Curiosities of
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共 50 段- With the exception of book advertisements and quack medicine
- Antidotes and remedies for the plague are also commonly adve
- I, Elizabeth Stokes, of the City of London, have not fought
- Cenerentola, until my heart is sick have I tried to frame an
- It is curious to see the estimate which the different journa
- "Having procured a portion of Prussian-blue, he threw it int
- If we try marmalade as a succedaneum, we are no better off--
- It is clear from this extract that Mr. Child considered the
- Descending from this general survey, the long row of dens wh
- We shall not attempt to describe the different species of zo
- As we issue again into the open air, we have before us the w
- But if a mean topic for the bard, they are an interesting su
- The proprietors of the bonded-wheat warehouses on the banks
- The coming man, so long expected, is it seems the rat-catche
- Thus diversely does disordered nature answer to an appeal ac
- Idleness is perhaps a greater curse to the majority of lunat
- The lunatic colony of Gheel, situated twelve miles south of
- If we now turn to consider the condition of private asylums,
- Those who remember old Billingsgate, with its tumble-down wh
- The drover with his goad is forcing the cattle into the smal
- In taking leave of the poultry-yard we are reminded of the d
- The foreign-fruit trade has its head-quarters in the city. T
- It may seem passing strange that England, whose manufacturin
- The effect of the sudden outbreak of the late war was, perha
- The diversity of cutting-tools in these different machines s
- The different departments of the Royal Arsenal are separated
- It must be admitted, that the same cause which prompts these
- Many disastrous wrecks can be distinctly traced either to a
- Perhaps the most frequent cause of wreck, especially on our
- "That in war men should die from exposure, from fatigue, fro
- The question of food is intimately connected with the health
- This splendid testimony to the value of sanitary science, ex
- To keep the wires on the ground, Mr. Cooke proposed to maint
- In all ordinary transactions, however, the needle instrument
- Iron wire, coated with zinc, or "galvanised," as it is terme
- Whatever injury the Eastern war might have inflicted upon th
- In comparison with the great continental cities, such a forc
- Among the more common causes of fire (such as gas, candle, c
- It will be seen that this estimate in a great measure invert
- We have said that London is growing upwards to the sky--no h
- _Directions for aiding persons to escape from premises on fi
- Towards the outskirts of the metropolis, in the exterior or
- Between the detective and the thief there is no ill blood: w
- The swellmobsmen proper generally work together at races, in
- There is an audacious class of thieves, termed "dragsmen," w
- It is but natural to suppose, that in such a busy hive of in
- The evil effects arising from the prosecution of these trade
- It may seem strange that a worker in steel should suffer fro
- Dr. Guy, who has taken considerable pains to ascertain the v
- [39] It may be as well to state that nearly all the continen