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  2. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A remarkable funeral took place recently it Querenberg, a little mining town, where three men were killed by at fire-damp explosion. Thousands of ...

    Article : 165 words
  3. Short Story

    "Dear, dear, dear! What have I ever done that I should be punished for my sins like this?" and Duke Wether by frantically clutched his brown, curly ...

    Article : 1,703 words
  4. NOVELTY WHICH PREVENTS THIEVING.

    A novel burglar alarm has been placed on the market in Germany, composed of a small metal dis, circular in shape, which may easily be carries in ...

    Article : 145 words
  5. MILES IN MANY COUNTRIES.

    In England a mile means the famine 1,760 yards, but in Ireland it means 2,240 yards, and in the Highland it may mean the old Scotch [?] ...

    Article : 238 words
  6. INSIDE THE EARTH.

    Scientists belonging to Chicago University, after a series of lengthy experiments designed to discover the nature of the earth's core, announce ...

    Article : 147 words
  7. INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS.

    This is a disease which frequently occurs in farm stock in early winter, particularly in unsheltered districts. It is generally accepted that infection is ...

    Article : 276 words
  8. PLAN FOR FINDING HUSBANDS.

    The midnettes of the famous dress- making establishments of the Rue de la Pair have devised an ingenious plan for finding husbands. They have ...

    Article : 106 words
  9. Odds and Ends.

    He: "Some tunes quite carry me away." She" "Only tell me one, and I will play it with great pleasure." "I suppose that your son is ...

    Article : 136 words
  10. NEW YORK'S POLYCLOT PRESS.

    There is no city that produces news-papers in so many different languages as New York. The publication of Chinese daily paper reminds us of this ...

    Article : 162 words
  11. CHEMICAL ACTION ON GOLD.

    The reputation which gold enjoys as the most unalterable of metals is being undermined by the researches of a number of chemists. A review of ...

    Article : 281 words
  12. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

    "Seven o'clock and bedtime, Miss Elsie." "O, Nursie, I must run out and say good-night to my rosebud first." ...

    Article : 1,494 words
  13. THE BENEFITS OF FRUIT TREES.

    The tending of fruit trees is always a source of pleasure, while the fruit growing in one's own garden and gathered fresh from the trees when ...

    Article : 210 words
  14. STRANGE TIMEKEEPERS.

    To ascertain the time at night the Apache Indians employed a gourd on which the stars of the heavens are marked. As the constellations rose ...

    Article : 169 words
  15. FARM AND FIELD.

    The benefit derived from the cultivation of land in the autumn cannot be too highly estimated, It is profitable on all classes of land. The ...

    Article : 684 words
  16. DESCRIBED.

    "Goodness, I'm sure I'll be late," cried Mr. Gussey. "Is there any hot water. I've got just about five minutes to take a bath— ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. ITEMS OF INTEREST

    he who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do any—Dr Johnson. After all the kind of world one ...

    Article : 421 words
  18. A REBUKE.

    Mistress (severely): "As you say, the policeman on his beat may be your young man. "Mary nut please understand that I don't wish the front of my ...

    Article : 28 words
  19. TOP DRESSING LAWNS.

    The application of fertilising manures at the proper seasons, combined with attention to sowing, is the secret of success in maintaining a thick, ...

    Article : 164 words
  20. THE KING'S HORSES.

    Few of those who admire the eight dream-colored horses that are harnessed to the Royal carriage at the opening of the English parliament, and on ...

    Article : 119 words
  21. A FOREIGN RIVER.

    "What's the row over there on the street?" "Only a wooden wedding?" "Wooden wedding?" ...

    Article : 30 words
  22. AN APT SUGGESTION.

    "What can we do to improve the present method of dancing?" thundered the parson; dancing is mere hugging set to music." ...

    Article : 47 words
  23. KEPT ALIVE BY ELECTRICITY.

    The attention of surgeons at the General Hospital, Birmingham, has been occupied by the most remarkable case of a lady 11 years of age. He ...

    Article : 118 words
  24. SCIENCE NOTES.

    The British Association and the Radio telegraphic Committee have requested the Commonwealth wireless experts to observe the radio-active effect ...

    Article : 46 words
  25. NO MATTER.

    "It's like this," said the would be actress; "I can't quite make up my mind—" "Oh, that'll be all right," ...

    Article : 53 words
  26. HOW TO TELL.

    "What is a diamond?" asked'' a teacher. "Carbon," replied the class. "Yes, a diamond is pure carbon; but ...

    Article : 71 words
  27. SECRET NAVAL CODE BOOK.

    Few things are so jealously guarded as the secret code book of the United States Navy. It is a book of signals— not the ordinary "wig-wag" signals ...

    Article : 227 words
  28. WONDERFUL NEW BULLET.

    A. M. Rogozen, a Spaniard, claims to have, invented a marvellous new bullet, destined to revolutionise the art of warfare; for fires from an old ...

    Article : 173 words
  29. RIVAL BOARDING-HOUSES.

    Mrs. Grubb's Cook: "Law, but the misses do hate to have a boarder [?] from your house to ours." Mrs. Hashcroft's Cook: "I 'spect ...

    Article : 67 words
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