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  2. Comic Cuttings.

    One who never drinks benind the bar —the mosquite. Jess: "Do you think you would like to marry a New Woman?" Jack: "Um ...

    Article : 376 words
  3. Household Hints.

    To remove [?]ar stains first rub them with a few drops of salad oil. This will so[?] the stains, which can then be removed by the application of benzine. ...

    Article : 201 words
  4. Short Story. The Peasant’s Daughter.

    Although almost totally devoid of sight, Ivan Eglendorf, an Esthonian peasant, possessed the marvellous faculty of combining the rarest and most ...

    Article : 2,217 words
  5. The Sketcher.

    It was on Tuesday evening, 6th February, 1896 [?] like t0 be accurate), we were sitting in front of a cheery wood fire in a detestably ugly grate, ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  6. Facial Expression.

    Edouard Cuyer set fo[?] a recent sesston of the Transform[?] of Paris the latest view of the evolu[?]onist as to the origin of facial expession in man. ...

    Article : 714 words
  7. Spray._ Substantially Stuffed.

    Mr. Newbryde (attempting to carve the turkey): "Good gracious, Mary[?] whar have you s[?]uffed this turkey with?" ...

    Article : 84 words
  8. A Ground for Divorce.

    A certain American lady doctor, of course a self-supporting woman. recently came to the conclusion that a husband such as she was tied to was ...

    Article : 81 words
  9. A Good Cement for Glass and China.

    Take a quarter of an ounce of gun m[?]stic and c[?] ounce of pulverised white gum shellac. Put these ingredients into one ounce of sulphuric [?]ther ...

    Article : 65 words
  10. How He Economised.

    Mr. T. Edgar Pemberton tells this story of a Scotsman, who went one night with his wife to a certain pit door and found that eighteenpenee was ...

    Article : 81 words
  11. Excessive Perspiration.

    For excessive perspiration of the hands and under the arms the following is a very useful powder:— Oxide of z[?], 1oz.; powdered starch, [?]oz. Mix, ...

    Article : 33 words
  12. South African Millionaires.

    A writer in "Onze Courant" has been tabulating statistics about South African millionaires. He estimates that Messrs. Rhodes, Alfred Beit, J. B[?] ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. Polish for Kid Boots and Shoes.

    Mix well together and boll slowly until they are thoroughly amalgamated the following ingredients:—Two ounces of fine glue, four ounces of logwood ...

    Article : 111 words
  14. She Would Have Fetched Him.

    Henry Russell records the following in his volume of reminiseences:—"At Neweastle-on-Tyne I was singing The Gambler’s Wife.’ The song tells in ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. Pillows.

    A Freuch doctor says that to rest the head upon a pillow is an outrage on the laws of health. The head, he says, should be on a level with the feet, or ...

    Article : 78 words
  16. Oatmeal Bags as Sponges.

    Oatmeal bags used in the bath as sponges are sa[?] to impart a velvery sofrness and whiteness to the skin. This is how they are male:— 5lb. of line ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. The Moustache in the English Pulpit.

    A writer in a London periodical some forty years past states that nearly all the English elergymen living between two or three hundred years ago wore the ...

    Article : 109 words
  18. Lavender Water.

    To make lavender water take spirits of wine ½ pint; oil of lavender, ¼oz.; essence of bergamot, 1½ drachm; essen[?]ce of ambergris, 1½ drachm. Mix ...

    Article : 33 words
  19. Animal Food.

    Feeling the need of medicine the other day, an Irishman applied to a doctor with whom he was acquainted. Medicus asked the symptoms, felt the pulse, ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. Dyes in Stockings.

    Dyes in stockings should be looked to if any irr[?]ation of the skin appears. This is a frequent, but unsuspected, source of troublesome skin eruptions, ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. The Long Arctic Night.

    Constantin Nossiloff, in his work "Le Tour du Monde," says "During scientific researches in Nova Zembla I had the sensations and experiences of the ...

    Article : 493 words
  22. What the Queen Reads.

    All through her life, although it has been a busy one, the Queen has been a great reader. There is hardly any book of note that has not passed through her ...

    Article : 377 words
  23. Bad Place for a Ragman.

    A certain Irish gentleman, who pursues the humble but useful occupation of a ragman, though at one time he served her Majesty in foreign parts as ...

    Article : 139 words
  24. Crushed by Mighty Words.

    I sat on the seat with the coloured man who drove me down to the railroad depot with a shacklety old waggon, and as we left the hotel he said:— ...

    Article : 436 words
  25. Advice Which Will Do To-day.

    An English poet of the last century gives the following advice as to the wearing of colours:—The lass whose, skin is like the hazel ...

    Article : 89 words
  26. The Human Brain.

    After all, what is the brain but a scrap-book? If, when we were asleep, someone could peep in there, what would he find? Lines from favourite ...

    Article : 192 words
  27. The Influence of the Press.

    Excited Gent: "You go to Jericho with your paper!" Editor (who is used to it): "What's up now?" ...

    Article : 103 words
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