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  2. Odds and Ends.

    A PENNY saved is probably penny that has somehow worked down into the lining of your coat, ...

    Article : 23 words
  3. SHORT STORY.

    I WAS already married when the following events happened,' said Holdsworth, who narrated this tale at our oampflre; and we were living on a little estate ...

    Article : 2,995 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    AN eating-house made entirely of compressed-paper has been arected in Hamburg. The dining-room is large enough to accommodate 160 persons. ...

    Article : 145 words
  5. CAUSE AND EFFECT.

    Mick; 'Was than anything wrorg with your wife before the died?' Pat: 'Yes, she had a bad memory,' Mick: 'Then I know how she's died,' ...

    Article : 36 words
  6. ANGEL'S FOOD.

    Ingredients:—I quart milk, 3 eggs, ½ teaspoonful essence vanilla, 1 oz isinglass or gelatine, 2 or 8 tablespoonfuls sugar. Method.—Soak gelatine in half the milk ...

    Article : 129 words
  7. CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS,

    We must once more call attention to the gross careleacness of a contemporary. We hear that the following head-lines have caused considerable irritation in the fore! ...

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  8. A LOVE LETTER.

    A popular concert-singer, who had been advertised to participate in an entertainment in a village, excused her absence on the ground of having a severe cold ...

    Article : 67 words
  9. Housekeeper.

    NO matter how pretty and picturesque it may sound to have the hair falling over the pillow, never do it. It breaks the hair, loosens it, and is ruinous to its beauty. ...

    Article : 54 words
  10. MUSIC AND MILK.

    Farmers will be interested in the experiments of Professor McConnel, which show that music suitable in quality and administered at the right moment is a sure means ...

    Article : 109 words
  11. BANANA TRIFLE.

    Ingredients: ½ dozen bananas, 3 or 4 sponge fingers, 1 pint milk, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, 1 tablespoon cornflour, vanilla. ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. CLOSE.

    Horsedealer: 'Did that mare I sold you do for yout sir?' Nervous Horseman: Nearly I' ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 18 words
  13. Science and Invention.

    FOR the working of their fastest nonstopping West of England expresses the London and South-Western Railway Company are now constructing at their ...

    Article : 133 words
  14. FOR RHEUMATISM.

    Sufferers from rheumatism should dress entirely in woollen clothing, and dust the inside of their clothing with flour of sulphur. They should abstain from taking ...

    Article : 103 words
  15. CURIOUS SIGNS.

    On the basks of a rivulet near Strabane there is said to be a stone bearing the following inscription that is intended to be of service to strangers: 'Take notice, that ...

    Article : 109 words
  16. ORANGE JELLY.

    Ingredients—½ dozen small, ripe oranges or mandarins; 2 orange jelly tablets, flavoured with sherry; some crystallised cherries; whipped cream (flavored) ...

    Article : 135 words
  17. SOMETHING ABOUT BATHING

    Exercise before bathing, so that one feels comfortably warm. Allow at least three hours to slapse after a full meal before taking a fall bath. ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. A LIVING NET.

    A pecular method of fishing is indulged in by the natives of Tetuila, one of the idands of Oceania. At a given signal all the inhabitants of the village assemble on ...

    Article : 171 words
  19. LUMINESCENT ZINC BLENDE.

    Zinc blende which possesses the curious property of luminescence has been discovered in California, Nevada, and other States of North America. The ore has a ...

    Article : 103 words
  20. A RETAINER DEFINED,

    'What is a retainer, pop?' 'A retainer, my son, is the money people pay us lawyers before we do any work.' 'Oh, I see. It's like those pay gas ...

    Article : 46 words
  21. APPLE FLUMMERY.

    Ingredientss:—6 large apples, 1 lemon, 4 ozs sugar, whites of 3 eggs, oochineal. Method.—Peel, quarter, core and slice the apples. Thinly peel the lemon and ...

    Article : 114 words
  22. NOT TO BLAME.

    Elderly Miss: 'This toilet soap I bought from you has made my face all spotty, and your master told me that it would not harm the most beautiful complexion in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 57 words
  23. EGGS FOR CHILDREN.

    An Austrian physician has called attention to the value of uncocked eggs as food for growing children. Of all the substances lound in the animal organism, ...

    Article : 175 words
  24. AUTOMATIC MACHINES.

    The coin-in-the-slot machine has now become so popular, and has such a variety or applications, that it is difficult to see where it will stop. There is now a big ...

    Article : 197 words
  25. A PECULIAR TREE.

    It sounds like a fairy tale to say that a tree bean glue, towels, cloth, tinder, and bread. But there is such a tree on the Paciflc Islands. It is called the bread ...

    Article : 190 words
  26. Items of Interest.

    WE are almost all of us slaves of phrases.—Mr Baifour, Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the height of enjoyment.—Novalis. ...

    Article : 476 words
  27. DEEP BREATHING.

    The unvarnished truth about deep breathing, says a dootor, seems to be that the majority of folks do not occupy all their bodies-they are content as it were, ...

    Article : 180 words
  28. MUST HAVE BEEN.

    Ostend: 'Is it true that woman was made out of a rib bone?' Pa: 'That's what they say, my son, but I believe it was a jawbone.' ...

    Article : 33 words
  29. THE FEAST OF LANTERNS.

    On September 1st of each year there is celebrated, in Japan, a curious ceremony, known as 'The Feast of Lanterns,' which is supposed to be a formal reception given ...

    Article : 201 words
  30. A TIDE-MOTOR.

    A solution of the old problem of how to get mechanical power from the rise and fall of the tides is attempted by Mr T. B. Stoney, M. Inst. C.E., who has patented a ...

    Article : 227 words
  31. GOOD FOR HER HUSBAND.

    'Your trouble is not serious, madam You only need rest.' But, dootor, lock at my tongue,' 'Oh, give that a rest, too.' ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  32. ONIONS FOR THE COMPLEXION.

    There is no more certain beautifier of the complexion than the blood-purifying onion. To imitate the example of the American ladies and reserve one day in the week on ...

    Article : 169 words
  33. BEER-BOTTLE HOUSE.

    A house built almost entirely of beerbottles! Such is the carious spectacle which may be witnessed at the mining camp of Tonopah, Nevada, U.S.A. This ...

    Article : 274 words
  34. PHYSIOTYPE.

    Physiotype, or Nature-printing, as the name implies, is a new, simple, and inexpensive method of making self-pictures from natural and artificial flat objects; or ...

    Article : 461 words
  35. GOOD FOR SOMETHING.

    Freddy: 'Oh, Mr Bristles, I wish I had a moustache like yours,' Mr B.: 'Ah! Then you think It's becoming, Freddy?' ...

    Article : 51 words
  36. WELL FITTED.

    Beryl: ' Who is that amateur who just recited 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' with such thrilling effect?' Sibyl: 'He's a onllector for the gas ...

    Article : 32 words
  37. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES

    Ingredients:—I quart milk, 2 tablespoonfuls ournflour, 2 tablespoonfuls powdered cheeolate, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, vanills flovoring. ...

    Article : 123 words
  38. ADVISED,

    'I want to get copies of your paper for a week back,' said an old gentleman to a new clerk in the publishing office of a newspaper. 'Don't you think you'd better use a ...

    Article : 40 words
  39. DEAR.

    He: Yon are very dear to me, love.' She: 'Then what did yon do before you married me?' He; 'Saved money.' ...

    Article : 25 words
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