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  2. Dynamite.

    Very few people have a correct idea of what dynamite is, of what it is made, and the uses to which it is put. To the French belongs the honour of its discovery and its first practical use. ...

    Article : 462 words
  3. The Manufacture of Gas.

    Coal-gas is produced by the simple distillation of dry coal. Anthracite coal is unsuitable for this purpose, and brown coal and lignite are unsatisfactory. The greatest yield of the best gas is ...

    Article : 809 words
  4. The Old Hermits.

    Many persons feel that they can draw nearer to God in solitude than they can in society. It is bad to be always alone, but it is perhaps worse never to be alone. Those who wish to live simply in the ...

    Article : 1,084 words
  5. A Black Hero.

    In Captain Anderson's recent book, "Among Typhoons and Pirate Craft," the author describes a stirring adventure—" One of the most heroic deeds on record," he calls it—of which he was a ...

    Article : 517 words
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    Advertising : 2,312 words
  7. Is Friday an Unlucky Day?

    From the following record of events that have occurred on Friday, compiled by an American contemporary, it would appear that, at least, Brother Jonatha[?] has no reason to distrust the day which ...

    Article : 259 words
  8. Outwitted.

    A Yankee and a Scotchman had been having a colloquy. The former had been telling the hardy son of the North some of his fishing adventures anecdotes, &c, which were of the usual American ...

    Article : 209 words
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