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620 Began February 13-1894 Ticket 2879
[photographic portrait obscures some of the text on this page,
caption of photograph:] Henry Austin Adams, or "Vincent Harper"
[Catalogue?] [Astronomical?] Works
[Number?] [obscured] Library
[25 ?] [obscured] [Astronomy?] by George B. Airey
[obscured] and instructive London
[obscured] [Astronomy?] by O. M. Mitchel 1860
[obscured] and instructive
[obscured] "Heavens" by Sin
[obscured] Ball London 1887
Astronomical Work
Wilfred Hall \From
[obscured] Treatments \ Faucett
for sale at
23 Park Row New Book
Russian Words
Poshol-Poshol-Skoro - go-go-quick
Podoroznaya - Passport
Baren nyat Kolokel - I hear no bells
Nyat drogay ahyag ochen innogo -
The other sleigh is not coming, the snow is deep.
Schto tam takoy. What is to be done
Indo-China & [and] China by Thomson
a fine description of the country and
its manners and customs. 1 Vol. [volume]
Travels in Indo-China, Cambodia, & [and] Laos.
2155 2 Vol. [volumes] by Mouhot. Very good but too
much description of geography & [and] Rocks.
Journey in Northern China. 2 Vol. [volumes] 1870
2176 by Revd. Alex Williamson. Too much Bigotted.
2301 'Savage Africa' by W. Winwood Reade 1864
A very nice clear description.
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621
USES OF A SCRAPBOOK
By Mrs. Sangster in Winnipeg Free Press
Not scrap-baskets into which we cast
away the worthless bits and the flotsam
and jetsam of desk and library; baskets
that are filled and emptied with incred-
ible swiftness in a day or week in a
reading hosehold, but scrap-book which
preserve for future reference the best in
the newspapers and magazines, are the
theme of this bit of discussion.
Various devices of this kind are sold
at the stationer's; envelopes that are
labelled for different clippings, books
that are arranged with appropriate head-
ings, and properly interleaved, but, for
practical purposes, an ordinary blank
book and a pair of scissors with a good
supply of paste, pplus brains, are all-suf-
ficient.
The most fascinating scrap-books I
have ever seen are those of a friend who
for years has never laid aside a newspa-
per without cuttion out the poems, the
anecdotes, the reports of discoveries and
inventions, the quips and jests and the
serious articles that have interested her.
Without much method, this lady has
daily pasted her store of selections, culled
from many sources, on the pages of
school composition books, or occasionally
in a diary, with its dates of months and
days and weeks. When she has secured
for herself the core of a paper she throws
it away or leaves it for the cook to
kindle the kitchen fire. Her net result is
a charming miscellany just the chance
collection into which, like the immortal
Jack Horner, you put in your thumb
and you will pull out a plum.
For an idel afternoon, or the leisure
of convalescence, or a rainy evening
when you are at a loss for amusement,
this unsystematic and irregular scrap-
book is a real resource.
But It Is Not Scholarly
For scholarship requires a predeter-
mined motive and a certain skill, and a
carefully followed plan. Why are you
disirious of preserving from loss the use-
ful items and the entertaining episodes
that make up the current history of hu-
manity in your time? Why save from
forgetfulness a chronicle of life's passing
show?
If you are by way of taking part in de-
bates or making speeches at political
meetings, it is needful for you to rein-
force memory by seasonable illustrations,
the papers are full of them. Personal
character was never so widely exploited
as now. Our great men stand where a
lime-light of publicity is for ever flashed
upon their smallest actions. The world
moves on at a pace so rapid that elec-
tricity is its only parallel.
The scholarly and the convenient way
is to know what you want and to pursue
it according to routine. Under separate
captions, arranged either topically or al-
phabetically, paste whatever of value
you sift from the daily news, that is your
wheat. For you the residue is chaff. Or
it is your gold, and the remainder, for
your purposes is dross. Discriminate
decide what impresses you, and why,
and put aside your material for future
use.
Index your scrap-book and then, with
out a moment's unnecessary delay, you
can turn to what you are searching for
Where does a certain popular pastor
procure so many fitting stories, allusions
and anectodes? The question was asked
by a person who seemed to fancy that
the clergyman evolved them from his
inner consciousness. I could have replied
that he had the useful habit of the or-
derly scrap-book, from which on occa-
sion he brought forth things new and old.
Pictorial Scrap Books
The twentieth century has witnessed
immense strides in pictorial art. Beauti-
ful reproductions of great paintings are
given in excllent color and tone. Pho-
tography has reached amazing and sin-
gular delicacy, and the plainest cottage
in the land may be adorned with pictures
at the cost of an outlay that the slender-
est purse can afford.
Whoever wishes may keep, for friends
and children, in scrap-books that will fit
into the shelves of the home library,
a complete pictorial history of our thrill-
ing and absorbing period. All the magni-
ficent commanders of the day, the men
who have conducted the titanic struggle
on sea and land in the Far East, the
great diplomats, the astute men, the
captains, kings, and queens; the repub-
lic's modest men who take the helm
stepping from civil life at the country's
call and quietly returning to the ranks
when their tasks are done; all the fore-
most men and the foremost women, too
of our country will be in a portrait gal-
lery cut from the weekly, monthly or
daily press.
