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  2. Far and Near

    The longest reach of railway without a curve is claimed by travellers to be that of the new Argentine Pacific Railway from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the Andes. For ...

    Article : 56 words
  3. Birds.

    Not, long ago a bat was discovered in a cozy corner of a barn with four little ones firmly attached to her wings, in this condition Madam Bat sailed through the hay-left with ...

    Article : 234 words
  4. Essayist.

    Anger is a vice that frustrates the design of nature. Men are born to help each other anger makes them destroy one another. Love ventures all to save another; anger ...

    Article : 226 words
  5. AMERICAN FASHION LETTER.

    Among the handsome dresses that will see the light is an opal bracade, to be worn by one of the young patronesses. The brocade has in it gleams and glints of green and ...

    Article : 1,151 words
  6. CARRY THEIR OWN GAS TIPS.

    'A pair of nippers and half a dozens-foot gas-burner tips,'was the order given by a jaunty young woman who visited an uptown hardware store the other day. ...

    Article : 155 words
  7. BOXES VERSUS FRAMES.

    There is nothing more useful in a garden than [?] frame. It comes in for many purposes, serving for protecting plants in winter, and for hardening others that are raised in ...

    Article : 197 words
  8. THE FARM OF THE FUTURE.

    A writer of California, who has long been interested in the subject of agriculture, confidently asserts that the farm of the future will be the forty acre farm. This claim ...

    Article : 437 words
  9. Scientific Notes.

    The mean distance of tho sun from the earth is now given as 92,965,000 miles. The calculation was first attempted by Richer and Cassina in 1692, after an ...

    Article : 88 words
  10. WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR RUGS.

    One of the pretty con[?]its of the day is a boudoir carpet made entirely of white fur. Very large white fur rags are also greatly in vogue, and are not expensive, three ...

    Article : 197 words
  11. HUNG AT THE GIRDLE.

    In Middle Ages at the girdle were hung the thousand and one odds and ends needed and utilized in every-day affairs. The scrivener had his ink-horn and pen attached ...

    Article : 253 words
  12. GAME FOWLS.

    The origin of the Game Fowl, as such, is involved in mystery. That it is a descendant of the 'Gallas bankiva' is generally admitted by all naturalists, but in what ...

    Article : 1,147 words
  13. ALL READY.

    In order to have hay of tho best quality it is important to cut it at the right stage so that it can be ured properly and stored away in as good shape as possible. An ...

    Article : 203 words
  14. ALCOHOL.

    Alcohol when rendered solid by extreme cold loses its inflammable nature altogether Oxygen when frezen solid loses all its well-known properties of supporting combustion ...

    Article : 82 words
  15. THE ARAB AT HOME.

    Dr. J. P. Poters was the manager of the expedition sent out in 1988 to explore the rains of Babylon. During the two years I was there,' said he,' I lived with many of ...

    Article : 177 words
  16. THE JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE.

    Jerusalem artichokes, is a highly nutritious tuber equaling, if not surpassing, the potato in food vale. And yet it is rarely seen upon the farm. While not possessing the culinary ...

    Article : 333 words
  17. A TWENTY-ONE STORTEYED HOUSE.

    One of the sights of Chicago is the Mas-onic Temple, said to he the highest commercial building in the world. It rises three hundred and two feet above the side ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. WHAT A BILLION MEANS.

    It would be curious to know how many readers have brought fully home to their inner consciousness the real signifiennce of that little word 'Billion.' ...

    Article : 412 words
  19. BIG BRIDGES.

    They are indulging in some big bridge talk in Europe. The high-level bridge across the Mersey at Liverpool is to consist of three spans on the arch suspension ...

    Article : 398 words
  20. EXPERIMENT IN ELECTRIC LIGHT.

    The Harrogate municipality has resolved to illuminate a certain defined area in the town by the electric light, and by a small majority has also decided in favour of a ...

    Article : 187 words
  21. THE BANANA PLANT.

    The banana, it appears, belongs to the lily family, and is a' developed tropical lily, from which, after ages of development and growth, the seeds have been eliminated, and ...

    Article : 146 words
  22. DENTISTRY.

    A most remarkable story of a deal in dentistry is going the rounds. A banker's firm in London the other day made an investment in teeth which was highly satisfactory, and ...

    Article : 161 words
  23. A NEW ELEMENT OF DESTRUCTION INTRODUCED.

    Electrolysis is defined as the act or process of chemical decomposition caused by the action of electricity or galvanism. The word is one of the many that has come into common ...

    Article : 559 words
  24. PROFITABLE WINTER DAIRYING.

    In every industry or business, the most profit is made in the by ways, and outside of the well-worn and beaton track, in which competitors crowd each other. Thus, in the ...

    Article : 872 words
  25. Vanity Fair.

    Another incontestable proof of tho rapid advance of the Japanese in tho civilization of tho west is the following advertisement, which appeared in a Tokio paper recently ...

    Article : 141 words
  26. HEAVY CROPS.

    It is reported from France that M. Egasse of Archevillers, in the Department of Eureet Loire, produced an average crop of potatoes per acre on forty acres. The tons ...

    Article : 79 words
  27. THE ENGLISH AGRICULTURIST.

    Au agricultural laborer who is married and has a family never buys meat. He never tastes it unless it is given to him as a dole. He never takes a holiday. When a holiday ...

    Article : 244 words
  28. LOCKJAW.

    A remedy for tetanus, of lockjaw, is announced. Professor Tizzoni of Bologna, Italy, has introduced a specific which he calls 'tetanus antitoxin,' which has in a ...

    Article : 80 words
  29. SHAKING HANDS.

    A lady never extends hor hand to a man whose acquaintance she is making. She may or may not shake hands with a lady who is introduced, but she must not give her hand to ...

    Article : 107 words
  30. THE LOCOMOTIVE WHISTLE.

    When locomotives were first built, and began to trundle their small loads up and down the newly and rudely constructed railways of England, the country roads were ...

    Article : 179 words
  31. Agriculturalist.

    In rooting geraniums, use half saud, but in potting them, procure the very richest soil possible. The best can be obtained under old, decayed logs, in the woods. ...

    Article : 238 words
  32. WHAT NATIONALISM IS NOT.

    "In expounding Nationlism, it is necessary to disabuse the minds of many readers of many notions which the current of time may have drifted into their thoughts ...

    Article : 274 words
  33. THE SECRET OF ATTRACTIVENESS.

    A certain plain girl whose eyes are almost a deformity, because they have no sockets, and whose complexion is unpleasantly muddy, is in coustant denned by her own sex, and ...

    Article : 181 words
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