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  2. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Her face turned ever towards the narrow window Whose northward panes let in no sunny ray; With folded hands, mute, suffering, ...

    Article : 387 words
  3. THE WIDE WORLD.

    Jacob Schaefer, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Frank C. Ives, of Plainwell, Michigan, two of the most famous billiard professionals in the United States, gave ...

    Article : 1,026 words
  4. EUREKA.

    (By the Rev. T. J. Hyder. Awarded first prize in the Hibernian Society competition for a poem on the subject). Men came with hearts of hope and pitched ...

    Article : 840 words
  5. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Ardent Spirits—Those that kiss the medium at a seance. Mamma: "Georgie, where is the sixpence I gave you to put in the contribution box for ...

    Article : 1,424 words
  6. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    The uses of so homely an article as lime about the household are almost innumerable, just the ordinary lime that one sees the plasterer and the bricklayer use in preparing ...

    Article : 351 words
  7. THE YOUNG FOLKS.

    She was only a faithful black servant, but none of them knew her worth until the day of the flood. Lizzie was a native, and among her duties ...

    Article : 1,526 words
  8. Home and Fireside.

    BURNS.—The true physiological method of treating burns or scalds is to at once exclude the air with cotton batting, flour, scraped potato, varnish, white of an egg, paste or ...

    Article : 1,353 words
  9. Abuse of the Eyes.

    A few words as to the abuse of eyes may not be amiss. The first offence in this line is reading with a poor light—requiring the ciliary muscle to do extra work to sharpen ...

    Article : 247 words
  10. Aprons.

    For bazaar stall-holders, who frequently wear aprons as badges of office, a notion which has a certain amount of novelty is to make them of the pretty flowered art-muslins now to be had ...

    Article : 303 words
  11. Ladies' Gossip.

    There are at present ten young ladies studying medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and it is evident that Swedish ladies more and more go in for medicine as a ...

    Article : 968 words
  12. How to Run Far and Fast.

    Physiologists and lovers of athletics may be interested in recent experiments and researches of a French artillery captain, M. de Raoul, who, some fifteen years ago, began to ...

    Article : 313 words
  13. What Children are Wearing.

    The tasteful winter frocks and mantles prepared for little girls this season bid fair to out-rival anything we have hitherto seen. Some exquisite dresses for quite small maidens ...

    Article : 398 words
  14. The Decimal Standard.

    Now that the United States have adopted the metre and the kilogram as their standards of weight and length, in conformity with Continental practice, England can hardly ...

    Article : 117 words
  15. A Question of Stature.

    If parents are tall the children tend to be tall; but the offspring of parents of unequal height most frequently follow the shorter. Excessive tallness is very ...

    Article : 59 words
  16. A Daughter on the Revolt.

    Miss Pearsall Smith discourses thus in the Nineteenth Century on this subject:—Let every girl then claim her right to individual development, not merely for her own ...

    Article : 536 words
  17. The Twin of the Earth.

    Venus is the twin of the earth, her diameter being about 7700 miles, or only some 200 miles less than that of our earth. Jupiter is the Goliath of planets, being ...

    Article : 117 words
  18. Variety of Food for Pigs.

    An "Iowa Breeder" writes as follows in the "American Swineherd":—The cheapest food raised by the farmer is grass; therefore every pound of gain made ...

    Article : 241 words
  19. Returns from Dairy Cows.

    A contributor to the "Hawera Star," New Zealand, sends to that paper the following balance sheet showing the returns from a herd of thirty cows. From thirty cows, Manala ...

    Article : 379 words
  20. Advertising

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    Advertising : 285 words
  21. Cheddar Cheese.

    Professor Sheldon says: During a period which is confined within the limits of half a century, the Cheddar system has won for itself a reputation which may be called cosmopolitan. ...

    Article : 300 words
  22. Love in a Horse Trade.

    There was a marriage booked for last Thursday night, less than twenty miles from Harmony Grove. On the Wednesday before the would be groom sent the following ...

    Article : 153 words
  23. The Truth About Black Stockings.

    There had been many and ominous rumors the effect that the wearing of black stockings, and particularly black silk stockings was like flying in the face of Province. Black ...

    Article : 756 words
  24. One for the Croakers.

    Croakers, when the export of butter was commenced in 1889-00, predicted that the experiment would result in a huge failure. It Wait till the novelty of the thing wears off" was their ...

    Article : 179 words
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