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  2. Agriculture.

    IT may be useful to know the means whereby stale butter may be greatly improved, and even in most cases, restored to excellent condition. The butter is carefully melted in a ...

    Article : 666 words
  3. A BURNING LAKE.

    IT is said that from one of the chief naphtha wells of Russia the liquid shoots up as from a fountain, and has formed a lake four miles long and one and a quarter wide. Its depth ...

    Article : 635 words
  4. THE POSITION AND MOVEMENTS OF THE STOMACH.

    ACCORDING to Dr. Leshaft, the Professor of Anatomy at St. Petersburgh, the statements current in anatomical text books regarding the normal position of the stomach are ...

    Article : 345 words
  5. STORIES WITHOUT MORALS.

    IT so happened that both George and James did not wish to attend school one day. When asked their reasons against going to school on that particular day, George promptly replied ...

    Article : 341 words
  6. Humour.

    A FAMISHING traveller, who had run down a salamander, made a fire and laid hint alive upon the hot coals to cook. Wearied with the pursuit which had preceded his capture, the ...

    Article : 258 words
  7. Sketcher.

    IT only wanted one minute and a half to the time of the starting of the train when there was a sudden irruption on the platform, and a largo party of nearly two dozen prepared to take their places in ...

    Article : 2,012 words
  8. SMALL VERSUS LARGE FARMS.

    IT is curious to note how different are the ideas regarding the most suitable size for paying farms in the different colonies; and, at the same time how very similar is the earth ...

    Article : 1,602 words
  9. TEA.

    ONE of the most valuable and exhaustive contributions to tea literature which we remember to have seen, says the London Grocer, is that just published in the form of a cyclopedia, by ...

    Article : 746 words
  10. Science.

    THE London Sanitary Record quotes a recent writer on vital statistics who calculates that of ten children born in Norway an little over seven reach their twentieth year; that in England and the ...

    Article : 361 words
  11. Miscellaneous.

    C-O-M-E in! Well I declare, stranger, you gave me quite a turn ! I—I—was kind of expectin' somebody, and for half a minute I thought mebbe as 'twas her, but she'd never ...

    Article : 657 words
  12. THE OWL, THE COCK AND THE WEAZEL.

    "AWFUL dark—isn't it?" said on owl one night, looking in upon the roosting hens in a poultry house. "Don't sea how I am to find my way back to my hollow tree." ...

    Article : 182 words
  13. Household.

    "NOW, whoever saw an old-gold rose !" she cried, appealing to the mirror, "or black asters, or brown lilies of the valley, or pea-green chrysanthemums? It's just like a man! Not ...

    Article : 1,031 words
  14. THE MAN AND THE GOOSE.

    A MAN was plucking a live goose when his victim addressed him thus: "Suppose you were a goose, do you think you would relish this sort of thing?" ...

    Article : 75 words
  15. Nature.

    THE appearance of phosphorescent light among corals is of extremely rare occurrence, and during a long residence in the coral country, and of continued observation, the ...

    Article : 1,359 words
  16. THE OSTRICH AND THE NEGRO.

    "IT is a waste of valor for us to do battle," said a lame ostrich to a negro who suddenly came upon her in the desert. "Let us cast lots to see who shall be considered the victor, ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. THE ICONOCLAST AND THE CANNIBAL.

    AN iconoclast once essayed to convince a cannibal of the folly of idolatry. "For instance," he said, "here is this palm-tree beneath which we are sitting. You might with one portion of it make a ...

    Article : 159 words
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