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  2. Humor.

    GEOLOGY is that branch of natural science which treats of the structure of the earth's crust and the mode of formation of its rocks. It is a pleasant and profitable study, and to ...

    Article : 867 words
  3. SANDWICHES.

    The sandwich is universally esteemed as a convenient article of diet. It appears not only on tables where china, silver and cut-glass adorn the board, but its plebian ...

    Article : 1,429 words
  4. Science.

    M. WIND[?]AUSEN has designed an apparatus for the purifying of air from dust, germs, and other impurities which is well spoken of by French technical writers. The principle ...

    Article : 370 words
  5. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 562 words
  6. "KATRINA."

    One evening, in the far-off Fatherland, as she leaned over the gate and waited for the coming of the red-cheeked and flaxen-haired Fritz, she shyly whispered ...

    Article : 850 words
  7. CHAPTER III.

    It was moonlight in Saucelito—rich, sensuous moonlight. The bachelors had finished dinner, and George and Fred looked out on the silvered sea, and ...

    Article : 840 words
  8. THE GREAT GLACIER OF ALASKA.

    According to the San Francisco Courier, the great glacier of Alaska is moving at the rate of a quatrer of a mile per annum. The front presents a wall of ice 500 feet ...

    Article : 192 words
  9. The Magnesium Light.

    MAGNESIUSM, which has more than once been abandoned as a source of light, appears about to be employed again. A Mr. Graetzel has succeeded in producing pure magnesium ...

    Article : 122 words
  10. VIOLATION OF A TOMB AFTER SIX HUNDRED YEARS.

    The Stampa, a prominent Italian liberal journal, tells the following strange story: On the night between the 19th and 20th of May, the old church of Sta. ...

    Article : 373 words
  11. Measuring the Height of Trees.

    MEASURE off a distance from the foot of the tree which the experimenter may think is a little less than the length of the tree, and stand facing the tree with a staff of such ...

    Article : 206 words
  12. Decay of the Obelisk at Central Park, New York.

    CLEOPATRA'S Needle, the Egyptian obelisk at Central Park, is found to be rapidly crumbling away under the influence of an American climate. For 4000 years the needle suffered ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. CHAPTER II.

    Charley was passionately devoted to gardening. He would go in raptures over a polyanthus in bloom, and loved to cast himself on a bed of early violets and sniff ...

    Article : 604 words
  14. Fun.

    Mr. Smith (to editor)—"My name is Smith. I just dropped in to pay you"— Editor (offering a chair)—"All right, sir."(To boy.) "James, whistle down stairs for Smith's ...

    Article : 434 words
  15. OLD SHOES REMADE.

    It may be a surprise to some people to learn that the old shoes cast into the ash barrels are liable to reappear in the boudoir and parlor. A New York ...

    Article : 385 words
  16. A BROWN HAND AND A STRONG HAND.

    A brown hand and a strong hand, A hand that can drive the plough, Can sow the land, can reap the land, Can manage and milk a cow, ...

    Article : 315 words
  17. HE HAD NO TIME TO LOSE!

    Kentuckian (rushing into a saloon in great haste)—"Here, give me a drink of whisky." Bartender—"I'll have to go down to ...

    Article : 231 words
  18. VOL-AU-VENT OF FROGS' LEGS.

    Rinse two pounds of medium-sized legs in cold water slightly salted, then parboil them; drain and simmer them in milk three-quarters of an hour; when ...

    Article : 125 words
  19. TO REMOVE IRON STAINS.

    Put a little hydrocheoric acid in a basin or saucer and make it slightly warm, then dip the iron stain into the acid for about one minute, which will ...

    Article : 109 words
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