SOMETHING TO KNOW.
Two more turbine steamers of high speed are to be ordered by the Allan Steamship Company for the mail service between Liverpool and the St Lawrence.
A Tqo Hot Oven may be quickly cooled by placing in it a basin of cold water. The steam from the water will not injure anything that may be cooking except puff pastry.
"Paste diamonds " are artificial diamonds made of what is known as
"French paste," a mixture of glass and oxide of lead. Real diamonds are very successfully imitated by the use of this material.
As a substitute for spirits, the Winnebago Indians in lowa make a liquid from the muscatel bean which produces a blissful delirium at first, but culminates in the loss of speech, hearing and sight.
Do Not Let tea and coffee remain in the paper bags they came in or they will lose their flavor. All stores should be taken at once out of their paper bags and put away in their different receptacles in the store board.
The late George MacDonald used to tell the following story as an example of the pathetic effect on gentle souls of the rigid Calvinism that prevailed in Scotland in his youth : "An aged Highland woman on her addressed her granddaughter with #ese words : ‘Ay. Amy I ken I am notfcrf the elect. I ken I am not goin® to Heaven. But I trust the Lo*^ w iu find a place for me in Hell _ Jiere I shall not hear
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 21, 2 January 1907, Page 6
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