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There is nothing impossible in the idea, and neither is it altogether novel, although the way of carrying it out may be. In 1848, Staite, one of the early enthusiasts in electric lighting, patented a series of batteries from which he proposed to recover sulphate, nitrate, and chloride of zinc, but we never heard that he obtained any success. The original electric railway laid down by Messrs.
I find that early on the following day Mr Wraxall had some conversation with his landlord.
I deem it important, moreover, to inure children very early to little partial exposures of this kind.
Our regiment was stationed at A , not far from the seat of war. Near our quarters was a Catholic church, attended by the Fathers. I early made the acquaintance of one of them, who was popularly known as Father Friday, this being the nearest approach to the pronunciation of his peculiar German name to which the majority of the people could arrive.
And yet the observations made by those early shepherds and hunters, unscientific though they must have been in themselves, are full of interest to the student of modern exact astronomy.
There had been a light sprinkle of snow such a fall as may come even in early April but the noon sun had let the wheat-fields and the pastures blossom through it, and had swept it from the gray moist pike until now there were patches of white only in gully and along north hill-sides under little groups of pines and in the woods, where the sunlight could not reach; and Chad trudged sturdily on in spite of his heavy rifle and his lame foot, keenly alive to the new sights and sounds and smells of the new world on until the shadows lengthened and the air chilled again; on, until the sun began to sink close to the far-away haze of the horizon.
This persistency was due to several causes, of which the first was the outbreak, early in 1864, of a curious superstition, the cult of the Hau-Haus. Their doctrine would be hard to describe. It was a wilder, more debased, and more barbaric parody of Christianity than the Mormonism of Joe Smith.
Midway on the northern side, lie the beautiful estates of "Belmont" and "Belle Alliance." Early one morning in the middle of October, 1878, a young man, whose age you would have guessed fifteen years too much, stood in scrupulously clean, ill-fitting, flimsy garments, on the strong, high levee overlooking these two plantations. He was asking the way to a place called Grande Pointe.
"Well, Mr Easy, at all events then let me choose the name." "That you shall, my dear, and it was with this view that I have mentioned the subject so early." "I think, Mr Easy, I will call the boy after my poor father his name shall be Robert." "Very well, my dear, if you wish it, it shall be Robert. You shall have your own way.
This was destroyed by fire in 1543, and some of its smoke-blackened corner stones were used when, in Jacobean times, a brick country house rose upon the ruins of the feudal castle. The Manor House, with its many gables and its small diamond-paned windows, was still much as the builder had left it in the early seventeenth century.
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