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  2. ON THE SANDS.

    We sat together, my love and I, Where wave upon wave came rolling over On sands of gold, and beneath a sky All bine from Calais to breezy Dover. ...

    Article : 349 words
  3. PUBLIC-HOUSES IN GOTHENBURG.

    The characteristic principle of the Gothenburg system is that it vests not merely the control, but the ownership and management of the public drinking houses in a municipal Board. The Times adds—"Instead of granting licenses, ...

    Article : 441 words
  4. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

    CIGARS FROM GUM TREES.—Eucalyptus cigars are being employed by French physicians for diseases of the larynx. It is also proposed that they should be employed instead of tobacco by persons to whom that narcotic is particularly ...

    Article : 745 words
  5. THE BATTLE IN THE CHANNEL.

    I SERVED as gunner's mate When I was twenty-eight, That's fifty anno dominis ago, And eur ship which was The Spanker, ...

    Article : 562 words
  6. THE HOME CIRCLE.

    1. My first enables you to cross my second, and my whole is a town in one of the western counties. My first is a large plantation, my second a store, and my whole a town noted in history as the residence of an ...

    Article : 139 words
  7. ACROSTIC.

    The initials read forwards, and the finals read backwards, will give the Christian and surname of a celebrated novelist now living; the first Grecian who wrote history in prose; a renowned English navigator who discovered a bay which ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. SQUARE WORDS.

    1. My first is a bird that is not very tame; My second's instead of repeating the name; My third is what we should improve every day; My last is a garden where Adam did stray. ...

    Article : 69 words
  9. PERCY ANECDOTES.

    SAILORS.—The eccentricity of British sailors is proverbial, and displays itself in the heat of action, and the calm of peace. How many interesting anecdotes are already related of these bulwarks of Britain; and how many ...

    Article : 1,271 words
  10. ANSWERS TO OUR LAST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 words
  11. TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    RECEIVED.—J. B. T., Bathurst; Temperantia, Uralla; F. M'F., Ebenezer; B.L., Wellington. THE DICE TRICK.—After any person has thrown two dice upon a table, bid him double the number of points on ...

    Article : 233 words
  12. LIGHT READING.

    It is reported that a son of Brigham Young is going to marry a newly-established female seminary. A cross old bachelor suggests that births should be announced under the head of new music. ...

    Article : 519 words
  13. TEMPERANCE.

    MORAL suasion, which certainly holds a place, though by no means an exclusive one, among the forces with which we are to attack the evil of intemperance, is simply the setting in motion of certain influences to reach and affect ...

    Article : 762 words
  14. THE LADIES' WORKTABLE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 795 words
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