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  2. FUNNIOSITIES.

    Countryman (at dessert): "What d'ye call this stuff, waiter?" WAITER; " Blancmange, sir." ...

    Article : 523 words
  3. THE HOME.

    I love you, love you ! love you ! ! yet confess a consciousness of trifling does come o'er me When all the other shapes of loveliness ...

    Article : 211 words
  4. POETRY.

    The little country meeting house o'ersflowed. For all the week had passed from ear to ear, "We're going to have a singer from the ...

    Article : 751 words
  5. LITTLE FOLK.

    There was a very greedy boy—They called him Glutton Ben: His appetite was large enough For half a dozen men. ...

    Article : 142 words
  6. SCIENCE.

    A kind of telephone which fixes the spoken words on chemically prepared paper has been produced by two young electricians of Munich. ...

    Article : 58 words
  7. ODDS AND ENDS

    THE Emperor of China is wiser in his generation than children of European light. He is going to sell all honorary ranks in his empire, and he expects to raise 4,000,000 ...

    Article : 924 words
  8. AGRICULTURAL.

    When we talk about commercial fertilizers, we mean, essentially, superphosphate of lime, to which is added more or lees nitrogen and potash. The basis of nearly all of them ...

    Article : 864 words
  9. A Great Bird Collection.

    More than 200,000 bird skins are now contained in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, London. A recent acquisition is the collection of 27,000 specimens ...

    Article : 71 words
  10. Extraordinary Water-Power.

    On the coast of the Grecian Island of Csphalonia are a large number of fissures or pits in which the contained fresh or salt water rises like the sea outside, though the water ...

    Article : 94 words
  11. Enlarging Our Chests.

    Nobody teacher Australian boys how to breathe. City boys, and many from the country, too, have [?] chests before they go to school thursday ever do afterward. ...

    Article : 967 words
  12. A French Waiter.

    A novelty in the house of a wealthy French gentleman, M. Gaston Menier, is a dining room electric railway. The track starts from the pantry, where the dishes are loaded upon ...

    Article : 114 words
  13. A Chapter on Nurses.

    Can anybody tell why nurses are always fat ? Is there anything in the atmosphere of a sick room, or in the eight of phials, pills, leeches, potions, blisters and and plasters, to ...

    Article : 830 words
  14. A Policeman's Catch.

    This morning a neweboy thrust his head into a hotel waiting-room and yelled: "Heard about the catch made by a policeman last night?" ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. Afraid of Dudes.

    A lady and little girl entered a tram the other day and took seats next a swell young fellow in all his swellness. For a moment the little girl eyed him dubiously, then arising ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. Scene—the Club.

    OLD FRIEND To HUSBAND (just returned from a journey) : "Hullo, Brown I Have you been home yet?" BROWN : "No; not yet. Why do you ...

    Article : 584 words
  17. A Little Scare.

    At 8 o'clock the other night a citizen drove up in front of an hotel, and wont in to look for a man. A minute later an individual came out of a tobocconist's near by, espied ...

    Article : 225 words
  18. Coal for the Highlands.

    The following letter, which we publish verbatim of literation, was received by a coal merchant in Glassgow awhile since:— ...

    Article : 446 words
  19. Sunrise On The Hills.

    This dawn of day. Up from the misty east Comes the red Sun; his glowing crest So bright that ere he rose the star-light cased. ...

    Article : 273 words
  20. Vaunted Utilitarianism.

    There is one thing which seems hardly comnatible with the intensely practical and sei-nisant altogether-utilitarian spirit of the ago. Men assert roundly that they care for ...

    Article : 279 words
  21. Cooking Recipes.

    Rub one cup of butter and there of sugar to a cream; add one cup of milk, for of flour, five eggs, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, half teaspoonful of soda, one-fourth pound of ...

    Article : 278 words
  22. Erratic Briefs.

    A boy's sphere—A bass ball. Cutting sarcaem—Referring a tramp to the woodpile. Queer, but candid people seldom give anybody body taffy. ...

    Article : 164 words
  23. Honoring the Old Gentleman.

    VISITOR: "Well, Nellie, what are you going to name your little baby brother?" "I think of calling him Squire, for grandpa," was the demure reply. ...

    Article : 29 words
  24. Only My Wife.

    The other afternoon two gentlemen walking down that street met a lady, who smiled and nodded to one of them. The gentleman recognised returned the nod, but without ...

    Article : 107 words
  25. On Probation.

    ARKANEAS JUDGE.—Queer thing, that about Keyser. AKKANSAS COLONEL.—How's that? ARKANSAS JUDGE.—Reformed, you know. ...

    Article : 47 words
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