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  2. SHORT STORY

    'HELLO, major!' 'Hello!; came in response from a disconsolate little figure on the stone steps. 'You don't care it I sit here and ...

    Article : 1,671 words
  3. Science and Invention.

    A BIRMINGHAM working engineer has designed a new steerable balloon. The invention proposes to raise or lower the balloon without the use of gas or ...

    Article : 67 words
  4. Odds and Ends

    THE young woman who had considerable time on her hands joined the Young Men's Christian Association auxilary, and was ready to enter into she work ...

    Article : 96 words
  5. LIQUID METAL POLISH.

    Take eight ounces of Spanish whiting, which must be perfectly free from grit, and put in one quart of gasoline. Shake up the whiting and gasoline thoroughly. ...

    Article : 109 words
  6. BUNION.

    For a painful bunion app'y this treatment : Place a few Ivy leaves in half a cupful of vinegar and after soaking some hours put carefully an the bunion. Change ...

    Article : 56 words
  7. MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCES

    Young Doctor (who has taken over a country practice which includes a club): 'You are run down, madam, you must go away for a change' ...

    Article : 74 words
  8. GLOYE-CLEANING AT HOME.

    Gloves may be cleaned at home by giving them a bath of hensoline. Afterwards a cold iron should be passed over them. In this way they will keen clean ...

    Article : 51 words
  9. Housekeeper.

    A VERY simple home remedy for diphtheria is onions. Cut an onion up [?] and place it in a bandage and beat it to a pulp. Then bind the cloth ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. A REVERSING TURBINE.

    Although the turbine engine as adapted to marine propul[?]ton has long sines passed the experimental stage, it has hitherto laboured under the serious disadvantage of ...

    Article : 186 words
  11. IN CASE OF ACCIDENT.

    Mistress:'Another soldier has called on you. Jone. I thought you had only one sweetheart' Cook:'No, mum-- two. I have one 'on ...

    Article : 37 words
  12. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

    Ingredients; -- 1 cup of plain flour, 1 cup of wheaten flour at brown meal, 2 teaspoonful of cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, salt, 1oz, butter, half a ...

    Article : 123 words
  13. Miscellaneous.

    THE native of India has an average lite of 24 years, as against 44 in England. The chinchilla, the little rat-like animal ...

    Article : 282 words
  14. DON'T SHUT THE WINDOWS.

    Is there any reason on the face of the earth why you should have ' colds' every autumn ? There are several very good reasons, and prominent among these is ...

    Article : 115 words
  15. Grandfather's Penny.

    ONCE on a time, when it was be long ago that there were no cars or telephones. Grandfather was a little, little boy, named John. He lived in a woe red farmhouse, ...

    Article : 1,008 words
  16. DIAMONDS IN THE MAKING.

    The Government Geologist, Mr E. F Pittman, exhibited a specimen of diamond in the matrix, at a recent meeting of the Royal Society of New South Wales. The ...

    Article : 396 words
  17. IN CHICAGO.

    Miss Smytha; ' Oh, I had such a lovely time yesterday ! I want to Coli[?] silver wedding, and--' Miss Tomkyns:'Why, she hasn't been ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 49 words
  18. PINEAPPLE TRIFLE.

    Ingredients:-- 1 pineapple, 1 lemon, 6 ozs of sugar. 1 gill of water, 1 gill of sherry, 1 stale sponge cake, half a pint of costard, half a pint of cream, crystallised fruits. ...

    Article : 124 words
  19. VIRTUE IN HERBS.

    Our grandmothers placed their faith in simples, but while we have the vagus notion, that herbs are good, we have not the remotest idea what they are good for ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. A FASTIDIOUS COW.

    A young girl who was staling at a farmhouse told the farmer that a certain cow stared very savagely at her, and wanted to know the cause. ...

    Article : 72 words
  21. ORANGE CAKE.

    Ingredients:--Half a pound of flour, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful carbonate of soda (measured level and quite free from lumps), 4ozi of butter, ...

