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  2. PITH AND POINT.

    In Germany certain sorts of fungi are made into chest-protectors. Cards of invitation at an Edinburgh marriage, just issued, bear the printed words, ...

    Article : 421 words
  3. SPRAY. I

    SHE WAS NO SIMPLETON. " Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, " don’t you think it would he better for you to let me pick out horses for you ...

    Article : 940 words
  4. VARIOUS VERSES.

    (The following strange poem appeared first in the " St. Helena Magazine" a number of years ago. It, relates to the times in India when the British troops ...

    Article : 490 words
  5. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    There were two meadows which were separated by a limpid river. The banks, at a certain place, stretched from cither side in a gentle slope, forming a ford of ...

    Article : 1,679 words
  6. WHY AUTOGRAPHS ARE WORTHLESS.

    "There is no subject upon which more illusions seem to exist than on the subject of distinguished people's autographs," said a dealer in these things. "An ...

    Article : 225 words
  7. FELLOW MUSICIANS.

    When supper's cleared away at last, And feeble grows the day. And stars are gathering thick and fast Out there across the bay, ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. AERIAL EXPERIMENTS.

    Experiments made at sea by the Comte de ln [?] with his new airship have been in all respects satisfactory. For Four hours the huge machine hovered over the ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. GROW YOUR OWN SOAP.

    Natural soap may he made front a tree known as sapindus utilis. This plant, which has long been known in Japan, China, and India, bears a fruit of about the size of a ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. TRAINING TORTOISES.

    " One of the most curious examples of patient training is a display by an old Korean boatman," says a correspondent "of a dozen drilled tortoise. Directed ...

    Article : 92 words
  11. THE WATERS OF LETHE.

    Memorising has been raised to the dignity of an art. It has its professors, it is accomplished by many systems, and it has provided us with many humorous stories. ...

    Article : 271 words
  12. PRIMITIVE KNIVES.

    The American Professor, W. J. M'Gee, his lately undertaken to trace back to its origin that useful invention, the knife. The first knives, he believes, were fractured ...

    Article : 112 words
  13. NORTH POLE FOR CONSUMPTION.

    Peary the Arctic explorer is going to take a party of consumptives to the Far North on his next trip. He believes that the extreme northern air will cure ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. A WOMAN'S CURIOSITY.

    She cycled up to the butcher's shop, and came in with a smiling face. "I want you to cut me off twenty-five pounds of beef, please," she said. ...

    Article : 100 words
  15. ENGINEERING AND ARCHAEOLOGY

    A remarkable incident which involves the turning aside, at great expense, to avoid the destruction of an ancient landmark, has just occurred in connection with the ...

    Article : 130 words
  16. LOOPING TWO LOOPS.

    The latest novelty in this line is the invention of an ingenious wheelman, of Berlin, Bottner by name, who has constructed a double loop, and happily ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. NO MORE SEASICKNESS.

    A device for preventing sea-sickness by destroying the oscillation of a boat has just been invented. The feature of this is a spring, to which a chair can be ...

    Article : 65 words
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