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Poison-ivy, Poison-oak and Poison Sumac: Identification, Precautions and EradicationPOISON-IVY, poison-oak, and poison sumac remind most people of painful experiences to be avoided, yet many do not know any one of the offending plants or their equally poisonous relatives. Learning to recognize them on sight...

House FliesSir: I have the honor to transmit for publication a paper dealing with the subject of the house fly or typhoid fly. Previous publications of this department concerning this insect have been in circular form, but it is desired to make this information...

The Southern Literary Messenger, Volume I., 1834-35In issuing the first number of the "SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER," the publisher hopes to be excused for inserting a few passages from the letters of several eminent literary men which he has had the pleasure to receive, approving...

The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Vol. 2 (of 2) - Late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc. An important phase in the life of Panizzi has now been entered upon; but before detailing the facts, we...

An essay on the government of children, under three general heads, viz. health, manners, and educationNothing is more evident, than that a Love of our Children is a great ruling Principle in human Nature; and that it makes a large Part of that Self-love...

Cancer: Its Cause and Treatment, Volume 1 (of 2)Cancer has hitherto been regarded almost wholly from its histological and surgical aspects. The investigators and practitioners along these lines have been innumerable, the work done prodigious, and the literature relating thereto enormous. But relatively little...

Signs & WondersI had been pondering the elements that go to the making of the human entity, and more particularly that new aspect of the theory of the etheric body which presents it as a visible, ponderable, tangible, highly organised, but almost incredibly tenuous,...

Tappan's Burro, and Other StoriesTAPPAN gazed down upon the newly-born little burro with something of pity and consternation. It was not a vigorous offspring of the redoubtable Jennie, champion of all the numberless burros he had driven in his desert-prospecting years. He could not...

Die Welträtsel: Gemeinverständliche Studien über Monistische PhilosophieDie vorliegenden Studien ber monistische Philosophie sind fr die denkenden, ehrlich die Wahrheit suchenden Gebildeten aller Stnde bestimmt. Zu den hervorragenden Merkmalen des 19.Jahrhunderts, an dessen Ende wir stehen, gehrt das lebendige Wachstum des Strebens nach Erkenntnis der...

Turkey RaisingThe number of turkeys in this country decreased for a time after the 1890 census, but during recent years the industry has been growing, largely because of improved methods of controlling turkey diseases and better methods of management. TURKEY RAISING has long been...

Wrong AnalogyRuth was standing at the vast window of the spaceport, her body taut and eager, the luggage piled high around her. When Harvey Flanders came out of the ship carrying the last two suitcases, she darted to him. Harvey's eyes followed the sweep...

Viisikymmentä runoa ja kuusi lauluaKaikista nykyisemmn ajan suomalaisista runoniekoista on Paavo Korhonen kuuluisimman nimen voittanut. Hn syntyi muunna 1775 Vihtajrven [sanotaan tt taloa paikoin Vihtalahdeksikin] talossa Sonkarinsaaren kyl, Rautalammin pitjt. Syntymtalostansa kutsuttiin hnt loppupuolella ikns Vihtapaavoksi, jonka nimen itsekin muutamassa runossansa omistaa. En ole...

How to Use a Galvanic Battery in Medicine and Surgery - A Discourse Delivered Before the Hunterian Society, Third EditionFELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGY AND ELECTROLOGY; LATE HONORARY MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of George Barr McCutcheon You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of William J. Locke You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John McElroy You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within...

Relation des choses de Yucatan de Diego de Landa - Texte espagnol et traduction française en regard, comprenant les signes du calendrier et de l'alphabet hiéroglyphique de la langue maya; accompagné de documents divers historiques et chronologiques, avec une grammaire et un vocabulaire abrégés...

Portraits of the NinetiesThe late Mr. Justin McCarthys vivid Portraits of the Sixties, the late Mr. George Russells admirable volume dealing with the men and women of the Seventies, and Mr. Horace Hutchinsons more recent Portraits of the Eighties form together an invaluable biographical...

Der Sohn einer MagdAutor. Das steht auf dem Titel: Die Entwicklung einer Seele, 1849-67. Ich gebe zu, da mte noch stehen: Im mittleren Schweden und unter den im Buche angegebenen Voraussetzungen: die Erblichkeit von Mutter, Vater und Amme; die Verhltnisse whrend der Schwangerschaft; die...

Captain Lucy and Lieutenant BobSome of the girls who read this first story of Lucy Gordon's army life have spent their lives on army posts as well as she, and perhaps have even lived on Governor's Island. A good many others, though, have only...