Hebrew, Eleah, Jehovah; Chaldaic, Eiliah; Assyrian, Eleah; Syrian and Turkish, Alah; Malay, Alla; Arabic, Allah; Languages of the Magi, Orsi; Old Egyptian, Teut; Modern Egyptian, T...
Declaration of Independence July 4th, 1776 General Washington, first President. 1789 and 1793 John Adams 1797 Thomas Jefferson 1801 and 1805 James Madison 1809 and 1813 James Monro...
The hair of men is finer than that of women. The average weight of a head of hair is from 5 to 12 ounces. On an average head there are about 1,000 hairs to the square inch. Hair wi...
The new copyright law, which went into effect July 1, 1909, differs in many respects from the law previously in force. Its main provisions are given below, but those desiring to av...
In opening your account with a bank it is proper that you should first be introduced to the cashier, or some other official. If you are engaged in business, that officer will inqui...
The question sometimes arises whether it man is entitled to vote at an election held on the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary of his birth. Blackstone, in his Commentaries...
Checks are the most satisfactory and most convenient method of paying a debt or making any ordinary remittance. The stub of your check book will furnish a permanent memorandum, and...
That cold rain water and soap will remove machine grease from washable fabrics. That fish may be scaled much easier by first dipping them into boiling water for a minute. That fres...
Five Hundred Common Errors Corrected Concise Rules for the Proper Use of Words in Writing or Speaking. The most objectionable errors in speaking or writing are those in which words...
It is often asked how stout a woman ought to be in proportion to her height. A very young girl may becomingly be thinner than a matron, but the following table gives a fair indicat...
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general wel...
1. Every entire sentence should begin with a capital. 2. Proper names, and adjectives derived from these, should begin with a capital. 3. All appellations of the Deity should begin...
The following is said to be the sentence of death, word for word, pronounced against Jesus Christ: Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilate, intendent of the lower province of Galilee...
One quart of wheat flour is one pound. One quart of corn meal weighs eighteen ounces. One quart of butter, soft, weighs 14 to 16 ounces. One quart of brown sugar weighs from a poun...
Any and all property which a woman owns at her marriage, together with rents, issues and profits thereof, and the property which comes to her by descent, devise, bequest, gift or g...
Dr. Katherine Blackford, of Boston, speaking of men's complexions, arrives at the following conclusions. There are, of course, exceptions to all rules: As a general rule, the blond...
In Congress, July 4, 1776. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to a...
Hand this table to a young lady, and request her to tell you in which column or columns her age is contained, and add together the figures at the top of the columns in which her ag...
Thick lips indicate genius and conservatism. Large dilating nostrils are a sign of poetic temperament and a sensitive nature. A long forehead denotes liberality. Arched eyebrows, g...
The greatest height at which visible clouds ever exist does not exceed ten miles. Air is about eight hundred and fifteen times lighter than water. The pressure of the atmosphere up...
Get a piece of lead pipe and use it as a funnel to introduce about 1-1/2 ounces of sulphite of potassium into any outside holes tenanted by rats. Not to be used in dwellings. To ge...
It is surprising, says a family physician, how certainly a cold may be broken up by a timely dose of quinine. When first symptoms make their appearance, when a little languor, slig...
The real formula for making salt-rising bread, as set down by the daughter of Governor Stubbs, of Kansas, and by him communicated to Theodore Roosevelt, is as follows, according to...
Wholesale houses usually invoice their goods to retailers at list prices. List prices were once upon a time supposed to be retail prices, but of late a system of long list prices h...
(Benjamin Franklin.) Drive thy business! Let not thy business drive thee! Diligence is the mother of good luck. Now I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good morrow. If you...
Cast by Thomas Lester, Whitechapel, London. Arrived in Philadelphia in August, 1752. First used in statehouse, Philadelphia, Aug. 27, 1752. Twice recast by Pass & Snow, Philadelphi...
The human body has 240 bones. Man's heart beats 92,160 times in a day. A salmon has been known to produce 10,000,000 eggs. Some female spiders produce 2,000 eggs. A queen bee produ...
When King Stanislaus of Poland, then a young man, came back from a journey, the whole Lescinskian House gathered together at Lissa to receive him. The schoolmaster, Jablowsky, prep...
To strike a flag is to lower the national colors in token of submission. Flags are used as the symbol of rank and command, the officers using them being called flag officers. Such...
When Thomas Jefferson brought the tomato from France to America, thinking that if it could be induced to grow bountifully it might make good feed for hogs, he little dreamed of the...