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  2. THEY ARE NOT CURRANTS.

    A great many people suppose that the Imported article called currants, read in fruit cakes, mince pies, plan pu[?]ings buns, and the like, are a fruit resembling ...

    Article : 185 words
  3. Salmagundi.

    On a bright morning in May, 1887, I aft Angers for Nantes, the metropolis of Brittany. As I was about to take the train, a friend, who had come to see me ...

    Article : 520 words
  4. Sniggers.

    A dapper little man came into the newspaper office at L—, and asked if the Amusement Editor was in. The little man, handing out a piece of ...

    Article : 940 words
  5. On the Land.

    Quantity to each Hen. give 2 to 24ozs. of animal food. Personally I am a believer in giving the best and most nitrogenous ration first ...

    Article : 1,316 words
  6. POULTRY FOR PROFIT.

    Mr. G. Commins, a well-known New South Wales breeder, writes as follows in a recent number of the "Australian Agriculturist":— ...

    Article : 1,057 words
  7. POTATO CULTURE.

    The following extracts are made from Bulletin 35, issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, and are quite as applicable to this State ...

    Article : 934 words
  8. A FEW FACTS ABOUT ANCIENT BRITAIN.

    Many centuries before the Christian era, Phœnician sailors from the colonies in Africa and Spain visited the British Islands, led thither by their rich tin mines. ...

    Article : 699 words
  9. THE PEASANT AND THE EMPEROR.

    A Persian emperor, when hunting, perceived a very old man planting a walnuttree, and, advancing towards him, asked his ago. The peasant replied, "I am four ...

    Article : 299 words
  10. A CHINESE FARM-HOUSE.

    The Chinese farm-house is a curious- looking abode. Usually it is sheltered with groves of feathery bamboo, and thick spreading banyans. The walls are of clay ...

    Article : 145 words
  11. NEGRO ELOQUENCE.

    White preachers cannot move a colored congregation as the negroes can and do In November, 1830, when the general convention of the Episcopal Church met in ...

    Article : 214 words
  12. THE YELLOW TOMTIT.

    This little bird, so well known to every grower, orchardist and farmer, is a most valuable insect destroyer, killing out, as it does, vast numbers ...

    Article : 444 words
  13. THE GAS-FLAME.

    The amount of light given out by a gave flame depends upon the temperature to which the light-giving particles in the flame are raised. Dr. Tyndall has shown ...

    Article : 192 words
  14. INSECT AND FUNGOID PESTS.

    Until of late years little or no often by insert and fungoid pests to [?]vated crops. In the old days of farming and fruit ...

    Article : 967 words
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    Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding Withold not good from them to whom 14 due, when it is the power of [?]ine band ...

    Article : 51 words
  16. HANDKERCHIEFS.

    Impress on the children's minds that it is dangerous to use another person's handkerchief, or to lend their own. Colds and contagious, diseases are ...

    Article : 34 words
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