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  2. MENTAL ARITHMETIC.

    Within five miles of Huntsville, Alabama (says an American journal), there is now living a Negro youth, fourteen years of age, and weighing upwards of fourteen stone. He has no idea of a God—says he was " made by nobody—has ...

    Article : 1,250 words
  3. MINES AND MINERALS.

    We were yesterday favoured with an inspection of two pieces of gold ore, raised from a lode of about two inches big, discovered on Saturday last by Mr Tyrrell, captain of the North Montacute Mine, being section 5597, for ...

    Article : 1,827 words
  4. A "MILLION."

    The word " million" comes glibly from the tongue, but conveys no tangible image to the mind. An effort is required to realise to the imagination the magnitude of the sum which must be annually spent on railway travelling to ...

    Article : 241 words
  5. IRON FURNACES IN AMERICA.

    The Pittsburg Age says that there are now in progress of erection, in and near that city, 26 furnaces, which will turn off between 75 and 100 tons of iron each per week. ...

    Article : 37 words
  6. THE IMMENSITY OF NUMBERS.

    We never hear, of the Wandering Jew (says the Spirit of the Times), but we mentally inquire. What was the sentence of his punishment [?] Perhaps it was calculation. Perhaps he was told to walk the earth until he counted a trillion ...

    Article : 220 words
  7. THE MINERALS OF ALGERIA.

    The Commerce gives some remarks on the mining resources of Algeria (briefly noticed in the Adelaide Observer of the 6th September, 1845), with the expression of a fear that they will be made the object of ...

    Article : 543 words
  8. SPECIE OF THE WORLD.

    The entire specie of the world is estimated, by Jacobs, at [?]1,900,000,0000. In Europe there is supposed to be [?]1,000,000,000; and Mr Merrill, of Union, Pennsylvania, says that, according to the best authorities, the paper ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. NICE CALCULATION.

    One of the official assignees at the Bankruptcy Court has lately declared two dividends upon an estate, the first being to the amount of eleven-sixteenths of a penny in the pound, and the second a farthing and a half-farthing in the pound. ...

    Article : 92 words
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