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  2. Science.

    THERE is an animalcule, averaging in diameter the one-five-hundred of an inch, or thereabouts, found in stagnant pools, and called the Amœba. The name of the ...

    Article : 1,306 words
  3. Agriculture.

    Soils are composed of clay, sand, lime, vegetable matter (humus), and mineral fragments (stones). Their properties, and therefore, their agricultural value, depend upon the ...

    Article : 1,335 words
  4. Reforming a Drunken Husband.

    THERE lives a man on West Pratt street who had recently gone through an experience which discounts the Maryland wife-beating law, and goes it one better. Mr Blank, as he ...

    Article : 458 words
  5. household.

    A NOVELTY has been introduced at the afternoon teas in London. The cakes and other dinner-spoiling abominations are seldom partaken of by guests who care about the ...

    Article : 388 words
  6. nature.

    IT may be accepted as in almost unanimous axiom of opicures generally, that no game bird in the world can quite come up to the British red grouse; but the ptarmigan ...

    Article : 1,319 words
  7. That Bad Boy.

    "I HAVE had the hardest work I ever experienced jerking soda for the Young Men's Christian Association," said the boy, as he peeled a banana. ...

    Article : 978 words
  8. Gas from Oil and Water.

    ILLUMINATING gas of superior quality is now made from petroleum oil mixed with water, and both decomposed in a retort. The gases liberated are then washed in a closed tank of ...

    Article : 155 words
  9. Producing Fire by the Breath.

    IN a recent number of the Michigan Medical News, Dr. S. C. Woodman gives some remarkable particulars concerning a young man who seems to be a regular storehouse of ...

    Article : 315 words
  10. Miscellaneous.

    THE most conspicuous act of reckless courage I over saw displayed on any battlefield during our great Civil War (writes a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times) occurred ...

    Article : 648 words
  11. Humour.

    SPOOPENDYKE came home one night bringing a small bundle in his arms. "It's a printing press, on which I expect to do all my own printing hereafter," he said. ...

    Article : 955 words
  12. ASIATIC CHOLERA.

    CHOLERA is a term of dread among both the medical profession and the lay public. It is a disease or plague, which has, as yet, baffled all the researches of the former; terribly ...

    Article : 1,964 words
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