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  2. Pith and Point.

    It is said that the largest crane in the world is in the Krupp iron works. It lifts and turns a weight of 150 tons. The story goes that M. Chassepot, the ...

    Article : 815 words
  3. The Table.

    Take some mutton cutlets, braise them in stock with vegetables very carefully. Take some tomato sauce and an equal part of aspic jelly, mixing well together, ...

    Article : 57 words
  4. Spray.

    The long lawsuit, concerning the fortune left by the Queen Regent Maria Christina of Spain, third wife of King Fernando VII., has terminated none too ...

    Article : 88 words
  5. The Sketcher.

    "The hour has arrived, gentlemen of the Windup Club, for beginning the intellectual exercises of the evening. We have dona full justice to the vlands that ...

    Article : 513 words
  6. Short Story.

    When I went out in '82 to the Gulf of Carpentaria it was undoubtedly a wild nod unsettled place. Burketown, a. resurrected township smelling of ...

    Article : 3,658 words
  7. Rice and Veal Shape.

    Fill a plain high-shaped mould with rice, prepared as for a shape. When cold turn out, and All up the hallow with a curry of veal. Garnish the base with ...

    Article : 37 words
  8. A Puzzle.

    "Mamma," said a little boy, "suppose a child should be borne out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, to what country would lie belong?" "Why,," ...

    Article : 101 words
  9. Orange Cream.

    Boll four large or six small oranges in water for an hour. Cut them in halves, and pass the juice and pulp through a hair sleve. Add half-a-pound ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. Rich South Africans.

    Park-lane and its neighbourhood bear evidence of tie social conquest of the South Africans. The handsome structure now being erected at the Great ...

    Article : 130 words
  11. Jubilee Pudding.

    Take six well-siraped apples, remove the cores, and put a piece of cinnamon in each. Place the apples in a flat-bortomed basin, and pour a teaspoonful of brandy ...

    Article : 89 words
  12. Lentil Cutlets.

    Take a pint of Egyptian lentils, 2oz. of butter, two eggs, one onion. Soak the lentils in cold water over night, boll them for two hours, strain them, and rub ...

    Article : 149 words
  13. It Was Gude.

    The Rev. John Brown, of Haddington, the author of the "Self-interpreting Bible," was a man of singular basbfulness. His courtship lasted seven years. ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. Rice Cake.

    Take ½lb. ground rice, ½lb. of flour, of white sugar, four eggs, ½lb. butter. Twenty drops essence of lemon. Separate the and the whites of the ...

    Article : 112 words
  15. Kipling's Visitors.

    Mr. Rudyard Kipling tolls a story how one morning, when at work, he was greatly surprised to see an elderly man and two girls enter Ills room. The hallmll ...

    Article : 142 words
  16. Flowers and Their Effect Upon the Voice.

    Miss May Yohe has confided to an interviewer the interesting fact that she cannot bear to have flowers near her when singing, as their perfume utterly ...

    Article : 497 words
  17. How to Hake Good Tea.

    The best tea is Indian. Chinamen collect their tea in sacks from small growers or crofters Chinamen men often use their sacks of tea Instead of mattresses to ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. The Woman and the Mice.

    The crowd was transfixed. "And now," announced the lecturer, "this wonderful woman will close her thrilling entertainment by entering a ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. A Curious Method of Proposing Marriage.

    This is how Mr. Hare describes in his interesting book, "The Gurneys, of Earlham," the method adopted by Mr. Fry for "popping the question" to ...

    Article : 390 words
  20. Cnly Me.

    After a moment the sexton, a short, bony individual, tip-toed to the church door and looked anxiously up and down the street. There was no one in sight ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. Why the Leaves Fall.

    It appears strange that the fall of the leaf may be sometimes connected with the approach of cold, and sometimes with hot weather; but it is very ...

    Article : 427 words
  22. The Writer of Sea Stories.

    The stout parly with the eye-glasses gazed with rapture at the rolling, darkblue waves. "At last," he sald. "the dream of my ...

    Article : 90 words
  23. Smoking in the Army.

    There is one habit which the new Commander-in-Chief will not encourage by example. In his early days Lord Wolseley was a great smoker, and had ...

    Article : 84 words
  24. Pasteur's Grave.

    No cypress-shadow'd churchyard, nor the gloom Of haunted cloisters, doth immortalise The dust of him Whose patience proved ...

    Article : 116 words
  25. Professor and Colonel.

    Here is an interesting extract from a hitherto unpublished letter written by Professor Blackle last year to a correspondent who forwarded to him a copy ...

    Article : 179 words
  26. The Goddess of Refrom.

    "Don't tell me that you are at the office every night till 12 o'clock," sobbed the young wife hysterically. "But, My dear—" said the young ...

    Article : 124 words
  27. Lack of Harmony.

    "How are you and your wife coming on? Do you quarrel as much as ever?" asked a mutual friend of a married man. "Just about the same." ...

    Article : 96 words
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