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  2. Agriculture.

    At a recent meeting of tho London Chemical Society, Mr. Toms read a paper as above. The author has analyzed various samples of hay, and contrasted them with analyses of ...

    Article : 422 words
  3. OLDEST TREE IN THE WORLD.

    THE oldest tree in the world, so far as anyone knows, is the Bo tree of the sacred city of Amarapoora, in Burmah. It was planted 288 B.C., and is, therefore, now 2,170 years old. ...

    Article : 161 words
  4. FAT OF THE OLD AND YOUNG.

    THE influence of age on the chemistry of the body is a department of phsiology as yet very imperfectly investigated. The composition of the fat, however, at different periods of life, ...

    Article : 303 words
  5. AN ECONOMICAL EXPERIMENT.

    "WE'LL stain the floor this summer," said Joan Van Rensellaer; "it's cooler for hot weather; everybody's doing it." "Whe'll do the staining?" said Darby ...

    Article : 1,056 words
  6. A NEW EXPLOSIVE.

    A NEW explosive has just been patented in England by Dr. C. W. Siemens. The compound is a mixture of saltpetre, chlorate of potash and a solid hydrocarbon, and is suitable ...

    Article : 269 words
  7. COST OF RAISING TOBACCO.

    A LATE meeting of the Chemung Valley Tobacco Club of New York State considered the important question of the cost of raising a pound of tobacco. Considerable time was ...

    Article : 427 words
  8. WHEN YOU ARE READY TO GO, GO.

    ALL people have not learned the art of leaving a place in an appropriate manner. When you are ready to depart, do so at once-gracefully and politely, and with no dallying. Don't say, ...

    Article : 298 words
  9. A HORRIBLE WEAPON.

    NEAR Coolidge, Kan., Mr. Harrison, a young Englishman, has established a large estate at an expense of many thousand dollars. A visiting correspondent recently found a ...

    Article : 264 words
  10. THE CHILDREN'S COUNTRY.

    SHE is sitting very silent, in her little crimson chair, With the flutter of the firelight on her pretty golden hair, ...

    Article : 289 words
  11. Household.

    THE philosopher who first perceived and announced the fact that all the physical doing of man consist simply in changing the places of things, made a very profound general ...

    Article : 1,823 words
  12. HOW HOGS PREVENT THE RENEWAL OF PINE FORESTS.

    A CORRESPONDENT writing from Johnsonville, S.C., incidentally mentions a curious in stance of the influence of animals in controlling or preventing forest growths. It appears. ...

    Article : 663 words
  13. POTATO DISEASE.

    J. L. JENSEN, Director of Agriculture at Copenhagen, Denmark, has written a treatise on the potato disease and how to overcome it, which has been translated into English in ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. SKETCHER.

    I HAD lived four years as exile in Siberia, in the village of Balaches, when one night the opportunity came to escape with the horse and sleigh belonging to the inspector of the ...

    Article : 1,576 words
  15. miscellaneous.

    A SHOT tower is an immense brick structure, 150 feet high, resembling a light-house more than anything else. Visitors are conducted up a spiral staircase inside, to the top, where ...

    Article : 219 words
  16. Science.

    THE rate of vibration of the rattlesnake's tail has been determined by Dr. Ott to be sixty per second. The method of experiment was to attach a pen to the snake's rattles, ...

    Article : 660 words
  17. Humour.

    CALINO, who is quite bald, and who wears a wig, goes regularly to the barber to have his false hair cut. The barber remarked confidentially one ...

    Article : 407 words
  18. OLD HICKORY'S WIFE.

    When General Jackson was a candidate for the presidency, in 1828, not only did the party opposed to him abuse hime for his public acts, which, if unconstitutional of violent, ...

    Article : 632 words
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