Never give up a decaying rose bush till you have tried watering it two or three times a week with soot tea.

His name was Sylvester Bonaffon, a retired merchant of Philadelphia.

Rains are not only valuable for the moisture which they supply, but for what they bring to us from the atmosphere.

The Journal of the Chemical Society says that freshly cut strips of lead were kept in a bottle of sea water for four days, the bottle being frequently shaken.

This failure of Papin's petition was the deathblow to his effort to establish steam navigation.

A mouthpiece to converge the sound upon this diaphragm substantially completes the arrangement.

Arriving at the appointed time, the engineer, Mr. Farrington, said: "Well, sir; whenever you're ready, I am."

Such is the boon which Pleasonton bestows on humanity, as elucidated by the original genius of our contemporary.

There are three common ways by means of which infectious diseases may be very widely spread.

A World reporter has lately visited the works in Brooklyn where the manufacture of the La Bastie toughened glass is now in active progress

For want of self-reliance and decision of character, thousands are submerged in their first essays to make the voyage of life.

Something to do! "Oh, if I had something to do!" There are young men who sigh for it, yet one thing they can do—that is, seek for a job.

Courage has saved many an army, even when ammunition was low; and many a foe has been scattered by one yell of defiance when there was not a cartridge left.

A readable little periodical, well calculated to amuse the little ones for whom it is intended.

The old queen must be put with the new colony, and half of the bees must be put in each box and shut up, and put on a stand.

The terrible disaster in the Brooklyn theater is serving as a stimulus to induce the invention of devices looking to the prevention of a like occurrence.

The wire is guided by annular recesses or chamferings at the rear circumference of the pressure rollers and the groove of the gage.

The Charge for Insertion under this head is One Dollar a line for each insertion.

Will it take more power to run two millstones in opposite directions than it will to run one at the same speed, the other being stationary?

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