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  2. SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

    Under the most incredible cold produced by refrigerating, machine invented by M. Pictet, Professor Paalzow has had mercury cast into the shape of a tuning-fork, and frozen hard enough to use this ...

    Article : 1,356 words
  3. OUR YOUNG FOLKS' LETTER.

    It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly, builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls downs. ...

    Article : 223 words
  4. THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

    We need more warming food in cold weather (remarks a writer on "Seasonable Diet," in the Daily News) than at other times, and the housewife who neglects to supply it is astonished at the increase of ...

    Article : 1,715 words
  5. A READER'S GLEANINGS.

    IN a Roman marriage the bride was purchased by the bridegroom s payment of three pieces of copper money to her parents. THE Russians have a story of a widow who was ...

    Article : 1,806 words
  6. Poetry.

    O, Roses, blooming royally, you bring me, in your splendor, A message of the Summer time--an idyl of the dew; ...

    Article : 324 words
  7. OF COURSE HE UNDERSTOOD.

    There is a Newfoundland dog Lion by name, which gives daily proof of his comprehension of what is said to him. A lady called on his mistress the other day. During her call Lion came in rather slyly, lay ...

    Article : 273 words
  8. GENTLE INFLUENCES.

    Violets, in the leafiest shade, By their odours are betrayed; Soft winds, over flower-fields blown; By their fragrant breath are known ; ...

    Article : 119 words
  9. [?]ovelist.

    "Then am I really to understand, Kate, that after all your long years of friendship, you decline to play at my benefit ?" " If the play is to be Othello, I must, John. ...

    Article : 4,102 words
  10. CATS AS CLOCKS.

    Everyone knows that cats can see in the dark, but the reason they can do so is because of the peculiar construction of their eyes. In a moderate light the pupil or black part in pussy's eye is small and oval ...

    Article : 276 words
  11. THE SPARROW.

    That most indefatigable bird the domestic sparrow seems, now that it has reached India, to be even more at home than in Europe and America, where its presence is decidedly unwelcome. The impudent ...

    Article : 197 words
  12. A FAMOUS ROSEBUSH.

    The famous rosebush of Hildesheim is said to be fully 800 Years old. The little town where it is found lies on the river Innerste in Germany, and once belonged to the Hanseatic League. The bush, or ...

    Article : 701 words
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