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  2. SELECTED POETRY.

    An ivy-covered gateway, and beyond A wilderness of weeds: Sweet roses droop, and lilies tall despond. And no one heeds. ...

    Article : 345 words
  3. UNDER HER PETS.

    Tying her bonnet under her chin She tied her raven ringlets in, But not alone in the silken snare Did she catch her lovely floating hair, ...

    Article : 267 words
  4. GIRLS' GOSSIP.

    Dearest Amy,—I write you this week from Brighton, where we are staying for a few days with papa. He. thought we all needed a change, so tore himself away from his beloved ...

    Article : 1,850 words
  5. WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

    The farmers here are busily engaged with the ploughing, a considerable amount of which yet remains to be done, notwithstanding the lateness of the season. There was a fall of ...

    Article : 1,258 words
  6. THE MIND OF A GOOD WHIST PLAYER.

    A chess player, or a solver of chess problems, has always to deal with pieces of a constant value; thus, the knight, bishop, pawn, &c., are of constant values, so that his combinations ...

    Article : 225 words
  7. MIXING THE MILK OF VARIOUS BREEDS.

    Dairymen who have several breeds of milkers in their herds, and do not find the yield of batter so good as they anticipated, may find a cause in the following theory, advocated ...

    Article : 307 words
  8. AN INVITATION TO DINNER.

    It was observed that a certain covetous rich man never invited anyone to dine with him. "I'll lay a wager,” said a wag, "I get an invitation from him." The wager being ...

    Article : 258 words
  9. A NEW STEAM YACST.

    Mr W. C. Storey has designed, and is about to build, a new steam yacht for the Earl of Shrewsbury. Its length on deck is 178 feet; beam, 25 feet 6 inches; depth, 18 feet; draught ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. THE PRICE OF RESPECTA-BILITY.

    There is a great deal of trouble in the tipper circles of our aociety," sighed the Jamaica fermer, as he drew his gloves preparartory to mounting his waggon. "Things ...

    Article : 1,432 words
  11. CHEESE, CURD, AND WHEY.

    In his work "Dairy Farming,” Professor Sheldon says:—"In the process of making cheese, the great bulk of the milk-sugar is not retained in the card, but passes off in the ...

    Article : 275 words
  12. A NEW MUSICAL INSTRVMENL.

    Mr Baillie Hamilton’s new musical instrument, the "Vocalion," has during the past week been put in position a Westminster Abbey, St. Pauls Cathedral, and the Temple ...

    Article : 86 words
  13. AN INTERESTING INQUEST.

    Mr Gimblett called himself a private enquiry agent, and carried on a lucrative business. He had formerly been a detective officer of the Metropolitan ...

    Article : 2,663 words
  14. A MEAN ADVANTAGE.

    There are a score or more of women gathered together at Mr Johnson's house. Mr Johnson is a respectable citizen, though he is rather sceptical in some things. The women ...

    Article : 343 words
  15. ORIGINAL POETRY.

    Down comes the snow in its splendour and purity, Gently o’er everything see the flakes fall; thus on all ranks, from the court to obscurity. ...

    Article : 152 words
  16. GAME FOWLS.

    A correspondent of the Poultry World rentes as follows as to the relative value of game fowls compared to other breeds:—"Game fowls are generally acknowledged to be superior ...

    Article : 317 words
  17. A PURITAN LOVE LETTER.

    Perhaps the oddest love letter over written was one from John Winthrop to his third wife [?] were maarried. He was a Puritan of the straightest sect; ...

    Article : 491 words
  18. ABOUT BELLS.

    Ad English periodical, replying to questions put by a correspondent, says:—“The largest bell in England (named Big Ben, after Sir Benjamin Hall, the then Chief Commissioner ...

    Article : 312 words
  19. POULTRY VACCINATION.

    The following paragraph is taken from the San Francisco Weekly Chronicle:-" Not being satisfied with the vaccination of sheep and cattle, several experiments have bean made ...

    Article : 282 words
  20. SOME UNFORTUNATE GREAT MEN.

    Homer tree a beggar. Plantans turned a mill. Ferencs was a slave. Boethius died in gaol. Paul Borghezo had 14 trades, and yet tarred with them all. Fasso was often ...

    Article : 354 words
  21. SHE DIDN'T DARE TO IT.

    The other day a man and woman came to a sudden halt on Grand River street, and the woman dropped a basket she was carrying and called out, “I will, I will; I'll not live with you ...

    Article : 238 words
  22. GLEANINGS.

    Time, with a scythe, is pictured as baldheaded, sa that it cannot be taken by the forelock. Patti has home, but she is coming back ...

    Article : 282 words
  23. ONLY A WOMAN DRUNK.

    Only a woman drunk ! What of that? 'Tis a common Bight; Fifteen thousand a year of those, Forty-one locked up each night. ...

    Article : 321 words
  24. SUNFLOWER CAKE FOR DAIRY CATTLE.

    Professor Bergstrand, of the Royal Agricultural Academy of Sweden, publishes a most laudatory report on the virtues of sunflower seed cake as food for cattle. He states that it ...

    Article : 302 words
  25. CHARADE,

    My Lady Jane had called for my first, And the curtains, cosy and warm, Glowed red in the twilight, shutting out The sight of the thick snowstorm. ...

    Article : 102 words
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