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That excellent instrument the cascrom, literally crooked foot, a kind of foot plough, which the Highlanders can manage with great dexterity, and which is too little known,* is still used in mountainous districts, and, from its excellent adaptation to the culture of rugged and steep hills, where a plough cannot be used, is not likely ever to be superseded by any implement.

He threw the newspaper into the garbage.

Alderman Joseph Moore is that rarest of Chicago political creatures, a white antiadministration alderman.