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  2. Literary Varieties.

    IN advocating, and strongly advocating, the importation of technical training into our Primary and Grammar Schools, we are not without ample precedent, and of a ...

    Article : 1,301 words
  3. THE GRAND AULD GAME O' CURLING.

    UNDER the above heading, "Sanny Been" sends us the following, which he says is "true in speerit, an' maistly taen frae an' auld Kelso paper. It may prove a welcome addition to the ...

    Article : 734 words
  4. A REVEBIE.

    As I lounged in the moonlight thinking Thinking of things afan, While Luna clomb up the heavens, Paling each lesser star,— ...

    Article : 505 words
  5. LIFE IN THE FIJIS.

    A raw days' sail to the East and North of Queensland there is a group of islands that had some notoriety, only a few years ago, as being the abode of ferocious savages that killed all ...

    Article : 3,033 words
  6. Facts and Fancies.

    ONCE upon an evening bleary, While I sat me dreaming dreary, In the sunshine, thinking o'er Things that passed in days of yore; ...

    Article : 426 words
  7. MOSQUITO CURTAIN LECTURES.

    DERE, dear! Can there be a hole in that flimsy thing of a mosquito net? I am certain my nose is bleeding with that knock I gave to kill the wretched thing, and there it goes, sing, sing, ...

    Article : 1,376 words
  8. HEAPING AND SOWING.

    THINK not the thistle-seed to cast, And reap the rose, full-blown; Men needs must gather, first or last, The harvest they have sown. ...

    Article : 53 words
  9. BUFFO(O)N'S NATURAL HISTORY.

    THE HORSE.— The horse is a noble animal. Authorities differ as to the land to which he properly belongs, some eminent naturalists asserting that be came from Horsetralia, while ...

    Article : 421 words
  10. JOSH BILLINGS ON PICKING GOOD HOSSES.

    FIRST.— Let the color be a sorrel, a roan, a red, a grey, a white, a blak, a blue, a green, a chestnut, a brown, a dapple, a spotted, a cream, a buckskin, or sum other good color. Second. ...

    Article : 975 words
  11. PAT MACGUIRE'S STORY OF THE GREAT SHAM FIGHT.

    OCH the botheration and the flustheration Ay the moighty army, last Saturday; Whin to the Heads both blues and reds, They marched so aisy and so gay. ...

    Article : 713 words
  12. MARK TWAIN'S WONDERFUL POTATO.

    SOME of our readers, or their neighbors, may be in want of a form of certificate to append to a description of some vegetable novelty, real or imagined, and we offer the following as one of ...

    Article : 577 words
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