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when is a science as well as TENACITY OF LIFE IN Ver.vunEs.—One day Antrmtieric.—Arithmetic startedin Etta.rs Amu.: DIGESTION.—Many popular notions shot possible for one ac- — ORDER. iv ResixEss.-:—A paper recently out our guns, one of the party an art; it:is therefore well MASQUERADE. There was a Grand Fancy Ball articles of food, and there arc few ,we were with & called the Goods Reporter, de- about different the carcase quainted with the properties and relations of num- THE SPY COLUMBIAN at Springs, on Friday night of last week, New York, Dry notions, a large vulture that had perched upon Saratoga of all subjects upon which people indulge more bers is proposed for says u signed expressly to promote the interests a dead sheep, and certainly doing the neigh. wbcri I:question solution, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST f2B, 1847 which is represented as having been splendid •by scientific facts. We pro- 'of was be in vending both foreign are totally disproved the Ohio SChool Journal, not only to able after affair. The New York Evening Express says:— engaged the business of truths borhood a benefit by removing the nuisance. As AGENCIES editorial in the last pose to write down a few well established its two or three trials, to obtain the result by some The room tastefully decorated with flags and and domestic goods, has an in as the bird was shot, itfell and turned upon corner of Third and was the relative quantity of nutriment soon V. B. PALMER, North West number on the great advantages oforder and regu- respecting a deal, two of the at- arbitrary rule, but to seereadily if not at once, what wreaths,and the companyentered at 9 o'clock, hack ; but, struggling good streets, when different kinds offood, and the relative time occu- and then them Chestnut Philadelphia, in stores, and particularly in retail stores, which each of dux party had operations are required, to perform York. in their fancy dresses, and costumes,the coup trail larity tendants, of person Tribune Buildings, (opposite. City Hali,) N. is a need of pied in their digestion. in the shortest manner and to obtain the required of Grandees, Peasants, Boatmen, in which, it is asserted, there great one, ordered to dispatch it with bamboos.— and Calvert streets, Savages, Knights, In the first place, however, we would remind our was South East corner ofBaltimore Sc., improvement. In illustration of the subject the and receiving se- result with the least possible number of figures. Lords, Chinese, Priests, Druids, Nuns, Friars, is no means the article contain- This was accordingly done, after Baltimore, and of the admi- readers, that it by be Hence it is well known to the observing that many was superb. It seemed as if all the nations editor gives the following description of substance, veral severe blows upon the head, it appeared to &c., & ing the greatest proportion nutritious piactieo No. 12 Statestreet, Boston. arranged store of Messrs. T. Sharp:cm men it upon his of the processes required in the every day and tribes of the earth, with all its splendor and rably and other quite dead ; one of the then took JACOB M. WESTIIAEFFM, Lancaster city. for- which takes soonest the form of blood - abbreviated. The in with the Son, Philadelphia, which it has been our good we the We were out Can be greatly contractions Agent. poetry, and fact, mingling the past, too, elements of animal life. Neither is the shoulder, and pursued sport. WILLIAM A. PIEBCE, Travelling examine while on a visit to that The necessary while are numerous and important, but present, had suddenly dropt in here, at Saratoga, tuno to city. several hours, the vulture hanging all the multiplication even most physical strength supplied by the articles editor of the Reporter expresses the beliefthat man, lifeless, most of them 'may be included in a few general NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—On Wednes- and were about to hold high converse together.— the most nutriment. Nuts arc almost from the shoulder of the apparently England cannot produce a store where such a per- containing and bead much by the classes, of which we name. dayafternoon, about 6 o'clock, a. boy about 10 years Cherokee walked arm in arm with Paysanne.