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  2. LADIES' COLUMN.

    A new form of entertaining, started by Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, is being taken up by Newport hostesses. It is a dinner and dance, ...

    Article : 463 words
  3. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    An ingenious adaptation of the sanitary drinking idea to the old-fashioned country pump receiving its supply of water from a well, has ...

    Article : 949 words
  4. COST OF TRANSATLANTIC LINERS.

    The first cost of Transatlantic passenger steamers has been increased enormously during the last forty years. In 1874 a 15-knot steamer ...

    Article : 243 words
  5. CHOKING AN OYSTER TO DEATH.

    The most destructive enemy of the oyster particularly in North Atlantic estuaries and river mouths is the starfish. Often these five-fingered ...

    Article : 218 words
  6. HUNTING IN NEPAL.

    The method of shooting when the Maharajah of Nepal gives a big shooting-party is that two or three regiments of soldiers are sent down ...

    Article : 530 words
  7. STORING ONIONS.

    Storing onions in crates seems to be popular in America, as well as storing in well-ventilated crits. An idea of the best practice in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 436 words
  8. [?]EDING THE ORCHARD.

    Extracts from "The Yeast of the Soil," a paper read by William H. Bowker before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. ...

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  9. MAGIC MILLIONS.

    Thirty million pounds, according to figures gleaned from the New York tax-books, represent the total value of land and buildings on Manhattan ...

    Article : 173 words
  10. POSTAGE STAMPS.

    Ninety-nine out of every hundred persons would probably ascribe the honour of having invented the postage stamp to Rowland Hill, but every ...

    Article : 663 words
  11. A TRAIN-LOAD OF MONKEYS.

    A plague of monkeys some years ago sorely troubled the officials at a small station on the Saran Railway, in North-west India. Trucks ...

    Article : 208 words
  12. TRANSFORMATION OF CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA.

    Mr. John D. Leckie has an article in January number of "Chambers's Journal"—which commences a new volume of this excellent monthly— ...

    Article : 314 words
  13. IGNOMONIOUSLY DEFEATED.

    "My dear. I wish you would speak more carefully," said a stickler for pure English to his wife. "You say that 'Henry Jones came to this town ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. DUE WARNING.

    Rotorua has been laughing over the wording of a notice that has been placed by the Public Works Department on some of the electric wire ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. TWIN MISSIONS.

    A country squire, residing in the West of Ireland took a walk one morning, and in a wood met a notorious poacher carrying a hare ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. A SAFE CABIN.

    "Captain," said a wealthy passenger who was about to tax[?] his [?] trip across the ocean, "I understand this ship has got several ...

    Article : 56 words
  17. RETURNED.

    She had returned to him all the letters and gifts received from him during their courtship. He, not to be outdone, sent her a ...

    Article : 46 words
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