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  2. HER SISTER NELL

    When Tom Norton and his wife, came from the North to try farming they brought each their most cherished possessions. Tom's consisted, for the most part, of a varied and ...

    Article : 1,555 words
  3. PALACE, MONASTERY AND TOMB.

    It is a pleasure, if a rather melancholy one, to find in "Harper" a posthumous paper by the late Mr Theodore Child. It is a brilliant description of the E[?]urial, that singular and ...

    Article : 1,365 words
  4. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    The fame of Clerk Maxwell, the modest, genial Scotch professor of Cambridge, who was hardly known to his f[?]llow-conuntrymen except a few professors, has increased so ...

    Article : 255 words
  5. AGRICULTURAL COLUMN.

    When ground is ploughed in the spring and a stratum of soil 4in. to 6in. in depth is shaved completely from that below and reversed in a loose condition upon it, there is provided a ...

    Article : 696 words
  6. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    In the "English Illustrated" Mr Wilton J. Rix seta himself the not too easy task of proving the bulldog to be the mildest-mannered Adonis that ever coursed a stray ...

    Article : 606 words
  7. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Your life's pathway profusely strew With roses of the daintiest hue, Dew-spaugled buds and thornless flowers, Called from venus' sacred bowers. ...

    Article : 110 words
  8. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    LANCASTER: "Are you making as much fuss over your baby as you were two months ago?—Forrester: "Oh, no. The baby is making all the fuss now." ...

    Article : 1,161 words
  9. New Felt Hat.

    The hat is of stiff felt, lined with velvet, the same velvet forming a band around the crown. The brim is split at the centre-back and turned over; an aigrette of feathers ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 38 words
  10. Leprosy.

    Much alarm has been expressed of late at the recent rapid spread of leprosy in India, In many british Colonies, the Sandwich Islands, Norway, and elsewhere. A ...

    Article : 374 words
  11. The Married Flirt.

    The relegation of the married flirt to her proper sphere and duties is beyond the power of any single individual. Society could make the necessary protest, but it does ...

    Article : 266 words
  12. Useful Rules for the Dairy.

    1. Cowsheds should receive regular and thorough cleaning every morning. Refuse carried out to the manure heap; stall well cleaned with a farm hoe, afterwards brushed: ...

    Article : 412 words
  13. Intelligence in Cattle.

    A cow and steer—the latter two to three years old—were the only occupants of the barn-yard where the occurrence took place. A baiting of hay was put out to them, the cow taking ...

    Article : 302 words
  14. Prairie Wells.

    In a "Final report of the Artesian and Underflow Investigation" of the United States, recently published at Washington, Professor R. T. Hill gives an interesting ...

    Article : 188 words
  15. Crinoline Defended.

    An amusing defence of crinoline by Lady J[?]une appears in the February number of "The New Review," but it is a half-hearted defence after all. The ...

    Article : 230 words
  16. A Water Bicycle.

    Babu Jagadiswara Ghatak, living in Ch[?]lta in Alipore, known as the inventor of a patent for rice mills, has, says a native paper, lately invented an apparatus by means ...

    Article : 194 words
  17. An Ancient Castle.

    Heding[?]am Castle, in North Essex, not far from the [?] of the Colne, formerly for some four centuries the residence of the Veres, ancient [?] of Oxford, and for the ...

    Article : 289 words
  18. Home and Fireside.

    BATH BUNS.—Four teaspoonfuls yeast, four eggs, 1¼b flour; ½lb sugar. ½lb butter, trips of candid peel. Mix the yeast with the yolks of 4 and whites of ...

    Article : 514 words
  19. Season as Affecting Potatoes.

    Few of us have observed the widely different yields of potatoes during dry and wet seasons. Many kinds that yield abundantly during seasons of sufficient rainfall are worthless during ...

    Article : 332 words
  20. Too Green.

    They had been married ton years and one day when ho came home from his office he found her with a guest pile of letters spread out before her, which she was chopping up ...

    Article : 123 words
  21. A Light Chamber.

    The "light chamber," invented by Wollaston in 1804 has been improved upon by M. Blain, and renamed the hermograph. It is designed to enable even an unskilled ...

    Article : 78 words
  22. A Modern Enoch Arden.

    A romantic affair has just come to light in Essex. Seven years ago Henry Chaney, a sailor, belonging to Wiv[?]oe, in that county, loft England on board the Ironopolis, ...

    Article : 262 words
  23. Divorce Laws in America.

    Bishop Hare, of South Dakota (U.S.), and others, are petitioning the State Legislature to repeal some features of the existing divorce laws. It seems that the law as it ...

    Article : 216 words
  24. King Humbert and the Turkish Ambassador.

    King Humbert, though not such a mighty hunter as his father Victor Emmanuel, is fond of sport with wild boar—a very different kind of fun, by the way, ...

    Article : 184 words
  25. Hints for Home and Farm.

    Feed liberally, but not to waste. Keep only cows that respond to good feeding. Careless feeding and watering ruins many a ...

    Article : 3,606 words
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