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  2. The Fascination of the Gold Mines.

    An old forty-niner says of gold hunting:— "It's the fascination of it. Lor' man, when you've struck it pretty rich and can see yer gold right in front of your; when you're piling ...

    Article : 859 words
  3. The Farmer.

    A NUMBER of questions on subjects connected with agriculture are constantly coming be. fore me, of which many are only interesting ...

    Article : 998 words
  4. Efficiency of Coal.

    A POUND of average coal develops, with perfect combustion, 12,000 units of heat, which, multiplied by 772, the mechanical equivalent in unite of work of one unit of heat, equals ...

    Article : 86 words
  5. Miscellaneous.

    FOR the safety of amateur sportsmen other instances of gun barrel bursting should be cited. In bravado a young man placed the muzzle ...

    Article : 342 words
  6. Boys' Column.

    SHIPWARECKED, eh? Well, no, I've never been shipwrecked yet; but I was once a good deal nearer it than I ever want to be again: and if a man's hair can turn grey in a single ...

    Article : 1,578 words
  7. Effects of Rum on Pigs.

    MR. W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS once witnessed a display of drunkenness among three hundred pigs, which had been given a barrel of spoiled elderberry wine all at once with their swill, ...

    Article : 115 words
  8. Sketcher.

    To convey what I mean, says Dr. B. W. Richardson, let us move to the best constructed, as well as the most beautiful, street of this metropolis, if not of the world— ...

    Article : 1,346 words
  9. Humor.

    LIONS, Tigers, and Rhinoceroses—Mr. Gipple's Perilous Adventure in a Sea of African Lions—The Razor-back Jersey Lion ; his Vicissitudes of Fortune in Agriculture and ...

    Article : 1,841 words
  10. Strangled.

    THERE is a legend in some Spanish book About a noisy reveller who at night, Returning home with others, saw a light Shine from a window, and climbed op to look, ...

    Article : 119 words
  11. The Pretty Girl and the Masher.

    A VERY pretty girl, attired in a long seal dolman and carrying an alligator-skin bag with Initials in silver on the outside, stood at Vesey-street and Broadway, New York, ...

    Article : 889 words
  12. How She Came to be Fortune Teller.

    A RETIRED card-shuffler tolls a Cleveland Herald man how the fates decreed that she should become a fortune-teller : "I'll tell you how I came to tell fortunes. ...

    Article : 362 words
  13. Fun.

    SOME mothers do not know what to do with the baby on the nurse's "evening out." Various plans of disposing of him have been suggested to us. One way is to put the kitten ...

    Article : 329 words
  14. Science.

    DR. B. W. RICHARDSON, in the Asclepiad, treating of felicity as a sanitary research, observes: "The centre of the emotion of felicity is not in the brain. The centre is in the vital ...

    Article : 569 words
  15. The Arbutus.

    LOOKS no shy and innocent, Blushes like a startled thing; Who would think it knew the whole Of the secrets of the spring? ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. Uncle Esek's Wisdom. (New Series.)

    A VERY stubborn man is often wrong, but seldom dishonest. A strong intimacy may exist between two fools, but friendship never. ...

    Article : 256 words
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    YOUNG wife—" Dear, why are you eating so much more of my cake than usual to-night ? Is it nicer than last night? " Young husband—" I—my darling—I—well, to tell the truth, ...

    Article : 99 words
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