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  2. THE CHILDREN'S CORNER.

    "I went into that library, Kitty" she said to her friend Miss Gardner, who had been at home sick with a cold, "feeling positively hateful. ' The idea of setting that ridiculous Marigold,' I ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,156 words
  3. Mrs. Keightley.

    The subject of our portrait is Mrs. Keightley, daughter of the late Henry Kotten, of Bathurst, a well-known and highly respected resident of that district, which he represented in Parliament, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 882 words
  4. Scientific and Useful.

    The Arctic Expedition, under the command of Civil Engineer Peary, of the United States navy, will make for Inglefield Gulf, on the west coast of Greenland, and take a north-easterly course by ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. HORSE INSURANCE EXPERIENCE IN NEW YORK.

    A New York insurance company, taking only sound and generally young animals worth from 100dol to 400dol each, reports its experience for the past five years as showing that out of 704 ...

    Article : 108 words
  6. American Humor.

    A bow-backed, white-haired old man, who must have been 75 years old, arrived at the Thirdstreet depot the other day in company with his wife, who hadn't passed 25. While she was busy ...

    Article : 215 words
  7. CHALDAEAN ASTRONOMY.

    The discovery of a number of tablets in certain Babylonian ruins, having inscribed on them a series of astronomical observations, seems to show that the ancient Chaldaeans really possessed a ...

    Article : 99 words
  8. ARTIFICIAL ICE.

    The entire failure last year of the Hudson Ice Co. (says an American journal) has greatly stimulated the artificial production of ice in America. The artificial product has some advantages over ...

    Article : 119 words
  9. WORSE THAN SNAKES.

    About three miles above Mississippi city I called at a negro cabin on the highway to ask for a drink of water. A mule stood near the door with a foreleg badly swollen, and I asked the negro ...

    Article : 237 words
  10. THE WORLD'S PAPER.

    A German statistician makes out t at there are 3985 paper mills in the world, and that 1,904,000,0001b of paper are turned out annually. Of this, half is used for printing, 600,000,0001b ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. A SILVERING SOLUTION.

    A so-called silvering solution for brass, sold on the streets and applied with a rag, usually contains no silver, but is a solution of nitrate of mercury, which will destroy articles of German ...

    Article : 132 words
  12. MARRIED UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.

    A young woman with tightly-pressed lips and a gleaming eye sat upright in one of the seats of a West-bound train. She appeared to be mad, and the other passengers eyed her curiously. ...

    Article : 289 words
  13. FORMATION OF GLACIERS.

    In high valleys among the mountains whose tops are covered with perpetual snow, solid masses of ice of immense area are often found, called "glaciers." They are formed thus: Snow ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. MARINE PROPULSION.

    Yet another mode of marine propulsion, say an English exchange, has been patented, which is to revolutionise the present methods of steaming. The apparatus consists of two endless chains, to ...

    Article : 163 words
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