    Article : 160 words
  22. IS ORDINARY PAIN MORE ACUTE AT NIGHT, AND WHY?

    It is generally felt that pain is more [?]oute at night than during the day, and Dr. Goldscheller, of Vienna University, explains this on the ground that we feel ...

    Article : 240 words
  23. JUST TO SATISFY HER.

    Heiress: 'am afraid you love me merely for my money.' Count:'Ah' no: and when we are mareed I will prove to you by getting road ...

    Article : 41 words
  24. OUR ANCESTRY.

    No wonder some men are so wooden. A French philosopher has found out that our original ancestors were trees. Men, he says, have descended from monkeys, and ...

    Article : 46 words
  25. ABOARD SHIP.

    A ship's doctor who was in the habit of preccribing a glass of salt water for almost all aliments had once the misfortune to fail overboard. One of the sailors standing ...

    Article : 52 words
  26. SAVOURY PUDDING.

    Ingredients:--Hall a pound of bread crumbs, 1 quart of stock, 4ozs ham. 4ozs chopped tongue, 3 or 4 sardines, 2 eggs, salt and pepper, and 1 teaspoonful finely ...

    Article : 103 words
  27. PAPER-MAKING MATERIAL.

    Over fifty kinds of bark are now used to manufactured paper, beside banana skins bean stalks, pea vines, cocoanut nore, clover and hay, siraw, freshwater weeds, ...

    Article : 60 words
  28. TURBINE PROPULSION FOR FISHING BOATS.

    To demonstrate that ordinary fishing boats can be fitted with auxiliary vower in such a way as will enable them to compote with steam drifters and trawlers Mr James ...

    Article : 319 words
  29. BABY'S BATH.

    The water for the baby's bath should be soft and of the proper temperature to be perfectly comfortable to the little body. The soap should be of the purest, as skin ...

    Article : 329 words
  30. BUYING A DRESS IN JAPAN.

    When ladles go to buy a dress in Japan they tell the shopkeeper their age, and it they are married or not, because there are special designs for she single and double ...

    Article : 75 words
  31. DARWINIAN.

    First Monkey:'It seems to be a [?] up whether man is de[?]ended from us.' Second Monkey:'Yes, its heads, they win: tal's, we win.' ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 29 words
  32. Items of Interest.

    TEMPTATION.--The fire that brings up the soum of the heart.--Boston. Intense study of the Bib's will keep any writer from being vulgar. In point of style. ...

    Article : 566 words
  33. WOULD MAKE UP THE DEFICIENCY

    'Are there any marks by which the boy can be identified?' asked the police superintendent making coplous notes of the case. 'No,' said the father of the mining ...

    Article : 56 words
  34. AN EDUCATED EC[?].

    An ordinary echo is a cations thing, but according to the statements of a Frenchman at a wateting-place in the Pyrenees, one echo on the France-Spsnish frontier ...

    Article : 100 words
  35. CLEAR AND PLAIN SYMPTOMS.

    Solentist:'So you have followed the sea all your life? I presume you are a through meteorological progncsticator by this time.' ...

    Article : 74 words
  36. A REPUBLIC OF WOMEN.

    At the present time there exists a republic of new women. This is at Munich, and the republic of amazons is fully sanctioned by the authorities. It goes ...

    Article : 102 words
  37. THE BRIDAL VEIL.

    The bridal veil is evidently of Eastern origin, being a relfo of the bridal can [?] held over the heads of the bride and bridegeoom. Among the Anglo-Saxons a similar ...

    Article : 164 words
  38. A COLD IN THE HEAD.

    A prominent practitioner recently said, 'Medical science has yet to discover precisely what a cold is! 'Its cause? A sadden change in the ...

    Article : 263 words
  39. A CHEMICAL TRICK.

    When we happen to witness a phenomenon which seems to violate natural laws, we are not likely to forget its cause if it he explained to us. The following ...

    Article : 353 words
  40. THE EXTENT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE.

    It was nine miles from anywhere and the motor had broken down. 'Do you know anything about automobiles?' asked the owner, speaking to a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 51 words
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