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  2. Nature.

    THE name that has been attached to the fish in nearly all languages indicates the most striking feature in its formation, namely, the cutting and pointed blade, a projection of ...

    Article : 1,832 words
  3. AN AGENT OF CIVILISATION.

    THE exigencies civilisation, in its present aspect, demand the strictest economy of labour. Steam, with its manifold and wondrons applications to the cause ...

    Article : 1,937 words
  4. THEY COULDN'T MAKE HIM SPEAK.

    THEY had a dime supper in the neighbour-hood of Pawtucket, conceived and carried out by the ladies. The conditions of this novel supper were these: For every word ...

    Article : 241 words
  5. Sketcher.

    As a medical man, I am constantly coming in contact with men who are perfect vi[?] to the abuse of tobacco, whose mind and body are alike suffering from this excess. ...

    Article : 2,667 words
  6. SEEING A MAN HOME.

    I PICKED Simmons up pretty near dead drunk, and took him home. When I got to his house, as I thought, I shook him a bit, and said, "Here you are." ...

    Article : 284 words
  7. Humour.

    CHILDREN, did you ever atop to consider the immense power possessed by a bumblebee? An insect weighing no more than the eighth of an ounce is capable of "raising" ...

    Article : 768 words
  8. TRIP LIGHTLY.

    TRIP lightly over trouble, Trip lightly over wrong; We only make grief double By dwelling on it long. ...

    Article : 666 words
  9. Miscellany.

    HOW OLD IS GLASS?—The oldest specimen of pure glass bearing anything like a date, is a little moulded lion's head, bearing the name of an Egyptian king of the ...

    Article : 837 words
  10. Fun.

    A SURE WAY OF COLLECTING A BILL.-The "language of flowers" is not always flowery or polite language, as the following epistle, sent by a Newport florist to a gentleman who ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. CHAPTER ON FLIES.

    YOU can sometimes catch a ball on a fly. The most irritating fly is the Spanish fly. The Latin name for a certain kind of fly is Tempus fugit. The fly is an author. See ...

    Article : 235 words
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