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  2. Miscellaneous.

    BANK of England notes are numbered backwards, that is, from one to 10,000, hence the figures 000,01 The stroke of a lion’s paw id the third ...

    Article : 300 words
  3. Odds and Ends.

    A JOLLY looking Irishman was saluted with the remark: ‘Tim, your house has b’own sway.’ ‘Deed it’s not, said Tim, ‘for live the ...

    Article : 36 words
  4. SHORT STORY

    YEARS ago, when I was a girl, scarcely in my teens, I read these lines from some book, where they had been chosen as a motto for a chapter— ...

    Article : 2,450 words
  5. FRUIT BATTER PUDDING.

    Ingredients:— One pound of flour: two teaspoonsful of baking powder: quarter teaspoonful of salt; one pint of milk; one tin of preserved fruit, or come nisely ...

    Article : 112 words
  6. RADIUM

    The rare element radium shares with a few other substances the curious property of being radio active—that is to say, it continually emits radiations which act ...

    Article : 259 words
  7. A NEW DEVICE.

    Doctor: ‘ Pat, what is that hanging ove’ your bed with a string attached thereto?’ Patient: ‘Well, sor, that’s an alarm clock. As soon as I draw the string I am ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. A VALUABLE FORGETFULNESS.

    ‘Why, my dear man,’ declared the hypnotist, by making a few simple passes before your eyes I can make you forget that you are married,’ ...

    Article : 43 words
  9. HER REPLY.

    Husband: ‘You are always looking for bargains. Was there ever a time when you were not a bargain banter, even for things no use to you? ...

    Article : 37 words
  10. JAM ROLY.

    Ingredients :— Ten ounces of flour: four onuses of clarified fat ; one teaspoonful of baking powder: pinch of salt; one gill of water; jam. ...

    Article : 119 words
  11. Housekeeper.

    NEVER mix your disinfectants, should be a primary and fixed rule with every intelligent housewife. Once upon a time a lady, a highly intelligent aducated ...

    Article : 72 words
  12. TWO MARRIED MEN.

    ‘Your wife has such a liquid voice.’ said Mr Fosdick to Mr Teff. ‘Yes, that’s a pretty good name for it,’ replied Mr T. ...

    Article : 46 words
  13. SHE SCORED.

    I‘ wish they’d invent a new expression occasionally.’ said Top, as he perused the account of a recent wedding. ‘It’s always ‘the blushing’ bride. ...

    Article : 54 words
  14. AN ARIEL TORPEDO.

    A test was recently made at Rocha way Point, Long Island, of a novel project [?]ile invented by Mr Joseph J. McIntyre, of Brooklyn, N.Y. As the title implies, the ...

    Article : 364 words
  15. HEADACHES FROM EYE STRAIN.

    Dr.S. Weir Mitchell in an article on the subject formulates the following coniousions First, there are many headache which are due directly to disorders of the ...

    Article : 120 words
  16. GINGER PUDDING.

    Ingredients:—Half a pound of treacle; One pound of flour: half a pound of dripping one tablespoonful of brown sugar: one tablespoonful of carbonate soda; half an ...

    Article : 111 words
  17. UNFAILING MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION.

    The Russian method of identifying soldiers killed in battle is by means of little metal icons— sacred picture images—found on the bodies. On the back of each of ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. NOT MUCH WINDING UP REQUIRED.

    An Englishman has invented a clock that will for 2,000 years. The motive power is a email piece of gold leaf which is electrified by means of a very small ...

    Article : 88 words
  19. CHEAP ORANGE PUDDING.

    Ingredients;-Halt a dozen oranges; a quarter pound of sugar; one pint of milk ; two tablespoonfuls of cornflour; and one of sugar. ...

    Article : 96 words
  20. THE FOOT BATH.

    The foot bath is often a source of great. relief and comfort to a sick person, and everyone who is likely to have charge of the sick at any time should learn how to ...

    Article : 182 words
  21. A NEW WEAPON.

    ‘Is your wife a club woman, Mike ?’ ‘Nary the loikes o’ thot, sorr; she uses a flst-iron, sorr,’ ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  22. AN ANCIENT SEPULCHRE.

