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  2. ABOUT THE HORSE.

    The deviations usually met with in foaling are as follow:— 1. Fore feet presented, and the head down below the brim of the pelvis. The ...

    Article : 372 words
  3. A RIVER FIGHT.

    The launch shivered; a low gurgling noise rose from beneath her, and at last she dragged her keel out of the mud and shot away into deep water, safely ...

    Article : 846 words
  4. BURIED IN PIECES.

    The following is taken from a truthful American paper:— Girardville, Pa., March 18.—After having been reported dead several times ...

    Article : 767 words
  5. IMPEACHMENT.

    A recent cablegram announced that Count Badeni, ex-Premier of Austria, who recently resigned office in connection with the Austro-Hungarian ...

    Article : 1,334 words
  6. PRECIOUS STONES.

    The disease began at the age of three. It took the form of a chronic desire for the annexation of brass carpet rings. Happy childhood! The ring was yellow ...

    Article : 1,969 words
  7. OFF CUBA.

    At the present juncture the following extracts from a diary kept by Mr C. G. Bird, of Brighton road, St. Kilda, who, forty-seven years ago served as first ...

    Article : 1,959 words
  8. STABLE VICES.

    There are several troublesome vices to which horses become subject while stabled, and which farmers are sometimes at a loss to cure. These offences ...

    Article : 874 words
  9. NOVELTIES IN CLOCKS.

    There is apparently no end to the novelties in the clock line. One of the most curious, and at the same time most instructive, has recently been patented ...

    Article : 828 words
  10. UTILISING POTATO TOPS.

    The present practice, after getting in the potato crop, is to collect the leaf refuse into heaps and burn it, the ashes being used for a light top-dressing, says ...

    Article : 433 words
  11. PETER THE GREAT AND THE DRAGOON.

    When President Faure, of France, was on his recent visit to Russia, he heard a number of stories of Peter the Great. At a banquet the other day he ...

    Article : 309 words
  12. PRESENTATION TO THE DUKE OF YORK.

    A few weeks ago there was a very interesting little function at York House, when the Duke of York was presented with an elegant model of the stern of ...

    Article : 436 words
  13. ADULTERATION OF FOOD.

    One of the London papers is paying special attention to the adulteration of food which appears to have become alarmingly prevalent in the old ...

    Article : 261 words
  14. COLONEL HAY.

    Colonel John Hay, late Ambassador to the Court of St James, and now succeeding Mr Sherman in the highest position in President M'Kinley's Cabinet, ...

    Article : 213 words
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