_Blackwood's Magazine_.
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THE GATHERER.
A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
SHAKSPEARE.
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SCRAPS.
(_For the Mirror_.)
DODSLEY.
About five or six miles from Mansfield is the mill where the incident
took place on which Dodsley founded his pleasing drama of _The Miller
of Mansfield_.
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Bottles for ginger-beer, soda-water, ink, blacking, &c. are
principally manufactured near Codnor Castle, in Derbyshire. About
fifty women and children finish one hundred gross per day.
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Glauber Salts are a more tonic aperient than Epsom Salts, which is
accounted for by the presence of a little iron, in the one, which has
not been detected in the other.
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The tip of the cat's nose is always cold, except on the day of the
summer solstice, when it becomes lukewarm.
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Cod-fish are sorely attacked by dog and cuttle-fish. The latter, with
their hard mouths, resembling parrots' bills, cut up the mackerel and
herrings with great adroitness. The cuttle-fish are, in their turn,
sometimes attacked by the dog-fish; but they generally escape, by
ejecting a liquid resembling _ink_, which renders the water dark and
turbid.
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