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  2. Original Sketch.

    My encounter with an octopus happened in this way. The weather was boisterous. and I was engaged to examine the hulk of a large steamer that had [?] off the coast of ...

    Article : 183 words
  3. The Naturalist.

    A Scotch sheriff has recently ruled that a bull is a wild animal, and that, therefore, his owner is responsible for any damage the animal may do, if he breaks loose. ...

    Article : 90 words
  4. Sketcher.

    To become an expert or a successful angler one must of necessity become an expert fly-caster. An awkward fly-cast has no mere show with an expert in a run down ...

    Article : 273 words
  5. MAKING TOUGH MEAT TENDER.

    Tender loin and porter-house steaks do not need much coaxing to make them eatable; they are generally nice, but the [?] meats need more attention. While ...

    Article : 228 words
  6. THE SNAIL.

    Extensive drought will cause the snail to close its doors, to prevent the evaporation of Its bodily moisture and dry up. There little animals are possessed of astonishing ...

    Article : 56 words
  7. A QUEER OCCUPATION.

    There is a mat [?] agent for a popular [?] [?] was a [?] [?] ...

    Article : 259 words
  8. A LIVE TOAD IN A HAILSTONE.

    A hailstorm visited Pawtucket about 10 o’clock Saturday evening, such as has not visited this vicinity for years, if within the memory of man. One woman picked up a ...

    Article : 79 words
  9. Varieties.

    A toad is no fonder of dirt than anyone else, and before he [?] an angleworm down his throat sorapes the dirt off with his paws. ...

    Article : 279 words
  10. A TOAD TACKLES A SNAKE.

    ‘I [?] saw something when a small boy, ‘said an old stager yesterday, ‘that I never heard of since, and that was a toad attack a snack, after the latter bad been ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. HASTY DISHES.

    A true hasty dish is one that can be prepared and cooked within half an hour, and the most needed requisite is simplicity of ma[?]palation. R. chanfles can rarely be ...

    Article : 100 words
  12. THE WORD ‘CAN[?]RD.’

    Yon often declare that some floating price of intelligence is a ‘canard’ without hardly knowing why such a word should be applied to an unfounded story. The word ...

    Article : 224 words
  13. THE CARE OF DOGS.

    With many persons dogs and hydrophobia are associated mentally, and I recently an article in which the author spoke of the dog as the ‘breeder of hydrophobia.’ The ...

    Article : 78 words
  14. PERSONALITIES.

    Miss Jean Ingelow, the poetess is [?] three years old and lives [?] Kensington, Eng. She is [?] worker, believing that [?] ...

    Article : 471 words
  15. TOMATO SOUP.

    Take a can of tomatoes and bring to a boil and then strain through a coarse strainer. Add one teaspoonful of dry sods, and when the foaming ceases add a quart of ...

    Article : 63 words
  16. A PURE-BREED PUG.

    A pare-breed pug should have a round head; muzzle short and broad; prominent and winkled; nose retrousse; eyes large, full, and dark; ears small, black, and ...

    Article : 57 words
  17. POTATO SOUP.

    Fry a medium-sized onion, sliced thin, in half a cup of butter, and then pour on it a quart of milk and let the two come to a boil. Mix two cupfuls of cold. mashed ...

    Article : 52 words
  18. DUSE COMPARED TO RACHEL.

    Comparisons are proverbially odious, and is therefore satisfactory to be able to state at once that the Sig[?] Eleanors Dose is unlike any native or foreign actress now ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. OYSTER SOUP.

    Strain the liquor from a quart of oysters and add one cup. of water, and let the two become [?] hot, using a double boiler. Then add a quart of milk, and when this ...

    Article : 73 words
  20. THE VITALITY OF A FISH.

    At the New York Hospital they related to me a carious [?] tarring on the hibernation of fishes. In the conservatory in the upper part of the building they had ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. TIMBER 4,000 YEARS OLD.

    Probably the oldest timber in the world that has been subject to the use of man is found in the [?] temple of Egypt. Is is in connection with stonework, which is ...

    Article : 93 words
  22. A PAGE FROM THE HISTORY O THE MUTINY.

    When joined to Brigadier Rowcroft’s Field Force, the Bengal Yeomanry were the heroes of a sensational incident which threatened to end in their annihilation. The ...

    Article : 349 words
  23. AS TO WAGNER’S OPERAS.

    Mr. E. W. Naylor, of London, has written a paper on the ‘Wagner Revulsion,’ in purely musical circles. Unlike the partisan and arrogant attitude of the ...

    Article : 459 words
  24. SALAD [?]

    Add one tea spoonful of sugar, half a tea spoonful of salt, mustard and white papper to two well-beaten eggs and beat them all together. Cook the mixture in a double ...

    Article : 44 words
  25. AN ELECTRIC SHAVING POT.

    An addition to the recent electrical appliances has appeared in the shape of [?] electrically heated shaving pot. This pot can be made instantly available in any room ...

    Article : 160 words
  26. The Housekeeper.

    In warm weather we are fond of sandwiches, and these take their turn with others: Whip up some nice sweet crsam and add to it as much Parmesan cheese as will ...

    Article : 70 words
  27. THE SAGACIOUS DOG.

    There is a prominent business man in Washington, says the Post, who is something of a dog fancier, and takes pride in a pair of Egnlish setters, that have held a ...

    Article : 178 words
  28. [?]REAM SALAD DRESSING.

    To two well-beaten eggs add one teaspoonful of sugar, one-quarter of a spoonful of salt and mustard, and then three tablespoonful of vinegar, and one of cream. ...

    Article : 40 words
  29. Art arid Literature

    The great silence of Central Africa is wonderfully characteristic. The country is made for [?] the natives are create to steal, spirit-ridden, devil-haunted, through ...

    Article : 822 words
  30. QUINCE MARMALADE.

    Gather the fruit when fully ripe; pare, quarter and core it; boil the skins in as many teacups of water as you have pounds of quinces, when they are soft mash them ...

    Article : 99 words
  31. TO TELL A PERSON’S AGE.

    Here is something from a German [?] paper which will do two things for you besides what it pretends to do. It will amues you, will give you practice in mental ...

    Article : 185 words
  32. A SILLY CANARY.

    A pet canary bird in Fair Haven, Washington, has always had an aver[?]ion to his natural dress, and has industriously pulled out every feather be could reach. The result ...

    Article : 191 words
  33. GREEN CORN PUDDING.

    I never heard of any one who did not like green corn. We are fond of it and prepare several dishes with it. Served as a vegetable we Like it best but from the cob, then ...

    Article : 100 words
  34. ONE OF AN EMPRESS IISTAKES

    Before the Franco [?] War, [?] and Princess von Bismarck passed [?] time at Blarritz, where the [?] Eugenie had established her [?] ...

    Article : 166 words
  35. GOOSEBERRY JAM.

    This should be made before the gooseberries get too ripe. Jams are easily made, and they keep so nicely we cannot have too many kinds. As we like fruit pretty sweet, ...

    Article : 94 words
  36. NO TIME TO DO ANYTHING.

    ‘It makes me mad,’ said the old engineer, ‘to hear people ask why a man don’t do so and so when his engine strikes. It all comes like a strake of lightning’. When we piled ...

    Article : 179 words
  37. A NEW FASHION IN GHOSTS.

    At a time when we begin to realize that science, philosophy, even theology, have had their phantoms and goblins that vanished at the dawn and the cook-crowing of ...

    Article : 689 words
  38. JELLY OR PR[?]

    Here is something I have tried and not found wanting: Wash and soak half a pound of fine prunes in a pint of water. Boil until tender when remove and crack ...

    Article : 107 words
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