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  2. MUSIC.

    Music is very much like the little girl mentioned in poetry, who had a little curl hanging down in the middle of her forehead. When this little girl was good she was "very ...

    Article : 496 words
  3. STEAM PRACTICE.

    "COMBUSTION" of coal is the rapid chemical union of the combustible elements in the coal, viz.—carbon, Hydrogen, and sulphur—with oxygen, which is supplied by the air. There are other elements in coal, viz.—nitrogen, water, and solid ...

    Article : 1,377 words
  4. "YOU WILL NEVER GET BETTER CAROLINE."

    "When taint scars strikes me I shall be washed away and drowned!" So cried a sailor, clinging to a half-sunken wreck, as he saw a tremendous sea rolling ...

    Article : 802 words
  5. PHOTOGRAPHY.

    Tue art of Photographic Printing is one that claims every attention on the part of the student, and is in nowise tile least interesting part I of Photography, as, no matter how perfect tire negative may be, if not followed up by careful printing, it will be time, labour, and money ...

    Article : 2,372 words
  6. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S OPINION OF HIS BOOKS.

    When I ventured, as I sometimes did (writes Ballantyne), to press Sir Walter on the score of the reputation he had gained, he merely asked, as if determined to be done ...

    Article : 347 words
  7. "SCANT O' CLAITH."

    John Roy was a sort of half-tailor, who lived in a certain fishing village in the " kingdom o' Fife." As a tradesman, many a joke was perpetrated at his expense by the wags ...

    Article : 110 words
  8. AUGUSTUS CÆSAR AND THE POET.

    A Greek poet had presented Augustus Caesar with many compliments, in hopes of some trifling remuneration. The emperor, who found them worth nothing, took no notice ...

    Article : 170 words
  9. PAINTING IRON WORK.

    ONE of the greatest at difficulties in the way of protecting iron surfaces by means of paint is the difficulty of producing a firm adhesion between the print and the metal. The Engineer and Iron Trades. Adviser, in speaking of this matter says that when paint is applied to ...

    Article : 396 words
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    Advertising : 1,889 words
  11. NEW BOOKS.

    Timber. BY WM. LANG. This is a pamphlet written by one of the Assistant Instructors in the College's Carpentry classes. Previous to the author's taking a position as instructor, he was one of the most successful of the ...

    Article : 112 words
  12. HOW THE ARABS MAKE TEA.

    There are various modes of making tea, but the Arab method is fairly distinctive. A large kettle or pan is placed on the fire, and the woman who is officiating carefully wipes out the inside with a horse's tail, fills it up with water, and puts in ...

    Article : 137 words
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