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  2. POPULAR SCIENCE. Skating on Air.

    Wonderful, indeed, are some of the [?] pending advances of this the 19th century. Novelties of all descriptions arise around us. Not inventions that are of an ephemeral ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 668 words
  3. THE LADIES’ COLUMN. Love’s Little Day.

    "There are many to-morrows, my love, my dove, But only one to-day.” Lo! ’tis the golden morn, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 208 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    The girl who laces merely does it as a matter of form. Dialogue between two beggars: “Are you blind by nature? ” “ No; only by fes ...

    Article : 1,361 words
  5. THE YOUNG FOLKS. The Boy and His Problems.

    For questions dark and eerie let me recommend my boy, Who, though he is his father’s pet, doth none the less annoy ...

    Article : 307 words
  6. Young Ladies as "Nigger” Minstrels.

    Thirty members of the Young Ladies' Charitable Society were (the New York "World" reports) to appear as burnt-cork minstrel performers at the Lexington Avenue ...

    Article : 162 words
  7. Should Ladies Play Cricket.

    The Rev. R. S. Holmes writes in "Cricket”:—The proposal to establish county cricket clubs for ladies fairly takes one’s breath away. Please don’t. If the ...

    Article : 120 words
  8. Unearthing a Donkey.

    “There again! I was born to be unfortunate! And just as I thought everything was going well, too! You clumsy creature; must you go and fail me, too, like every one else, just ...

    Article : 2,032 words
  9. The Queen and the Royal Babies.

    Apropos of the addition to the Royal family is the following little paragraph from a recent English paper: —“ The Queen always wears on one wrist ace ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. GOOD THINGS TO KNOW.

    That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth; also from the bands. That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will aid in the whitening ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. A Superstitious Lover.

    A remarkable instance of superstition has just been revealed at Chorley Police Court, Lancashire. A young man named Thomas Barnes was charged with assaulting Frances ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. A Comet’s Tail.

    Brooks’s Comet, from a photograph taken by Professor E. E PBarnard, is one of the illustrations in last month’s “Knowledge,” and Mr A. C. Ranyard has an article on ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. The Cat for Violent Offendors

    The “Liverpool Weekly Post,” of the 12th ult.,contains the following record of sentences passed at a single sitting of the Criminal Court: ...

    Article : 282 words
  14. Ladies’ Gossip.

    In fine twill suites and tweed the [?] colors seem to be tan and brown. Almost all bodices for evening, morning and afternoon may have different skirts. ...

    Article : 597 words
  15. Home and Fireside.

    POLISH FOR BROWN BOOTS.—Mix loz. of oxalic acid, loz, of spirits of salt, a scruple of cochineal, bruised, and a pint of water. The boots should, before using the composition, be ...

    Article : 1,456 words
  16. Pigeons and Diphtheria.

    The French medical journals report another instance in which diphtheria appears to have been transmitted from pigeons to man. One of these birds died, ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. A Clever Parrot.

    At the Westminster police-court, England, Alfred Ketteringham (43), a dyer, was accused of stealing a silver watch from William Judson, of 105 Winchester street, Pimlico. The ...

    Article : 387 words
  18. Treatment of Diphtheria.

    A correspondent to the “Globe" writes:—“There is at the present moment being tested, in at least one of the London fever hospitals a treatment of diphtheria, which in its own ...

    Article : 194 words
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  20. Longevity.

    A correspondent in Wales writes to a London paper:—The Continent is not (as one of the news agencies announces) the proud possessor of the “oldest medical ...

    Article : 177 words
  21. A Hindoo Bride’s Wedding Jewels.

    The importance of the bride’s “wedding jewels" in the view of Hindoo law and custom is amusingly exemplified by a case which has been decided on appeal in the ...

    Article : 290 words
  22. Little Articles that Pay.

    If the farmer gets a big crop of wheat, and if he gets a good price for it, he may be doing pretty fairly. But those "ifs” may not fulfil their promises, and if they do not, then it may ...

    Article : 194 words
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