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  2. The farmer.

    LAST year I was induced to try an experiment in chry[?]anthemarn growing, and for this purpose i purchased one pound of sulphate of ammonia, which i battled and ...

    Article : 189 words
  3. Optical Illusions.

    WHEN the eye is deceived and a person misled by things seeming to be what they are not, it is spoken of as an “ optical illusion.” The familiar expression that” seeing it believing ...

    Article : 1,442 words
  4. The Last Resort.

    I was mighty good lookin’ when i was young Peert an’ black eyed an slim. With fallers a courtin’ me Sunday nights, ‘Speciality Jim. ...

    Article : 128 words
  5. He Had the Oxberence.

    THE events in Wall-street called up on “oxberents” story that may be old, but is not quite decayed yet, anyway. “ So,” said a business man to a German acquaintance, ...

    Article : 221 words
  6. The Parasites of Money.

    THE Frankfurter Zeitun[?] states that Dr. Reinsch has found, as the result of a long series of minute investigations, that the surface of 50-pfennig pieces (sixpences) which ...

    Article : 235 words
  7. Salting Walks.

    THE best way, says a correspondent, to apply salt to paths, to destroy weeds, is as follows —Boil the Bait in water, 1 pound to1 gallon, and apply the mixture boiling with a water, ...

    Article : 75 words
  8. Rumor.

    THEY wore seated in the parlor, and the o | had struck the hour of ten (this clock never struck any more than ten on these evenings when court was in session). ...

    Article : 613 words
  9. Digging Wells.

    THE Massachusetts Ploughman some time since had the following directions in regard to digging wells: The old way of digging a well and stoning ...

    Article : 465 words
  10. Not Proud of her Countryman.

    SAM JONES, of Gold Hill, who dearly loves a joke, has a domestic in his house who is a county woman of Sullivan. The other morning he and Evan Williams were eating ...

    Article : 327 words
  11. “ Beware.”

    PRETTY little maiden, Eyes of hazel hue, Hair of darkest color, Tresses not a few. ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. Individuality of Style.

    OF course no woman is to be blamed for making herself look as well as possible. It is the feminine instinct, and a perfectly correct one. It is all nonsense to say that it is better ...

    Article : 522 words
  13. The Burgle Song.

    The darkness falls on Villa walls, The amily’s in the lower story, This is-the hour for jewel-hauls, The burglar now is in his glory. ...

    Article : 94 words
  14. English v. Arab Swords.

    AN English manufacturer of cavalry swords has recently made some severe criticisms on the manner of testing swords for the British army. The sword blades are taken to an ...

    Article : 337 words
  15. Supposing He Had.

    ON a Bay City train coming into Detroit the other day was a big hulk of a fellow with a voice deep enough to shake the foundations of a house, and a disposition to eat somebody ...

    Article : 388 words
  16. Science.

    THE metropolis is again threatened with an epidemic of small-pox. The disease, which broke out some weeks ago in the north-eastern district, is now prevalent in Hackney ...

    Article : 392 words
  17. Keep Your Lips.

    IN the desire to make a girl feel at home and pleased with her place, the young housekeeper is sometimes apt to take her too closely into her confidence, especially if she is a pleasant ...

    Article : 215 words
  18. Household Hints

    To MAKE a good jam: Place one finger in the crack of a door. Shut the door slowly but firmly, and keep it closed at least ten seconds. Then open the door and remove the finger, ...

    Article : 262 words
  19. A Sheet Iron Hen.

    THE Inter Ocean describes a novel invention as follows :—An ingenious fellow in Ohio has constructed a sheet iron hen that promises to lay him a golden egg. It is finished up to ...

    Article : 264 words
  20. fun.

    IT is the proud boast of the Georgia editors that not one of them has ever been sent to the lunatic asylum. This is strong circumstantial evidence that they do not exchange ...

    Article : 263 words
  21. Miscellaneous.

    THE importance of selecting dry locations for a residence is very aptly illustrated in the following extract from an address by Prof. R.O. Kedzie before the Michigan, Tile Makers’ ...

    Article : 343 words
  22. Marble Pictures.

    Da. HAND SMITH has been engaged in studying the movement of colored particles within marble, ivory, and other dense substances; and the result is a process of developing ...

    Article : 135 words
  23. A Dentist Takes a Mean Advantage. ,

    A PRACTICAL joker of the sly order is Dr. Henderson, a Brooklyn dentist. The Doctor does not look unlike a pions divine, and his [?] of conducting himself, coupled wi[?] ...

    Article : 293 words
  24. Shakespeare’s Autograph.

    IT may be of-interest to those who make the subject a study to know that there are only five genuine signatures of Shakespeare’s known to be in existence. One is in the ...

    Article : 57 words
  25. Great Brittan’s Drink Bill.

    MR. W. H[?] a letter to the Times, points out how [?] nation’s expenditure upon intoxi[?] ignore during 1883 amounted to £125,477,275, a decrease of £774,084 as ...

    Article : 169 words
  26. Remedy for Phthisis.

    ALUMINIUM and its compounds are affirmed b Dr. Piok, in the Pharmaceutical Journal, to constitute a most effective remedy against pulmonary tuberculosis, this opinion being ...

    Article : 111 words
  27. Ladies’ Column.

    IF women feel that they must paint their la[?], why don’t they take a few lessons in the se[?] of “make up” and [?] paint, rouge and powder [?] artistic manner. An ...

    Article : 437 words
  28. nature.

    IN 1982 the writer was residing in the British West Indies. His house was on the hillside. and below it, at a about distance, was a stream, of beautiful water. It flowed round a piece ...

    Article : 1,448 words
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