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  2. Nature.

    OPIUM is the dried juice of the poppy. It is prepared in Asia Minor, Turkey, Egypt, and India, in which countries the poppy is cultivated for the exclusive purpose of ...

    Article : 1,414 words
  3. Sketcher.

    THE peculiarities attending the solemnity of [?]ath-taklng in various countries, and among different sects, or parties, present some curious features, not only in connection ...

    Article : 2,777 words
  4. Science.

    THERE is a reason for everything if we can only find it out, but it is sometimes very hard to discover the reasons of even the very simplest things. Everyone who has travelled ...

    Article : 609 words
  5. EXECUTIONS IN THE LAST CENTURY.

    KENNINGTON COMMON is describer in the "Tour Round London," in 1774, as [?] a small spot of ground on the road to Camberwell, and about a mile and a half from London. ...

    Article : 914 words
  6. Agriculture.

    It is a proud day when the average boy gets on his first pair of boots and trudges to sohool by the side of his older sister. He does not care any longer to [?]ake her hand. ...

    Article : 576 words
  7. RECIPES.

    BOILED QUAIL.—Pick them carefully so as not to break the skin; split each one down the back, and baste with melted butter, then broil over a bed of live coals, and baste twice ...

    Article : 787 words
  8. SOME FACTS ABOUT LIME.

    SEVERAL correspondents ask for information concerning the use of lime on land, and all of them contain evidence of several commonly accepted but false theories. First, ...

    Article : 872 words
  9. Essays.

    In the high and difficult art speaking the truth, silence is to speech what shadow is to light. So to place one's silence as to increase the amount of truth conveyed is as important ...

    Article : 454 words
  10. Fun

    IT is thought that a fashionable boardinghouse furnishes the best anti-fat. JOHN writes to ask, 'If there is a bird besides the ostrich, big enough for a man to ...

    Article : 701 words
  11. Household.

    On our way, writes a French correspondent, we indulged in a brown study as to why Parisians have a reputation above every other nation in matters of toilet. It ...

    Article : 432 words
  12. Miscellany.

    THE CAUSE OF DELIRIUM TREMENS.—Dr. B. W. Richardaon, of London, says that delirium tremens is always produced by fusel oil, and never by pure ethylic alcohol: also, ...

    Article : 214 words
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