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  2. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    SHADOWS.—This is a very diverting evening game. Select a deep bow window or a very wide door-way, and stretch a sheet smoothly across it, to serve as a flat curtain. A person ...

    Article : 684 words
  3. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    To the current number of the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Mr. H: . Ridley contributes a paper on the habits of the red ant, commonly called the ...

    Article : 265 words
  4. MEN WHO HAVE HOAXED THEMSELVES.

    Some of the comedy of life is shown to outsiders who note cases in which people are their own dupes. There is an amusing story of Richard Wagner, the eminent composer. He ...

    Article : 517 words
  5. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    A "heartless" deception is a bar of imitation Magic Soap which ruins your clothes, but A in "heart" "less" deception is stamped on every is bar of Genuine Magic, which actually improves ...

    Article : 951 words
  6. THE BLIND IN ENGLAND.

    Out of the 32,000,000 of subjects over whom Her Majesty now reigns as Queen of Great Britain, taken in round numbers, about 32,0C0 are said to be blind. This estimate, however, ...

    Article : 361 words
  7. HOME AND FIRESIDE.

    Three eggs, their weight in flour, sugar, and butter, one teaspoonful of baking powder, and a few drops of essence of lemon. Whip the butter (melted) and eggs to a ...

    Article : 577 words
  8. THE ROYAL ROAD TO LEARNING.

    Before Queen Victoria ascended the Throne she had to devote a great deal of time to her studies. These she pursued with a fair amount of diligence, though she would ...

    Article : 254 words
  9. HUNTING BEARS.

    General E. F. Burton describes a novel method of catching bears by the native hunters of India. Four or five sturdy men are armed, two with long spears, cross barred on the handles ...

    Article : 220 words
  10. THE NICARAGUA SHIP CANAL.

    From San Juan del Norte (Greytown), the eastern terminus, to Frito, the port where it reaches the Pacific, the canal route measures in all 169 miles. ...

    Article : 1,145 words
  11. CHINESE HEALING ARTS.

    Chinese doctors profess to be able to diagnose disease by the state of the pulse only. Their knowledge of anatomy and physiology is almost nil; yet in place of exact knowledge ...

    Article : 397 words
  12. THE BEHRING SEA QUESTION.

    The Moscow Gazette, in a leading article on the Behring Sea question, is highly indignant (the Standard's correspondent says) that the name of Russia in connection with the dispute ...

    Article : 210 words
  13. MADAME BLAVATSKY.

    Madame Blavatsky died on 8th May of influenza complicated by other maladies from which she had long suffered. It is proper to spear not of her at this moment, or not to ...

    Article : 843 words
  14. AN INTERESTING EIGHT-HOURS' EXPERIMENT.

    M. Cornevot is a Paris bootmaker, whose workshops are situated- on the Boulevard Saint-Marcel, in the district bordering on the Botanical Gardens. On the eve of the 1st of ...

    Article : 313 words
  15. HINTS ON DRESSMAKING.

    I clip the following hints on dressmaking from a foreign contemporary:— Methods for cutting both lining and outside fabrics have been discussed in previous lessons, ...

    Article : 1,218 words
  16. HIS FIRST BOAR.

    A Russian officer at one of the military stations in the Caucasus, hearing of the presence in his neighbourhood of two gentlemen in pursuit of boars, sent to them an invitation to ...

    Article : 538 words
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