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  2. MILLER'S SAFETY REINS.

    THOSE only who have experienced the feelings on being run away with a horse, can fully appreciate the utility of reins which will infallibly pull him up when desired. It may be all safe ...

    Article : 1,201 words
  3. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 910 words
  4. LOUIS PHILIPPE.

    WE extract the following interesting paragraph, relating to his Majesty Louis Philippe, from the Vons Gazette, a Swedish journal:- "Vice-Consul Burke having celebrated the ...

    Article : 224 words
  5. WEST INDIAN RAILWAY.

    A RAILWAY is about to be constructed in the island of Jamaica, between Kingston and Spanish Town. The length is twelve miles. This will be the first line of railway ever constructed by ...

    Article : 141 words
  6. BURIAL PLACES OF BRITISH POETS.

    SHAKSPEARE, as every one knows, was buried in the chancel of the church at Stratford, where there is a monument to his memory; Chapman and Shirley are buried in St. Giles's in the ...

    Article : 309 words
  7. LUCERNE.

    AN agricultural writer in West Norfolk says— "At no former period have I experienced the value of Lucerne so much as duriug the present protracted drought. I have now nearly finished ...

    Article : 283 words
  8. POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS.

    Mr A. Ridgway, of Leicester-square, has addressed a circular to the principal mercantile houses in the metropolis, and other parties elsewhere, announcing the arrangement for the ...

    Article : 99 words
  9. EFFECTS OF A RUSSIAN CLIMATE.

    MR ÆPINUS, in a letter to Guthrie, relates the following phenomena, which look place in Russia, when a severe frost had continued for several weeks. Mr Æpinus was sent for to the ...

    Article : 355 words
  10. IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON.

    THE attention of the iron-masters has been attracted to a process of considerable importance lately introduced into their manufacture. The application of electricity, to supersede several ...

    Article : 222 words
  11. ANECDOTES OF THE LATE LORD CHANCELLOR ELDON.

    THE following story was told to Mrs Forster by Lord 11don, in regard to a patty in the house of a certain "Lawyer Fawcett," who yearly gave a dinner to the counsel going the circuit. It was ...

    Article : 798 words
  12. THE LATE KING OF SWEDEN.

    BERNADOTTE'S way of living was extremely simple. To his established habit of temperance he owed the astonishing conservation of his person and robust health. Very often—indeed ...

    Article : 185 words
  13. CONFIDENCE AND CREDIT.

    The day was dark, the markets dall, The 'change was thin, gazettes were fall, And half the town was breaking; The countersign of cash was stop ...

    Article : 230 words
  14. REMARKABLE ERAS.

    AIR guns invented, 1656. Aldermen first appointed, 882. Banks first established by the Lombard Jews, in Italy, 808. The name taken from banca, a bench; beuches Laving been ...

    Article : 134 words
  15. AUSTRALIA.

    YES! it needs no great stretch of the imagination to prefigure the seat of the English empire removed to a county already its own adopted child, almost [?] in extent, the parts ...

    Article : 284 words
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