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  2. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    "Slang is no good," remarked the drummer, "and a man is clean off his base that monkeys with it." "As to how?" inquired the hotel clerk. ...

    Article : 291 words
  3. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    The failure of the recent attempt to introduce a destructive epidemic among the rabbits of Australasia has (says "Invention") not wholly discouraged the ...

    Article : 131 words
  4. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    To-night, to-night, dear, as we said good-bye, I heard a something that was new and strange In the old words, in every short reply; ...

    Article : 301 words
  5. A DISEASE OF CIVILISATION.

    In o "North American Review" for December Dr Henry Smith Williams, Medical Superintendent of the Randall's Islands Hospital, and an authority on diseases of the ...

    Article : 596 words
  6. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    An incident happened at Barnham and Bailey's show recently at Bridgeport (U.S.), which shows to what danger an ignorant man will expose himself, and how he may escape ...

    Article : 455 words
  7. MEN OF THE TIME.

    The oldest Cabinet Minister is the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury and Lord Privy Seal, aged 83; the youngest is the Right Hon. ...

    Article : 503 words
  8. A New Boat.

    "Engineering" notes that Mr Hiram Maxim, the well-known mechanician, has recently revived the old idea of constructing a boat to skim the surface of the ...

    Article : 261 words
  9. Equal Rights in Proposing.

    What surprises me (says the dreadful Labouchere), considering the vast number If ladies who preach the equality of the sex in everything, is that an effort is not ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. Fragments.

    IF the keeper of a gaol is a gaoler, why isn't the keeper or a prison a prisoner? THE bonnet that turns a woman's head is the bonnet that some other woman wears. ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  11. A YOUNG RULER.

    His Highness Abbas Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, has recently quite justified the honor of being character-sketched in the February number of the "New Review." The study ...

    Article : 895 words
  12. Old Dreams.

    Let us dream those dreams again That were ours so long ago, When our hearts were free from pain And our heads untouch'd by snow; ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. Heroic Conduct of British Sailors

    A "Daily News" correspondent writing from Callao states that "an interesting presentation had taken place there on board her Majesty's cruiser Garnet, Capt. Harry ...

    Article : 306 words
  14. Ladies and Commons.

    The Speaker of the House of Commons (reported a London society paper just before the opening of Parliament) is determined to make more stringent regulations as to the ...

    Article : 148 words
  15. Ocean Depths.

    The eight or nine mile depths in mid-ocean, declared very probable by Maury, are not found by later actual investigation, according to the Engineering News." A depth of five to six miles ...

    Article : 190 words
  16. VERBAL ATROCITIES.

    There is nothing in the world which produces the sense of mental nausea more completely, or is more certain to turn the intellectual stomach, than the use of certain ...

    Article : 898 words
  17. The American Venus.

    There has been a great amount of excitement in America about the selection of a model for the Montana statue, which, cast in solid silver, is to be one of the sights of the ...

    Article : 267 words
  18. WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?

    This question will, perhaps, never be answered. True the year 1893 should see some celebrations in honor of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, but ...

    Article : 402 words
  19. Personal Safety.

    Francis B. Crocker and A.S. Wheeler are writing a series of articles(published in the Electrical Engineer") on "The practical management of Dynamos and Motors." On the subject ...

    Article : 244 words
  20. Indoor Games.

    OLD SOLDIER.—This is an amusing "catch" game. One player represents an old soldier, who comes begging, and questions the others, who in their answers must be careful not to say ...

    Article : 488 words
  21. Electrical Industries.

    The most recent estimate of the capital invested in the electrical industries in the United States is £140,000,000 and of this amount £70,000,000 represents the proportion which ...

    Article : 57 words
  22. Bonnet of Princess Victoria.

    Shape in black velvet, with black satin ribbon bows, stiff rosette, and ostrich plumes. Black satin bow and bandeau under the brim. This fashionable model looks well in any of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  23. An Old Question.

    In the year 1890 some human bones of enormous size, double the ordinary in fact, were found in the tumulus of Castellnan (Herault), and have since been carefully examined by ...

    Article : 80 words
  24. The Thistle and Kilt.

    Apropos of the interest which is now being shown in the nationality of the Highland regiments, that fine old Scottish officer, Archibald Chisholm, of Glassburn, late ...

    Article : 235 words
  25. THE BLACK JACK.

    A few weeks ago the ancient "hostelrie" familiar to readers of Dickens as the "Black Jack," in Portsmouth street, London, closed its doors for over, as the entire block of ...

    Article : 340 words
  26. Home and Fireside.

    OATMEAL MUFFINS.—Take two cups of very fine cold boiled oatmeal, beat it smooth, and and stir in three cups of sour milk, half a cup of melted butter, two tablespoonsful of salt and ...

    Article : 588 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,084 words
  28. MANY PEOPLE

    Suffer a martyrdom of headaches and backaches, duo to irregular habits and defective action of the bowels. Such troubles are due to a sluggish liver, which does not secrete ...

    Article : 206 words
  29. A Grandfather's Tribute to his Wife.

    When, in the first fair flush of happy youth, I looked with loving eyes upon thy face, It seemed to me I there could find, in truth, The perfect type of beauty and of grace. ...

    Article : 156 words
  30. An Immense Grapevine.

    There is a grapevine at the San Gabriel Mission which was planted in 1771 by the mission fathers. Elders Isaac Studebaker of Olathe, Kan., C. Studebaker of Passdena. ...

    Article : 123 words
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