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  2. FARM AND GARDEN

    The Barberry is an ornamental as well as useful shrub. When covered with flowers in spring, or fruit in autumn, it forms a pleasing object. The leaves are of a ...

    Article : 875 words
  3. A NOVELTY IN SHOES.

    Boots and shoes made of leather impervious to air and moisture encourage perspiration of the feet and the formation of products of decomposition. To remedy this ...

    Article : 167 words
  4. TRAVELLER.

    Professor Tyndall used to say that his Alpine guides ate butter and honey while climbing, finding that they supplied the greatest amount of heat and nourishment. ...

    Article : 72 words
  5. HOW TO AVOID 'SUMMER COLDS.'

    The minor ailments of lite cause more suffering in proportion than those of a more serious character. If there is one thing more depressing than another, it is a bad ...

    Article : 602 words
  6. TULIP FESTIVAL.

    Tulips are cultivated in Constantinople, and there is a tulip festival there once a year in spring. Every palace, room, gallery and garden is decorated with tulips of every ...

    Article : 64 words
  7. BOWS AND ARROWS USED STILL.

    It is not generally know that the defence of Pekin is still partly entrusted to bows and arrows. A recent imperial decree solemnly directs that those who 'succeed in ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. THEIR FASHIONS NEVER ALTER.

    There is no record of the costumes of the Syrian Arabs having changed during the period covered by human history. Saving only the use of firearms, the Bedouin of the ...

    Article : 85 words
  9. SCIENCE.

    A German engineer has invented a method of making smokeless coal. It consists in feeding the flames of his furnaces with powdered coal dust instead of with solid ...

    Article : 131 words
  10. WHERE TOYS ARE MADE.

    The largest toy factory in the world is in New York, where playthings in tin are manufactured literally by the million. It stands five storeys high, and turns out 1,607 ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. SHOWN BY THE NOSE.

    A nose thick and flat is an unfavourable feature with men as well as women, usually signifying that the character is predominated by material instincts, while a turned-up nose ...

    Article : 213 words
  12. TEMPTING MILLIONAIRES' APPETITES.

    Londoners are fond of boasting that the best of everything is to be had in their city. Till a couple of months ago that boast cannot be said to have been justified, for London ...

    Article : 712 words
  13. 'THE LADIES' COLUMN.'

    Apropos, in the ladies' column of the British Weekly,' 'An Old Reader,' who is apparently a sufferer from asthma, is informed that when the difficulty of breathing ...

    Article : 159 words
  14. DON'T TALK SO MUCH.

    A prominent physician alleges that the cause of half the nervous prostrations among women is too much talking. Energy and nerve force are consumed in continuous ...

    Article : 101 words
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