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  2. Garibaldi and the Lost Lamb.

    A pleasant incident is recorded of General Garibaldi. One evening he met a Sardinian shepherd, who had lost a lamb out of his flock and was ...

    Article : 168 words
  3. Self-Imposed.

    Everyone makes vows at some time or other; the process appeals to the emotions. The rolling out of a solemn vow yields that kind of satisfaction which an ...

    Article : 660 words
  4. OUR ONLY QUARREL.

    When John and I married I made up my mind that we would never quarrel, at least as far as I was concerned, and they say that it takes two to make a quarrel, ...

    Article : 1,029 words
  5. POULTRY.

    Mark all the chickens and note their pedigrees; breed from hens with egg records and test their progeny. Fresh soil and fresh grass should ...

    Article : 323 words
  6. WORTH KNOWING.

    A scientist has estimated that a banana Claniation will feed twenty-five human cings when a potato field of the same size would support but two, and a wheat ...

    Article : 767 words
  7. DAIRYING.

    No one, except, those who are actually engaged in dairy farming, can fully realise what an item of time and labor, year in and year out, is the ...

    Article : 284 words
  8. FEAR AND CHOLERA.

    A striking example of the effects of four in times of cholera is the following authentic fact, which is recorded in the newspapers of that time:— ...

    Article : 249 words
  9. CAMERAS RENDER AID.

    There is a great deal of work for the camera or the professional photographer besides the production of photographs for the family album or the portrait frame. ...

    Article : 625 words
  10. THE GRUMBLER.

    I His cap was too thick, and his coat was too thin; He couldn’t he quiet, he hated a din; He hated to write, and he hated to ...

    Article : 232 words
  11. THE BAGPIPES.

    The bagpipe is hot, as is generally supposed, an exclusively Scottish instrument and unknown to other nations. It is, indeed, the national ...

    Article : 307 words
  12. ENTHUSIASTIC DUTCH SCHOLARS

    A lady who has been head mistress in one of the concentration camps, and who is now opening a school on the Rand, writes:—“I wonder greatly what ...

    Article : 192 words
  13. CHAPTER III.

    When we arrived at our cottage I ran in the moment Lacey opened the door. “John! John!” I called, out, as I crossed the hall and entered his little ...

    Article : 1,060 words
  14. PAT’S REASON.

    One day I observed in a crowded tram car A lady was standing she had ridden in a frown, ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. He Found Her a Bed.

    [?] was very much, the pastor of his flock He looked out for the big and little needs of their souls, and also of their bodies. ...

    Article : 247 words
  16. WIT AND HUMOR.

    and his locks are few. A Curious Fact.—A horse may pull with all his might, but never with his mane. ...

    Article : 573 words
  17. HOME LIFE IN SWEDEN.

    In Sweden, women share every privilege offered to their, husbands and brothers, and those who have to earn their living find the doors of no ...

    Article : 314 words
  18. QUEEN OF PIES.

    She isn’t versed in Latin, she doesn’t paint on satin, She doesn’t understand the artful witchery of eyes; ...

    Article : 133 words
  19. MUSIC AND BOOKS.

    The spirit of the age is for light music, light art, light literature; and everything light in the way of recreative amusement. Yet the whole desire ...

    Article : 141 words
  20. THE NIGHT AIR DELUSION.

    A sensible doctor, who despises drug eating, and realises that health is onlypossible by conformity to Nature’s simple but exacting laws, maintains ...

    Article : 252 words
  21. Water as a Disinfectant.

    Pure, fresh, cold water, (says an eminent medical man) is one of the most valuable of disinfectants, inasmuch as it is a powerful absorbent. ...

    Article : 226 words
  22. THE TRUE MISTLETOE STORY.

    It was the wedding-day of Ginevra, the beautiful daughter of the gallant Lord Lovel. The guests were assembled, the ceremony performed, and, as in those days ...

    Article : 362 words
  23. CHAPTER II.

    I went first to my friend Minnie Fenton. She had often said. “Whenever you are in any difficulty come to me,” and as it mis she who got me into the scrape ...

    Article : 953 words
  24. CHANGING VIEWS.

    "I’ve pictured the man that I’ll marry,” she said, When reaching her seventeenth year; ...

    Article : 126 words
  25. Worse Still.

    “Mother,” said the young, wife, “I do not. believe Henry is all that he should he.” "What is wrong with him now, ...

    Article : 70 words
  26. A Filial Compliment.

    “I had quite an encounter as I came home to-night,” said a suburbanite as he took his seat at dinner. "Two men, slightly intoxicated, were having a ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. A Palpable Hit.

    “Did the new actor make a hit last night?” asked a friend of the debutant. “No,” replied the theatrical ...

    Article : 41 words
  28. Something More Certain.

    They were discussing the factors which make for success in the world, when the knowing young man said: “There’s nothing like force of ...

    Article : 65 words
  29. Faithful Old Man.

    Recently a sturdy old farm laborer was called as a witness in a police case, which was proceeding in the market town. ...

    Article : 118 words
  30. Unexpected.

    During a speech on “Marriage and After,” the lecturer said that old married men should loss their wives as they did when they were a year or two ...

    Article : 88 words
  31. Another Crop.

    Benson: I notice that that young widow doesn’t have her widow’s weeds so much in evidence now. Johnson: No; she’s clearing those ...

    Article : 76 words
  32. Badly Beaten.

    Ann American visiting Dublin told some startling stories of the height of New York sky-scrapers. “Ye haven’t seen our newest hotelj ...

    Article : 69 words
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