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  2. The Farmer.

    THE agricultural editor of the New York Times says that the best preservative of shingles or any other kind of timber is some oil that soaks into the pores and protects ...

    Article : 433 words
  3. Science.

    A FRENCH electrician has invented a new sounding lead, which tells the exact moment of its reaching the bottom by means of an electric bell. ...

    Article : 409 words
  4. Cooking Recipes.

    FOUR to six pounds of round of beef, larded with narrow strips of fat salt pork. Put into a stewpan which has a tight cover. Season with salt and pepper and fill up with two quarts of ...

    Article : 406 words
  5. Lemon Trees.

    WE have noticed before that lemons do not bear well it trained with a single trunk into the form of an orange tree, and experience has convinced us of the fact. Five years ago ...

    Article : 173 words
  6. An aid to Curing Alcoholism.

    WE believe the best authorities are generally sceptical an to there being any sure cure for confirmed habits of inebriety unless the effort in that direction be aided by a strong ...

    Article : 275 words
  7. Miscellaneous.

    "HAST thou, O sesquipedalian peripatetic, Say, hast thou eighteen-pence?" so asked, I think, Walt Whitman of some philosophic sage ...

    Article : 434 words
  8. Fun.

    "WHAT is the infinity of silence?" asked a philosopher of a married man. I don't know, but I think it would be w[?] a man had to say to his wife when she c[?]ght him ...

    Article : 647 words
  9. Tomato Plants from Cuttings.

    HAVE any of our friends over tried to raise tomato plants from cuttings, and if so, with what results? Last fall we rooted a slip from a tomato vine which had escaped the ...

    Article : 331 words
  10. Humor.

    "SALADIN!" [?] Saladin paused and his attitude was one to charm the eye of artist and the soul of poet. One lithe leg was already swung over the top ...

    Article : 652 words
  11. Sketcher.

    ON one occasion when Washington Irving, Bancroft, and Everett were chatting over diplomatic reminiscences, the last named told how after he and the Neapolitan ambassador ...

    Article : 1,850 words
  12. Nature.

    CATHERINE C. HOPLEY, who has written a great deal on snakes and their habits, came to America from England last summer with the intention of obtaining, if possible some new ...

    Article : 476 words
  13. Green Above the Red.

    A jovial-looking Irishman named Patrick Mullen, who had celebrated St. Patrick's Day in advance of the parade, was arraigned before Justice Patterson at the Essex Market Police ...

    Article : 173 words
  14. Ladies' Column.

    IN my introductory remarks on this subject, I pointed out the importance of every young lady making herself conversant with the manners and usages of society on her entrance ...

    Article : 2,024 words
  15. Unconscious Bias in Walking.

    Nature prints the following interesting communication from G. H. Darwin:— "Some ten or twelve years ago I made some experiments upon the subject of Mr. Larden's ...

    Article : 896 words
  16. Stylish, But O My.

    ADOLPHUS were his breeches tight; Of this he did not think When he put on the roller skates To show off at the rink. ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. The Desperado and the Puritan.

    ABOUT the year 1851 the most influential man in San Antonia was an alleged desperado named Bob Augustine. Bob came to San Antonio with a fearful record. He enjoyed ...

    Article : 667 words
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