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  2. Boys' Column.

    (Stories related in this paper are supposed to be told to a little boy on a Southern plantation, before the war, by an old family servant.) I. ...

    Article : 2,105 words
  3. A Breathing Time.

    Here is a breathing time, and rest for a little season ; Here have I drained deep draughts out of the springs of life; ...

    Article : 146 words
  4. Agriculture.

    IT is not too much to say that, except, perhaps, in the very hot and arid parts of the continent, the flax plant will grow in any part of Australia, and it is no less to be ...

    Article : 1,280 words
  5. The Ceylonese World's End.

    THERE is a place in Ceylon called the world's end. You stand on the edge of a plateau, and look over a precipice 5,000 feet in height. If you tumble, you tumble about a mile. One ...

    Article : 61 words
  6. Wheat for Twenty-five Years.

    THE London Times has published the following figures of the imperial averages of prices of wheat from 1858 to 1882, which are worth preservation :—1858, 44s, 2d.; 1850, 43s. 9d.; ...

    Article : 293 words
  7. A Quick-handed Parson.

    IT was in the Carolina backwoods. A country couple and parson. When he had finished the ceremony he said : "An' them 'uns who God have joined—" ...

    Article : 139 words
  8. The Pulse of Animals.

    IN horses the pulse at rest boats forty times, in an ox from fifty to fifty-five, and in sheep and pigs about seventy to eighty beats per minute. It may be felt wherever a large ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. Ad Musam.

    O MAID, that, far from town's tumultuous strife, Leadest a country life ! Beneath the healthy blue, ...

    Article : 142 words
  10. The Railroads of Italy.

    GOOD BY, Rome ! We have departed ! But we're lost in admiration of the way s train is started from a great Italian station, Eight conductors in collusion ! ...

    Article : 682 words
  11. Menthol versus Pain.

    WHEN the temperature of the oil of peppermint is lowered sufficiently, it deposits small, colorless, prismatic crystals. These are called peppermint camphor, or menthol. ...

    Article : 582 words
  12. Two.

    IN the bitter gloom of a winter't morn A babe was born. The snow piled high against wall and door, On the mighty oak. boughs the frost lay ...

    Article : 553 words
  13. Our River.

    BRIGHT blue at noon, our childhood's river, At eve all soft and silver white, In Juno its rims with blossoms bright— Our childish prizes and delight ; ...

    Article : 170 words
  14. Miscellaneous.

    WHEN the Russian Nihilist Hartmann's extradition was refused by France, the Czar Alexander H became very much incensed and ordered M. de Giers to forward an angry ...

    Article : 226 words
  15. Intaglios.

    ONLY the sunny hours Are numbered here— No winter time that lowers, No twilight drear. ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. The German Emperor's Early Love.

    BEEORE leaving Berlin for Ems the German Emperor paid a visit to Fraulein von Schœrt, who had not been in Berlin for many years. Fraulein von Shœrf is the old lady to whose ...

    Article : 172 words
  17. Waiting.

    WHERE the sunlight and the shadow Strive throughout the day, Happy children in the meadow Gaily laugh and play; ...

    Article : 210 words
  18. Household.

    LOVE-KNOTS.—Little cakes, called " love-knots," are nice for tea : Five cups of flour, two of sugar, one of butter, a piece of lard the size of an egg, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls ...

    Article : 494 words
  19. A Will in Rhyme.

    A CURIOUS specimen of a will in rhyme is that of a John Hedges. The original may be seen at Somerset House, England: The fifth day of May, ...

    Article : 175 words
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    FOR darkening mahogany, mix dragon's blood with linseed oil, and rub well into the wood before polishing. Dragon's blood is a red powder, and can be procured at any ...

    Article : 383 words
  21. Useful Inventions.

    A GERMAN has invented a safe that, on its lock being tampered with, throws open its doors, seizes and drags and locks in the burglar, and handcuffs and hold him in readiness ...

    Article : 126 words
  22. Humour.

    THERE were six or eight of us in the smoking car is the train was running down to West Point from Atlanta, and everything was lovely until the seventh man got on at a small ...

    Article : 296 words
  23. At Last.

    SHE tips to and fro in the old rocking-chair, Her forehead is wrinkled, and white is her hair, While her grandchildren romp in a turbulent ...

    Article : 144 words
  24. An English Peer as a Manufacturer.

    LONDON Truth says; Lord Sudeley is building a large jam factory on his estate at Toddington, in Gloucestershire. Two years ago he planted there 95,000 gooseberry trees, ...

    Article : 75 words
  25. Science.

    [?] authority of the Medical Record, [?]gus is a strong diuretic, and forms [?] the cure for rheumatic patients at health resorts as Aix-les-Bains. Sorrel ...

    Article : 342 words
  26. A Search for Pharaoh's Host

    THE Abbe Moigno has formed a company in Paris and has raised $150,000 for the purpose of dragging the Red Sea and Bitter Lakes in order to recover the chariots, ...

    Article : 83 words
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