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  2. An Andacious Trick.

    A WELL DRESSED lady entered a fashionable dry-goods store in Paris, a short time ago, and bought a pearl-gray silk dress. The storekeeper had noticed a tolerably well-dressed ...

    Article : 208 words
  3. The Farmer

    DR. N. H. PAREEN, State Veterinarian of Illinois, read a paper before the Chicago Eolectic Medical Society, on the subject of "Glanders in Man and Animal." Glanders ...

    Article : 250 words
  4. The Steno-Telegraph.

    Signor Michela, of Ivree, has set himself to introduce what may be called a telegraphic shorthand. In the present system of telegraphing, the average English word requires ...

    Article : 315 words
  5. Humor.

    ROBBERY IN MEXICO is of the most ingenious kind. On one occasion a traveller was talking with a gentleman of the country, and boasting that he could always take cars of himself ...

    Article : 484 words
  6. Large and Small Breeds of Pigs.

    THE question before us is the pig. What is perfection in the pig ? There are only two main points as far as I sec-viz., its edible character, and its capacity for producing such ...

    Article : 1,826 words
  7. Ladies' Column.

    NEGLECT of appearances is a very common failing even in many well-to-do households, especially as regards edibles generally; though, to take for instance so homely and ...

    Article : 1,807 words
  8. Sketcher.

    In 1868 Mr Nobel, who had for some time taken this chemical curiosity of nitro-gly-cerine in hand, with a view of applying it to practical purposes, made public his first ...

    Article : 2,801 words
  9. Science.

    "MAN, know thyself ! " is a most wise as well as a most old injunction. It is also a most unheeded injunction. For if there be one thing more than another of which the average ...

    Article : 996 words
  10. Miscellaneous.

    WHEN Edison, genius and inventor that he is, had given two weeks of his valuable time to going up and down on the New York Elevated Railroad trying to discover what caused ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. He Remained.

    THE other day the driver of a Woodward avenue car saw a boy slip softly up on the rear platform, and He presently called to him to vacate. The boy replied by making up faces. ...

    Article : 176 words
  12. The Next "Boom."

    IN a Canadian contemporary is a paper from a Ranchemen in the extreme outskirts of civilisation, who has been regretting the disappearance of the bison. It seems that not ...

    Article : 222 words
  13. A Woman's Disposition.

    I THINK I have several times alluded to the several curious kind of thing a woman is. I came across a French play which illustrates one phase of the female nature most amusingly. ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. Poor Fellow.

    A few stray folds of satin and lace Fell lightly over your knee, And she sat by your side a marvel of grace, That every one turned to see. ...

    Article : 270 words
  15. Fun.

    I BELIEVE in a Government of the candidates, by the candidates, for the candidates. I believe that the man should seek the office, and not the office the man, as the old fogies tell ...

    Article : 250 words
  16. A Tree Upon a Tree.

    A CURIOUS botanical specimen is growing in a park at Sondershausen, in Germany. It is a fir tree which bears on one of its main braches what appears to be a second tree— ...

    Article : 100 words
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