Item - Random Readings: Natural Attraction

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Series:	New York Weekly — v. 19 no. 38 — page 7
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XIX, no. 38, August 11, 1864 (Issue)
Author:	Pen and Scissors
Date:	August 11, 1864
Edition Description:	Also includes: A Daring Exploit, A Cats' Concert and Pigs' Matinee, Montenegrine Women, and Little Savages
First Sentence:	If you drop a little water or any other liquid on a table, and place upon the same a piece of loaf sugar, you will see the water or fluid ascend, or be sucked up into the pores of the sugar;