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  2. POST AND TELEGRAPH RATES.

    The Post and Telegraph Rates Bill comes into operation on the 1st November. Alterations are made in the postage on newspapers and in the rates for telegrams, ...

    Article : 404 words
  3. A DOUBLE DOWNFALL.

    Wilton Low looked at his watch and muttered, "I wish this fellow Dawes would put in an appearance. If he be late I shall not wait for him." ...

    Article : 1,909 words
  4. WOMAN'S WORLD.

    Of all the mistakes that were ever made since the first and most disastrous blunder in the Garden of Eden, there has never been anything more fraught with mischief ...

    Article : 260 words
  5. THE HOUSEHOLD.

    Sherry Blancmange.—Make rather more than a pint of blancmange by putting an ounce of isinglass into one pint of boiling milk, the isinglass having first ...

    Article : 406 words
  6. AMUSING STORIES.

    The wife of a certain gentleman is one of those very unfortunate individuals whose thoughts are never away from work. ...

    Article : 881 words
  7. WIT AND HUMOUR

    Lord Russell once had occasion to call on Prince Bismarck some fifteen years ago, and in the course of conversation asked his host how he managed to rid ...

    Article : 265 words
  8. FARM AND GARDEN.

    Man must feed the soil if the soil is to feed man. Have a system, apply a rotation, use foresight. ...

    Article : 543 words
  9. DON'TS FOR YOUNG MOTHERS.

    A physician gives the following "don'ts" for young mothers : Don't neglect the baby ; the little one has the first right to your attention. ...

    Article : 388 words
  10. POLITENESS IN SWEDEN.

    When a train leaves a platform in Sweden, says an exchange, or a steam- boat a pier, all the on-lookers lift their hats to the departing passengers and ...

    Article : 102 words
  11. USEFUL HINTS.

    If soups are made the day before they are to be used, the sediment and the fat should be separated before they are warmed up. ...

    Article : 306 words
  12. A SEVENTY DAYS' FLOOD.

    Many Balfour stories, old and new, are going the rounds just now- The First Lord of the Treasury, when going through a Scottish village not long ago, ...

    Article : 117 words
  13. THOSE LOVING GIRLS.

    "She looks sweet enough to eat!" he exclaimed with rapturous exaggeration. "Yes," admitted her envious friend ; "and if it were not for one thing she ...

    Article : 41 words
  14. THE OXEN OF CEYLON.

    In the Island of Ceylon the oxen are of exceedingly diminutive proportions, though quite large enough to be of use as beasts of burden. They stand under ...

    Article : 125 words
  15. A NAME FOR THE FARM.

    A good way to make the public aware that the farm has a name of its own is to have it painted on the gate post. Then one should always date his letters from ...

    Article : 55 words
  16. BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS.

    All things may be carried to excess. There is even such a thing as over-prudence. Mrs. Blank, wife of a well-known preacher, has reason to believe ...

    Article : 400 words
  17. THE PLAINT OF AN INCUBATOR CHICK.

    I'm just a very little chick, With scarce a tail at all; And I have brothers by the score, Like me, all chickens small : ...

    Article : 227 words
  18. A LITTLE WORK WELL DONE.

    It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the mind of every farmer that a little work well done is much more satisfactory than a larger amount that is only half ...

    Article : 53 words
  19. ODDS AND ENDS.

    Sleep is conducive to beauty. Even a tall hat does not look well when it loses its nap. Charity must not be estimated by the ...

    Article : 90 words
  20. A MONKEY'S TRICK.

    When Oliver Cromwell was an infant, a large monkey snatched him from his cradle, leaped with him through a garret window, and ran along the leads of ...

    Article : 94 words
  21. QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S BOUDOIR.

    Nearly every lady of exalted position possesses her boudoir, and in almost every case it is typical of the owner's character. Some are bowers of loveliness and luxury, ...

    Article : 283 words
  22. GOOD CARE NECESSARY.

    The man whose prospects are brightest for a profitable season on the farm has his work well in hand, and will not overreach himself by undertaking too much. When ...

    Article : 70 words
  23. HANGING A GATE TO BE SELF CLOSING.

    Have the post set plumb. The place the top hinge as high up as desired, and near centre of post. Then hang a plumb line to said hinge, let the line reach down ...

    Article : 90 words
  24. A PROPOSAL.

    The violet loves a sunny bank, The cowslip loves the lea ; The scarlet creeper loves the elm, But I love—thee. ...

    Article : 68 words
  25. EVASIVE ANSWERS.

    The youth was an applicant for a place in a theatrical magnate's office, where his principal duty would be to ward off by evasive answers the hordes who daily ...

    Article : 465 words
  26. PROGRESSIVE FARMING.

    Fuming, as a profession, under present and prospective conditions, must inevitably become more and more attractive to right minded men. The crude methods and ...

    Article : 275 words
  27. DOG AND MASTER.

    The following story of a dog who is wiser than his master is told in the Philadelphia "Times":— The master of the dog is a rancher, ...

    Article : 243 words
  28. STORY OF A EWE AND LAMB.

    While spending a holiday in a High- land glen in Argyllshire during the month of May this year (says some travellers) a curious incident came under ...

    Article : 260 words
  29. PERFUMES.

    It is not perhaps generally known that perfumes are apt to affect the nerves, and there are many people who are quite overcome if they remain for any length of ...

    Article : 367 words
  30. A PRACTICAL JOKE.

    Here is a good story of Sir Noel Paton, but an old one. The painter was a frequent visitor at a hydropathic establishment in Yorkshire, and was ...

    Article : 195 words
  31. HOW TO SPOIL A CHILD.

    Begin young by giving him whatever he cries for. Talk freely before the child about his cleverness as incomparable. ...

    Article : 141 words
  32. PLAYING GOLF.

    A certain Bishop is an enthusiastic gold-player. Some time ago he was on the links accompanied by a caddie who was himself a golfer of acknowledged ...

    Article : 163 words
  33. BANK NOTES LEFT IN A HOTEL.

    An astonishing discovery was, about two years ago, reported from one of our small provincial towns. The manager of the principal hotel there has for ...

    Article : 171 words
  34. SOVEREIGNS IN A STOCKING.

    The house of a lady who died a short time ago was thoroughly searched a short time after her death, and some strange discoveries were reported. An ...

    Article : 138 words
  35. AT A SHOW.

    A man on his way to see a show recently held in Aberdeen met a chum, whom he asked: "Are ye gaun to see the show. Wullie?" ...

    Article : 148 words
  36. ORIENTAL PROVERBS.

    We have not a monopoly of wisdom in the West, as the following selection, from a number of Oriental proverbs, will show :— ...

    Article : 106 words
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