— ofnutritious material, oil ; pota- its eyes closed its lacerated the business in all its details. entirely composed 1. Those based the decimal relations of age, son of John F. Houston, Esq., of :his Turk and shook hands with Britton and fect system prevades matter to shot and the strokes from the bamboos. upon of Tartar to toes contain eighty-eight parts of wasted year one We may add that the system has been explained return, the man who carried the vul- numbers. Of these the most numerous are the place, went to the river in company with another Gaul. The I Gth century and the kept of nutriment. Yet the latter impart far Upon our us, and the reader may at the first twelve these birds multiplication by the parts of 10, 100, 1000, boy, to bathe, Not being aware ofthe depth of the company. The grave was opened, and the skies although the than the former. Bread ture, glad to get rid ofhis burthen, (for aliquot it is not morestrength to body Asia and glance suppose it to be very complicated, as much as thirty pounds) Sze., all of which are governed by one general rule, water, he jumpedfrom the wharf, and being unable dropped their planets down. Europe, nutritious than meat; but meat is stimulat- will sometimes Weigh so means; and perhaps its chief merit con- is more suf- viz. annex one or more ciphers to the multiplicand to swim, sank to the bottom after a short struggle. Mika were upon one floor. Heathen god and by any and is supposed to flung it upon the ground with a force of itself simplicity.—Bali. American. ing as well as nutritive, that result the denominator of the No effectual assistance was rendered to rescue him Christian nun looked at each other,face to face.— sists in its great bread. ficient to kill it; but to our surprise, it seemed to and divide by • functions than made at this store is about strengthen the bodily more arrived at who the classic age of The amount of sales the shock; for, alter opening its common fraction denoting the aliquot part of 10; until Mr. GEORGE Boers the spot., The proud, stately dame of important fact to be remembered in this be reanimated by ; cacti in the store is Another which the Hence— in and commenced a search, France, and the prim, staid embodiment of Quaker $300,000 annally department it turned, and was on its legs in a 100or 1000, multiplier equals. immediately jumped and connection is, that all stomachs are not alike, and eyes, suddenly Yankee cun- alphabetically designated. The shelves rows or stretched out To multiply by and after diving to the bottom three several times, simplicity, were band in hand with to moment. Advancing a step two, it arc numbered, and that the calculations given below are applicable succeeded in the and him and Scottish; Black Mute stood of goods in each department into the air, continuing to 5, (1.2 of 10) annex 1 cipher and divide by 2 discovering boy. raising ning, highlander. stomach. What proportion of healthy its wings, rose heavily " le It• upon the tag attached to the goods is marked the a healthy 3 1-3 1.3 of 10 3 the surface. When taken from of . to the water before a mysterious Magician. The rays the arc world, we do know; rise until it was lost to our view in the distance.— 10 44 0 4 letter of the department, the number of the shelf stomachs there in the not 2 1-2 1-4 of respiration had ceased, and he was to all appearan- Pilgrim of the Sun fell upon the dusky shades of in ofcases, We were all so much astonished at thus so unex- I 1-2. 1-8 of 10 " 46 0 8 which such a piece but the probability is, that the majority " ces but by a and row on that shelf to of one of 100 2 chiphers 2 lifeless; the pplication of the usual Night.—and curiously were interwoven the Real as In beholding- the dead alive, that no 50 1-2 belongs. The cashier receives a certain sum food is not digested as rapidly here stated. pectedly 33 1-3 1.3 of100" 46 . 3 remedies, such as friction &c., signs of returning and the Romance,—so that all general goods an prevent its escape. curiously, of kinds ferments, thought of making attempt to " " u animation extra per week, and he is responsible for all worth- some stomachs, food particular 25 1-4 of 100 4 became visible, and under the treatment description is worthless in daguerrcotyping the oflife which the vulture posses- 46 . are which the which interferes with complete digestion. This The tenaciousness 16 2-3 1.6 of 100" 5 less Books kept in " of Dr. Clarkson, he was at length money received. ; " 8 fully restored, ecenc. to ses, as this anecdote will show, is almost incredible 1212 1.8 of 100" clerk are entered for the and happens most frequently with regard vegeta- end conveyed home. the we observe the names of sales of cach day, the rule of Among managers to the notwith- and so is its rapacity, that when engaged in From these specimens multiplying by of the clerk cast as a per centage on each bles—saw-dust doctors contrary great Too much credit cannot be awarded to Mr.
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