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  2. Scientific & Useful.

    JUTE.—From Professor S. Waterhouse's Report to the American department of Agriculture concerning the cultivation of jute, we learn a great deal concerning that useful ...

    Article : 509 words
  3. A TALE OF THE PRESSGANG.

    About one hundred years ago, "when George the Third was king," England stood alone against the world. On the one hand she was fighting with America, then ...

    Article : 2,929 words
  4. TRUTH AND FICTION.

    THE DEACON WILL NOT ACCEPT HENNERY'S RESIGNATION SO HE PLAYS A JOKE AND GETS THE "AGER" "Well, I swow, here comes a walking ...

    Article : 1,627 words
  5. SCRAPS FOR THE CURIOUS.

    At a sale in Worcestershire, a short time since, some old. tankards and spoons of the period of James II. and Anne were bought in at the almost incredible rate of 38s. per ...

    Article : 324 words
  6. The Household.

    POTATO PANCAKES.—Potatoe pancakes make a most excellent dish for supper. Serve with the same embellishments in the way of pickles, sauces as you would do were ...

    Article : 888 words
  7. Agricultural, & c.

    No vegetable will give more profit to the market gardener than the cauliflower, if he give to it plenty of' water, fertiliser and work. There are French, German and Italian ...

    Article : 273 words
  8. Good Thoughts.

    An aged man late late to Abraham tent, The sky was dark, and all the plain was bare. He asked for bread his strength was well nigh spent; ...

    Article : 661 words
  9. Wit and Wisdom.

    A dash for liberty: "L—y." Shut up for a season—The pepper box. The worse for ware—a careless servant. Funeral music should always be re-hearsed. ...

    Article : 346 words
  10. MAKING A SOW OWN HER PIGS.

    A writer in the Husbandman says that he had a' Chester White sow about ready to drop her pigs. So that day he made it his business" to keep a close watch' of her; As soon ...

    Article : 281 words
  11. A MUSEUM CHINAMAN INVESTIGATED BY A REAL CHINAMAN.

    Moy Po, a bright-faced, intelligent Chinaman, living in Philadelphia, strolled into the Dime Museum for an hour's enjoyment. After taking a long look at the wonderful stomach of ...

    Article : 324 words
  12. CANNING FRUIT.

    I am well pleased with my last year's method in canning fruit, on putting a piece of paper on the top of the fruit before putting on the cover. I cit from ordinary writing ...

    Article : 83 words
  13. A COMBINED EFFORT TO DESTROY MOTH PESTS.

    I find a decided interest manifested by fruit-growers to combine next year in destroying the moth. Last year there was a stubborn indifference. I am in hopes all will ...

    Article : 430 words
  14. AN ANECDOTE OF DUMAS.

    The following story from the life of M. Dumas the elder, says the Parisian papers, has never been published before. One day the great novelist had to pay a draft of 5000 ...

    Article : 355 words
  15. DIDN'T WANT TO BE SEEN TOGETHER

    A prominent Austin lawyer, in going to his place of business, overtook a neighbor who is a celebrated doctor. After walking. some distance together, the lawyer said: ...

    Article : 99 words
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