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  2. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Take a quarter bar of Genuine. Magic Soap, dissolve in from 12gal. to 15gal. water (an ordinary copper). When the water in boiling thoroughly, put in the dirty clothes (which ...

    Article : 99 words
  3. GOBLINS.

    We' do not mean by goblins those fantastic shapes which owe their existence to the literary skill of a Thomas Ingold[?]by or to the pencil of a Cruickshank or a Tenniel, but rather those ...

    Article : 1,425 words
  4. BEGGARS.

    We hear little of beggars in Europe during the ages of Paganism, but it would be rash to draw grave conclusions from this fact. Allusions enough assure us that they existed—if ...

    Article : 1,471 words
  5. WEIRDNESS.

    "Weird" properly contains the notion of evil predestination, predestination fixed by some power which appears, at all events, to be some or less malignant. It is an Anglo-Saxon word ...

    Article : 1,782 words
  6. THE POVERTY OF PUBLIC MEN.

    A personal confession will sometimes discover a public tendency. What if, with a general increase of wealth, public men are poorer? Is public life more exacting, are men less ...

    Article : 2,400 words
  7. LADIES' COLUMN.

    No sooner is the social season over—and it is last drawing to its close in Melbourne—than the periodical exodus begins. With one consent "all Melbourne" discovers the pressing ...

    Article : 1,245 words
  8. A MODEL WOMAN.

    Mr. Jones came home at an unseemly hour the other night and was surprised to see Mrs. Jones sitting up for him below stairs, with no other light than that of the electric tower on the ...

    Article : 168 words
  9. AN OBLIGING EDITOR.

    Facetious visitor in newspaper office (to editor)—May I use your brains a moment? Editor—M. brains? Visitor (smilingly picking up scissors)—Yes, ...

    Article : 55 words
  10. GLADSTONE IN CHURCH.

    Hawarden is over the bonder in Wales. Mrs. Gladstone is of Welsh descent, and the estate has been in her family, the Glynnes, since the time of Oliver Cromwell. ...

    Article : 807 words
  11. THEN THEY SMILED.

    They met in a horse car, two young women whose tawny faces showed that they were just back from the seashore, and when they had kissed and embraced, and been through ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. HE PREFERRED THE BEST.

    Stationer—Yes, sir; we have; every-kind of pen. What kind will you take? Chicago Litterateur—You may give me a box of facile pens. I understand the best writers ...

    Article : 32 words
  13. CURIOSITIES OF WILLS.

    Richard I., when informed that death was inevitable, made his will, in which he commanded that his brains, blood, and certain other portions of the body should be buried at Chalons, ...

    Article : 715 words
  14. NOT WILLIN'.

    Says bould Barney Mulligan To Biddy M'Snilligan, 'Och, faith! It's mesilf wud be loikin' a kiss.' Cries Biddy M'Snilligan, ...

    Article : 617 words
  15. SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT BABIES.

    Harper's Bazaar has collected the following interesting superstitions about babies. Some of them are familiar sayings in every country others are new. But, whatever the origin or ...

    Article : 292 words
  16. CHIT-CHAT.

    Now the days are long and war[?] we can make expeditions into the country or to the sea, and, throwing care to the winds, we can, for for one day at least, enjoy ourselves under green ...

    Article : 401 words
  17. PREHISTORIC BEARS.

    Large quantities of the bones of various animals, such as the lion, hyena, bear, and prehistoric dog, have been found from time to time in caves in various parts of the world. It is ...

    Article : 418 words
  18. DOES LABOUR PRODUCE ALL THE WEALTH.

    Rev. Dr. G. M. Steele, in Work and Wages: 'Is it really true that "labour produces all the wealth of the world?" Of course, by labour here is meant the putting forth of ...

    Article : 279 words
  19. LITTLE ROMANCES.

    A Scotch beadle took his sweetheart to a graveyard and showing her a dark corner, said: "Mary, my folks lie there. Would you like to lie there? It was a grim way of ...

    Article : 316 words
  20. ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR EXPRESSIONS.

    'Taking him down a peg. This is said to have been derived from the custom ordained by King Edgar, that pegs should be fastened in the drinking horns at intervals, that whoever ...

    Article : 308 words
  21. The Sin of Omission.

    It isn't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone, Which gives you a bit of a heartacho, At the setting of the sun. ...

    Article : 176 words
  22. CUSTARDS, CURDS, AND CREAMS.

    In hot weather, when it is difficult to preserve milk from becoming sour, and spoiling the cream; it may be kept perfectly sweet by scalding the new milk very gently, without boiling. ...

    Article : 601 words
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