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  3. SNOWSHOES FOR HORSES.

    All the horses working at the Placer Mine, under the shadow of Pil[?]t Peak, Plumas County, California, wear snowshoes. The altitude of the place is ...

    Article : 107 words
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  5. NOT EVEN IT COSTS TWENTY SHILINGS.

    A notable percentage about one third, I think—of the power of a steam engine is0 used up in overcoming the friction of its own parts. Hence inventors are constantly testing ...

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  6. GENERALITIES.

    A pound of sheeps's wool produces one square yard of cloth. A codfish recently caught off Flamborough Head had inside of it 59 ...

    Article : 1,086 words
  7. FRAUDULENT SUBSTITUTION.

    Developments in the scientific and menufacturing world during recent years stamp the period us one of discovery and invention, and provided progress in this direction ...

    Article : 1,256 words
  8. THE FACE IN THE POOL.

    "There is nothing so deplorable," said Captain. Revis, "as the effect which facts have upon the mind. We reason out entirely to our satisfaction that to ...

    Article : 1,733 words
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  10. NEW BOOKS.

    "The Sorceress of Paris," by R.H. Ditchfield M.A., takes us back to the time when the great Cardinal Richelieu ruled the Kingdom and the King of France. To Paris ...

    Article : 470 words
  11. CRIMINALS ENTRAPPED BY TRIFLES.

    A London, detective has given some very remarkable instances of the merest trifles which have put the police on the scent of the evildoer and ultimately ...

    Article : 946 words
  12. THE CHEAPEST ISLAND EVER PURCHASED.

    An island in South-West Bay, in the neighborhood of the New Hebrides, Was purchased by a naval captain for 50z. of tobacco. During the last cruise of ...

    Article : 253 words
  13. TOMMY'S OPINION OF BABIES.

    I never could see the use of babies. We have one at our house that belongs to mother, and she thinks everything of it. I can't see anything wonderful ...

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  15. AN ANTIQUARIAN REPAST.

    A loaf of bread 2000 years old might not be acceptable to everybody, but the guests of Mr. Goebel, of Brussels, enjoyed it on the occasion of a recent ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. AN INGENIOUS SHIRT.

    The latest piece of ingenuity is called the bicycle shirt. It is claimed that when this invention comes into, vogue young gentlemen whose incomes are ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. A MIDGET.

    The little village of Hartley, in Yorkshire, ooasts the possession of a midget baby, which surely must be the most diminutive human being that has yet ...

    Article : 138 words
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