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  2. HORTICULTURAL.

    The planting of black currants may be proceeded with after the red and white varieties have been planted. A somewhat sheltered situation ...

    Article : 343 words
  3. HUMBLE HEROISM

    The very reeKlessness which so commonly causes the British pitman to endanger both his own life and the lives of his comrades has its redeeming features ...

    Article : 275 words
  4. THE WIDE WORLD.

    Japanese tea, says an official report at Tokio, is, now Psing extensively imitated at Ceylon. In Johannesburg a “White League” ...

    Article : 75 words
  5. TOLSTOY’S RESURRECTION

    When Count Tolstoy chose the central motive of his great novel “Resurrection,” he took for the base of at a romance of real life, which ...

    Article : 1,024 words
  6. A NOTED PERSONALITY

    Mr Whitaker Wright is one of those men at whom a passer-by instinctively looks twice. He has a personality which is commonly called “magnetic." ...

    Article : 900 words
  7. England's Naval Power.

    In the same proportion as England is powerful on the sea she is powerless on land. Against the English naval force the combined naval strength of Russia, ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. Active Octogenarians.

    “Men and Women” points out to-day that Baron. Brampton is as devoted to the law as ever, and travels much; Sir William Howard Russell keeps a watch ...

    Article : 126 words
  9. FAMINE IN FINLAND

    The American expedition organised by Dr. Louis Klopsch, of the “New York Christian Herald,” for the relief of the famine in Finland, arrived at ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. Taking It Easy.

    Baron Ortliet celebrated his tenth anniversary of lying in bed the other day in St Petersburg. He is perfectly healthy, but has not worn anything but ...

    Article : 130 words
  11. THE KITCHEN GARDEN.

    Land to be cropped with peas should be liberally dressed with dung placed at the bottom of the trenches, and trenched in as soon as possible, ...

    Article : 414 words
  12. THE HUMORIST.

    The wisest men will gladly borrow From wit and mirth, surcease from sorrow. “Waiter, every time I come in here I get the same potato.” “Well, you never eat it, ...

    Article : 1,369 words
  13. The Careful Wasp.

    A story of how one wasp carea for another that had been injured is told by a gentleman, who while reading the newspaper, felt bothered by the buzzing of a ...

    Article : 178 words
  14. WHAT IS A WIDOW?

    Schoolmaster: What is a widower? Pupil: A widderer is a man wot ain’t got a widder. Schoolmaster: Oh! indeed—then what is a ...

    Article : 38 words
  15. ITS ADVANTAGE.

    Possible Tenant: You surely don't expect anybody to take this house. The floors all run down hill. Agent (a smart man): It was built that way ...

    Article : 81 words
  16. TRAIN BLOCKED BY GRASSHOPPERS.

    The editor of the French paper “Journal de'Djibouti,” who has just returned from. Dire-Daouah, recounts an extraordinary adventure which occurred to the ...

    Article : 254 words
  17. THE CABBY OF THE. FUTURE.

    The following is what we may expect to hear in a few years’ time if the standard of education continues to advance: First Cabman: I beg your pardon for ...

    Article : 87 words
  18. The Hum[?]rts Debts.

    Two accountants charged to examine the claims of the creditors of Mme.Humbert have estimated. the total at no less than LA,000,000 sterling. Frederic Humbert. ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. EXPIRED.

    A man was summoned the other day for refusing to renew his dog license. He tried several times to interrupt the policeman, who gave evidence, but was pulled up sharply. ...

    Article : 96 words
  20. Taking of Rats.

    Apropos of a natural history tale concerning a brood of chicken-rats at Thornton Heath, a correspondent sends us the following cutting from ...

    Article : 127 words
  21. STOPPING A NUISANCE.

    The Hodkins family keep geese, and their their neighbors, the Podkins family, do not. Certain invasions of the Podkins geese into the Podkins’ territory are bitterly resented. ...

    Article : 143 words
  22. THE SEDUCTIVE INN

    The court-martial of the 17th Division has sentenced a non-commissioned officer of the 2nd Hanseatic Infantry to four and a half months’ imprisonment for ...

    Article : 396 words
  23. THE CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    The weak shoots of lapagerias should be thinned out, retaining all strong shoots thrown up from the base. The plants should be sponged ...

    Article : 856 words
  24. FOR MAGAZINES

    Some writers command a place, even. in the best magazine, who have not attained perfection in their art. Otherwise the new contributor would ...

    Article : 396 words
  25. SOME CUTTINGS.

    The girl with a new hat that is becoming is never satisfied until the man she likes best and the girl she likes least have seen it. “He told his wife she ought to take cookery ...

    Article : 189 words
  26. Dance Yourself Free From Germs.,

    Doctors have always been in favor of a moderate indulgence in the fascinating evolutions of the dance, but have hitherto described its beneficial effects to the ...

    Article : 145 words
  27. PICKINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

    First Office Boy: “Does der boss seem ter like yer?” Second Office Boy: “Well, either that or he don’t know how to wears." Farmer Honk: “Deacon Klutchpenny ain't ...

    Article : 202 words
  28. A BROTHERS’ FEUD

    The important part of peacemaker frequently played by the parish priest ill Ireland was illustrated in a case of assault that came before the Schull ...

    Article : 143 words
  29. Strange Freak of Memory.

    A young man who had come direct from Amsterdam married an English girl, and for 50 years spoke nothing but English. So completely had he forgotten his ...

    Article : 205 words
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