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FOUND, in Sever, a gold screw shirt stud, which the owner can have by sending his address to 70 College House...
Lost. - A light cork-screw overcoat with red lining in the sleeves. P., 23 Irving Street...
...Passaic, N. J. man is credited with the invention of a unicycle from which great results are expected. There is a screw loose in the instrument or else in the description, for it is described as a "spokeless wheel, inside of which two persons can sit" while propelling it through the medium of "intricate, but easy working machinery." The lucid description further states that there are two wheels, one inside the other, but as the outer wheel only rests on the ground the machine is called a unicycle. - T. F. and Farm...
...owing to Morris' bad guard and weak wrist. Mumford's defence being unusually fine, he soon managed to disarm his adversary, and was declared victor. Mumford's fencing was remarkably good, his attacks being clean and straight, while his wrist movements in semi-circle were strong and quick. This screw justly gained him the heat...
...double-screw, steel armor plated turret ship Colossus was launched at Portsmouth, Eng., yesterday. She is of 9146 tons burthen, and her engines are 6000 horse power...