Cartoon and Caricature.
The cartoon, as a weapon of war, or
an adjunct to peace, has reached con-
spicuous prominence. With a few rapid
strokes, by an ingenious and simple com-
position, by a few strong contrasts and
vivid effects, the cartoonist tells a story
in a picture.
He makes men laugh.
He makes men furious.
His pictures are battles or sermons.
He is like the king's jester in motely,
whose sallies were veilded truths, that
masquerades as folly but strikes home.
The fun, the wit, the cleverness, the
guile, the art of the noted cartoonists and
caricaturists are patent to the most ig-
norant amateur, and delightful to any
unprejudiced critic.
Twenty years hence a scrap-book de-
voted to today's cartoons will posess an
interest and value not to be estimated by
the men of the present.
Reader whoever and wherever you
are, begin your art scrap-book tomorrow
morning.
COULD NOT BE BETTER
The univorm success of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has
won for it a wide reputation and many
people throughout the country will agree
with Mr. Chas. W. Mattison, of Milford,
Va., who saidy: "It works like magic, and
is the best preparation I know of. It
couldn't be any better." He had a serious
attack of dysentery and was advised to
try a bottle of this remedy, which he did
with the result that immediate relief was
obtained. For sale by all druggists.
Wash greasy dishes pots or pans with
Lever's Dry Soap a powder. It will re-
move the grease with the greatest ease. 36
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APRIL 4, 1906
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A BATH AND MASSAGE
This Is the Way All First-Class
Oranges Should be Treated
"You can learn a thing or two about
fruit," said the foreign fruit store clerk,
"by living in the country that produces
it. The natives generally know best how
to preserve and keep it fresh."
"Persons ordering fruit for steamer par-
ties often wonder why our oranges look
so fresh and bright. They are willing to
pay a good price just for the tempting
looks of the fruit. Well, we bathe them
and massage them just as the Chinese
do, that's why. I have lived in the Celes-
tial Kingdom and got some valuable les-
sons from our almond-eyed cousins.
"On a first-class orange plantation in
China, when harvest time comes, bamboo
vessels filled with water are held under
the orange trees and as the fruit falls
from the branch it goes into the water
and gets a good bath. An orange not
treated this way loses its oil from hav-
ing been suddenly cut off, and it soon
begins to grow brown and shrivel. The
Chinese coolies brush the orange to open
the pores of the skin and let the air in.
This gets the dust all out and helps to
preserve them. California people have
learned the trick from the Mongolian
farmers out there.
"If we are serving oranges for a J.
Pierpont Morgan dinner, for instance,
we give an extra cold bath and massge
to the oranges. After such care, when
peeled, they seem fresh from the trees
with all their natural oil. Down in
Chinatown you can buy a special orange
brush for grooming your fruit. Fashion-
able women have purchased these brushes
during slumming trips and have made
the grooming of oranges for the table
quite a fad."--Philadephia Press
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OCTOBER 13, 1907
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$100,000 FOR A "BOX"
Frick Pays for Place in "Diamond
Horseshoe" at Metropolitan
NEW YORK -- When the Metropoli-
tan opera house opens its sacred por-
tals this season to lovers of opera and
leaders of fashion the exclusive mem-
bers of the famous "diamond horse-
shoe" will see a newcomer among
them.
Henry Clay Frick, the Pittsburg
millionaire iron master, who has daz-
zled New York with his wealth, has
put another feather in his social cap
by buying a box in the partierre row.
Mr. Frick. is now posessor of Box
No. 19 which was formerly owned by
the late Henry I. Barbey who died last
winter, and $100,000 is the price he
willingly paid for the privilege of sit-
ting among the elect. This is the high-
est sum ever paid for a box in the "dia-
mond horseshoe."
Boxes at the Metropolitan are verita-
ble heirlooms, for they pass from father
to son like any other family treasure,
and are, as a rule, vainly coveted by
the newly rich. The last sale of a par-
tierre box took place in January 1903
when James B. Haggin bought the late
Herber R. Bishop's box for $80,000. Mr.
Frick goes Mr. Haggin one better, and
by paying $100,000, establishes a new
record for admittance to the social
"holy of holies"
Box No. 19 is one of the best points
of vantage in the famous opera house
Here Mr. Frick is surrounded by the
cream of society for both Barton
Frenech and William D. Sloanne are his
next neighbors, owning respectively
Nos. 21 and 17.
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[By A. S. Carlisle?]
good description of the
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1947 Notes & [and] Jottings of Animal Life
1 Vol [volume] by Frank Buckland 1882
Very nice. a plain talk on Natural History
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6850 Barren Ground and Northern Canada
by Warburton Pike 1 Vol [volume] 1892
a very good book. all true.
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