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  2. Housekeeper.

    When choosing apples take those that weigh heaviest. They will be the best fruit. Damp salt will take off the ...

    Article : 216 words
  3. SHORT STORY.

    Stamford, of the 3rd Dragoons, Saule, of the 90th Field Battery, and Wyllson, of the Butlandshire Regiment, were seated on a grassy bank under a hedge. They had gone ...

    Article : 3,931 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    The new French hot-air balloon carries a ring of kerosene burners to give a constant and easily-regulated supply of heated air. It does not cool ...

    Article : 305 words
  5. THE NEXT TYPE OF WARSHIP.

    What will be the outcome of the Admiralty's recent order for a destroyer to be fitted with internal combustion engines it is difficult to determine, but ...

    Article : 337 words
  6. GETTING CHILDREN TO SLEEP.

    One most important step in the work of getting children to sleep is to see that they are healthfully weary before going to bed. For the ...

    Article : 173 words
  7. Scientific Notes.

    This is an English invention, in which the revolving blades are made with curved surfaces of a peculiar form, which impel the air in a ...

    Article : 92 words
  8. JEWEL FOUND IN BRAZIL

    Jewel experts throughout the world have been thrown into a state of excitement by the appearance of a beryl that weighs 243.1 lb., and is 18.9 in. ...

    Article : 108 words
  9. Odds and Ends.

    When a young widow, meets a man after her own heart, she begins to sit up and take notice. Mistress: "Have you a reference?" ...

    Article : 145 words
  10. A SURE LAMP-LIGHTER.

    The following tip, though of more sevice to our cycling readers than others, may prove useful under a variety of circumstances. The difficulty ...

    Article : 83 words
  11. HOUSEKEEPING AS A SCIENCE.

    Housekeeping as a science demands an exact training which has only recently been opened up to women. Perhaps the nearest approach to this ...

    Article : 195 words
  12. DESTRUCTION OF RATS.

    An East African publication contains a description of a method of destroying rats followed in Java, in which carbon bisulphide is employed. ...

    Article : 157 words
  13. COLOUR AEROPLANES TO DENOTE THEIR MAKE.

    It has been proposed that the different French constructors of aeroplanes adopt special colours for their machines in order to faciliate ...

    Article : 168 words
  14. FAT AND FASHIONABLE.

    According to the Moorish idea of beauty a really handsome woman ought to be so fat that she can only waddle, not walk. The fatter she is ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. THUNDER.

    It has usually been thought that the noise of thunder is caused by the closing up of the vacuum created by the passage of the lightning, the air ...

    Article : 214 words
  16. THE LIFE TERM IS LENGTHENING.

    Life is not growing shorter, but Dr. O. H. Howe finds that the world's statistics indicate a steady lengthening for 350 years, with a present rate of ...

    Article : 157 words
  17. RECIPES.

    Cherry Pie.—One quart pitted cherries, one cupful sugar half a cupful of flour one teaspoonful of butter, plain pie-crust. Line a deep pie-tin ...

    Article : 486 words
  18. IN CHRYSANTHEMUM LAND.

    Some Japanese advetisements possess a wealth of imagery unknown to the Western advertiser. A Tokio draper announces that "Our goods are ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. ICEBERGS.

    Among the perils and wonders of the ocean there are few more interesting things than icebergs, interesting not only by reason of their gigantic size, ...

    Article : 237 words
  20. SURE TO BE DRY.

    A "sweet girl graduate" wrote the following on the fly-leaf of her textbook on mental science:— "If there should be another flood, ...

    Article : 2 words
  21. THE HEARING OF ANTS.

    Naturalists generally appear to have accepted the opinion that ants are not able to perceive any sounds that are audible to human ears, but there are ...

    Article : 165 words
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