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  2. Humor.

    An Irish clergyman, meeting Denny Co[?] riding a horse, accosted him thus.— “Good-morning, Denny ; where did you get the horse ?” ...

    Article : 177 words
  3. Young People.

    They are sitting in the twilight, little golden head and brown. They are reading [?] of wonderment, of sea and ship and town ; ...

    Article : 49 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    Saucy intruder from over the sea, Impudent vandal, brimful of gle[?], Driving the linnet, the goldfinch and wr[?]n ...

    Article : 156 words
  5. Nature.

    While sitting one summer day at the side of the house on a platform which served as a piazza but was roofed only by the branches of two large trees, something dropped upon ...

    Article : 235 words
  6. Science.

    La [?] says that as [?] from the moon, which gravitates around us at the mean distance of 210,000 miles, the earth appears four times greater in diameter and ...

    Article : 830 words
  7. Travell[?]

    The cremation of the body of a Siamese Prince at Bangkok is thus described by a writer in an exchange. The King entered the phramane about five o’clock amid much ...

    Article : 466 words
  8. Sketcher.

    It takes very little to make a man mad, I [?] a dog in a crowd the other day. Some[?] stopped on its tail, and although it could not locate the aggresso[?] it snapped on ...

    Article : 1,391 words
  9. Seeds That Will Grow.

    Twenty-five years ago, when I was a very little girl, [?] sent me into the cornfield one morning to drop pumpkin seeds. “A seed in every other bill in every other ...

    Article : 546 words
  10. Facts Concerning the Centipede.

    The centipedes that live in Australia are, for the most [?], harmle[?]s. But the [?]ame cannot be said of multitudes of the race residing in the West Indies and other warm ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. A Quee[?] Adventure.

    Edward Livingston in his day was a very prominent lawyer, politician, and diplomatist. He was accustomed to take long, solitary walks. One day he came home ...

    Article : 200 words
  12. Told by the Eye.

    Gray eyes do not indicate intellectuality any more than eyes of other colour. Deep, close set, little eyes of any colour indicate temper, selfishness and ignorance. ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. Norways Fisheries.

    Norway has some of the greatest fisheries in the world, and we now know the reason. Some Norwegian men of science had some time ago a ship in command of a naval officer ...

    Article : 466 words
  14. The Mar[?]els of Mad.

    I never tire of examining through the microscope some bit of ocean mud, for in it I am constantly finding some remarkable form of shell. They are often [?] ...

    Article : 144 words
  15. A Paraphrase of Seneca.

    Happy the man that, when his day is done Lies down to sleep with nothing of regret— The battle he has fought may not be won The fame [?] sought be just as fleeting yet ; ...

    Article : 114 words
  16. How Jim Meadow’s Shot the Bear.

    [?] some time after the discovery of [?] in California the population in Carmel [?] was principally native Indians, and [?] [?] were plentiful along [?] river and in ...

    Article : 306 words
  17. Bull[?] Eating Young Turkeys.

    Lewis P. Hathaway, while fishing at Clear Creek some time since, captured six or seven large buildings, which he brought home and [?] in a pond. Mr. Hathaway has a ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. Curious Facts.

    HEAVY machinery is now run by art[?] well power in many parts of France. MORE than 200 000 bird skins are now contained in the National History Museum at ...

    Article : 163 words
  19. Six Well-trained Turtles.

    Turtles can be tamed and taught tricks. A boy had six of them in a tub filled from a well. He feed them daily, and they soon became used to the little fellow’s call. He ...

    Article : 106 words
  20. A Hindu Wedding.

    A correspondent of [?] writing from Bombay, describes a Hindu wedding at which he was present, at being interesting not only [?] a ceremony, but as a spectacle. ...

    Article : 298 words
  21. Queen Victoria’s Drives.

    Here is another odd story about Queen Victoria. The Queen drives daily, but never till five in the afternoon, and then, for the most part, in her own or her neighbor’s ...

    Article : 126 words
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