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  2. Humour.

    "Will you kiss me before I go away—go to leave your perhaps forever, Myrtle?" The speaker was a rugged, athletic-looking young fellow, just in the full flush of manly ...

    Article : 951 words
  3. Miscellaneous.

    THE following account of fight between snake and a rat, is extracted from a Californian paper, the Stockton Mail, near which city the encounter is said to have been witnessed; ...

    Article : 424 words
  4. Agriculture.

    IT is unnecessary to tell the Australian farmer, that climate and season greatly influence the growth, and yield of crops, but there are some facts bearing upon the subject which ...

    Article : 699 words
  5. Nature.

    FOR more than a year past a man-eating tigress has been the terror and se[?]urge of a small tract of hill country in Western Garhwal, which looks down across the ...

    Article : 565 words
  6. CHIFFONS FROM PARIS.

    A FARMER has been invited by his landlord to a fete, at which all the first singers of Paris assisted. "It is very nice," said he, towards the close ...

    Article : 267 words
  7. THE PRAIRIE MONSTER.

    SHORT of the frightful storms which are said to sweep over the sun itself, there does not seem to be any other force in nature, quite equal in energy and terror, to the tornadoes ...

    Article : 611 words
  8. Sketcher.

    In Poland, somewhere about the year 1746, a little boy was born to a young couple of the lesser nobility, named Kosciuszko. His parents named him Tade[?]sz, which is our ...

    Article : 1,425 words
  9. LOSS.

    Oh! steadfast eyes that looked in mine With such a tender, loving light, My own with sorrowing tears are dim Since thou art closed in endless night. ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. A LITTLE PEACH.

    A little peach in an orchard grew; A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew, It grew. ...

    Article : 146 words
  11. JOHN AND TIBBIE'S DISPUTE.

    John Davidson sand Tibbie his wife Sat toastin' their taes a nicht, When something startit in the fluir, And blinkit by their sicht. ...

    Article : 451 words
  12. Science.

    RECENT numbers of the London Spectator have contained very interesting communications on this subject. Nothing like a general rule can be evolved from them, because ...

    Article : 553 words
  13. EARLY ENGLISH.

    "An old woman in spectacles told me to do the church picnic up in medieval style," observed the religious reporter, looking over his notes and scratching his head dubiously. ...

    Article : 635 words
  14. FOOTPRINTS.

    Boots of Dutchmen oft remind us They do make their soles sublime, An departing leave behind them Footprints that are twelve by nine. ...

    Article : 267 words
  15. Household.

    PRETTY mother Hubbard du[?]t cloaks, and long Newmarket jackets of brown holland, are being prepared for travelling. The cloaks are trimmed with the fashionable "ficelle" ...

    Article : 1,197 words
  16. AN EIGHTY POUND HAILSTONE.

    CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused by the announcement that a hailstone weighing eighty pounds had fallen six miles west of Salina, near the railroad track. An inquiry ...

    Article : 238 words
  17. A SALT BED 115 FEET THICK.

    THERE was completed recently at Marine City, Michigan, a well which passed through 115 feet of solid crystal salt. Salt was encountered first at a depth of 1633 feet, and ...

    Article : 97 words
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