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  2. THE TRUSTFUL TELEPHONE.

    THE latest telephone joke comes from Pine Bluff. In that city there is a prominent man. There are many prominent men in Pine Bluff, but this one is so very prominent ...

    Article : 326 words
  3. Traveller.

    AT a recent meeting of the British Association the well-known African explorer, Commander Cameron, who wan received with applause, apologised for not having his paper ...

    Article : 942 words
  4. Agriculture.

    POSSIBILITIES OR AN ACRE.—Waldo says in the Ohio Farmer that he remembers one year making a very large profit from an aero of land, managed in this way : He first ...

    Article : 395 words
  5. Sketcher.

    No European who has visited Bombay can have failed to remark the peculiar and primitive way the Parsees have of disposing of their dead. it is admitted by all, that ...

    Article : 2,004 words
  6. THE MANAGING MAMMA.

    SHE walketh up and down the marriage mart, And swells with triumph as her wares depart ...

    Article : 170 words
  7. Household.

    FISH SCALE EMBROIDERY.—Take the scales of any fish, the larger they are the better; put them in strong salt water; lay them on a lines cloth or smooth board ...

    Article : 710 words
  8. Humour.

    A CIRCUS waggon, bearing the sign, "Trained Animals," together with a landscape) supposed to have been sketched in the interior of Africa, was hauled ...

    Article : 233 words
  9. Essays.

    "THE truth and nothing but the truth." Perhaps in society there is not character more unlovable than that of the person who prides himself or herself upon never varying ...

    Article : 839 words
  10. A SYMPATHISING STRANGER.

    ON a Grand River car the other day a lady suddenly disonvered that she had lost her purse. The other passengers consisted of an old man and six women. Three of the ...

    Article : 744 words
  11. DERZHAVEN'S "ODE TO GOD."

    The author of this ode was a Russian, born 1763. After serving sumo time in the army he was made successively Councillor of State, ambassador of Senate, President of ...

    Article : 906 words
  12. A REMINISCENCE OF DEACON JONES, A MAN WHO HATED NEWSPAPERS.

    DEACON ABNER JONES, who formerly kept a little 8x10 store out in Posey Country, was down on the newspapers, and during his lifetime killed two or three country editors who called ...

    Article : 647 words
  13. Nature.

    THIS elegant ophiuran (or serpent star) has a measure of historic as well as scientific interest, Hon. John Winthrop, who deserves to be called the pioneer of ...

    Article : 1,077 words
  14. MAKING IT SECURE.

    A FEW days ago a citizen having an office on Monree Avenne made arrangements with an old coloured man to sweep oat the room twice per week for a weekly salary of fifteen ...

    Article : 201 words
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