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  2. Housekeeper.

    A discoloured slab of moble looks slovenly wherever it is seen. To clean it mix quicklime with strong sp as to form a mixture having ...

    Article : 441 words
  3. SHORT STORY.

    It is a true remark that Englishmen have forgotten as mouch of their naval history as would make the reputation of a lesser uartion; and there is a certain spedtbrift grandeur ...

    Article : 2,499 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    In 1293 spectacles were first invented. Two-thirds of Russia’s population are peasants. Russia is the largest produeer of ...

    Article : 312 words
  5. Odds and Ends.

    Woggs— “Her father kicked William out last night.” Waggs—“He looks like a man who’d foot a bill.” Mrs. Cobwigger—“Don’t you think ...

    Article : 530 words
  6. DOUBLE-WHEEL SYSTEM FOR RAILWAYS.

    The long list of accidents, due to spreading rails and breaking wheel flanges, on both electric and steam railways, constitutes the reason for the ...

    Article : 107 words
  7. Scientific Notes.

    After years of vain effort, Don Augelo Barbieri, an Italian inventor, claims that he has succeeded in devising an “automusicograph,” which -is ...

    Article : 124 words
  8. ENLARGE YOUR WOULD.

    To day your world can be as large as you want to make it. Into countless thou ands of books men-have put then expenences and: ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. TRAVELLER.

    Siburia, by a recent ukase, is to have a new system of law courted, removing the inhabitants from the arbitrary rule of Government officals. Justices of the peace ...

    Article : 96 words
  10. WOODEN CLOTHING,

    Clothes made from wood are the latest sartorial venture. The discovery this new process is largely due to fact that bleached cotton is known ...

    Article : 135 words
  11. SOLID PETROL COMING.

    Gogu Constantinescu, a Roumanian claims to have invented solid petrol. He takes tm after tin of ordinary petrol and turns it out looking like ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. PLENTY OF SLEEP FOR LITTLE ONES.

    In these days of hygienic living it should not be necessary to say, “Put the children to bed early,” but to those who are careless about a ...

    Article : 146 words
  13. A GHOSF IN BUSINESS.

    An amusing case of spiritualistic impost tare bad lately been tried before the Lindsgerich at Hamburg. The sccused who was apprentice 19 years old and an adept in ...

    Article : 245 words
  14. MUSIC BY TELEPHONE.

    The transmission of music a distance of-500 miles over an ordinary telephone circuit was successfully, accomplished receintly in .California.' During a meeting ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. MARVELS OF MEMORY,

    Memory banded down through 30 generations is one of the perplexing tacts ot science. The beaver flourished along. French rivers until killed off ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. VENTILATE THE HAIR.

    It is when a girl is just beginning to put her hair up that she should be impressed with the necessity of ample ventilation for it. To ventilate the ...

    Article : 201 words
  17. SPRUCING UP THE PATER.

    Mr K—— comes of plain family, unenoumbered with wealth. He was brought up on a farm after wards tampered with trade in a conutry store, then associsted himeelf ...

    Article : 1,018 words
  18. ANOTHER AWFUL MYSTERY,

    The newsboy was running down the street at top speed, when he met the Vicar of the parish. Have you heard the distressing ...

    Article : 56 words
  19. THE GIPIES.

    Surrey with its six hundred opel tracts, contines s to be a favourite camping ground of the gipsies, who cling to their independent ways in the most aeancious macner; ...

    Article : 269 words
  20. LUMINOUS BIRDS.

    Birds with luminous or phosphorescent-plumage were mentioned by Pliny and other ancient writers and from the subiect of several notes recently ...

    Article : 236 words
  21. 300 MILES AN HOUR FOR AERO PLANES.

    Aeroplane speeds started at 35 miles an hour and have ineresed to 66 miles At the present time, a steam locomotive can outrun an aeroplane. ...

    Article : 146 words
  22. ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED.

    Sophy, (who accepted Mr. Charles Fleetwood the night before): “Does Mr. Fleetwood strike you as being a sensitive man, Pauline?” ...

    Article : 62 words
  23. RECIPES.

    Delicious Peach Sherbert: One quart can peaches, three of four cups of sugar two-thirds box pelatine, four cups water two eggs. Make syrup of sugar ...

    Article : 488 words
  24. A COMPLICATED CASE.

    A corporal of a famous Irish regiment, while on a march in India, went to the quartermaster to borrow a camel spare tent. The ...

    Article : 74 words
  25. A USE THAT COMETS SERVE.

    That comets may serve the astronomer as explorers of unknown space is the conclusion that Prof. Geo. Forbes, F.R.S., finds to have been recently ...

    Article : 212 words
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