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  2. PARALLEL LIVES

    The retired foreman wig-maker, who has already given information on the curious characteristics of the fifth Duke of Portland, has supplied an "Express" ...

    Article : 1,190 words
  3. ISHMAEL

    Mr Edgar Wallace writes to the London "Daily Mail" from Carolina, South Africa, on June 6th:—The driver told me laconically enough that this was a good ...

    Article : 1,378 words
  4. SCIENCE TEACHING SCHEME

    The magnitude of the science teaching scheme has only been partially disclosed by the announcement of Lord Rosebery. It is Empire-wide in its ...

    Article : 548 words
  5. HORTICULTURAL

    Where peach trees were attacked last season by black peach aphis, it is quite time the trees were sprayed. These pests make their appearance when the trees ...

    Article : 450 words
  6. A PHILLIPINE MURDER

    Francisco Tizon lies in his house in San Luis, Pampanga province, P. I., dead from the fifteen slashes that were administered to him by a poor wretch ...

    Article : 565 words
  7. THE 'LADIES' COLUMN

    I wandered in my garden plot Before the early dawn, I went to gather flowers for you Upon our marriage morn. ...

    Article : 150 words
  8. NEIGHBORLY!

    A retired sea captain and a lawyer, who were always at loggerheads, lived next door to each other. One very windy night the lawyer was ...

    Article : 125 words
  9. THE HUMORIST

    First Esquimaux: "What time is it?" Second Esquimaux: "Two weeks before daylight." Some men are like telescopes; you draw them out, see through them, and then shut them up. ...

    Article : 1,167 words
  10. GOSSIP.

    The following recipe for improving the appearance of frayed collars and cuffs appears a very simple one, and I quote it, as some of my country readers ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. "K.C.M.G."

    A story told at the expense of a rather pompous individual recently appointed Governor of a distant colony is going the rounds of the clubs. ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. CLEANING SAUCEPANS.

    A squeezed-out lemon is very useful in cleaning a saucepan. The latter must be half-filled with cold water, and the lemon boiled in it for half an hour. The ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. A BOY'S DEFINITIONS.

    A teacher once gave a boy a number of words to define. These were some of them:—"Salt," "fan," "sob," and "bearing false witness." ...

    Article : 76 words
  14. LINEN DRESSES.

    Manufacturers have gone on improving linens until the perfection of colors can be obtained. Fancy linens will be used to trim plain ones, black peas figuring on ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 80 words
  15. "IT IS 'IS 'OLINESS.

    One of the best-knows writers on rowing is noted for his likeness to the late Archbishop of Canterbury. It is told of him that on one occasion he ...

    Article : 161 words
  16. THE KITCHEN GARDEN.

    The wet weather experienced recently has delayed the planting of early potatoes, especially on land of a heavy or retentive nature. The work should now be pushed ...

    Article : 711 words
  17. IRISH TREASURES

    Mr Justice Farwell, in the Chancery division on June 21st, delivered judgment in the case of "The Attorney-General v. the Trustees of the British Museum," ...

    Article : 468 words
  18. TO THE GOLD

    Old John Willis, a prospector who has been a familiar figure on the streets of Pendleton, Ore., for several years, will prospect no more-he has found a gold ...

    Article : 286 words
  19. SUMMER DRINKS

    Dr. Wiley, chemist for the Department of Agriculture in Washington, who has just concluded the first of the tests relative to food preservatives and their ...

    Article : 416 words
  20. USEFUL HINTS.

    When making a stew, adding one table-spoonful of tapioca makes a great improvement. Watercress should be washed in salt ...

    Article : 406 words
  21. TRAMPS' TRAMP

    The Rev. John A. Mays, vicar of St. Anne's, Holloway, has taken advantage of the walking craze to do an astute thing. ...

    Article : 256 words
  22. OUR IDIOMATIC LANGUAGE

    The idiomatic character of the English language ever gives trouble to foreigners and others, and a correspondent gives us some amusing explanations of some of the ...

    Article : 218 words
  23. FIGHT FOR A DINNER

    One of the big hooded cobras in the Bronx Zoo Park, New York, attempted to prove the other day that two bodies could occupy the same space at the same ...

    Article : 259 words
  24. HEALTH HINTS

    A Sore Throat Cure.—If you are a sufferer from this very common malady, you may be quickly benefited by a perfectly delicious and soothing preparation for a sore throat, which is, ...

    Article : 313 words
  25. THE CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    Though palms may not need re-potting every year, an examination should be made of the plants in order to determine which require re-potting. It is ...

    Article : 363 words
  26. Below Stairs.—Housekeeper:

    What's the bother between Jane and you, Morton? Handyman: Why, she said as 'ow she'd paid five guineas fur 'er false teef, ...

    Article : 201 words
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    It seems that Italy, like Germany, is going in for a severe course of "purification" of its language from French terms which are polluting the well of Italian ...

    Article : 199 words
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    Why stands Scotland idly now when so many insults are being hurled at her by the southerner? he credit of originating golf has been ...

    Article : 104 words
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    The means by which seabirds quench their thirst when far out at sea is described by an old skipper, who tells how he has seen birds at sea, far from any ...

    Article : 88 words
  30. CAN YOU GO ONE BETTER?

    "Gentlemen," said the man with frank blue eyes to a friend, "some people would be disposed to doubt some of the stories that you have been telling about the freaks of a wind ...

    Article : 215 words
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