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  2. Science.

    THE idea has hitherto prevailed quite generally that for purposes of disinfection we should seek to prevent, in so far as may be possible, any fermentation or putrefaction ...

    Article : 375 words
  3. Miscellaneous.

    MY boy, blow your own horn. Rise above the thing mistaken for modesty, which defrauds the world of something good. If you have a musical horn, blow it. If you don't, ...

    Article : 407 words
  4. Sketcher.

    THOSE who have visited Constantinople, and have passed along the Bosphorus, have observed the houses of the Turkish grandees. These houses are huge ...

    Article : 2,760 words
  5. Household.

    THE attention (says the Scientific American) which has been drawn to the novel style of embroidery, exhibited in Boston and in New York, by Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., of ...

    Article : 813 words
  6. THE DEAD CHILD AND THE MOCKING-BIRD.

    [The following poem is in no sense a mere fancy. On the contrary, the strange, pathetic incident it commemorates actually occurred, not long ago, in the neighbourhood ...

    Article : 392 words
  7. PROSPECTS OF AERIAL NAVIGATION.

    AN interesting and suggestive paper by Dr. Bell Pettigrew, F.R.S., was lately read at a meeting of the Balloon Society of Great Britain in the Royal Aquarium. ...

    Article : 553 words
  8. RABBI ISHMAEL.

    The Rabbi Ishmael, with the woe and sin Of the world heavy upon him, entering in The Holy of Holies, raw an awful Face With terrible splendour filling all the place. ...

    Article : 230 words
  9. IT WAS ALL RIGHT.

    SEVERAL people were making purchases in a Woodward avenue grocery yesterday when an old man with a cane in one hand and a bundle in the other stood in the door and ...

    Article : 150 words
  10. WRITE PLAINLY.

    THE rejection of the manuscript of an unfamiliar author is perhaps oftener on account of illegible handwriting than of lack of merit. There is no greater torture for an editor than ...

    Article : 216 words
  11. SPELLING SCHOOL HARMONY.

    A DETROTTER, who had occasion this winter to visit Gratiot County, was invited to a spelling school in a district school house, and he reached the place to find it crowded, ...

    Article : 578 words
  12. RECIPES.

    OLD potatoes may be freshened up by plunging them into cold water before cooking them. Never wash raisins that are to be used ...

    Article : 172 words
  13. ROSE BUDS.

    THE following beautiful sentiment accompanied two knots of rose buds sent to a young lady for hex personal adornment at an evening party: ...

    Article : 697 words
  14. Humour.

    A DETROIT surgeon whose reputation is first-class, was seated in his office the other day, when in walked a stronger who was followed by a dog. Without any fooling ...

    Article : 160 words
  15. A FABLE.

    SOME cawing crows, a hooting owl, A hawk, a canary, an old marsh-fowl, One day all met together. To hold a caucus and settle the fate ...

    Article : 355 words
  16. HODGE'S SOLILOQUY.

    HODGE lay at noon by the hedgerow side, And he pulled his lock as the squire rode by; Quoth he, aa he looked on his limbs with ...

    Article : 269 words
  17. THE COMING ULSTER.

    IT is with pleasure that we announce a change and an improvement in the summer ulster, and it heightens that pleasure to realise that a Detroiter is the man whose ...

    Article : 712 words
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