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  2. AGRICULTURAL.

    It is a disappointing time (writes Mr Webb Donnell Maine, to an American agricultural paper) when one sees the calf or colt that has been growing thriftily while fed by its dam ...

    Article : 507 words
  3. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    The uses of so homely an article as lime about the household are almost innumerable, just the ordinary lime that one sees the plasterer and the bricklayer use in preparing ...

    Article : 359 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Ardent Spirits—Those that kiss the medium at a seance. Mamma : "Georgie, where is the sixpence I gave you to put in the contribution box for ...

    Article : 1,308 words
  5. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    She was only a faithful black servant, but none of them knew her worth until the day of the flood. Lizzie was a native, and among her duties ...

    Article : 1,592 words
  6. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Her face turned towards the narrow window Whose northward panes let in no sunny ray; With folded hands, mute, suffering, ...

    Article : 392 words
  7. GENERAL EXTRACTS.

    The "Daily Chronicle," commenting on the fact that Tolstoi accepts no money for his books, says :—The money which these very successful and beautiful works ...

    Article : 1,215 words
  8. What Children are Wearing.

    The tasteful winter frocks and mantles prepared forlittle girls this season bid fair to out rival anything we have hitherto seen. Some exquisite dresses for quite small maidens ...

    Article : 404 words
  9. Abuse of the Eyes.

    A few words as to the abuse of eyes may not be amiss. The first offence in this line is reading with a poor light—requiring the ciliary muscle to do extra work to sharpen ...

    Article : 247 words
  10. Abnormal Milk.

    In connection with the contamination of milk is the fact that it frequently becomes contaminated by dirt and filth from the skin of the teats and udder, and with matter from the ...

    Article : 199 words
  11. Ladies' Gossip.

    There are at present ten young ladies studying medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and it is evident that Swedish ladies more and more go in for medicine as a ...

    Article : 988 words
  12. Home and Fireside.

    BURNS.—The true physiological method of treating burns or scalds is to at once exclude the air with cotton batting, flour, scraped potato, varnish, white of an egg, paste or ...

    Article : 1,022 words
  13. Constituents of Butter.

    Of the proportions of water, butterfat, salt and other substances in butter, the following data is from the records of the Society of Public Analysts of Great Britain. The butters were ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. How to Run Far and Fast.

    Physiologists and lovers of athletics may be interested in recent experiments and researches of a French artillery captain, M. de Raoul, who, some fifteen years ago, began to ...

    Article : 315 words
  15. Variety of Food for Pigs.

    An "Iowa Breeder" writes as follows in the "American Swineherd":— The cheapest food raised by the farmer is grass; therefore every pound of gain made ...

    Article : 244 words
  16. The Decimal Standard.

    Now that the United States have adopted the metre and the kilogram as their standards of weight and length, in conformity with Continental practice, England can hardly ...

    Article : 118 words
  17. A Good Meat Smoker.

    It is important in smoking meat, hams, mutton, beef or fish that the smoke is cooled before it reaches the meat. This may be easily accomplished by the device shown in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 128 words
  18. A Question of Stature.

    If parents are tall the children tend to be tall; but the offspring of parents of unequal height most frequently follow the shorter. Excessive tallness is very ...

    Article : 59 words
  19. The Twin of the Earth.

    Venus is the twin of the earth, her diameter being about 7700 miles, or only some 200 miles less than that of our earth. Jupiter is the Goliath of planets, being ...

    Article : 248 words
  20. One for the Croakers.

    Croakers, when the export of butter was commenced in 1889-90, predicted that the experiment would result in a huge failure.' Wait till the novelty of the thing wears off" was their ...

    Article : 328 words
  21. Aprons.

    For bazaar stall-holders, who frequently wear aprons as badges of office, a notion which has a certain amount of novelty is to make them of the pretty flowered art-muslins now to be had ...

    Article : 304 words
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