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  2. "An Australian Millionaire,"

    When Theodore Lockstud was a mouth-old husband, he received a letter one afternoon at the bank; it was without signature and without date, and ...

    Article : 5,696 words
  3. THE DAIRY.

    As a lotion for dressing sore udders among farm animals, a correspondent in a contemporary recommends a tincture of opium (1 ounce), spirits of camphor ...

    Article : 86 words
  4. POLLY IN A TIGHT PLACE.

    From the "Indianapolis Sentinel" we glean something interesting about Bell Lusole, who, for fifteen years, was one or the greatest features or Barnum ...

    Article : 286 words
  5. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    When President Roosevelt was a schoolboy, he rose to recite one day at school, with all confidence, and began: "At midnight in his guarded tent ...

    Article : 90 words
  6. THE BALANCED RATION.

    The economy in feeding milch cows a properly-balanced ration, instead of a poor one, was recently shown by Professor C. B. Lane, of New Jersey, at an ...

    Article : 151 words
  7. THEN HE WENT.

    Borem (11.57 p.m.): "When I was a child my nurse made me afraid of the dark." Miss Cutting: "Oh, that accounts ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. LOCATED.

    A gentleman going down the river in a steamer the engine of which was on the deck, sauntered up to see the working of the machinery. Near him ...

    Article : 191 words
  9. Thoughts for Thinkers.

    Duties fulfilled are memory's joys. The school of difficulty is the, best school of moral discipline. A little wrong done to another is a ...

    Article : 317 words
  10. GOOD MILKERS.

    However it may be to have good dairy cows for dairy purposes, it is not more important than to have good milkers. A lazy, careless, or ignorant milker can ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. SOME TEAT OINTMENT.

    An ointment, of which all owners of dairy cows should keep a supply on hand during the spring and summer months, is made by blending 1 drachm of oxide of ...

    Article : 94 words
  12. AS EXPRESSED.

    A lady who had not had the benefit of a Board School education was complaining to a neighbour, who laboured under a similar disadvantage, about ...

    Article : 196 words
  13. CORONATION OF WILLIAM THE CONQUERQR.

    The hideous massacre which stains the Coronation of William the Conqueror created a terrible feeling of resentment in the minds of the English ...

    Article : 266 words
  14. POOR COWS.

    "Hoard's Dairyman" pithily remarks: —"Only a rich man can afford to keep poor cows, but it is only the poor man who does keep them. The rich man, who ...

    Article : 127 words
  15. CONFIDENT.

    "Yes," said the individual with the bulging brow and the restless eyes, "I am the man who invented indoor baseball, indoor golf, indoor croquet, and ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. Sources of Mother-of-Pearl.

    Unlike the colouring of the outer surface of shells, which is due to the disposition of pigment in their substance, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl is ...

    Article : 221 words
  17. MINOR MORALS FOR MARRIED PEOPLE.

    "The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines. Husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. VALUE OF FISH AS FOOD.

    The chief value of fish as food (explains an authority on diet) lies in the fact that it is more easily digested than flesh meat and does not burden the ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. TOO LATE.

    What silences we keep year after year With those who are most near to us and dear; We live beside each other day by day, ...

    Article : 145 words
  20. HINTS NATURE GIVES.

    Nature (remarked an observant doctor) seldom strikes without warning. Her victims get hint after hint of impending calamities in the way of illness. ...

    Article : 190 words
  21. Things Worth Knowing.

    When frying potatoes, dredge a little flour over the potatoes before frying and they will cook much better and brown beautifully. ...

    Article : 239 words
  22. WISE UTTERANCES.

    We never show our own weakness so plainly as when we exhibit impatience for the weakness of others. When we are most filled with heavenly ...

    Article : 326 words
  23. VARIETIES.

    Analysts say that butter is the most nutritious article of diet, and that bacon comes next. The depth of water affects the speed ...

    Article : 185 words
  24. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

    Minding one's own business requires more skill than those who so freely recommend it seem to realise. Absence of occupation is not rest. A ...

    Article : 150 words
  25. Value of Small Savings.

    In France the homely virtue of thrift flourishes, and families are very careful about small savings. When a daughter is born, her parents begin to lay ...

    Article : 142 words
  26. THREE THINGS.

    Remember three things come not back; The arrow sent upon its track— It will not swerve, it will not stay; It speeds; it flies to wound or slay. ...

    Article : 79 words
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