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  2. FOR THE FARMER.

    Man, individually and collectively, people, nations, and humanity at large, exists on the products of the soil. It matters not whether this be ...

    Article : 1,820 words
  3. HEREDITARY PRIVILEGES IN GREAT BSITAIN.

    Now that there is so much being published about the late King, the new King, and matters affecting the kingdom generally, some particulars ...

    Article : 1,445 words
  4. THE PARIS-LONDON AIRSHIP.

    In the huge shed standing gaunt and solitary among the fields at Lamotte-Breuil the Clement-Bayard airship ready to begin her trials ...

    Article : 235 words
  5. PROBLEMS OF THE PLANETS.

    “The amount of ignorance not yet removed concerning the planets is very great,” writes Mr. E. S. Grew. “We do not know, for example, ...

    Article : 249 words
  6. ROCKEFELLER THE SECOND.

    Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun., son of the Standard Oil magnate, who has severed his business connection to undertake the management of his ...

    Article : 385 words
  7. THE MODERN BACHELOR.

    I see (says a writer in “The Gentlewoman”) that a weekly journal has been fulminating on the degeneracy of the modern bachelor who is held ...

    Article : 227 words
  8. FRIENDSHIP.

    Girls’ friendships, as a rule, are of the most enthusiastic kind, and it is very difficult to induce a girl to pause and consider, before she makes a ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. WORKING HOURS ON THE FARM.

    The labor problem is always with us. Many have solved it more or less to their satisfaction. With others, it seems almost incapable of solution. ...

    Article : 245 words
  10. FINGER-TIPS.

    Don’t cut the nails without first holding them in warm water to soften them. Don’t cut the cuticle or any part of ...

    Article : 170 words
  11. BIRDS’ SIXTH SENSE.

    The migration of birds is a very mysterious thing. Flying, as most of the song birds do, by night, coming and going in great flocks, and ...

    Article : 355 words
  12. THE EARTH’S ENVELOPE.

    The new science of the air is the result of many hundred kite and sounding baloon flights made by day and by night in fair weather and foul, ...

    Article : 194 words
  13. The Retort Courteous.

    The first Lord Esher, who, when President of the Court of Appeal, used to keep up a running fire of “chaff” on learned counsel, sometimes got a ...

    Article : 88 words
  14. RECORD EGG-LAYING.

    Readers who keep fowls will be interested in the following remarkable egg records. It has been said that the heaviest hen’s egg ever laid weighed ...

    Article : 482 words
  15. TIN AND THE WORLD’S HISTORY.

    The tin can and the tin dinner pail are vividly characteristic of the times. They bear out the contention that for some strange reason tin during the ...

    Article : 298 words
  16. A Good Note.

    Before he was raised to the peerage, Lord. Kelvin was one day discovered by a friend experimenting with a long coil of wire. He was making deep-sea ...

    Article : 92 words
  17. THE SORT OF MAN GIRLS LIKE.

    As a man looks to a woman to be womanly, a woman expects a man to be manly; therefore, you need hardly wonder that she prefers to be wooed ...

    Article : 408 words
  18. In the Pail.

    An Irish soldier was crossing the barrack square with a pail to fetch some water. A sergeant passing ob served that Pat’s fatigue dress was ...

    Article : 269 words
  19. Application Refused.

    He was pleading his cause earnestly. “I am wealthy,” he said, “and could make ample provision for you.” ...

    Article : 97 words
  20. Caution Needed.

    It was in the wild and woolly West, and Slimy Sam, the crafty cowboy, suddenly bethought himself of a plan for obtaining a suit of clothes gratis ...

    Article : 163 words
  21. A Wonderful Flood.

    The French country stationmaster was walking up and down the platform form with the air of a director. “Wonderful floods!” he exclaimed, ...

    Article : 135 words
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