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  2. Odds and Ends.

    ERRORS in composition form a never ending source of amusement, and fresh examples of such unintentional humour are continually cropping up. Here ...

    Article : 152 words
  3. Miscellaneous.

    THE pneumatic mail time between Paris and Berlin (a distance of 700 miles) is only thirty-five minutes, The French Comedy Francaise is the ...

    Article : 247 words
  4. SHORT STORY.

    ‘LARRY, dear, put on your hat and [?] Mrs Fiske wants yon to take this telegram lot her.’ ‘Um [?] Um!’ ...

    Article : 2,610 words
  5. BRAIZED SWEETBREADS.

    Ingredients:—[?] sweetbreads, 1 piece carrot, turnip and onion, 1 bunch herbs, 2 ripe tomatoes, some fat bacon, tomato [?] ...

    Article : 211 words
  6. Housekeeper.

    DR. KLEIN, following method recommends the following method of administering castor oil, which he learned from the Arabs: Four fifteen to twenty ...

    Article : 99 words
  7. AMAZING ASTRONOMICAL PROBLEMS.

    We are well assured now that the earth as a part of the solar system has had a long history. That all these bodies have reached their present conditions and relations by a ...

    Article : 356 words
  8. PATIENCE.

    ‘ And what do you do at school!’ asked his [?] of Tommy. ‘Do you learn to read ?’ ‘No.’ ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. PERPETUAL YOUTH.

    Every woman desires to retain as long as may be her youthfulneas of [?] form, and movement, yet the true secret of such enduring youth is by no means universally ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. TOMATO SAUCE.

    Ingredients:—6 tomatoes, ½ onion, ¾ pt water or stook, bacon bone, 1oz butter, I dessertspoonful arrowroot, 3 pepperoorns, 2 [?] sprig parsley, bay leaf, salt and ...

    Article : 64 words
  11. A JUBILEE.

    Daring the celebrations of Queen Victoria’s jubilee, an old lady dwelling on the skirts of Dartmoor was asked, ‘ What is the meanin of this yet Jubilee.’ ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 61 words
  12. CHINESE CUSTOMS.

    The traveller in China is constantly coming upon strange customs and manners which are so deeply rooted that contact with Western civilisation has little power ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. SHORTBREADS.

    Ingredients:—[?] sugar, 7ozs butter, [?] rice flour, candied peel, [?] small teaspoonful baking powder. Method.—Cream butter and sugar, and ...

    Article : 85 words
  14. THEY CHANGE THEIR COLOURS.

    Certain prawn found along the coasts of England are said to change their colour at least twice every twenty four hours in order to harmonise with the stronger or ...

    Article : 142 words
  15. THE HAPPY WOMAN.

    The finest compliment we have ever heard told to a woman was by her husband, and he said, in speaking of her—‘We always think of her as a morning glory, ...

    Article : 205 words
  16. ALPINE [?]

    Ingredients:—1½lbs apples, 3ozs castor sugar, ¼ pt water, thin rind and juice half a lemon, whites 3 eggs, [?] Method,—Wash apples and out into ...

    Article : 85 words
  17. NO WONDER.

    Gray: ‘Terrible storm we had last evening, wasn’t it? Thundered loud enough to wake the dead.’ Smith: ‘So ! I didn’t hear it.’ ...

    Article : 64 words
  18. Items of Interest.

    FORFUNE is more dangerous and treacherous when she caresses than when she dismays. Virtue could see to do what [?] would ...

    Article : 626 words
  19. THE TAMING OF FISHES.

    The problem as to whether fishes [?]fay be tamed in a state of liberty has just been solved by a Swiss physician, Dr B. Fastenrath, of Herisan. At the lake of Lugano ...

    Article : 165 words
  20. Science and Invention

    LAST year £4,000 worth of gold ust was scraped from the nineteen chimneys of the United States mint during the annual cleaning. During the year ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. HIS LIVING.

    ‘What dat, Judge, yet ax me what my wocashun [?] ‘Yes, what is your vacation? I mean, what do you do for a living ?’ ...

    Article : 51 words
  22. HOW TO CHECK HEMORRHAGES,

    Reaching both hands high over the head, bathing the face with very hot water, placing bits of ice [?] the nostrils, rubbing ice on the back of the [?] and ...

    Article : 211 words
  23. AT FIVE PER CENT.

    ‘Sammy, my son, how many weeks belong to the year ?’ ‘Forty-six,’ replied Sam, ‘Why, Simmy, how do yuu make that ...

    Article : 42 words
  24. TOLD OF THE SWORDFISH.

    The [?] is dreaded by most of the other inhabitants of the deep, for by its great strength and terrible weapon it is able to inflict serious damage upon its ...

    Article : 160 words
  25. A WATERPROOF CEMENT.

    A mixture of vegetable wax and caustic lime in boiling water is added to unground Portland cement [?]linker, and all ground together. The inventor makes the claim ...

    Article : 104 words
  26. WOULD COME PREPARED.

    A youngster [?] enjoying himself at a party was going a away when his hostess offered him a bun. ‘ No, thank you,’ said the boy. ‘I ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 68 words
  27. HOW A DOG’S MIND WORKS.

    The President of Philosophy in the Manchester University recently gave to an audience of teachers the results of [?] study of the dog mind. The tale of the dog’s ...

    Article : 157 words
  28. DONT’S FOR MOTHERS

    Don’t criticise first and inquire after. That wound is hard to heal. Don’t fail to rejoice over every triumph of school life. ...

    Article : 207 words
  29. DRAWN BY DOGS

    When the fire alarm rings in Dawson City, in the Klondike region, there is not the clatter of horses’ [?] but instead a great yelping of dogs comes down the long ...

    Article : 209 words
  30. PRACTICAL.

    ‘And we’ll live on Ieve, won’t we, dear ?’ ‘No, George ; if you’re that kind of a man we’d better part now. I shall want some roast beef and cabbage, and a few ...

    Article : 41 words
  31. [?] X-RAY TEST.

    A Berlin electric company [?] lately brought out a novel apparatus for testing insulated cables by means of X[?]rays. Up to the present time it has been impossible ...

    Article : 207 words
  32. QUITE CLEAR.

    ‘ Step in, step in,’ shouted a rather grimy-looking cheap clothier to a youth, ‘the cheapest goods in the market,’ ‘Have you any shirts ?’ asked the lad ...

    Article : 66 words
  33. LOVE LETTER WHICH IS 4,000 YEARS OLD.

    We possess many love songs of the aid Egyptians, but a genuine love-letter had not heretofore been found. Only recently, in Chaldea, was a love-letter found written ...

    Article : 182 words
  34. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES

    Ingredients:—1 oxtail, 1 onion, 1 oarrot, 1 turnip, [?] 1 tablespoonful [?] 1 teaspoonful salt, ¼ teaspoonful pepper, [?] pts stook or water, 6 ...

    Article : 177 words
  35. NEVER.

    Jackson: ‘ I must say I don’t see any change in you since you were married, old fellow.’ Jenkins (with a righ, feeling in his ...

    Article : 33 words
  36. A GOOD DEFINITION.

    ‘Say, Mike, what’s a ventrilo[?] Mike: ‘He’s a lad phat stands on one side av the room and talks to himself from the other. ...

    Article : 30 words
  37. SCIENCE AIDS THE FRUITGROWER.

    Once again has science [?] of creator—this time by bringing into existence a combination vegetable, a wonder plant, which [?] tomatoes above ground ...

    Article : 253 words
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