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  2. THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF SMALL THINGS.

    This little whitewood, toothpick pointed at both ends was patented in America in 1866, and would seem small article to create a monopoly in, yet the factory at Bucksfield. ...

    Article : 1,248 words
  3. A SNAKE-CHARMING LESSON.

    If you chance to visit a side show or museum you will notice certain class of young women who have a morbid curiosity as to the women snake-charmers, who buy their pictures and ...

    Article : 2,283 words
  4. THE LAND OF INCONGRUITES.

    Somewhere India has been called the "land of Irongrnities;" and no term could better desc[?]be the curious state of things therein produce by the running side by side of Oriental ...

    Article : 1,882 words
  5. THE PONY WAR DANCE.

    The sun blazed down on the great camp that afternoon and glorified the place so that it looked like a miniature Switzerland of snowy peaks. But it was hot, and blankets were stretched ...

    Article : 1,283 words
  6. THE SLOWBOB FAMILY GHOST.

    There was no end of excitement at Hollydale when it became known that a gentleman rejoicing in the name of Timothy Slowbob had purchased Cypress Grange. The old-house had ...

    Article : 4,415 words
  7. MOLTKE'S LUCK.

    As a skillful, untiring, and far seeing, organiser of the means which make for success in war, Moltke has never had an equal, and probably can never have a superior. The ...

    Article : 1,477 words
  8. THE ARIZONA KICKER.

    APOLOGETICAL.—We must beg the indulgence of our readers for coming out on a half sheet this week, but the matter was positively beyond oar control. Had we been drunk, the ...

    Article : 982 words
  9. HOW DO YOU WALK ?

    A shoemaker, writing to a contemporary says:--"As soon as d man comes into my shop and takes off his shoes I can tell whether or not he is a good walker, and it is astonishing to find ...

    Article : 367 words
  10. ABOLITION OF THE "QUEEN'S PIPE."

    Formerly all tobacco seized by Custom house officers, as well as tobacco detained or deposited in the Queen's warehouse at the several Custom-houses for security of duty ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. MURDERED TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

    A strange discovery has been made at Hermosillo (says a correspondent of the St. Bonis Republic) which shows that a most horrible murder had been committed at some period ...

    Article : 289 words
  12. SCHOOL VENTILATION.

    Mr. Lawrence Allen, in a paper which he contributes to the. American Engineering Magazine, contends that with all the attention which has been devoted to ventilation, there ...

    Article : 179 words
  13. ARTIFICIAL EGGS.

    The interesting intelligence has come to hand that the artificial manufacture of eggs is now an accomplished fact. Mr. James Storrey, of Kansas City, has taken out a patent, and is said ...

    Article : 188 words
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