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  2. OUR AGRICULTURAL LETTER.

    “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” The drought in the Western and Northern districts of New South Wales has bestirred the settlers thereabouts to the making of ...

    Article : 1,596 words
  3. RENEWING THEIR YOUTH.

    Scene.—The horse parade in Armstrong street. Time.—Saturday, loth September, 1888. They were old mates—three of them. ...

    Article : 1,341 words
  4. HAPPY TERMINATION TO AN ELOPEMENT.

    “Choose not alone a proper mate, but a proper time to marry,” says Cowper; but a certain young couple had evidently not read his poems, or, if they had done so, they had ...

    Article : 320 words
  5. THE ARMADA.

    Mr Swinburne contributes a spirited poem of some 20 pages on The Armada to the August number of the Fortnightly Review. The following are the concluding ...

    Article : 429 words
  6. TEMPERANCE NOTES.

    The Record of New York regards the bill for increasing the cost of licenses to sell drink as the most important subject which has engaged the consideration of the ...

    Article : 231 words
  7. LADIES’ COLUMN.

    A writer, evidently a keen observer, sizes up the present prospects of matrimony thus: Young people get married; and instead of being satisfied to begin as their fathers and ...

    Article : 1,130 words
  8. WHAT THEY ARE WORTH.

    I do not know what yon may think of the woman’s crusade, but let me say, as a woman who stood inside of it, that the womanhood of this nation never laid such a ...

    Article : 277 words
  9. SMALL FARMS BEST.

    Anyone who takes the trouble to enquire, will find in every case that the prosperous fanners are those who cultivate small areas thoroughly, and grow anything that the land ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. THE DUCHESS

    He has scarcely time to wonder at that before a face follows it! Such a face! And then there is a swift pressure of the hands on the stone wall, and with a movement full ...

    Article : 3,883 words
  11. TELEPHONES AND LIGHTNING.

    A new terror has been added to existence (remarks a contemporary) by the discovery that it is dangerous to use the telephone during a thunderstorm. When the wires ...

    Article : 232 words
  12. THE SECRET OF WARM FEET.

    Many of our friends and neighbors are at the present time suffering from either bronchitis or severe cold. I have every reason to believe that nearly all such ailments ...

    Article : 248 words
  13. INVENTOR OF THE TELESCOPE.

    About the year 1609, the son of a spectacle maker of Middleburg, in Holland, happening to amuse himself in his father’s shop by holding two glasses between his ...

    Article : 186 words
  14. FUN AND FABCY.

    “Papa will never consult, John.” “I’m sorry.” “So am I,” “You’re an angel.” “You’re a goose.” “Then let’s fly.” A little boy had been sent to dry a towel ...

    Article : 758 words
  15. HOME INTERESTS.

    Lobster Souffle.—Pound the flesh of a lobster with about [?] oz of fresh butter, salt and some prepared pepper, and then rub it through a hair sieve. Mix to this the yolks ...

    Article : 378 words
  16. WOMEN AS CHAMPION CRIMINALS.

    We have (says the Pall Mali Garelle) from time to time of late chronicled the success of women in University examinations and in various careers open to both sexes alike. ...

    Article : 252 words
  17. WORTH REMEMBERING.

    With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk, Loss may be no dishonor, but dishonor may be deadliest loss. ...

    Article : 193 words
  18. GIVE THE BOYS A SHOW.

    One of the best ways to interest boys in the farm, and develop a love of farming, which will hold them to agriculture instead of going into the city for work, in a railroad ...

    Article : 188 words
  19. A TURKISK SONGSTRESS.

    Masini, the Italian tenor, when travelling for pleasure, sang recently to the Sultan’s harem at Constantinope. The ladies, as is usual on such occasions, were hidden from ...

    Article : 143 words
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