'Physical Review.' The method consists in ...

    Article : 124 words
  5. Odds and Ends

    A YOUNG married lady, who moved into the country from the city, considered the keeping of hens a pleasant and profitable undertaking. As she grew more ...

    Article : 69 words
  6. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES

    Ingredients:--1 leg mutton,14[?] pepper, 1 saltspoonful each of powdered cloves and spice, 1 teaspoonful ground ginger and chopped bay leaves, 1 gill red wine, and 1 ...

    Article : 138 words
  7. THE TRUE DEFINITION.

    'I thought,' cried the victim indignantly, 'that you were a painless dentist.' I am,' replied the smiling operator. 'I do not suffer the slightest pain.' ...

    Article : 31 words
  8. TO PRESERVE SPIDERS' WEBS

    A method of preserving different kinds of spiders' webs for study or display, adopted by an American naturalist, is Ingenious and apparently novel. The web ...

    Article : 128 words
  9. A MIRACLE.

    The Squire's Pretty Daughter (examining the village school): ' Now, children, can you tell me what a miracle is ?' A little girl was suddenly struck with a ...

    Article : 67 words
  10. ENOUGH FOR HER.

    George: ' Are you ready to live on my income, dear?' Ma[?]d: ' Certainly, dearest, if if--' George: ' If what?' ...

    Article : 45 words
  11. BANANA TART.

    Ingredients:-- 6 bananas, 1 tablespoonful each of lemon juice, orange juice or orange flower water (this may be procured from any chemist and is delightful for flavoring ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. ORE DEPOSITS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION IN DEPTH.

    Prof. J. W. Gregory gave an address at the Royal Institution, Albemarle[?]t, London, recently, on the above subject. He called attention to the importance of the ...

    Article : 309 words
  13. Housekeeper.

    DONT lay a carpet on a damp floor'. It will [?]st the tacks, making them difficult to remove, and possibly stain your carpet. ...

    Article : 226 words
  14. VALUABLE WEAPONS.

    Perhaps the most precious sword in existence is that of the G[?]kwar of Baroda. Its hilt and belt are encrusted with diamonds, rubles, and emeralds, and ...

    Article : 102 words
  15. LOOKS NOT DECEPTIVE.

    Codd: 'You wouldn't think that that chap crossing the road had four thousand a year, would you!' Kidd : 'Great Scott, no! Has he?' ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. SAVOURY RUMP STEAK.

    Procure a slice of rump steak, weighing about 212 to 3lbs and about 112 inches thick. Place the steak flat on the table, and with a sharp knife make an insertion in it ...

    Article : 229 words
  17. THE CALENDAR.

    There are some curious facts about our calendar. No century begins on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday. The same calendar can be used every twenty years. ...

    Article : 103 words
  18. A HAIR MARKET.

    A market has just been opened in Paris where the hair of famous personages is on sale. One may examine there and buy looks from the heads of royal, military ...

    Article : 126 words
  19. A MUSICAL TRAGEDY.

    ' My sister sings 'I' [?] in five sharps.' 'Mine sang it in six flate but they made her move out of every one of them.' ...

    Article : 31 words
  20. PENWIPER.

    To make a pretty p[?]nwiper, out four circular pieces of red felt--the largest about three inches in diameter, the smallest, about one and one-half inches, Notoh ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. Items of Interest.

    A GOOD man should and must. Sit rather down with loss, than rise unjust. --Ben Jonson. ...

    Article : 287 words
  22. RATHER CUTTING.

    'What is the reason that men never [?] each other, while the ladies waste world of kisses on feminine face?' asked a not altogether gallant captain of a young lady. ...

    Article : 47 words
  23. APPLE FOOL.

    Ingredients:--4 apples, some sponge cake crumbs, 2 eggs, 1 dessertspoonful sugar, 2 ozs sugar, and 12 pint water; for syrup for the apples, small piece cinnamon. ...

    Article : 120 words
  24. UNDERCLOTHING.

    An ordinary chemise takes 212 to 8 yards of 36in, [?]. A nightdress takes 512 yards of 36in. calloo. A plain petticoat bodice takes 114 yard of 36 in. long cloth. A ...

    Article : 94 words
  25. TRAINED GOLD FISH.

    A Philadelphia dealer in pot stock has an aquarium of trained- goldfish. Those fish when the man holds a small wand of red wood an inch above the surface of the ...

    Article : 136 words
  26. NOT AT GOLF.

    Caddy (to lady amateur, who had lost her club for the third time): 'If you keep on like this I see you being champion of Australia.' ...

    Article : 48 words
  27. NOT MUCH HOPE.

    Willis: ' That young man who has been practising on the corne[?] Wallace: 'Do you think he will recover?' Willis: 'I am afraid not; the doctor ...

    Article : 41 words
  28. WINE BISCUITS.

    Ingredients:-- 6 ozs butter, 6ozs castor sugar, 12lb flour, 12 teaspoonful baking powder, 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful sherry, few dried fruits (crystallised). ...

    Article : 116 words
  29. Advertising

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    Advertising : 261 words
  30. WORTH IT.

    She (on the honeymoon): 'I suppose, George, it must have cost a lot of money to build a railway like this?' He: [?] Oh, yes. The tunnels alone cost ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 48 words
  31. MADAME PATH'S PARROT.

    The training of a parrot is a science in itself. Parrots given to the most ind[?]ous language are [?] in households distinguished for the pisty of their human ...

    Article : 128 words
  32. Science and Invention

    THE impression that there is nothing to rival electricity for working train car lines is no longer correct. Already we have gasoline-driven omnibuses of ...

    Article : 83 words
  33. THE BRIDAL YEIL.

    The bridal veil is evidently of Eastern origin, being a relic of the bridal canopy held over the heads of the bride and bridegroom. Among the Anglo-Sakons a similar ...

    Article : 156 words
  34. HEARING PLANTS GROW.

    Two Germans have discovered a method by which they can hear plants grow. In the apparatus the growing plant is connected with a disc having in its centre an ...

    Article : 99 words
  35. Many a jer

    'Twixt man and a man the rolling seasons melt By sweet gradations into harmony; But that which bridges o'er the biggest gap ...

    Article : 251 words
  36. AMONG THE NEGROES.

    Parson Johnson: 'So die little chile [?]m a gal. Do do adder one belong to do [?]trary sex?' Mrs. Jackson: 'Yais, pahson; dat's a ...

    Article : 36 words
  37. DYSENTERY.

    Great care should be taken to avoid this disease, as it is often serious. It is sometimes epidemic, runs readily into a typhoid state, and proves suddenly fatal. It is ...

    Article : 306 words
  38. ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY.

    Wife: 'Well, if the husbands of other women don't give them any more to put in t[?] purses than you give me to put in mine, the chief would starve to death.' ...

    Article : 73 words
  39. WOMEN GETTING SCARCER.

    Frau Gnauck Kuhne, one of the greater authorities on the modern feminist movement, after mature study and collection of statistics, has come to the conclusion that ...

    Article : 166 words
  40. NEW METHOD OF TESTING VARNISH.

    At the last masting the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in Edinburgh, a communication by Prof Baily and Dr. A. P. Las[?] on a method of testing varnishes ...

    Article : 171 words
  41. ROUND AND SMOOTH.

    Telescope Proprietor: 'Step up. ladies and gents, and view the planet Mars. One penny, mum,' Old Lady : 'Oh lor' Hain't it round ...

    Article : 48 words
  42. A TIP FOR HUSBANDS.

    Richard : 'Have you heard what Sharps gave his mother in-law for a birthday present? Jones: 'No; what?' ...

    Article : 38 words
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