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  2. THE HORTICULTURIST.

    The failure of old and well established fruit trees to bear satisfactory crops year after year after their existence is frequently heard of, and very often the ...

    Article : 370 words
  3. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    E'er walk life's pathway with a soul upright, Scorn e'er to rise upon another's fall, A true ideal for ever in thy sight, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 125 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    A real corn tax—A tight shoe. A taking title.—"The Pickpocket." A go-between—The ham in a sandwich. ...

    Article : 1,471 words
  5. NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

    Rest is an expensive luxury to most people. Dreadful earthquake reported from Persia. No fewer than 1100 people ...

    Article : 1,303 words
  6. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    The rate of mortality among medical men is becoming seriously high. Dr Kortright has made an analysis of the ages and causes of death of 450 medical ...

    Article : 225 words
  7. The Vineyard.

    There are but few localities where the vine cannot be grown successfully with garden culture as a dessert fruit. The position of the vines will depend ...

    Article : 402 words
  8. Useful Hints

    To Clean Black Dresses.—Take an old' black kid glove, cut into small pieces, and let it stand overnight in a pint of soft water. In the morning add about ...

    Article : 795 words
  9. HOW HE TRAPPED HER.

    Dr. John Erskine, a well-known Scottish divine, was remarkable for his simplicity of manner and gentle temper. He returned so often from the pulpit ...

    Article : 297 words
  10. A Valuable Discovery.

    Dr Thlerby of the Paris Charite Hospital, claims to have discovered picric acid an infallible remedy for burns and scalds. Details of a most interesting ...

    Article : 495 words
  11. CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    Close attention shoud be paid to all young and growing plants in order to regulate their growth and prevent them from drawing up weakly — a fault ...

    Article : 395 words
  12. Horticultural Hints

    Amateurs and others who intend to increase the area of their strawberry beds next season should encourage one or mere of the best kinds they ...

    Article : 372 words
  13. Home Cooking.

    You may talk about the dinners that the swell hotels maintain, And of the publis banquets where the water is champagne, ...

    Article : 304 words
  14. THE SKIPPER'S MONKEY & THE OTHER PETE.

    Spicer's monkey had just hopped up on deck, and from his black paw hung the skipper's watch and chain. Pete the greater ambled along towards the ...

    Article : 947 words
  15. THE FLOWER GARDEN.

    Although the season has been rather more favorable of late than it was in the earlier part of the year, not much can be seen outside of gardens that are ...

    Article : 292 words
  16. Eye Dont's.

    Dr G. Sterling Ryerson, Professor of Opthalmology in Trinity Medical College, Toronto, says:—Myopia being essentially a condition due to abuse of ...

    Article : 160 words
  17. DESTROYING WEEDS.

    There is a law in Ohio which directs the superintendents of county or township roads to cut thistles, wild parsnips, burdocks and other noxious weeds that ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. HOLIDAY ATTENTIONS.

    "My dear, you're looking tired to-night." (That means a Christmas cloak!) "I'll get your slippers and your pipe—a light." ...

    Article : 105 words
  19. Wanted to be Photographed at Her Husband's Tomb.

    Pity the sorrows of a lady of White- chapel, named Bush, who (says "The Daily Telegraph") arranged with an artistic photographer in the same locality ...

    Article : 359 words
  20. COLEUSES.

    The beautifully colored leaves of many of the seedling varieties of Coleuses that have appeared in recent times, combined with their easy propagation ...

    Article : 103 words
  21. About Pencils.

    The ordinary sized lead pencil, such as one gets when he goes into a store for "a lead pencil," is seven inches in length and a trifle more than a quarter ...

    Article : 202 words
  22. THE KITCHEN GARDEN.

    Work in this department will be limited, owing to the warm weather, and confined to a few summer crops. The absence of rain and ...

    Article : 558 words
  23. May I Smoke, Doctor?

    Dr Jankau, in an article in the "Zeitschrift fur Krankenpflege, tries to answer the question so often asked by patients and convalescents: "May I smoke ...

    Article : 293 words
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    A correspondent of the "Rural New Yorker," whose grape vines were frozen back this spring, writes that he broke off all the new shoots and shortened in ...

    Article : 418 words
  25. The Oven Bird

    One of the most Wonderful of the feathered inhabitants of South-America is the oven bird, which mixes hair with mud and builds its nest in the form of ...

    Article : 63 words
  26. THE NEW CHILD OF COURSE DON'T.

    "I'm tired of 'don'ts," said Margaret B., "Just as tired of 'don'ts' as I can be. For it's 'don't' do this, and 'don't' do ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. No Title

    A French conscript recently claimed exemeption from military duty because he was, at 20, the father offour children. ...

    Article : 77 words
  28. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 119 words
  29. A PROLIFIC VINE.

    Two thousand two hundred bunches of grapes on a vine tree have, according to the "Grazar Tagepost," been counted, at Wildon, in Styria, Austria, by a ...

    Article : 63 words
  30. SARAH ANN'S NOVEL.

    Upon the kitchen table with her work unfinished yet, Sat Sarah Ann, intent upon a thrill novelette. ...

    Article : 194 words
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