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  2. A Cat Upon a Roman Tile.

    AT Dowgate-hill the roadway known to the Romans was 14 ft. or 15 ft. beneath the present pavement. To that extent Roman London is beneath us, just as old Rome ...

    Article : 330 words
  3. The fermer.

    M. DEHERAIN, in his interesting discourses upon the exhaustion of the soil by cultivation, makes some statements that are striking and suggestive. ...

    Article : 847 words
  4. Essayist.

    THERE are found in all parts of the country men and women who use alcohol regularly and in limited quantities. To the casual observer they go on for years in this state and ...

    Article : 688 words
  5. Humor.

    Various Anecdotes of Unipeds—How Mr. Jonnice was affected in his Timber Toes— The Veteran of the late War who applied for a pension on insufficient Grounds— ...

    Article : 939 words
  6. fun.

    A RESPECTABLE citizen, arm in arm with his wife, cries to a cabman: “ What do you beat your horse like that for ?” “ Hang it,” says the jarvey, reproachfully, ...

    Article : 699 words
  7. Dwarf Trees.

    WE all know how the Chinese cramp their women's feet, and so manage to make them “ keepers at home;” but how they contrive to grow miniature pines and oaks in flower-pots ...

    Article : 427 words
  8. Ladies' Column.

    MY first acquaintance with the rational cookery of cheese was in the autumn of 1842, when I dined with the monks of St. Bernard. Being the only guest, I was the first to be ...

    Article : 1,393 words
  9. Miscellaneous.

    WHEN two modern wrestlers approach each other, the spectator is instantly reminded of cats. The agility, elasticity, and springiness of wrestlers is more impressive than their ...

    Article : 669 words
  10. Discovery of an Ancient Lens.

    SIR A. HENRY LAYARD, in his “Ninevah and Babylon,” describes a lens which he found in the course of his excavations, and which is now in the British Museum. By the kind ...

    Article : 205 words
  11. Science.

    IF we examine the literature of our theme, we are astounded by the apparently hopeless confusion in which the whole is involved. Everywhere attempts at ill-founded generalization ...

    Article : 1,812 words
  12. Jefferson in the Catskills.

    MR. Joseph Jefferson, for the first, time in his life, Bays a correspondent of the Baltimore American, has just visited the gorge of the Catskill mountains in which Irving located the ...

    Article : 594 words
  13. Too Enterprising.

    MANY a man has gone to a newspaper office and begged to have his name suppressed. The other night a smooth-faced man visited an Arkansaw editor and said: ...

    Article : 642 words
  14. A Bye or a Guyrrull ?

    DRAMATIS PERSON.—Mrs. Mulcahy going to market; Mrs. O'Hollihan going from market. Scene—Fourth-street. Mrs. Mulcahy: Good marnin'. ...

    Article : 264 words
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