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  2. Household Hints.

    To -wash hairbrushes, use spirits of ammonia instead of soda or soap. It is less likely to soften the bristles. A dessertspoonful of ammonia to two quarts of ...

    Article : 656 words
  3. Ladies of Title Who Have Harried Black Hen.

    In Germany the Baroness von Rhadon, having attained the age of 40 without finding a husband of her own race, at length conferred her hand and fortune ...

    Article : 841 words
  4. PLAYING WITH FIRE.

    Fire tricks were practised in very ancient times. The first known fire-: breather was a Syrian slave named; Eunus, a. leader in the servile war in' ...

    Article : 846 words
  5. THE FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP.

    There is one function of the higher hra'in-cell of all-prevading importance in the practice of psychiatry ; that is the sleep function. In regard to the ...

    Article : 284 words
  6. POULTRY NOTES.

    Although dry feeding is no new idea to the poultry world, it is only of recent years that the subject has had consideration. Twenty years ago ...

    Article : 772 words
  7. FLAMING FORESTS.

    Among the "big things" of which America holds a monopoly, there are two. she would much rather be without. One is the cyclone, and the ...

    Article : 727 words
  8. ANCIENT ARTILLERY.

    We give two illustrations of ancient weapons reconstructed and consisting in parts of remains found at Saalburg. The word "tormentum" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 120 words
  9. THE FARM.

    Butter-milk contains chieny the smaller globules of fat present in the milk which have not coalesced under f the churning to form ...

    Article : 730 words
  10. THREE JURY STORIES.

    Some juries find a simple way out of a disagreement by the expedient of tossing up a coin—heads, '"guilt tails, "not guilty"; which, haphazard ...

    Article : 320 words
  11. BEAUTIFUL, OLD, AND VALUABLE.

    A flagon, of Gothic style, made in 1477, and held ever since that time by the town of Goslar, Germany, has been sold by the community to the ...

    Article : 206 words
  12. A Voice.

    Rosenthal explained that his friends had come to bear a song or two. " 'Appy to oblige," said Davis, and inquired what the gentleman would like ...

    Article : 580 words
  13. THE HUNGRY BOOK-BUYER.

    Dozens of my books were purchased with money which ought to have been spent upon what are called the necessaries of life. Many a time ...

    Article : 242 words
  14. Historical Note.

    Teacher Which Roman emperor ruled first, Titus or Vespasian ?" Tommy : " Titus." " Wrong." ...

    Article : 310 words
  15. HIS QUALIFICATIONS.

    To a recent advertisement offering £80 a year for, a thoroughly competent clerk,, of good appearance, and possessing at least twenty years' ex- ...

    Article : 150 words
  16. GOOD BREEDING PAYS.

    One of the factors that is injuring the dairy business is that so many farmers are content to use any kind of bull that will get their cows in ...

    Article : 380 words
  17. NATURAL CONTRAST IN PLANTING.

    The charming grouping of our'.way- fide plants oilers a lesson to any gardener, in Nature's garden a Pleasing irregularity is the rule, for ...

    Article : 309 words
  18. A USELESS ACQUISITION.

    In one of the Philadelphia' public schools is a girl whose forebears held that the principal aim ox the life of a woman is marriage. This .little ...

    Article : 123 words
  19. ENGLISH ABROAD.

    As the most delightful example she has ever seen of the English the European uses in his correspondence, a woman who has just returned from ...

    Article : 225 words
  20. THE OTHER HALF OF THE STORY.

    A schoolboy was asked the other day what caused him to burst forth into smothered laughter every few minutes during- the afternoon's ...

    Article : 108 words
  21. IN A TREE TOP.

    It does not fall to the lot of everyone to see a donkey and cart perched on the top of an oak tree nearly thirty-five feet from the ground. ...

    Article : 223 words
  22. AWAITING EXECUTION.

    It was early hours yet, and the landlord of the Hen and Rooster had not yet opened the doors for custom. Outside leaned a solitary-looking ...

    Article : 94 words
  23. How Bullets Are Made

    You do not cast bullets in moulds. You tun the gleaming molten lead into a receiver a foot across and several feet high, and while it is warm bring down upon it by ...

    Article : 258 words
  24. Uncertain.

    Sympathiser (to prostrate bicyclist) : "'Any serious damage tram the accident ?" Fallen Bicyclist (feebly) : " I don't know yet. I have -- have --haven't looked at my ...

    Article : 164 words
  25. SUSPICIOUS.

    Mrs. Hiram Offen : "My new cook was formerly employed by Mrs. Swell- man, and she claims she left of her own accord, but I suspect she was ...

    Article : 77 words
  26. STRIKING ANOTHER MATCH.

    A disconsolate widower wrote on his deceased wife's tombstone the words, "'The light of my life has gone out ...

    Article : 73 words
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