    The cairns or giant graves at Bosau, near Eutin, Germany, are being excavated under, the direction of Professor Knorr of the Kiel Museum of Antiquities. One grave has ...

    Article : 103 words
  23. IN A FIX

    Sunday School Teacher: Why, Willie Wilson, fighting again. Didn’t last Sunday’s lesson teach you that when you are struck on one cheek you. ought to turn the ...

    Article : 50 words
  24. MARMALADE PUDDING.

    Ingredients: a pound of breadcrumbs: pound of suet: one teaspoonful of carbonate soda; half a pound of marmalade; two tablespoonful each of sugar and milk. ...

    Article : 115 words
  25. HIS ANSWER.

    Young Man (a private in the Volunteers) ‘I’ve come to ask you for your daughter’s hand, sir.’ Old Gentleman (a captain in the same ...

    Article : 36 words
  26. NO NATIVE JEWS

    Japan is singular among the nations in having no native Jews. It has, however, a couple of hundred Hebrew, families, who have emigrated from other countries; but ...

    Article : 109 words
  27. WATER TREATMENT OF A COLD IN THE MEAD.

    The hydropathic treatment of a cold in the head in more reliable than any other, and one which scarcely requires the ald of a physician. It is as follows : In the ...

    Article : 148 words
  28. Items of Interest.

    WE may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none. ...

    Article : 470 words
  29. IN A RESTAURANT.

    Happy Bridegroom : ‘Waiter, I want dinner for two,’ Waiter: Vill you haf table d’hote or a la carte?’ ...

    Article : 44 words
  30. Science and Invention

    Some years ago American geologists described certain large spirals of hard stone met with in rooks of soft structure under the name of ‘devil’s corkscrews,’ How ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. DURING THE DINNER HOUR.

    Mike: ‘An’ what makes ye swalley all yer dinner in less than two minute? Is it yer stin’ on a bet?’ Tim ‘Shure , an’ I ates that way for the ...

    Article : 73 words
  32. THE LARGEST GRAPE YINE IN THE WORLD.

    What is claimed to be the largest grapevine in the world is, like many other big things, found in America, When the Mission Fathers from Spain settled in ...

    Article : 178 words
  33. WOMAN’S HEALTH.

    Not until we learn that body and mind or body and soul are not separate entities independent of each other, but that they are wedded so closely that one cannot ...

    Article : 213 words
  34. A SlBERlAN MAMMOTH.

    Occasionally we hear of the body of a mammoth being discovered in Arctic regions, the flesh being preserved by a kind of natural system of cold storage. ...

    Article : 155 words
  35. HINDU CREMATION.

    In the course of a recent lecture at the Camera Club, London, the late Mr Law Bros showed some interesting photographs which illustrated the process of cremation ...

    Article : 129 words
  36. A NATURAL CONCLUSION.

    The Stout One : Oh, I fell scores a friend of yours the other day,’ The Thin One : ‘Did you? which hospital did they take him to ?’ ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  37. REWARD FOR CURIOSITY.

    Magistrate : ‘Why did you, strike the, telegraph operator?’ Prisoner : ‘ It wuz like dis, yer Honour I give him a message to send to me gal, an ...

    Article : 39 words
  38. REVIVAL OF THE DEAD

    Dr. Robert C Kemp a physician of repute has lately brought before the New York Academy of Science an account of some interesting experiment which he has ...

    Article : 177 words
  39. SPITSBERGEN.

    Mr E. T. Garwood, who accompanied Sit Martin Conway on a recent expedition to Spitzbergen, has given an account of their wanderings into the interior, of that ...

    Article : 146 words
  40. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES

    Ingredients;—One cupful each of bread crumbs; flour currants, sugar, suet (finely chopped), and milk; half a teaspoonful of carbonate soda; one teaspoonful of spice; ...

    Article : 61 words
  41. KEEPING UP THE REPUTATION.

    Mrs Jones: ‘I don’t see what sLa wanted to marry him for; he has s cork leg, a glass eye, as well as a wig and false teeth Mrs Smith: ‘Well, my deer, you know, ...

    Article : 49 words
  42. CONUNDRUMS.

    When does a, waterman resemble an indian? —When he feathers his scnll (shnll) On what tos does a corn never come?— The mistletoe. ...

    Article : 43 words
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