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putter-out, bleacher, scraper, calender-man, lapper, maker-up, and salesman; or, to at least twenty- ve persons, be re it leaves the warehouse of the manu­ cturer, where 12 pieces, of 18 yards each, or 216 yards of cotton-tape, of nearly half an inch in width, and containing 9,170 yards of yarn, are sold r
eighteen pence; or 12 yards of nished tape, con­ taining 509 yards of yarn, r the small sum of one penny. Some idea of the extent to which this manu­ cture is carried on in :Manchester, may be formed from the ct, that at the works of Messrs. Wood and Westheads, upwards of 1,240,000 yards of goods, not exceeding three inches in width, and composed partly or entirely of cotton, linen, silk, or worsted,
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READING LESSONS.
are woven in one week, or upwards of 35,227 miles
m one year.
CHESTER AS IT IS.
LESSON XX.
T DY G CHRISTI TO HIS SOUL.
1. VIT spark of heavenly ame!
Quit, oh, quit this mortal ame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, ying, Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy stri , And let me languish into life !
2. Hark! they whisper-angels say, "Sister spirit, come away 1" What is this absorbs me quite 1 Steals my senses, shuts my sight,