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  2. THE TELEPHOTOS.

    There is a wide margin for mistakes in the present method of signalling by codes with flags, cones and lights. It Is tedions as well as ambiguous. "Telephotos," described at ...

    Article : 251 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOR.

    "Consider the chickens, my son," said Paterfamllias. "Study their ways and be wise. Whenever they take to drinking their bills go up, and by keeping their bills down ...

    Article : 608 words
  4. BEHIND THE CLOUD.

    It was rather a lonely, but very lovely, old place, calcd Ripley, quaint and pictereeque, a long and rather low-roofed grey stone house, nestling among luxuriant ...

    Article : 4,921 words
  5. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    A NEW TIBE.—An American tire, which has recently been invented. I has three compartments, which, while not an puncturable. is claimed to greatly reduce ...

    Article : 742 words
  6. THE AGRICULTURIST.

    As everyone knows, the worms live in burrows in the superficial layer of earth, provided It retains moisture, dry air being fatal to them. They can, on the other ...

    Article : 1,121 words
  7. AWKWARD.

    One of our bishops when a young man paid a visit to Belfast. He found himself fascinated by the belle of the city, a lady of extraordinary beauty and good sense. All ...

    Article : 181 words
  8. A VALUABLE TREE.

    The pottery tree of Brazil, among the most noteworthy of vegetable products, attains a height of 100 feet, and has a very slender trunk. The wood is exceedingly ...

    Article : 191 words
  9. A PROUD WELSH BOY.

    A proud Welsh boy at school, hearing that an English duke employed six men croks during the period that he kept open house, or rather open castle, in ...

    Article : 141 words
  10. WHAT SHE KNEW.

    "I have been working all day like a Trojan," said the young lady teacher to her pupils, "and I wish you world fellow my example." ...

    Article : 174 words
  11. THE HOUSEHOLD.

    BROILED SALMON.—Cut salt salmon in slles. If very salt, conk In water two hours. Broil and serve on a hot platter with butter over it. ...

    Article : 647 words
  12. BE CAREFUL HOW YOU PUNISH.

    How often do we punish our little ones in the belief that by so doing we shall break them of some habit that appears to us a whim and which is really a weakness ...

    Article : 312 words
  13. HAD HIM THERE.

    Here is a good story of Carlyle. The Rev. Thomas Alexander, a Presbyterian minister, long resident in Caelses, and well-known as a brother Scot, was most ...

    Article : 143 words
  14. An Excuse.

    A teacher in an up-country school recently received the following note from the mother of a boy who had been absent for a day or two:—"Dere Mam,—plese eggcuss ...

    Article : 357 words
  15. A BANKER'S OPINION.

    Observation has proved to me that women who are thrown upon their own exertions manage their affairs better than men, and will save a little out of a small ...

    Article : 216 words
  16. A HUNGRY REPTILE.

    A soldier who has spent several years on foreign colonial and Indian service, writes—When I was in India in the year 1876, I had a curious experience with a crocodile ...

    Article : 251 words
  17. YOUR HOME.

    There is all the difference in the world between a house and a home, though there are people who don't seem to be aware of it. A house will keep you dry in rainy ...

    Article : 355 words
  18. IN TIME.

    "The prettiest throw of the lasscc I ever saw," said a Western cattleman, "was in Mexico last summer. I had gone out to look at a bunch of cattle I thought of buy- ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. A CLEVER FEAT.

    News of the latest "surgical feat" comes from America. According to the Westminster Gazzette, a piece of steel was driven into the eye of Joseph Brows, of ...

    Article : 105 words
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