Budget of Blunders and Lively Public Sermon Anecdotes
A long fragment from a miscellany recounts humorous church scenes and ministerial mishaps including an extemporaneous sermon that wanders into comic anecdotes. It notes audience reactions and a tale of a baby at a baptism, finishing with a joke about a funeral and misattributed priest. The piece blends social observation with entertaining snippets and rural church life.
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Publigiindo Fe
Che
Jaimeelf
Milton
Ray
Campia
Mechanical and Scientific Notes From a Curious Era
A long miscellaneous column blends experiments in mucilage for repair, Beijinglike alloy chemistry, and hazards of narcotics with domestic tips. It mentions Woolwich and a steellike alloy, then shifts to farm and kitchen notes on cheese, swine fattening, oysters, and preserved plants, ending with a plan to overwinter geraniums using a heated pine box and blankets.
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Kiamsablid Saeed
Tame Mill
Detroit Tribune
Graham Broad
Michigan Harmer
Bees and Nectar in Changing Farmland Practices
The piece discusses how farming modernization reduces wild nectar sources for bees. It notes hedges and creepers decline, steam-driven arable expansion limits clover and buckwheat, and long forages deter honey stores. It compares Ligurian and native bees, cites Nile bee barges, and highlights late spring to autumn flowering as key for crop protection and air benefits.
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Nile
Pliny
Tanditabad
Fragmentary historical note on crops and bees in uncertain text
Readable lines describe bees and crop questions amid unclear phrases about people, beekeeping, and fruit. Several garbled terms obscure specifics such as place, date, and action, but references to crops and beekeeping hint at an agricultural note from a historical page.
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Faye
J. Felti
Puy
sTé Gould
Clermyaian
William
Jaliitster
Au Dietice
Betora
Jutteriie
Chancelsrail
Sonia Lowe
Ceytéin
Asitti
Eumimner
Ion Slégoll
Daliverantee
Bato Betheldyati
Etheldifatre
Jenai
Nfon
Father Melaylee
Swillnoth
Making Baskets for Flowering Plants Ad Yard
Advice on crafting hanging baskets from wood knots grapevines and branches to display flowering plants. Describes plants for baskets smilax ivy kenilworth ivy moneyworth and others with tips on materials care and display for home gardens or indoor spaces. Listed are decorative ideas using moss bindings and rustic planters with implied home gardener guidance.
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Jre. D. Huntley
N.Y
Plant More Fruit Trees for Future Generations
A Herald article advocates renewing orchards by removing unproductive old fruit trees and planting young ones. It argues fruit diversity signals civilization, urges planting along lanes, and highlights Germany's custom of planting a tree per child. It notes profit from pears and apples and predicts full bearing in five to six seasons with proper care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Herald
Old Country Garden Notes on Hop Vines and Horseradish
A fragmentary Victorian era note describes hop vines and horseradish as robust garden plants needing liberal cultivation and manure. It mentions propagating by crown division and warns the plants can be ungainly yet are useful for self-sufficiency in a neglected plot. The text also touches on garden layout and air circulation for climbing vines.
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Pisa
Tribune
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Tade
Seyt Weil
Amling
Nature
Seine
Jonette
Detroit
Tyron Steynaril
Melaylee
Tie Gray Ordigger
Tim Lanagan
Ity
Mechanical and Scientific
Whitfield
Woolwich
England
Mmeciaateni
Andilie
Bruges
Lonilon la Incelin
Paris
Elven
Csmiall
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