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Show THE LIFTING POWER OF A MUSHROOM. Wo have grown familiar with tho lifting powers of the vegetables of the agricultural college, but hero is an English atnry that nioro than matches them: "A tradesman reading in High street, tho humest street in Wor-chester, Wor-chester, observed, the other morning, thai a square alone on the pavc-munl adjoining his cellar grating lnul been lifted oul of place, and, as a neighbor had not long before been ruhbi-d by theives entering his premium by raising rais-ing a stone of the i-avement, ho bo-came bo-came somewhat alarmed, and wnl for the police. After an examination, tho stone, which weighed 80 pounds, wits mined, and it w:ia discovered that it was not a thief, but three mushrooms mush-rooms that had caused tho diaplure-mcnt. diaplure-mcnt. Tho a mushrooms wito fine specimens, six inches in diameter, and with unusually thick stems." |