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  2. AN OLD CHUM'S EXPERIENCES OF THE EARLY DAYS.

    "YOURS must have been a strange life, take it altogether. I should say," said I to my old crony, Joe Pennythorne, as we sat' together last Christmas Day after dinner, smoking on ...

    Article : 4,570 words
  3. RECIPES.

    ORANGE TART.—Extract the juice of three oranges, and boil the rind and pulp till quite tender; add to the juice and pulp three ounces of sugar and two ounces of butter; line a ...

    Article : 663 words
  4. Science.

    SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, the great physicist, thinks there are at least six senses, instead of only five, and he even suggests that there may be seven. His sixth sense is the sense of ...

    Article : 63 words
  5. Stock of All Kinds.

    FIRST, see that the working horses and oxen are in good order and well for, groomed, have a plentiful supply of pure water, are decently housed and bedded, that they may be better ...

    Article : 72 words
  6. Electricity as a Motive Power.

    SIR WILLIAM, SIEMENS predicts that electricity will prove very useful as a motive power for small boats. Electric storage batteries will be about as expensive as steam for the pro. ...

    Article : 97 words
  7. Blinkers.

    THE Lancet stoutly opposes the practice of putting blinkers on horses. It says; "It seems to us that they are useless, ugly, and, to some extent, injurious to the eyesight. The ...

    Article : 72 words
  8. Terrestrial Magnetism.

    A DISCUSSION has boon going on in the columns of the French scientific journal, Les Mondes, on the question whether terrestrial magnetism has any such influence on ...

    Article : 616 words
  9. Essayist.

    THE curse of drunkenness, on the side of its physical devastations, has been abundantly depicted by the advocates of the temperance reform. The amount of grain consumed in ...

    Article : 1,164 words
  10. The Farmer.

    NOTHING like an exact amount of food required per 1,000 pounds live weight for any animal, either for its support in health or for fattening, can be ascertained, owing to the ...

    Article : 481 words
  11. An Ear of Corn Shaped Like a Hand.

    THERE is on exhibition at San Luis Obispo an ear of corn grown in the exact form of the hand of a child, showing the wrist, hand, thumb and fingers all perfect except the little ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. Boys' Column.

    We want all the boys who are in the habit of smoking cigarettes, or who are beginning to learn how to smoke them, to pay attention while we tell them of a sad event that recently ...

    Article : 1,517 words
  13. Miscellaneous.

    THE autumnal harvest of falling stars still continuing every year draws to the heavens the eyes of those who are blind to less sensational phenomena. Meteors have, therefore, ...

    Article : 1,313 words
  14. Humour.

    ONE day my father he was a reading the Evening Post, an all to once ho give a long wissel and said he he gum dasted I Then Uncle Ned he looked up and sod, Wet is ...

    Article : 324 words
  15. Ladies' Column.

    IT requires a certain amount of patience to achieve success in making feather flowers, while satisfactory results are sure to add a smiling beauty to the adorning of an ...

    Article : 252 words
  16. I've Quit Drinking Whisky.

    "I've quit drinking whisky," said an anti-prohibitionist to a temperance woman. "Thank heaven for that," was her earnest reply. ...

    Article : 208 words
  17. Practical Hints on Growing Fruit.

    IF you want large crops of the finest straw-berries, plough or spade the ground deep Keep them well worked with cultivator or hoe, and mulch heavily with straw, hay, ...

    Article : 517 words
  18. A Watering Place Farewell.

    What she says: Good-bye. What he says: Good-bye. What she does not say : We have had such lovely times together; and after nil that has ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. Diphtheria.

    PHYSICIANS a scribe the prevalence of diphtheria at the present stay largely to badly-trimmed, smoky, kerosene lamps, which are sometimes left burning in chambers all night, turned ...

    Article : 127 words
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