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DtpsacllS tullottUllt. Natural Order: Dipsacece — Teasel Family. 
LL the plants of this class except the Fuller’s Teasel are devoid 
of interest, possessing no useful properties; but in Europe 
|j* clothiers use the heads of that variety to raise the nap of 
woolen cloth. They are armed with hard, hooked scales, 
. which, being attached for this purpose to a revolving cylin- 
■ (y.; cler, brush against the surface of the cloth. The common 
Teasel found bv roadsides and hedges is a naturalized plant from 
ope. It flowers in large, oval heads, mounted on a stalk from 
to four feet high, and the stalks and dry heads may often be 
seen, in winter, with their spiny cones decorated with sleet or frost, 
showing prismatic colors in the sun. It is cultivated in Europe in 
large fields, a rich soil being necessary. The plants are thinned to 
about a foot apart, and the heads are cut for sale the second year. 
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''PHERE’S not a day, but, to the man of thought, 
* Betrays some secret that throws new reproach 
On life, and makes him sick of seeing more. 
— Toting. 
I CAN ne’er forgive the thoughts I bore 
*■ ’Gainst thee, and ’gainst the race of man entire. 
For I have stood at bay before the world. 
Facing the wolves that well nigh pulled me down, 
Until I deemed mankind a hungry pack, 
Eager to suck their wounded brothers’ blood. 
But thou hast come to purge me of my gall, 
To heal my wounded heart, to dry my tears, 
And plant within my soul a love of man, 
Which, by heaven’s grace, wrong never shall uproot. 
—George H. Baker. 
'U'EARED, shunned, belied, ere youth had lost her force, 
* He hated men too much to feel remorse, 
And thought the voice of wrath a sacred call, 
To pay the injuries of some on all. — Byron. 
'T'HEY have lived too long, who find 
*■ Their treasury of hope is spent; 
They gaze upon the human kind 
Like letters on a monument, 
Repeating to the vacant air, 
That dust and hollowness are there! 
— A nonymous . 
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