Identifier: stnicholasserial392dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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From Goldfish Breeds. By permission of limes & Sons, Philadelphia.A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD FRINGETAIL GOLDFISH. fringetail used as an illustration in Wolfs bookon goldfish. I know of a person who claimed six-teen years for a moon telescope-fish. My motherraised some common fish twenty years ago. Wehad one of them for fifteen years, and then gaveit to a relative, who kept it alive under very poorconditions for three years more. During thesethree years a number of younger fish died in thesame aquarium. Under proper conditions I amsure it would have lived for twenty years, and Ibelieve that such a fish can be kept alive for aquarter of a century. Highly developed fish, ifthey live to become six months of age, will usuallythen live from two to four years.—William T.Innes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1912.) NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 945
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an odd-shaped oak Santa Rosa, Cai..Dear St. Nicholas: The accompanying photograph isof an odd-shaped oak-tree. The trunk has turned overuntil it somewhat resembles a horseshoe, and in betweenthem a limb has grown uniting them firmly together, asshown in the photograph. The tree measures about onefoot in diameter. Peter Kirch. a long word in chemistry Wheeling, W. Va.Dear St. Nicholas : I have just found in a history ofchemistry, written by William Allen Hamor, ResearchChemist of The College of the City of New York, aword containing forty-nine letters. I wont ask what itmeans, but is pentamethyldiamidothiodiphenylamindi-iodomethylate surpassed in length by any word at all ?Hoping this will interest you as it has interested me,I remain, Very truly yours, Robt. C. Darrah, Jr. There is hardly any limit to the length of suchwords, and, if it were worth while, much longerwords than the one given could be used to de-scribe known or imaginary organic compounds. Such chemical words are really

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