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  2. Humorous

    Large cheques are always fashionable for (In the newspaper office).—Fasset: "Pass me over the mucilage, please, Miss ...

    Article : 1,479 words
  3. Bridget's Originality.

    "Bridget," raid I, after she had been initiated into her new duties as chambermaid, "call me at six o'clock to-morrow morning, and prepare a bath for me." ...

    Article : 343 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    According to our Italian contemporary, Progresso, articles of iron can be protected against rast by sinking them near the negative pole of an electric hath composed of ten ...

    Article : 1,532 words
  5. Our Lady of the Mine.

    The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now purpose to tell uv; ...

    Article : 823 words
  6. Shoulder Braces.

    Ordinarily, the use of shoulder braces is not to be advised, says J. H. Kellogg, M. D, All they can do is to hold the shoulders back mechanically, whereas the true ...

    Article : 347 words
  7. Domestic.

    How to Make Gruels.—Some weeks ago a sister, whose name I do not remember, among other things inquired for directions for making oatmeal gruel, and as I have had ...

    Article : 1,617 words
  8. Protection of Mine Timber from Decay.

    The German Government mine Attenwald, near S[?]arbeucken, ban, since I883, conducted a series of experiments to ascertain the most effective means to prevent ...

    Article : 195 words
  9. Improvement in Photo-Etching

    The Papier Zeitung, of Berlin, announces that a discovery has just been made at etching, and especially in photogravure. As usual, the drawing is traced on a plate of ...

    Article : 155 words
  10. Dainty Cooking for Invalids.

    The [?] gives the following careful directions for cooking chickens for invalids: Take one or two neat joints from a tender young bird which has been carefully plucked ...

    Article : 299 words
  11. A Phonograph to Record on Two Cylinders.

    A phonograph to record on two cylinders simultaneously, so that one may be retained as a file, or so that a message may be repeated from one cylinder to another, is one ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. Rooted to the Spot.

    A story is told about the former assistant rector of one of the largest Episcopal churches in the city. The gentleman in question is now the president of a college ...

    Article : 320 words
  13. Corrosion of Zine in Contact with Brick.

    A German paper mentions the fact that under some conditions sheet zinc, when in direct contract with brick work, suffers to an appreciable extent from rapid corrosion. In ...

    Article : 141 words
  14. Generalities of Proportion.

    Some of the generalities of proportion are as follows: A woman should weigh two pounds to every inch of stature she has [?]. Thus, the woman a 5 feet 4 inches in ...

    Article : 354 words
  15. The Effect of Freezing upon Impurities Contained in Water.

    The extent to which ice is used makes its importance in relation to health almost as great as that of water. An idea prevails that ice cannot be impure, from whatever source ...

    Article : 779 words
  16. Fired off the Free List.

    "These are hard times, Jerry," observed the dejected policeman as he leaned up against the fruit stand, and his fingers mechanically closed upon the finest ...

    Article : 194 words
  17. Been There Before.

    Emily: "Did George propose Inst night, as you thought he would?" Rose (without much enthusiasm): "Yes, he proposed." ...

    Article : 109 words
  18. Recipes.

    Recipe for Yeast.—We have the best authority that the the following recipe, strictly followed, will give "perfect" yeast. Boil one large teacupful of hops from 20 minutes ...

    Article : 426 words
  19. To Destroy Stumps.

    1. Bore a hole 1 inch in diameter, 18 inches deep, into the centre of the stump, and put in one ounce of saltp[?]tre, tilling up with water and plugging up the hole. This ...

    Article : 394 words
  20. Drawing a Conclusion too Hastily.

    The eloquent temperance lecturer paused, wiped his perspiring brow, and said impressively to the man on the front seat, who had listened with the deepest interest to ...

    Article : 329 words
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