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  2. THE HELIOGRAPH.

    'A Tale of the Heliograph' is the title of a good story told by Mr Rudyard Kipling, in his 'Departmental Ditties,' republished in Sir George Newnes's sixpenny series. The ...

    Article : 434 words
  3. TRAVELLER.

    You are out spending the evening, and the topic turns on Art. The Glasgow People's Palace is mentioned, and first one lady, then another, then another, and then ...

    Article : 1,592 words
  4. POETRY.

    Love me not for comely grace, For my pleasing eye or face, Nor for any outward part; No, nor for a constant heart— ...

    Article : 66 words
  5. A HYMN OF TRUST.

    We know not why our path seems hung with shadows, And every earthly hope to flee away, But there's a Hand that meets ours in the ...

    Article : 106 words
  6. VARIETIES.

    Miss Edith Boone, a young lady of Philadelphia, was lately awarded 10,000 dollars damages against Frederick Farrow. It appears that when he was introduced to her ...

    Article : 67 words
  7. A PHOSPHORESCENT PILLAR BOX.

    The latest innovation of the Post Office Department at New York is the coating of the street letter boxes with luminons paint, so that they can be seen easily at night. ...

    Article : 77 words
  8. NOVEL.

    'Celeste was a wiser nurse than I took her for. I had no business coming in here to talk to my little sick wife. I am going Norrie, and I shan't come back until you send ...

    Article : 1,365 words
  9. CHAPTER IX.

    Flowers! flowers everywhere! The most expensive sorts at the most expensive season! But expense was never taken into account in the Norcross establishment. Did Mrs ...

    Article : 2,383 words
  10. A PRETTY CHILD STORY.

    A little daughter, aged four, of Professor Harper, of Melbourne, said to her mother, who was teaching her about the creation of the world, and how when God made man ...

    Article : 69 words
  11. 'COAT OF ARMS.'

    The origin of the term 'coat of arms' is thus given. In the days of chivalry, as everyone knows, the knights wore coats of linked steel or some kind of armour to ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. LIFE SAVING SOAP.

    A cake of soap is said to have saved the lives of fire men and a boy off the coast of New Guinea. The story, as told in the smoking-room of a steamer going to ...

    Article : 421 words
  13. NATURALIST.

    Moss animals—or Bryozoa, to give them their scientific name—are tiny aquatic creatures, forming branching or tree-like colonies. The fresh water species are usually ...

    Article : 284 words
  14. PIANO PLAYING.

    Piano-playing has, undoubtedly, been the cause of nervous irritation in many unwilling listeners, and we learn from the British Medical Journal that listeners are ...

    Article : 220 words
  15. NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE IN PARIS

    The Paris correspondent of the FINANCIAL TIMES writes—The PETIT JOURNAL (French 'largest circulation in the world') shareholders held their meeting lately, when the ...

    Article : 262 words
  16. OYSTER CAGES.

    A french oyster grower has a novel device for promoting the culture of oysters. It consists of a tray about two feet square and four inches deep, made of wire network, ...

    Article : 106 words
  17. LADIES' COLUMN.

    Three of the leading churches in Columbus, Ohio, belonging to the Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist bodies respectively, have adopted a role requiring ladies to ...

    Article : 89 words
  18. DID SHE KNOW THE STORM WAS COMING?

    A swan, belonging to a gentleman, was sitting on her eggs on an island in a river. One morning her owner found her very busy collecting sticks and other rubbish, and ...

    Article : 116 words
  19. 'NACHTMAHL' TIME: A SOUTH AFRICAN SCENE.

    The Dutch farmer in South Africa, and especially those who live far away in the interior, are a tenacious race, and they still observe the plain but solemn religious rites ...

    Article : 178 words
  20. PUSSY'S PERPLEXITY.

    A homeless pussy one day happened to stray into a furniture shop, and, no one noticing her found her way to the overmantel department. ...

    Article : 154 words
  21. SCIENCE.

    The following are a few means for a baby, which will agree with any healthy child from twelve months to two and a half years of age: ...

    Article : 236 words
  22. A SCHEME FOR VICTIMISING THE NATIVES.

    Some time after dinner a few days ago a stranger walked into the commercial room in Jury's Hotel, Dublin. He was very nicely dressed, and professed to be tired. Having ...

    Article : 694 words
  23. HE THOUGHT IT WAS HIS MASTER

    Rover was a lovely retriever belonging to an old gentleman who took a great interest in the 5th of November celebrations. One year he gave an old suit of close to ...

    Article : 139 words
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