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  2. SHORT STORY.

    ‘NOT far from the city of Oxford there is a princely dwelling [?]upied by the collateral descendants of a famous general whose title of duke the ...

    Article : 2,391 words
  3. Odds and Ends.

    DOOFLICKER, the author was invited to dine with a wealthy banker at home. Arriving somewhat early, he amused himself with the prattle of his ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 641 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    HEAVILY BEARDED men, according to a barber, are most apt to be bald. Horseflesh, says a German authority, is more free from parasites than beet and ...

    Article : 325 words
  5. AFRAID OF THE DARK.

    Of all the fears which beset little children in this big, startling world in which they find themselves so unexpectedly, the most painful is the feat of the dark. ...

    Article : 252 words
  6. RICE CAKES.

    Ingredients :—5ozs butter, 5ozs sugar, 6ozs flour, 2ozs rice flout, teaspoonful of baking powder. 2 or 3 eggs, from ¾ to 1 gill milk, flavoring, ...

    Article : 81 words
  7. Science and Invention

    MOST careful chemical analyses have demonstrated that rice possesses more nutriment than wheat, oats, or barley, and will sustain life longer than any other ...

    Article : 423 words
  8. CLEANSING AND RENOVATING THE KITCHEN,

    To clean brass and copper utensils, try half a lemon dipped in salt, To clean windows, add a little ammonia to the pail of water. The result will be ...

    Article : 337 words
  9. ORIGIN OF FOOLSCAP PAPER.

    Everybody knows what ‘foolscap’ paper is but few probably know how it came to bear this singular [?] When Charles I found his revenues short he ...

    Article : 161 words
  10. AN UNCANNY HABIT,

    On the shores of Lake Nicaragaa is to be found an uncanny product of the vegetable kingdom known among the natives by the expressive name of the devil’s noose ...

    Article : 126 words
  11. ARTIFICIAL EYES.

    Artificial eyes appear to have originated in Egypt; they were made of gold and silver, then of copper and ivory. In the sixteenth centary poroclain was the ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. Items of Interest

    A GOOD MAN —One whom no power, no necessity can [?] to do a bad thing — Seneca. Instead of saying man is the creature of ...

    Article : 614 words
  13. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES

    Ingredients:— 4 to 6 onions, 2ozs fat or butter, 2ozs flour, 3 pints stock, 2ozs grated cheese, oroutons of toasted bread. Method.—Feel and shred finely the ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

    An Act which passed the English Parliament in the year 1770 gives us some indication of the extent to which cosmetics were employed m the latter part of the ...

    Article : 129 words
  15. TO TEST DIGESTION.

    A curious physiological experiment has been devised at the Bontgen laboratory of the Vienna General Hospital. In order to test the digestive activity of a patient a ...

    Article : 156 words
  16. ROAST FILLET OF YEAL,

    Ingredients:—4lbs fillet of veal, ½lb bacon, veal stuffing (given in previous copies), 2 lemons, 1 teaspoonful cornflour. Method.— Remove the bone, stuff and ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. GREAT MEN AS LOVERS.

    Byron was foolishly jealous of every woman he every loved. His loves ran well into two figures, end he managed sooner or later to make every one miserable. ...

    Article : 165 words
  18. Housekeeper.

    IN Switzerland gape leaves are applied to medicinal or surgical uses. For outs and fresh wounds they are esteemed a sovereign remedy, De[?]tions of the juice ...

    Article : 82 words
  19. THE PORTRAIT AND THE LIGHT.

    In portrait making the first care of the photographer should be to diagnose his subject before submitting it to the inexorable and relentlees glass optic, Before ...

    Article : 195 words
  20. APPLE TART.

    Ingredients;—¾lb either short crust or tough puff pastry (recipes for both have been given in other copies), 4 large apples, 2ozs sugar, ½oz butter, little grated nutmeg. ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. BILIOUS HEADACHE,

    A sluggish, unhealthy condition of the liver may be the cause of this distress, or persons who are in the habit of overeating, or persons not having sufficient ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. COURTING AMONG THE JAPS

    This charming story of how courtships are carried on among the elite of the society of the Land of the Biting Sun has not been confirmed by travellers, yet it is pretty ...

    Article : 303 words
  23. MR KIDD ON EVOLUTION.

    At the Royal Institution, recently, Mr Benjamin Kidd delivered the second and last of his lectures on The Significance of the Future in the Theory of Evolution.’ ...

    Article : 561 words
  24. RICE FRITTERS,

    Ingredients:—4ozs rice, ¾ pint milk, ½ pint water, 2 eggs, 1½ to 2ozs sugar, essence vanilla, jam, breadcrumbs Method.—Well wash the rice, put into a ...

    Article : 109 words
  25. PERIODS OF INFECTION.

    The periods of infection of contagious diseases is considered to be as follows; Smallpox, six weeks from the commencement of the disease if every [?] has fallen ...

    Article : 140 words
  26. SAVOURY TRIPE.

    Ingredients —1½lbs tripe, 1 carrot, 1 onion, piece of celery, 2ozs butter of fat, bunch of herbs, a few bay leaves, 2ozs bacon, 1½ pints stook, 2ozs flout, seasoning ...

    Article : 151 words
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