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  2. FARM AND GARDEN.

    The largest vineyard in the world is that of Senator Stanford in Tohama country—3,825 acres, or about 3,060,000 vines. California has also the smallest vineyard in the world, a ...

    Article : 217 words
  3. POETRY.

    If I had known in the morning How wearily all the day, The words unkind Would trouble my mind, ...

    Article : 164 words
  4. EARTH'S LAST KISS.

    Earth's last kiss to the dying day Over the surf and the tawny sands; Lips arc parted, and far away A light goes down in the faint cloud-lands. ...

    Article : 124 words
  5. The German Forage Plant.

    Those who are interested in securing a good forage grass for the foothills will be glad to rend the following from the Carson Appeal: The more the Appeal investigates the subject ...

    Article : 416 words
  6. A German Co-Operative Community.

    The Amana Community in Iowa, including a population of about 2,000, is an interesting illustration of the success of co-operative effort among thrifty Germans. The ...

    Article : 271 words
  7. TALE.

    THERE can be little doubt the holiest priest, the saintliest man, who ever lived in Mexico, was Juan de Nava. Indeed, it would be hard to find, in any clime or generation, under ...

    Article : 3,704 words
  8. VARIETIES.

    The following story will doubtless read to many of the Chronicle's readers like a revamped work of fiction, filled in with a touch or two of local colour, but such is in no sense ...

    Article : 1,162 words
  9. HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

    Tepid water, with a little borax dissolved in it, is good to wash colored table linen. Mildewed cloth should be soaked in buttermilk, and afterward spread on the grass in ...

    Article : 847 words
  10. Treatment for Exhausted Nerves.

    Of fourteen cases that I have completely secluded as a method of treatment in nerve exhustion, not one hag done well. I have found it better to plan a series of ...

    Article : 182 words
  11. Wine-Making without Grapes.

    French wine merchants who complain of the manufactures of Hamburg champagne and other German imitations of tho juice of the grape sold under the names of noted ...

    Article : 293 words
  12. A Skeleton Factory.

    The Monde de lo Science describes a gruesome factory which is said to be flourishing at St Denis. Within its walls human skeletons are being 'made' in the following manner. ...

    Article : 275 words
  13. A Point for irrigation.

    The roots of all trees and plants have myriad mouths, but those mouths do not eat. No plant can digest a particle of solid food. The roots simply drink, and in doing so ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. Hot Water for Plants.

    It is a fortunate circumstance that a plant will endure a scalding heat that is fatal to most of its minute enemies. Water heated to the boiling point, poured copiously over ...

    Article : 260 words
  15. The Doom of the Guillotine.

    It is probable that the next European country to abolish the penalty of capital punishment will be France. For some years past French public opinion has been moving ...

    Article : 351 words
  16. Practical Hints on Poultry-Raising.

    Hearing of a hennery, or, as it is generally called in this country, a chicken ranch, and knowing by experience that chickens and eggs are scarce and costly in this land of ...

    Article : 654 words
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