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  2. POETRY.

    We shall lodge at the Sign of the Grave, you say! Yet the road is a long one we trudge my friend. ...

    Article : 156 words
  3. UP ETNA IN THE DOG-DAYS.

    The little rocky speek of Ustica, with its colony of convicts, is sinking fast under our starboard quarter in the soft sea haze of early dawn. Over the bows, a ross a dozen miles ...

    Article : 712 words
  4. Far and Neap.

    It is said that a panther prefers human flesh to all other. There are about 370,000 acres under tea cultivation in British India. ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  5. Scientific Notes.

    The best "ay to raise the body of a drowned man is to take a number of half-gallon jars, fill them with a slacked lime and water, and drop them in the river, in the ...

    Article : 73 words
  6. INTO-NIRVANA.

    After these rounds of toll, I am sunken in deep at last! What sleep [?] askest thou me? The sleep of the cloud that the sky sucks into ...

    Article : 175 words
  7. Tourist.

    By absorption of its suburbs, which had hitherto existed as independent villages, Berlin has grown in little more than a quarter of a century, from five hundred thousand to ...

    Article : 111 words
  8. Birds and Reptiles.

    The paragon of fabulous creatures, the basilisk, perhaps excepted, was the Arabian phoenix, a bird, which, according to mythical lore, lived 500 years, then made a nest of ...

    Article : 61 words
  9. A PINT IS NOT A POUND.

    'The old adage, 'a pint's a pound the world around,' is an untrue as general sayings are li[?]ely to be. A pint of common coffee weights two [?]e ounces; a pint of flour, ...

    Article : 81 words
  10. SNAILS' TEETH.

    The common snail sets forth to ravage our gardens equipped with one hundred and fifty rows of stout serrated teeth. The whole palate contains about twenty-one ...

    Article : 48 words
  11. IN ICELAND.

    Hour after hour we had jogged along in the pelting rain, seeing nothing from under our lowered sou'-westers but the muddy legs of the pony in front, hearing nothing all ...

    Article : 414 words
  12. PECULIARITY OF SLEEPING HORSES.

    Horses, when asleep, always have one ear pointed to the front. Exactly why no human being can tell, but the probability is that the practice is a relic of the time when ...

    Article : 97 words
  13. TALL.

    Time goes, you say! Ab, no! Alas, Time stays, we go. —An tin Dobs n. It was Dr. Ludwigs's office hour. 'Alles ...

    Article : 2,752 words
  14. THE PEWEE.

    The pewee belongs to the fly-catchers, and is the earliest of those birds to arrive north, in spring. The different species of this family have the characteristic of perching on ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. EYES SEE BY THEIR OWN LIGHT.

    Hehnsholtz has shown that the fundi of the eyes are themselves luminous and he was bale to see, in total darkness, the movement of his arm by the light of his own eyes. This ...

    Article : 101 words
  16. FOOLING THE SNAKES.

    A chicken rancher living near Milton, Wash, was brought to the verge of ruin by great quantities of snakes that migrated to his neighborhood and swallowed his eggs ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. IF YOU'RE BURIED ALIVE.

    Some time ago there was invented an improved burial case, so designed that a person interred prematurely may poll [?]cord attached to a bell and thus notify his friends of the ...

    Article : 132 words
  18. DOCTORED ITS OWN TAIL.

    A small boy gave a lesson in natured history the other da[?] He brought into the office a species of lizard popularly known as the 'swift.' Holding the little reptile above ...

    Article : 150 words
  19. Miscellaneous.

    Nothing is more astonishing in literature than the meagre variety of words to be found in the productions of great writers. The same words recur time and again in ...

    Article : 375 words
  20. TO AVOID WRITER'S CRAMP.

    No one will suffer from writer's cramp who will exhibit sufficient courage to ignore the established methods of holding the pen or pencil, and istead of using the two front ...

    Article : 129 words
  21. LADIES "ON THE ROAD."

    I remember reading somewhere that the men who first rode velocipedes in London were tooted and mobbed all through the streets; why. Heaven knows, unless that ...

    Article : 678 words
  22. A UNIQUE SINGING LESSON.

    A wren built her nest in a box on a New Jersey farm, and the occupants of the farm house saw the in there teaching her young to sing. She sat in front of them and sang ...

    Article : 205 words
  23. PEOPLE WHO FALL SAFELY.

    A full, us rule, injures a drunken man much less than a sober one, because the controlling power of the mind being rendered nil through intoxication the body falls as an ...

    Article : 181 words
  24. THE CURLEW.

    The curlew is an interesting and, in its way, a handsome bird. To many inhabitants of inland parts of the country it is utterly unfamiliar; but its grayish-block ...

    Article : 585 words
  25. ALL TIMEKEEPERS ARE INACCURATE.

    The capacity of a watch for keeping good time is very much governed by its construction and its more or less perfect finish. It cannot be expected of the best horizontal ...

    Article : 161 words
  26. IN THE SAME LANGUAGE.

    sMany great men have written illegibly, and it was suspected that this was the reason that Judge Briefly cultivated a hopelessly bad handwriting. ...

    Article : 125 words
  27. UNREASONABLE.

    He.—'I own that there is one very unreasonable thing about me.' She—'What is it?' He.—'It is because I think there is no one ...

    Article : 47 words
  28. DON'T SLEEP IN LINEN.

    The world, or this part of it, at least, is full of housekeepers who think that there is no material for sheets and pillow-cases comparable to linen. ...

    Article : 310 words
  29. SAVING TROUBLES.

    'Are you going away for the summer?' No, replied the crabbed man! 'I ain't. 'Why not?' 'Because I don't have to. There's every ...

    Article : 47 words
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