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  2. CHEDDAR CHEESEMAKING.

    The following valuable hints on Cheddar cheesemaking are taken from the "American Cheesemaker”:— 1. You cannot make strictly fine ...

    Article : 1,407 words
  3. MARVELS OF MODERN FLOWER CULTURE.

    “If is beyond price. If I said £10,000, I should not be far wong." Thus a member of a well-known firm of florists to the writer, when he asked ...

    Article : 437 words
  4. BRANDS ON HIDES.

    In these days of keen competition it seems almost incredible that Australians should calmly suffer a severe national loss on account of ...

    Article : 785 words
  5. A BURIED GENIUS.

    “He’s just the inventivest man,” said Mrs. Pulsifer to her neighbor, as they sat on the back steps shelling [?]eas. The subject of their praise was dimly ...

    Article : 373 words
  6. WHAT ABOUT YOUR HOLIDAY?

    “When you take a vacation, take my advice—make up your mind how you want to enjoy yourself, and then go and do it,” says Max Adeler. ...

    Article : 1,121 words
  7. THE TRIUMPH OF “I WILL.”

    "I don't think I should have cared to be his wife.” A lady standing near me uttered these words, as we stood looking at a gentleman with a ...

    Article : 1,501 words
  8. DEVELOPING THE STUD BOAR.

    The young boars that are to be developed for breeding purposes should be selected at weaning time, and all of those that do not come up to a ...

    Article : 702 words
  9. HORSES RESPOND TO KIND TREATMENT.

    No man knows the true value of his horse until he has won his regard and confidence, as it were. A kind hand and gentle, voice will act like magic; ...

    Article : 378 words
  10. PURE SEEDS.

    In Maine, United States of America, stringent legislation in respect to the purity or freedom from foreign seeds of agricultural seeds is ...

    Article : 211 words
  11. HOW THE LIVER PROTECTS.

    Drs. G. A. Petrone and Aurelio Pagano describe the functions of the liver as protective against the vegetable and mineral poisons that ...

    Article : 164 words
  12. HOW SHE REMEMBERED.

    Rosa Bonheur, the great painter of animals, had a system of mnemonics which was exceedingly quaint. She could trace in the faces of those ...

    Article : 118 words
  13. A HORSE BEATS A TRAIN.

    As the Spokane express was outbound a few days ago (an American paper relates) a bay horse about sixteen hands high, and a most beautiful ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. RE-BIRTH OF SAN FRANCISCO.

    On October 19, San Francisco will be born again. The city on the Pacific slope, so disastrously crumpled by earthquake a year or so ago, has been ...

    Article : 95 words
  15. CONCLUSIVE CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

    The following instance of conclusive circumstantial evidence came to light in a case in which Lord Chancellor Eldon was employed on circuit; ...

    Article : 195 words
  16. MISCELLANEOUS.

    It’s how we behave when we think nobody is looking that is the real measure and test of our lives. Most everybody shows up pretty well on ...

    Article : 500 words
  17. Very Similar.

    He was an old farmer on a visit to town, and he saw two young fellows playing chess. The game was long, and he ventured at length to ...

    Article : 230 words
  18. HAD THEY BUT KNOWN.

    Strange and sad are some of the tragedies arising from want of knowledge or lack of patience. A distressing example was the case ...

    Article : 193 words
  19. A London Landlord.

    A district visitor in London was paying calls on the folk in a row of cottages, and was shocked by the conduct of a shabbily dressed old ...

    Article : 152 words
  20. THE BEE-STING CURE.

    The "bee sting" cure for rheumatism has been brought into prominence again by its adoption, experimentally, at the Belie Vue Hospital, in New ...

    Article : 124 words
  21. THEY TRIED AGAIN.

    “Lorna Doone” went to many publisting houses before one firm agreed to bring it out. “Tom Jones,” to which Dickens ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. Stung.

    A judge who had a great reputation for his bitter wit was sentencing a gambler, who appeared in a loudly checked yellow and black suit with a ...

    Article : 297 words
  23. SOMETHING ABOUT NURSES.

    Numbers of girls wish to become nurses, and many are called, but few go right through the course. Girls think the work easy: thereby they ...

    Article : 286 words
  24. What Every Husband Knows.

    That it isn't safe for him to invite any old friend home to dinner without sparring for time and the privilege a week or so ahead. ...

    Article : 134 words
  25. HOW VISITING CARDS ORIGINATED.

    Very few people seem to know-how the fashion of leaving one’s visiting card at friends’ homes originated. In olden days, the porter at the door ...

    Article : 190 words
  26. NO BLOTTING-PAPER-ALLOWED.

    If a registrar of births, deaths and marriages makes an accidental blot on his register, he must not remove it with his penknife nor erase it with an ...

    Article : 135 words
  27. Wouldn’t Care a Bit.

    "Mark my words,"—declared Mrs. Prancer, laying, down the law to her long-suffering husband, "by the end of the century woman will have the ...

    Article : 85 words
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