What To Do If an artery is cut, red blood spurts. Compress it above the wound. If a vein is cut, dark blood flows. Compress it below and above. If choked, go upon all fours and cou...
All merchants use private cipher marks to note cost or selling price of goods. The cipher is usually made up from some short word or sentence of nine or ten letters, as: C O R N E...
The new science of aeronautics has given rise to many new words, among them some of awkward derivation, and even those properly formed and worthy of preservation in the language ar...
(Note.--If you do not find the word you want, look for a word of identical or closely similar meaning.) A Abundance--Deceitful security. Accident--Unexpected meeting. Acorn--Irrepa...
Following is the height in feet of some noted monuments and structures: Amiens cathedral, 383; Bunker Hill monument, 221; Capitol, Washington, 288; City Hall, Philadelphia, 535; Co...
According to Doctor Leuf, when water is taken into the full or partly full stomach, it does not mingle with the food, as we are taught, but passes along quickly between the food an...
A hawk flies 150 miles per hour; an eider duck 90 miles; a pigeon, 40 miles. A man's working life is divided into four decades: 20 to 30, bronze; 30 to 40, silver; 40 to 50, gold;...
Tea is a nerve stimulant, pure and simple, acting like alcohol in this respect, without any value that the latter may possess as a retarder of waste. It has a special influence upo...
Children have twenty temporary teeth, which begin making their appearance about the sixth or seventh month. The time varies in different children. This is the most dangerous and tr...
Preparations for cleansing the teeth and purifying the mouth should be free from all acids, and should be saponaceous or soapy, containing as one of the principal ingredients an al...
Exchange means funds in other cities made available by bankers' drafts on such places. These drafts afford the safest and cheapest means for remitting money. Drafts on New York are...
Telephone invented. 1861. There are 2,750 languages. Sound moves 743 miles per hour. Hawks can fly 150 miles an hour. Chinese invented paper, 170 B. C. A hand, horse measure, is 4...
Wanting nothing and knowing it. The mental sunshine of content. A will-o'-the-wisp which eludes us even when we grasp it. Excelsior! The ever-retreating summit on the hill of our a...
Patents are issued in the name of the United States, and under the seal of the Patent Office. A patent is a grant by the Government to the inventor, his heirs or assigns, for a lim...
When depositing checks, drafts, etc., see that they are dated properly and that the written amounts and figures correspond. The proper way to indorse a check or draft--this also ap...
Mr. Samuel Woods, a member of the American Institute of Bank Clerks, recently contributed to Munsey's Magazine an interesting article on the subject of Mistakes in Banking. From th...
You cannot lawfully condone an offence by receiving back stolen property, The exemption of females from arrest applies only in civil, not in criminal matters. Every man is bound to...
An old friend of the editor of this book writes: I have been a sufferer from asthma for twenty-five years, and for more than a dozen years have used the following recipe with great...
A Aaron, Hebrew, a mountain, or lofty. Abel, Hebrew, vanity. Abraham, Hebrew, the father of many. Absalom, Hebrew, the father of peace. Adam, Hebrew, red earth. Adolphus, Saxon, ha...
A study of the hand is very interesting, and if mothers understood more of its beautiful construction many of the little accidents which result in deformed finger nails could be av...
The following tables will be found useful in selecting colors for dress, decoration, or any other purpose in which the proper application of the true laws of contrast and harmony i...
From time to time we are horrified by learning that some person has been buried alive, after assurances have been given of death. Under these circumstances the opinion of a rising...
The Bible speaks of dreams as being sometimes prophetic, or suggestive of future events. This belief has prevailed in all ages and countries, and there are numerous modern examples...
Policemen, mail carriers, and others whose occupation keeps them on their feet a great deal, often are troubled with chafed, sore and blistered feet, especially in extremely hot we...
It is of prime importance in feeding an infant to do this at regular intervals, since during the first three months of its life the feeding habits of the child should be establishe...
Toothache Cure.--Compound tinct. benzoin is said to be one of the most certain and speedy cures for toothache; pour a few drops on cotton, and press at once into the diseased cavit...
Strictly construing the claims of osteopathic doctors, it is an anti-medicine system of practice for the cure of every disease to which the human body is liable. Dr. Andrew T. Stil...
The rule of the road in the United States is turn to the right; in England it is the reverse. The rule holds in this country in the case where two vehicles going in opposite direct...
The Natural Laws of Tints, Tones, Shades and Hues. Some combinations of color are pleasing to the eye, and some are discordant. The reasons for this are based on natural laws and a...
A fine dinner may be spoiled by not serving the proper wine at the proper time and at the proper temperature. A white wine (Sauterne, Riesling, Moselle, etc.) should be used from t...