Articles from page 4: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. Prearranged "Heroism."

    Yearners after notoriety have adopted as vehicles for the attaining of their ends visits to lions' dens, rescue from drowning of ...

    Article : 199 words
  3. FOOLHARDY GUIDES.

    The guides who conduct tourists to Vesuvius often go to ridiculous risks to amuse their patrons. A favourite expedient is to take ...

    Article : 438 words
  4. Ladies' Column.

    Anyone using a double clothesline over pulleys will find the arrangement shown in Fig. 1 for supporting the lower line quiet ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 79 words
  5. JERUSALEM.

    Very shortly the sacred streets of the Holy, City will hum with the noise of electric cars, and its more important thoroughfares will ...

    Article : 509 words
  6. He Was Called.

    A commercial traveller who had business in a small town recently was detained longer than he expected, and, missing the last train for ...

    Article : 195 words
  7. MYSTERIES OF THE OCEAN.

    Everyone knows that sailors get the credit of spinning yarns so tough that no one will swallow them except the Marines, who are ...

    Article : 1,291 words
  8. A Baseball Catcher.

    An ingenious apparatus shown in the accompanying illustration is intended to save the catcher's hands. The doors on the front of the box ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 62 words
  9. SOME GOOD RECIPES.

    This unpleasant disorder gives rise to heart-burn, flushings of the face, and other unpleasant sensations. It is most readily cured by ...

    Article : 49 words
  10. Glaciers and Icebergs.

    Most of us talk of glaciers and icebergs familiarly; but how many know how they are formed ? When snow falls in the lower ...

    Article : 391 words
  11. AGUE AND LOW, NERVOUS FEVER

    To one quart of water add two ounces of bruised lance-leaved Peruvian bark. Boil from ten to fifteen minutes and strain while hot. ...

    Article : 104 words
  12. Woman Proclaims Martial Law.

    Governor West, of Oregon, took strong action recently against the town of Copperfield, in that State, and by means of his secretary. Miss ...

    Article : 210 words
  13. ALMOND CAKES.

    Sweet almonds, one pound; refined sugar, one pound; best flour, three-quarters of a pound, and ten eggs. Blanch the almonds and pound them ...

    Article : 53 words
  14. "Best Beggar in London."

    The Hon. Sydney Holland, chairman of the London Hospital, who has become Viscount Knutsford by the death of his father, has been ...

    Article : 263 words
  15. Leaning Tower of Pisa.

    Here is n sketch of the famous leaning tower of Pisa, in Italy, which leans a little more than six feet in eighty. The works of this ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 123 words
  16. ALMOND CUSTARD.

    To one pint of milk add half an ounce of butter, the yolks of four eggs, and sufficient sugar to sweeten to taste; stir it over a slow fire ...

    Article : 49 words
  17. ANISEED.

    The seed should be chosen fresh, large, plump, newly dried, of a good smell, and a biting, aromatic taste, without any bitterness. Used, ...

    Article : 37 words
  18. Discounting Racecourse Winnings.

    A curious kind of discount business is carried on in connection with the French "Pari-Mutuel" system of betting on the racecourse. It should ...

    Article : 491 words
  19. Easier to Spell.

    It was a bitterly cold night, and the sergeant in charge of the police-station was congratulating himself that he no longer had to patrol a ...

    Article : 178 words
  20. ANTS (To Destroy).

    After having discovered the aperture of their nests, surround it with soft clay formed into the shape of a funnel, and pour in boiling water. ...

    Article : 114 words
  21. A New Invention.

    A remarkable invention pregnant with useful possibilities is the wireless long-distance mirror. Its purpose, in brief, is to convey an image ...

    Article : 364 words
  22. A NOVEL RAT TRAP.

    A boy, while playing in the yard close to a grain house, dug a hole and buried an old-fashioned fruit jug or jar that his mother had ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 193 words
  23. A Bad Blizzard.

    One of the worst blizzards recorded for the last 23 years recently swept the Atlantic coast, and hundreds of streets in New York were rendered ...

    Article : 290 words
  24. Of Interest to Mac.

    There was no doubt about the fact that Jack MacFaddy was a Scotsman. Last year, when journeying to the ...

    Article : 248 words
  25. THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BRIDGE.

    A project is on foot for building a bridge across the Hudson River, uniting New York with New Jersey. The plans submitted ...

    Article : 237 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$