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  2. Sketcher. The Lion Hunter's Pet.

    The story is told of Gerard, the great lionhunter, that he captured a whelp in the mountains of Jabel-Mezours, Algiers, named it "Hubert," and brought it up as ...

    Article : 607 words
  3. Science.

    A Flying Machine.—The report just made public by Professor Isaac Lancaster, as the result of his observations regarding the flight of birds, contains many statements ...

    Article : 1,304 words
  4. Traveller.

    Crime does not go unpunished in this part of China. The professional guide of the city indeed, shows the execution ground of Canton with an honest pride. It is not a pleasant ...

    Article : 1,360 words
  5. The Farmer. Cooked Food.

    The loss of succulent food, said Professor Wallace in a lecture delivered at Newcastle, could be met by adopting the system, which has proved most successful, ...

    Article : 381 words
  6. Humor. A Ballad of Baldness.

    A man was filled with dark despair On finding, one day, that his hair, Which won all maids so charmingly, Was sadly failing as a crop, ...

    Article : 570 words
  7. Miscellancous. The Lark Aseending.

    He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound Of many links without a break, In chirrup, whistle, slar and shake, ...

    Article : 391 words
  8. Ladies' Column. What a Girl Can Do.

    A young girl was lamenting that she could be of no use to the poor because she had ho money. A philanthropic woman who was presant said,— ...

    Article : 365 words
  9. Household Remarks.

    If you wish to keep a sharp knife don't put it in hot grease; stir your potatoes while frying or turn meat with a fork or an old case knife kept for the purpose. ...

    Article : 270 words
  10. A Sussex Milker.

    In Arthur Young's Annals of Agriculture, he thus reports:—"William King, gardener to Lord Hampden, at Glynde, has a red cow of the Sussex breed which, ...

    Article : 295 words
  11. The Lovers of Damascus.

    One night, when the Arabs were beseiging Damascus, their pickets were warned by the neighing of a horse, and, looking toward the city they beheld a solitary mounted figure ...

    Article : 516 words
  12. Time and Distance.

    Why drives you cabman over on So rapidly in dauntless flight? He's here one moment, and he's gone The next away, far out of sight. ...

    Article : 627 words
  13. English Irish and Scotch.

    Looking at the population of the three kingdoms, it may easily be perceived that there is considerable difference among them as to temperament. The Irish ...

    Article : 629 words
  14. Old Baby.

    Pool "old baby;" he hung about the halls and on the stairway, and everybody snubbed him and said: "Oh, your nose is out of joint," and he was told to be quiet ...

    Article : 562 words
  15. Butterine and Margarine.

    The Danish Government have introduced into the Rigsdad, and read a first time, a bill for the regulation and restriction of the manufacture of butterine and ...

    Article : 150 words
  16. Yield of Milk

    The following figures—which appear in the Royal Agricultural Society of England Journal, in the report of the prize farm of Messrs. Baly, Hardingham, Hingham, ...

    Article : 388 words
  17. Origin of Opium.

    According to the Bengal legend, there once lived on the banks of the holy river Ganga a rishi, or sage, in whose hut, made of palm leaves, there was a mouse, which became a ...

    Article : 366 words
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