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  2. Stories of David Wilkie.

    A few anecdotes are scattered up and down the very readable pages of "Sir David Wilkie and the Scots School of Painters," by Edward Pinnington, just ...

    Article : 659 words
  3. DAIRYING.

    We look at milk as a liquid [?]es, but it is a mixture of liquids and solids.Milk is composed of nitrogenous compounds, in a state of solution, calculated to build ...

    Article : 853 words
  4. The Fairy with the Grey Beard.

    "When Mr Lionel comes in send him at once to my study." The words were spoken peremptorily by an elderly gentleman with a sharp, ...

    Article : 905 words
  5. The Ancient Name of Smith.

    Professor Mahaffy points out that among the jet unpublished c[?]sities of the Petrie papyri is a liet of names connected with the manufacture beer. ...

    Article : 140 words
  6. About the Chinese.

    To one Chinese custom the world owes much. It is barbarous. But for it white races may be thankful. It alone keeps back the Yellow wave, which but for it ...

    Article : 390 words
  7. IV.

    Mr Trollope and his son stood side by side at the garden gate, watching two figures as they vanished down the road. One—tall, graceful, and slim—did not ...

    Article : 463 words
  8. Dante's Absorption.

    Dante numbered absent-mindedness amongst his many qualities. The following story is told of him. One day he went from his house with the intention of ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. Statistics.

    The average church and chapel goers in England and Wales number about 11,000,000. A man walking 10 miles a day would, it ...

    Article : 264 words
  10. Don’t Hurry.

    " Haste makes waste. If you have but five minutes to do a thing, it may pay to take one minute to plan how it shall be done. Harry and worry go together, ...

    Article : 262 words
  11. A Burglar's Story.

    A well-known Dublin judge was up late reading recently, when, hearing some movements in the basement, he crept downstairs, and to his dismay saw the ...

    Article : 223 words
  12. III.

    Since the previous day, when Lionel left his father's study, with set lips and a dangerous glint in his blue eyes, the two men had not spoken. Mr Trollope ...

    Article : 2,218 words
  13. Sulphur and Molasses.

    When I was young, they had a way Of keeping all disease at bay, And rend'ring changing of the spring As innocent as anything, ...

    Article : 199 words
  14. Gaining on it.

    Judge Andrewn, of Georgia, used to tell an amusing story of the way in which he was once " taken down" by one of his audionce during a political address. He ...

    Article : 157 words
  15. Words of Wisdom.

    The opposite of rest is not work—it is restlessness. Strong minds (says Rechefoucauld) suffer without complaining, weak ones ...

    Article : 513 words
  16. About Aboriginals.

    A cont[?]ibutor has a couple of columns of aboriginal matter in the last Issue of the "Freeman," which is necessarily interesting reading in these " black horror " ...

    Article : 294 words
  17. Food, Work, Sleep.

    What a great mistake it is to contend that time taken from toil for sleep and recreation is time lost There is no greater fallacy, for sleep and recreation form, as ...

    Article : 174 words
  18. A Soldier-Surgeon's Stories.

    Sir Joseph Favrer talk soma amusing stories in his "Recollections." Colonel A. Bogle, R.A., was acting as a volunteer, He’was wounded, and with several others ...

    Article : 230 words
  19. In Case of Fire.

    Fire requires air; therefore, on its appearance every effort should be made to exclude air. Shut all doors and windows. By this means fire may be ...

    Article : 243 words
  20. II.

    A small girl, with large brown eyes, set in a plump rosy face, danced along [?] walks at Wolverditton, It her by the hand. ...

    Article : 900 words
  21. "Bobs and the Beer

    The following anecdote is worth recounting:—In India complaints reached Lord Roberts of the quality of the beer served ...

    Article : 297 words
  22. HE WANTED IT HOT.

    Here is a new story of General Jackson. On one of his journeys, about the time of the Nolification excitement, he stopped at a small Virginia village, in a ...

    Article : 217 words
  23. Milk in a Paper Bag,

    A merry-hearted lad, who is often sent to the " corner store" on errands of household needs and necessities, discover a new method of "brining home ...

    Article : 216 words
  24. What the Dentist Does.

    Very few people realise how much the dentist has done for mankind. To mention one thing only, the perfection to which the manufacture of false teeth has ...

    Article : 160 words
  25. EXTINGUISHED

    On the road to a country market-place a youth was trying to get a cart of vegetables along; but his donkey was stubborn, and would not move. A crowd of ...

    Article : 89 words
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