Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
The many-headed public look out for 'nine days' wonders,' and speedily allow one wonder to obliterate the remembrance of that which preceded it. So it is with all newspaper topics, and so it has been in respect to the preserved-meat question. We all know how great was the exci...
It is some fifteen or twenty years ago, since a company of two or three speculative geniuses issued a plan for establishing, in a delightful glen situated but a few miles from a...
3. Part 3Of course this new freak of Tchitchikof's was soon noised abroad, and in the eyes of the Nikolskians proved two things:--_1st_, That he was unmistakably mad, or philanthropic to...
2. Part 2One of the most remarkable, and perhaps valuable recent introductions, in respect to preserved food, is the American _meat--biscuit_, prepared by Mr Borden. A _biscuit-beef_ is...
4. Part 4Are we sad? It is winter now, and these hyacinth bulbs are unsightly, but spring will bring flowers to them, as time and patience will to us. Are we glad? These roses and gerani...
1. Part 1The many-headed public look out for 'nine days' wonders,' and speedily allow one wonder to obliterate the remembrance of that which preceded it. So it is with all newspaper topi...
6. Part 6The following is from _Herapath's Journal_ on the effect of the earth's rotation on locomotion: 'Mr Uriah Clarke, of Leicester, has called our attention to an article in the _Me...