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Ultomra mUSCipula. Natural Order: /)roseraccce — Sitinfc-.i' Family. 



r^ ^ NOWN as a denizen of warm latitudes, and consequently not 

 otten found in colder climates, except in hothouse culture, this 

 ]-)LiLnniil phnt is rather delicate, but can be raised without 

 ith(.ilt\ it lepotted each year and kept standing in a saucer 

 of w Uci The leaves have a peculiar retractile power, clos- 

 ing \\hene\ti an insect lights on the surface, thereby holding 

 It 1 piisonti within its embrace, only relaxing its hold when it has 

 entiieh \\ ithdi i\\ n the nourishing properties from its victim. The 

 floweis aie white, being grouped in an umbel of from eight to ten 

 on a stalk about a foot high. It is called Diona?a fi-orn Dione, the 

 mother of \"enus: and muscipula, from the Latin, denotes flv-gates. 



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TITE sail .iloiig a rocky shore — the cHfts arc gr.av and gree 

 '* While in the sunlit deptlis below as lofty cliffs are seen 

 We float upon the waves of Life, with Death at either hand. 

 And what is false and what is true we may not understand. 



—L. Bnire Mo 



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e..uiling ^HY, I can sn.le. 



wliile I smile: 



AL.SE wave of the desert, thou art less beg 



m false beauty over the lighted hall shed: * * And cry content to that 



nt the smiles that have practic'd their smiling. And wet my cheek with artificial tears; [heart 



loney words measured, and reckon 'd as said. And frame mv face to all occasions. 



—Shakest'eare. 



-Miss Landoit. 



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E seem'd for dignity compos'd, and higli exploit 

 But :dl was false and hollow. —Milton. 



VTOU'RE wrong; he was the mildest mannered 

 That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat! [man 

 With such true breeding of a gentleman, 

 You never could divine his real thought. 



friendship is 



T^IIEIR 



Their honor but an idle b 



Their smile, the smile that traitors 



Their love is hate, their life is 



snare, 

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