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  2. THE EMPTY HOUSE.

    Crealock Hastings turned the house-agent's key in the lock of "The Yeld," end stood in the house which should have been his. The windows that gave ...

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  3. FARM AND FIELD.

    Complaints are made by the manufacturers in Bradford, England, that it costs the worsted trade in England L1,000,000 a year to get the vegetable ...

    Article : 302 words
  4. THE VINEYARD.

    As occasion requires wines should be racked off. The young wines should be stored in clean, sound casks that have contained wine of the same type, and ...

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  5. MODERN LONDON

    "Well, I'm fair capped wi' yon place!" said Mr Poskitt, as he and his wife and Mr Thomas Merrill settled themselves down before the parlor fire, after ...

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  6. THE DAIRY

    A well-known authority, dealing with points in Shorthorns, says:—"In Shorthorns, width between the eyes is indication of good breeding quality in both ...

    Article : 207 words
  7. THE BEEKEEPER

    Dysentery is a disease, writes "Hybla" in the English "Journal of Horticulture," due almost entirely to carelessness on the part of the apiarist. It is caused by ...

    Article : 282 words
  8. BULGARIA.

    A correspondent at Sofia wrote in the "Westminster Gazette" of 28th August:— "Bulgaria is celebrating this week with fetes and rejoicings the twentieth ...

    Article : 431 words
  9. THE LAW'S DELAYS.

    The question which a correspondent asks concerning the delay in matters pertaining to the proving of wills, doubtless arises in the minds of many. Pastor ...

    Article : 499 words
  10. A CHAMPION MILKER.

    Wisconsin, U.S.A., can probably boast of the champion butter-fat producing cow of the Holstein or any other variety. Colantha 4th's Johanna, bred and owned ...

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  11. PURCHASING BEES.

    This is a very good time to purchase a stock of bees. The advice of a reliable bee-keeper is required to make sure the colony is worth purchasing, ...

    Article : 321 words
  12. Strangles in Horses.

    The French Government has spent about L20,000 in demonstrating the value of a new serum for "strangles" in horses. The Pasteur Institute, the ...

    Article : 226 words
  13. IMPURE SALT IN BUTTER.

    In the annual report of the Mecklemberg-Schwerin Experiment Station in Germany, writes the "New York Produce Review," an account is given of a ...

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  14. Preparation of Wool for Market.

    The British Wool Buyers' Association has issued the following suggestions to wool growers on the preparation of wools for the market. ...

    Article : 278 words
  15. GIRL'S PURSUIT OF A LOVER.

    From New York on 20th August the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:— An order was issued at Washington ...

    Article : 261 words
  16. A DOMESTICATED EMPRESS.

    General satisfaction will be felt in this country at the fact that she accident to the German Empress last week is not likely to turn out as ...

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  17. GAOLER RETIRES.

    A quarter of a century's active service at the premier police court of the United Kingdom should be productive of interesting reminiscences. ...

    Article : 278 words
  18. FRENCH GREEN GAGES.

    To give the exact quantities of the various kinds of French plums which arrived at the Covent Garden market during the second week in August ...

    Article : 302 words
  19. Potash and Potato Blight.

    The necessity of a liberal supply of available potash to a potato crop is well known. When large quantities no farm yard manure are given, it is not ...

    Article : 392 words
  20. THE WIDOW OF LOUIS AGASSIZ.

    It is only a few weeks ago that the centenary of the birth of Louis Agassiz was celebrated. in America. There is now reported from Boston, her native ...

    Article : 144 words
  21. WIFE'S LIFE OF TERROR.

    The strange conduct of an Admiralty clerk named Alexander Arthur Jonathan Price, of Corsehill road, Streatham, led to his being summoned recently in the ...

    Article : 374 words
  22. THE LOCKJAW GERM.

    So lockjaw—which in grander phrase. The doctors "Tetanus" must term— As all complaints nowadays, Is caused by a specific germ. ...

    Article : 151 words
  23. A CHILD'S PRAYER.

    WINSTED, Conn., 8th August.—At the Pine Grove camp ground in Canaan yesterday a little girl did not obey her mother, was naughty to ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. A PIG'S SAGACITY.

    "A few years ago I was sketching near a farmyard on Exmoor," writes a correspondent. "It was the hour for the animals' evening meal, and ...

    Article : 189 words
  25. "SPANISH PRISONER" FRAUD.

    A gang of seven persons who have been carrying on the "Spanish prisoner" fraud in every European country has been arrested, says the ...

    Article : 163 words
  26. SOCIAL MONOTONY.

    A danger which threatens society at the present day is that its monotony will prove its undoing. The attempt that everyone makes—who is socially ...

    Article : 89 words
  27. A LONDON HOSPITAL SCENE.

    A glimpse of the consulting room of a throat and ear surgeon in one of the great London hospitals is like one of H. G. Wells's visions of the future. The ...

    Article : 113 words
  28. GESTICULATION'S SUBTLE AID.

    Why should not we teach our children to gesticulate? Our speech is flat, coarse, heavy. A little gesture—only the rudiments of the subtle art which is ...

    Article : 67 words
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