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  2. SHORT STORY

    Nobody not in the secret has over yet round out why Bsron Paulovitch Pradskoi ment to New Guinea, why he stayed there so long, or why he went away when he did. ...

    Article : 3,516 words
  3. FARM AND GARDEN.

    Some months ago a Dublin inventor claimed for a preparation of his that it would preserve eggn in perpetual freshness. To thoroughly test the ellcacy of the invent[?] ...

    Article : 212 words
  4. POPULAR SCIENCE PERPETUAL LIGHT AND INSANITY.

    At the North Cape, the most northerly point of Europe, the sun is vieible above the orizon from May 5 to August 6, or just one day over three mouth. Before May [?], it ...

    Article : 147 words
  5. VARIETIES

    The London police force consiste of 13,314 men. Chicago spreads over nearly 200 miles of territory. ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  6. WHAT ORGAN FIRST RELAPSES INTO SLUMBER.

    It is said to be a fact that all our senses do not slumber simultaneonsly, but that they fall into a happy state of insenvibility one after another. The eyelids take the lead and ...

    Article : 160 words
  7. DAIRY PRINCIPLES.

    Good butter can be produced much more cheaply than poor, aud yet why a large [?]lass of makers will porsist in producing the inforior grades at an enhanced cost is a ...

    Article : 596 words
  8. NATIONAL VOICES.

    There are (says Dr. James Cocikie) national as well as sectional voice-churacteristics. The Scottish voice is whining, sad, and, at the same time, stern. The predominating ...

    Article : 138 words
  9. TELL-TALE TEETH.

    Some curious instances of how peoulinrities in the shape of their clients’ teeth may lead dentiste and detectives to identify crimimils are given in an important work on ...

    Article : 602 words
  10. A COUNTESS’S DIAMOND.

    For many years the rumor of a magnificent diamond, said to be in the possession of a tribe dwelling in a far-away region vaguely indicated by the expression 'up country.' ...

    Article : 293 words
  11. Spare Moments NOT PAID FOR LOST TIME.

    Mrs. McCarthy.—'Yer wages is twinty cints short this wake, Moike.’ McCarthy—Yis, Mary Ann. We had an explosion on Toosday, 'an’ th' foorman ...

    Article : 44 words
  12. THE SUPREME TEST.

    The Poet.—’It’s no use; I’m afraid that I shall never reach the highest pinnacle of poetical success.’ The Poet’s Wife.—‘Why, dear, what do ...

    Article : 70 words
  13. A MINISTER’S SON.

    A small three-year old is the son of a clergyman whose creed need hardly be indicated after the recital of his young son’s vocabulary. He was in the hall when a ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. FREEZING POINT OF ORANGES.

    The late Professor Newberry of Columbia College, New York, a few years ago gave the srieutific wherefores of the ability of the the orauge to withstand a degree, of cold thats ...

    Article : 581 words
  15. WOULDN’T SELL TO THE EMPRESS FREDERICK.

    A lady in Brooklyn, who certainly is not given to snobbery, was in Europe some two or three years ago and she found in some neglected corner a fine old picturo of the ...

    Article : 238 words
  16. NO REST IN THE GRAVE.

    At a small theatre in the banlieue the ourtain failed to drop at the close of the third act, remaining suspended midway. On the stage lay prostrate the solitary figure of a ...

    Article : 87 words
  17. A SLEEPING-CAR STORY.

    A travelling man occupied a sleepingcar and desired to leave the train at SyraCalling the porter, he said: 'I wish to get off at Syracuse. I am a sound sleeper, ...

    Article : 177 words
  18. AN EXTRAORDINARY HAND.

    It is being told of Eugenie that on a late visit to Paris who wont 'incog' to a fashionable palmist to have her fortune read. As part of the necromancer’s art is not to 500 his ...

    Article : 112 words
  19. PERSONALITIES.

    Herace Greeley once wrote to an applicant for a job: My friend, if you are indeed qualified for a first-rate proof reader or can easily make yourself so, you need never fear. ...

    Article : 684 words
  20. COUNSEL AND WITNESS.

    Sir J. Scarlet, afterwards Lord Abinger, when at the Bar, had on one occasion to call a wituess whose evidence he was told might be somewhat dangorous, unless the witner ...

    Article : 133 words
  21. M. CARNOT AND THE AMERICAN BOY.

    One of M. Carnot’s most amiable trits, and one which he shared with Mr. Gladstone, was a habit of 'tipping schoolboys on almost every available occasion. A friend ...

    Article : 153 words
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