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  2. A WORD FOR [?]

    IN a pleasantly chatty article which takes us to Paris, Jules [?] He[?] Marger[?] and [?] the Dally Telegraph of M[?] last in[?]tally [?] to the [?] ...

    Article : 277 words
  3. AN ALLEGED DISCOVERY.

    A singular fact has been ascertained by a mutual insurance company, that in Ohio, which is the largest consumer of lager beer and malt liquors, the deaths are annually over ...

    Article : 71 words
  4. Agriculture

    SIR JOHN BENNET LAWKS, BART, L.L.D. F.B.S. A short time ago Professor Scott delivered a lecture before the London Farmer’s Club upon the “Recent Advances in the Science and ...

    Article : 1,463 words
  5. Science.

    HOW THE SON PRODUCES HEAT AND LIGHT. IN a communication to a Buffalo paper, Dr. H. R. Rogers says that science at the present time admits of four different explanations of ...

    Article : 734 words
  6. WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS.

    CONTROL your passion or it will control you.—Horace. THE prudent man does not put his hand into the fire.— Hieron. ...

    Article : 409 words
  7. HOW SIR WALTER SCOTT EXTRICATED HIMSELF FROM A LUNATIC.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 607 words
  8. HE BELIEVED IT.

    “I have been told,” said Mr. Dubious, watching the great steam-hammer in the rolling-mill, “that a good hammer-man can break the crystal of a watch with that thirty-ton ...

    Article : 225 words
  9. HOFFENSTEIN’S BUGLE.

    “MR. HOFFENSTEIN,” said Herman, as he folded up a pair of pants, and placed them on a pile‘ “if you don’t haf any objections I vould like to get from de store avay von ...

    Article : 822 words
  10. ENDYMION.

    The rising moon has hid the stars; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape green, With shadows brown between. ...

    Article : 205 words
  11. EXPERIMENTS IN HANGING.

    THE editor of the American Medical Ledger has devoted a long article to the subject of the sensations experienced by one on whom the capital sentence is inflicted by hanging ...

    Article : 481 words
  12. Household.

    MARRIAGE, truly and rightly considered, may doubtless be productive of great happiness—greater than it is possible to obtain under any other circumstances; but it makes one shudder to think of ...

    Article : 487 words
  13. Naturalist.

    IT is, I believe, somewhat unusual for a trout to live, grow, and flourish in a small tank; still more uncommon, perhaps, that a fish of this species should become as tame as the ...

    Article : 1,731 words
  14. GUNPOWDER ENGINE.

    A POWDER engine has been patented in Germany by Herr Beck. In it a piston is forced to and fro in a horizontal cylinder by small quantities of powder ignited on either side ...

    Article : 357 words
  15. A VERY NATURAL MISTAKE.

    “You have stepped on my foot !” The murmuring zephyrs of June morning were kissing with dewy breath the rosebushes that were soon to burst forth in a ...

    Article : 231 words
  16. Miscellaneous.

    R. L. STEVENSON tells a pretty story illustrative of the power of romance. A friend of his, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, ...

    Article : 135 words
  17. THE ROSARY OF MY YEARS.

    SOME reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art— But some tell their days by the flow of their tears, ...

    Article : 283 words
  18. Humour.

    To A MOTHER-IN-LAW who has just returned from the grave of her son-in-law. “You don’t seem to regret his death very much ? ” ...

    Article : 406 words
  19. DISEASES OF MEMORY.

    SCARCELY any mental disorder is more curious than the cases of aphasia—i. e., loss of power to use language correctly, if at all. This affection has become familiar, even to the ...

    Article : 216 words
  20. SIDNEY SMITH.

    Mrs. Kemble’s impression of Sidney Smith was that of a kindly man, whose wit had no malice in it, not even when he excused himself for not keeping an engagement to see the ...

    Article : 228 words
  21. THE BEAUTIES OF BASE BALL PLAYING.

    IT has often been said that employers encourage base ball playing. They need not. Base ball playing, like virtue, is its own reward. When a clerk limps into his work, ...

    Article : 99 words
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