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  2. Agriculture.

    IN a note to John L. Hayes, LL. D., editor of the Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Mr. William H. Brewer, an authority on the laws of breeding, says be knows ...

    Article : 303 words
  3. THE SYNOD OF CLEISMACLAVER'S BREAKFAST.

    DID you ever hear of the trick played upon a deputation from the Synod of Cleismaclaver, while on their way to the annual meeting of the General Assembly? The brethren had ...

    Article : 520 words
  4. FIREPROOF PAINT.

    VARIOUS substances have often been proposed as fireproof coatings for the protection of woods employed for building purposes, but most of them have been abandoned as being ...

    Article : 305 words
  5. THE ROT IN SHEEP; OR THE LIFE HISTORY OF THE LIVER-FLUKE.

    As article of considerable interest to sheep farmers, under the above title, lately appeared in Nature from the pen of Mr. A. P. Thomas, of the University Museum, Oxford. The ...

    Article : 719 words
  6. Naturalist.

    How full of promise for the coming season is this little forked spray of hawthorn, which I picked from the hedgerow, already thickly covered with the buds and leaves of next ...

    Article : 1,415 words
  7. Humour.

    A SPORTSMAN (a very good shot, as we shall see presently, and who always keeps in reserve some game purchased in the market, but which he generally persuades himself that he ...

    Article : 511 words
  8. THE PHENOMENA OF HEREDITY.

    MEMORY as a key to the Phenomena of Heredity was the subject of a lecture by Mr. Samuel Butler, M.A., delivered recently at the Working Men's College, Great Ormond-street, ...

    Article : 266 words
  9. "OLD MARSTER."

    "IT is a pity to arrest such an old man," was whispered around the court-room when a gray-haired personage, ragged and miserable, was arraigned before a police judge. ...

    Article : 1,022 words
  10. Science.

    IN a previous article we ventured to enunciate a theory to explain the fact that the same piece of carbon (or any other clement) in different states of combination had in one ...

    Article : 537 words
  11. DOWN WITH THE BLIND BRIDLE.

    THE American Farmer, in speaking against the use of the blind bridle, says:—"We know not who invented this instrument of horse torture, but we know that he did not ...

    Article : 318 words
  12. A CASE OF COERCION.

    A MOTHERLY old woman, considerably troubled with the asthma, and also lame, called at the Twentieth-street station the other afternoon to state her case. She made the Sergeant ...

    Article : 402 words
  13. SHAKESPERIAN BOTANY.

    "Feel, master how I shake. Yes, in very truth do I, as 'twere an aspen leaf." HENRY IV. ACT II. SC. 4. The aspe or aspen is one of the three ...

    Article : 1,388 words
  14. RAPID FORMATION OF ORE VEINS.

    IT appears from a recent observation by Dr. Fleitmann, of Iserlohn, known to our readers as the inventor of a process for welding nickel, that the formation of ore veins need ...

    Article : 208 words
  15. Miscellaneous.

    A case of parasitism somewhat rare in this country is attracting attention in Jersey City. About three months ago a driver in the employ of Dodge & Bliss noticed a worm in ...

    Article : 440 words
  16. Household.

    Men and women, says Theodore Parker, and especially young people, do not know that it takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well-sorted. But ...

    Article : 807 words
  17. SIMPLE FACTS ABOUT BRICKS.

    THE Carpenters and Builders' Journal gives the following facts: An average day's work for a bricklayers is 1500 bricks on outside and inside walls; on ...

    Article : 213 words
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