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  2. WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

    A correspondent of the Otago Witness writes: —" Before the leaaon conveyed by the recent wot Reason fades from tbs memory of those moat by It it, may be ...

    Article : 465 words
  3. GIRLS' GOSSIP.

    DEABEST AMY,—I hope you do not expect a lucid account of the International Persant Festival at the Albert Hall, for such I am wholly unable to give you. There was such a ...

    Article : 2,067 words
  4. MULTUM IN PARVO

    The Irish Time asserts that Mr Wentworth, M.P., having recently at a temperance meeting declared himself ti be the oldeat tolal ab stainer in England and offered £100 to any ...

    Article : 1,930 words
  5. A PRACTICAL EXPEDIENT.

    A novel expedient bee (writes a London paper) been hit upon at the Exhibition of Children's Work in the Portland Hall, Langham Place, to force the woes of poorer London ...

    Article : 297 words
  6. SELECTED POETRY.

    Once more the Heavenly Power Makes all things new, And domes the red-plow'd hills With loving bine; ...

    Article : 218 words
  7. CHINE UNIVERSITY EX-AMINATIONS.

    The Chinese have a peculiar way of conducting the examination of candidates fur their universities. There are three trials allowed—on the 9th, 12th, and 15th days of ...

    Article : 149 words
  8. BOSE DORMER.

    Mr Erasmus Scott was a little man with thin gray hair, a pink-and-white complexion and a meek and kindly face. He was about 47, but seemed older. He ...

    Article : 1,823 words
  9. TELEGRAPHING CHINESE.

    Owing to the peculiarity of the Chinese characters, each of which represents a word not a letter, as in our western tongues, the Danish Telegraph Company (the Great ...

    Article : 163 words
  10. THE DAIRY COW THAT IS WANTED.

    “Beating the record” seems to be the principle that is actuating the dairymen of Europe and America equally with tbs cyclists and owners of fast trotters. At the late Derby ...

    Article : 426 words
  11. DAMAGES FOR ACCIDENTS DURING ANESTHESIA.

    Legal proceedings have recently been taken against a dentist in New York city, for negligence in allowing a piece of tooth to drop into a patient’s throat. After censing the patient ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. THE TRAVELLER.

    Years ago I had a dream, which has come often and distinctly to my memory since. I stood on the topmost peak of the Himalayas, and I flaw all Asia stretched beneath. There ...

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  13. A GRAND CATHEDRAL.

    A writer in Life says:—“The actual sum of money which Sir Tatton Sykes has subscribed to the new Roman Catholic church at Westminster is £150 000. He has erected 15 ...

    Article : 327 words
  14. “OUT WEST.”

    I bad supposed that the far West was a now garden of Eden, and one had but to venture there to gain the wealth of a Monte Christo. I met at the Union station, ...

    Article : 360 words
  15. SAVING THE TURKEY.

    "I tell you what, friends," said the deacon, when he had finished saying grace, “we have more to be thankful for than most of yon are aware of You dont know what a narrow ...

    Article : 104 words
  16. ROW HE CAVORT HIS LONG LOST DAUGHTER.

    As De Witt C. Pease of New York stepped from a Michigan Central train in Chicago recently, a handsome young lady skipped up to him, therw her arms rapturously about his ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. GLEANINGS.

    Sheep will degenerate more from poverty in one generation than they could be improved in two or three. The red birch, big leaved birch, and white ...

    Article : 408 words
  18. SLEEP.

    The Lancet offers the following advice on the subject of early rising:—“The proper time to rise is when sleep, properly so-called, ends. Dozing is not admissible from any ...

    Article : 311 words
  19. HOW TO FLOAT.

    The human body weighs a pound in the water, and a chair will carry two grown persons, that is, it will keep the bead above water, which is all that is necessary when it is a ...

    Article : 421 words
  20. MODERN TRIAL BY ORDEAL.

    A gentleman, who some yeara ago acted as surgeon to several friendly societies in the county of Durham, relates the following anecdote, which occurred between him and one of ...

    Article : 486 words
  21. ARTIFICIAL NOSE-MAKING.

    Although the making of n new nose for a person dep[?]ived of his natural organ of smelling has been repeatedly undertaken with success, it is a bice and difficult operation; and ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. MAGNETIC RAILS.

    Some curious experiments have been made on the rails between Marseilles and Rognac, of the Chemin de Fer Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee. It has been ascertainsd that all the rails that ...

    Article : 186 words
  23. AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.

    A well-known clergyman in the north of England entertained recently a brother clrgyman from some distance. The evening being unpropitious, be asked him to remain for the ...

    Article : 173 words
  24. DIVORCE STATISTICS IN SCOTLAND.

    Statistics jast issued show that divorce in Scotland is on the increase. Petitioners, it seem, are there called pursuers, which respond. ents and corespondents' doubtless construe ...

    Article : 109 words
  25. SCOLDING A DOG TO DEATH.

    A clergyman had a favourite and very intelligent dog, which committed a grievous faut one Sunday morning, His master, on returning from charch, “did not beat him, but took ...

    Article : 83 words
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