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  2. Odds and Ends

    A CLERGYMAN in the West, with had unfortunately quarrelled with his parishioners, had the misfortune to have a shirt stolen from the hedge where it hung ...

    Article : 94 words
  3. SHORT STORY

    WITH the recollection of Constance Maxwell’s indignant wonder still trench in his recollection, he could not think it. ...

    Article : 4,333 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    THE first guinea bore the impression of an elephant, Needles were first made in 1545, when the making of ten was a good day’s work. ...

    Article : 241 words
  5. APPLE CHEESE TARTLETS.

    Ingredients:—½lb short crust, about 3 apples, log butter, 1oz sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls water, 2 eggs, 2oz cake crumbs, a little lemon rind. ...

    Article : 147 words
  6. WHAT SHE TOLD THE TELLER.

    The lady approached the teller’s window at the bank, opened her pocket book, took out a cheque, and asked the young man to cash it. ...

    Article : 84 words
  7. AS THE BOY UNDERSTOOD IT.

    At a certain draper’s shop they employ a small boy to run [?] The other day, while he was waiting in the shop, a lady come in and asked the assistant for a yard ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 98 words
  8. RICE FRITTERS.

    Ingredients :—4oz rice, ½ pt water, 2ozs sugar, S pt milk, 2 eggs, essence vanilla, bread crumbs, jam, castor sugar, Method,—Wash the rice and cook in the ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. DOMAIN OF FOSSIL IVORY.

    The most valuable desolate islands in the work, are the [?] in the Arctic Ocean, off the mouth of the Lena, in Siberia They are front-bound and utterly barren, ...

    Article : 74 words
  10. ALMOND CHEESE TARTLETS.

    Ingredients:—½lb pastry, 4ozs almonds, 4[?] sugar, 2ozs butter, 1 lemon, whites of 2 eggs. Method — Blanck and pound the ...

    Article : 82 words
  11. A SENSITIVE PLANT.

    A singular species of [?] which grows in Virginia, Nevada, shoes all the [?] of a sensitive plant. When the sun sets its leaves fold together, and the ...

    Article : 114 words
  12. Housekeeper.

    ONE of the best treatments for in growing toe-nail, with suppuration around the nail and inflammation of the tissues in the [?], is a serious ...

    Article : 65 words
  13. STEAMED DATE PUDDING,

    Ingredients:—3ozs butter, 3ozs sugar, 6ozs flour, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 2 small eggs, ½ gill milk, 4ozs dates, little lemon juice. ...

    Article : 62 words
  14. THE HERMIT CRAB.

    The hermit crab differs from the ordinary crab in that his abdomen is soft and unprotected by a covering of shell. He also possesses a tail something like that of a ...

    Article : 142 words
  15. A MORNING TONIC.

    Take a pint of hot water, squeeze into it the juice of one lemon and season with a half teaspoonful of salt. Drink slowly halt an hour before breakfast for two weeks at ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. A BAD SIGN.

    Junior Partner: ‘The bookkeeper has been married nearly six months now.’ Senior Partner: ‘Well?’ Junior Partner; Well, he hasn’t asked ...

    Article : 42 words
  17. Items of Interest.

    NO Government under heaven can do half as much for any man as every man can do for himself,—Dean Letroy. By what right shall England stand, she ...

    Article : 183 words
  18. CRUSHED FINGERS.

    A crushed finger should be plunged into water as hot as can possibly be borne. The application of hot water causes the nail to expand and soften, and the blood pouring ...

    Article : 80 words
  19. MOTHER AND SON.

    Standing on the platform of a small country station, I was interested in watching a woman of the ‘country type, who had come to send her son oft to his ‘first ...

    Article : 83 words
  20. THE COMMON HOUSE-FLY.

    In ordinary flight it makes with its wings about 600 strokes, which carry it 5 feet every second; but if alarmed their velocity can be increased six or sevenfold, ...

    Article : 180 words
  21. WERE QUITE DISTINCT.

    Guset (indignantly); ‘Waiter, then an feathers in this soup.’ Waiter (inspecting it): ‘Why, so there are. I thought I was giving you gravy ...

    Article : 42 words
  22. ACID FRUITS AND RHEUMATISM.

    The idea that acid fruits induce rheumatism is a very popular error. It is based on a complete misconception, The acids of fruit are different from mineral acids ...

    Article : 86 words
  23. TWO LEFT.

    Here is a story of a judge who had a notorious scoundrel brought before him. In the course of his examination, his Honour asked : ‘What has become of your ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 53 words
  24. HOW TO CLEAN A PAPERED WALL

    Make a dough of flout and cold water and knead, as you would breed, until it is free from stickiness and becomes perfectly smooth, A piece of this rubbed over the ...

    Article : 127 words
  25. COUNTRIES WITHOUT CLOCKS.

    Liberia, in Africa, has neither clock nor time piece of any sort. The reckoning of time is made entirely by the movement and position of the sun, which rises at six ...

    Article : 232 words
  26. No Title

    No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in a wilderness: most of the Epistles were written in prison. The ...

    Article : 407 words
  27. CARE OF THE FEET.

    It is a dainty habit to keep the nails of the feet in as good condition as those of the hands. The same preparations are suitable for both purposes. ...

    Article : 202 words
  28. A NEW DEFINITION.

    ‘What is a spinster?’ asked the master of one of the boys. ‘A spinster, was the reply, ‘is—a bachelor’s wife.’ ...

    Article : 27 words
  29. LIGHT AND HAIRPINS.

    ‘They call It electric light,’ Pat confided to his lordship, ‘but it do beat me how they make the hairpins burn in a bottle.’ ...

    Article : 29 words
  30. THE KISSING CUSTOM.

    Kissing in England was certainly known and practised in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and practised with an easy familiarity which shows the custom ...

    Article : 209 words
  31. BARBEROUS

    Barber: ‘Shall I take a little of the ends of your hair off, sir?’ Customer; ‘Yes, I think you had better take it off the ends unless you can get it ...

    Article : 39 words
  32. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

    Ingredients.—½lb short crust [?] sugar, 2ozs cutter, 2 eggs, rind of 1 and juice of 2 lemons., 1 tablespoonful castor sugar. ...

    Article : 182 words
  33. WHY HE CAME BACK.

    ‘Did you deliver my message to Mt. Smith?’ asked the merchant, New Office Boy: ‘No, sir, he was out, and the office was locked up.’ ...

    Article : 64 words
  34. OUR OPENING MATCH.

    ‘I say, Bill, you’ve got the pad or the wrong leg.’ ‘ Yus, I know. I thought I we In t’ other end I’ ...

    Article : 31 words
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