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The Rainbow
The Pennsylvania Coal Trade
Rairoad Fare for the Fair Week
Martyrs of Freedom
Judge Gently
Indianna Rail Roads
The Poor
Mothers
Contagious Diseases
Absconding Railroad Contractors
Opinions of the Press
A Humorist
Calabar
Determination of the Longitude of Cambridge Observatory From Liverpool
Curious Case of Surgery
The American Flag at Frankfort
Mean Revenge
Indicted for Murder
Free Passage of the Brig Eureka Through the St. Lawrence
Whortieberry
Too Young to Marry
Force of Law
The First Stemboat on the Mississippi
Tailors' Strike
A Plank Road Between New York and Philadelphia
Long Speeches
The Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
Coal on the Isthmus
Modern Inventions Subservient to the Progress of Christianity
Voltaire's Character of Cromwell
Theories of Electricity
Secret of Living Always Easy
National Debt
Formation and Reduction of the Precious Metals
Extraordinary Feat of Screw Steamer
The Island of Cuba
Wheat on Prairie Lands
Extracts for Young Men
Facts for Farmers
Improved Tinsmith's Wiring Machine
Dodges Improved American Spinner
Improved Force Pump
New England's Fair Daughter's
Life Boats on the Coast
Honey Sugar
Valuable Bank Paper
Test for Good Limestone
Improvement in Knitting Looms
Peat Bogs
Machine for Sharpening and Setting Saws
Improved Window Latch
Yankees, and Yankee Inventions Abroad
To Preserve Water
Electrical Current and the Magnetic Telegraph
Inventors and Their Friends
To Our Contemporaries
The Scientific American
Mechanical Fallacies
Camden and Amboy Railroad
Cholera in New York
Iron and Copper Steam Boilers
Explosions
Bear's Oil Superseded
A Noble and Refined Compliment
The Diamond
Facts and Observations on Cholera and the Atmosphere
Coast Surveys
Bishop Watson Geologising
Mushrooms
The Iron Manufacture
Paper Made by Wasps
Heavy Damages and Important Verdict
Great Hungarian Gathering
New-Prospectus
The Scalpel
A Curious Grass
Terrestrial Magnetism
Iron Moulding
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