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  2. Miscellany.

    "WHAT would Jack say should he see me now In such s dress, and at such employment?" Thinks winsome Molly, with cheeks aglow ...

    Article : 347 words
  3. Humour.

    BUFFALO BILL tells a good story about a party of Englishmen travelling on the plains before the Pacific railroad was finished. They came rumbling into Laramic, abusing ...

    Article : 678 words
  4. WONDERFUL SURGERY.

    THE Sam Antonio correspondent of the Galveston News tell the following story of a wonderful surgical operation recently performed in the former city: San Antonio ...

    Article : 1,026 words
  5. Agriculture.

    NEXT to breeding, feeding is the most important consideration. Combing wool with a length of staple and degree of lustre which will command the highest price, can only be ...

    Article : 689 words
  6. Household.

    JUST speak to a fine lady about cabbages, and she will think that you have mentioned one of the lowest things on earth. Madam, you are wrong, it is one of the most useful ...

    Article : 537 words
  7. Science.

    PROFESSOR KING has been interviewed by a reporter on the New York Express, and the following is his view of the possibilities of the balloon: ...

    Article : 525 words
  8. DETROIT ONE AHEAD.

    SHORTLY before noon on Tuesday a chap whose boot-heels showed four kinds of clay and a streak of plank-road soil besides, and whose general make-up was as fierce as that ...

    Article : 543 words
  9. SIX LITTLE FEET ON THE FENDER.

    IN my heart there liveth a picture Of a kitchen rude and old, Where the firelight tripped o'er the rafter, And reddened the roof's brown mould ...

    Article : 894 words
  10. WOOD PULP MAKING.

    ACCORDING to Leffel's News Newton's pulp mill, at Holyoke, Mass., uses five cords per day of spruce and popular wood in the making of manildra papers. In wood-paper ...

    Article : 240 words
  11. MEDITATIONS OF A HINDU PRINCE.

    ALL the world over, I wonder, in lands that I never have trod, Are the people eternally seeking for the signs and stops of a God? ...

    Article : 684 words
  12. A RIGHT UP AND DOWN WOMAN.

    FOR once in the history of the Union Depot its roof has sheltered a woman who knew just where she wanted to go, the train she was to take, the hour for departure ...

    Article : 643 words
  13. SALT AS A MANURE.

    It would be, perhaps, difficult to name any other substance in the catalogue of modern fertilisers, whose powers have been so often and so warmly disputed as common ...

    Article : 351 words
  14. SEA-WATER GAEGLE IN CHRONIC CATARRAH.

    PROFESSOR MOSLER, of Greifswald, says, in the Berlin Klinische Wochenschrift, that he has for some years most successfully treated patients with chronic catarrh of the throat ...

    Article : 133 words
  15. Fun.

    IF you wish to cure scolding wife, never fail to laugh at her with all your might until she ceases. Then kiss her. Sure cure.—Sunday Budget. Some would say: Give her ...

    Article : 391 words
  16. MEDICAL USES OF THE CARRIER PIGEON.

    DR. HARVEY J. PHILPOT, in a letter to the London Daily Telegraph, writes as follows: "I have made valuable use of the carrier ...

    Article : 392 words
  17. THE PHILOSOPHY OF BLOWING OUT A CANDLE.

    IF we blow a fire it burns more fiercely, but if we blow a candle it goes oat. These two facts taken together are a familiar illustration of the influence of temperature upon ...

    Article : 241 words
  18. SALT AS A PREVENTIVE OP RUST AND AS A FERTILISER.

    SALT, if not a complete preventive, is an effectual cure of the mildew. Mr. Chatterton, a Lincolnshire farmer, says, in the 44th vol. of the Annals of Agriculture: "On the ...

    Article : 349 words
  19. A TRANSPARENT FISH.

    A VERY remarkable fish was captured recently by Mr. O. Blosson. It is about ten feet in length, and its weight is estimated at about four hundred pounds. It is perfectly ...

    Article : 131 words
  20. "SHE WOULDN'T HARM A FLY."

    No one had soon an officer bring him in, but there the little man stood on the prisoner's stand humming and hawing to attract the court's attention. He was a ...

    Article : 451 words
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