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  2. Items of Interest.

    PROGRESS is an advance towards an ideal. When we see the dishonour of a thing, then it is time to renounce it. ...

    Article : 1,158 words
  3. SHORT STORY.

    SOON after he reached home his father died. Shortly afterwards he was ordered to China, for Barbara was right in her conjectures: this Smith was in the ...

    Article : 2,731 words
  4. Traveller.

    IT is a strange but indubitable fact that it is possible for highly advanced refinement and a primitive type of barbarism to exist side by side, to , support ...

    Article : 1,524 words
  5. Housekeeper.

    IT is rather a favourable sign of character when we are willing to take on trust the experience of those who have gone before us; yet probably there have been many ...

    Article : 564 words
  6. Science and Invention.

    THE efficiency of compressed air as a cleaner of electrical machinery, particularly machinery in motion, is not sufficiently appreciated. By no other means is ...

    Article : 103 words
  7. Odds and Ends.

    WHEN a man can go into a pawnshop without a quickening of pawnshop or a heightening of colour, it is a sign that he has been there before. ...

    Article : 242 words
  8. OXIDISING METALS.

    Many ingenious processes have been developed for intensifying the oxidising action of air on metals by submitting the latter to reaction in the form of a finely-divided ...

    Article : 101 words
  9. WIRELESS AUTOMATIC SIGNALS.

    In the new fire-alarm system of Emile Gua[?] of Brussels, automatic signals are given by wireless telegraphy. The rise of the mercury in a thermometer acts upon a ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. COOKERY RECIPES.

    Cook and rub some ripe tomatoes through a sieve, season highly with salt, pepper and cayenne ; cover some hot buttered toast with anchovy paste, spread on it the tomato ...

    Article : 41 words
  11. NO. USE.

    Mrs Jones: ‘Why don’t you lay up your money for a rainy day, Patrick ?’ Patrick : ‘Shure twould be no use [?] for Of couldn’t shpind it thin. O[?]m ...

    Article : 41 words
  12. OYSTER SOUP.

    Beard four dozen oysters and cut them in two ; put the beards in three pints of white or fish stock and simmer them for a few minutes. Melt four ounces of butter in a ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ACTION OF RADIUM.

    The results of an investigation into the photographic action of radium radiation were laid before the Physical Society’s meeting by Mr. S. Skinner. It was found that ...

    Article : 170 words
  14. HAD HEARD HIM.

    ‘I believe,’ said the minister, ‘ that it would be a good idea to have an ‘S. R. O.’ sign for our church, that we might use on occasion. ...

    Article : 48 words
  15. WHITE SOUP.

    Required : A quart of white stock, a pint of milk, three ounces of tapioca, three sticks of celery, an onion, pepper, salt, a slice of lean ham. ...

    Article : 81 words
  16. THE PARENTAL EYE.

    ‘Aw!’ exclaimed young B. Jabez Struckitt, as he admired the reflection of his first ‘ swallow-tail’ in the mirror; ‘ faw the first time in my life I feel as if I was ...

    Article : 60 words
  17. NOT AUNTY, BUT UNCLE.

    A little girl entered a chemist’s shop and day, in a great hurry. The assistant, noticing, this, said: ‘ Well, my dear what for you?’ ...

    Article : 57 words
  18. MINCED PORK

    Required: Cold pork, an ounce of butter, four apples, four onions, a gill of gravy, salt, pepper, a dessert-spoonful of flour, a little made mustard. ...

    Article : 79 words
  19. MODEL OF A NEW AIRSHIP.

    There was on view in London recently the model of Mr T. L. Andersen’s new airship. The principal feature of the vessel lies in the use of twin balloons and the ...

    Article : 220 words
  20. IMPOSSIBLE.

    John Henry, coming home slightly elevated in the early hours of the morning, explained to his wife that his shaky condition was due to the fact that he had mixed ...

    Article : 69 words
  21. MUSHROOMS STEWED.

    Required: 1 pint of button mushrooms, 2 ozs. of butter, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and cayenne. Melt the butter in a stewpan, peel and ...

    Article : 61 words
  22. EARLY PROMISE.

    ‘Does my boy,’ inquired the parent, ‘ seem to have a natural bent in any one direction?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ said the teacher. ‘He gives ...

    Article : 56 words
  23. POUND CAKE.

    Cream a pound of fresh butter with a wooden spoon, whisk in eight eggs one at a time, beat for fifteen minutes, add a pound of castor sugar by degrees, beating all the ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. TOO TRUE.

    Father: ‘Your income is small, and that girl hasn’t a penny in her own right.’ ‘Son : ‘ That’s true; but she has lots of rich relatives, who are sure to remember ...

    Article : 71 words
  25. POWELLISED WOOD.

    Filling the pores with sugar has somewhat surprising effects upon wood. The process, as devised by W. Powell of Liverpool consists in immersing the wood in ...

    Article : 163 words
  26. GINGER PUDDING.

    Required: Half-a-pound of bread-crumbs, a quarter of a pound of brown flour and the same of white, six ounces of dripping, a tablespoonful of brown sugar, a ...

    Article : 68 words
  27. DIDN’T LIKE IT.

    ‘ Did you ever see a play, Aunt Martha?’ asked a lady of an elderly aunt from the country, who was spending a week in the city. ...

    Article : 87 words
  28. Advertising

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    Advertising : 64 words
  29. THE PRICE OF WISDOM.

    Richard: ‘ Life is too queer forme.’ Robert: ‘ What do you mean?’ Richard : Why, by the time a man begins to understand girls he is so old and ...

    Article : 41 words
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