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  3. SCIENCE IN PRACTICE.

    The presence of mineral poisons such as arsenic in the skeleton is of ancient finding, and more recently it has been shown that proof of a vegetable poison, such as strychnine, having ...

    Article : 55 words
  4. THE EARTH'S AGE.

    Old Mother Earth, who has closely guarded her age for her entire life, is 400,000,000 years old, according to an article which appeared in a recent number of a geological publication of ...

    Article : 109 words
  5. SIGHS OF STORMS.

    Smoke will often beat down just as soon as it comes out out of the chimney when the weather is about to be stormy. Nearly everybody knows it is easier to swim in salt water than ...

    Article : 165 words
  6. LIFTING BY MAGNETS.

    Lifting by electro-magnets in large cranes has become an important means of handling heavy masses of iron and steel, and hand magnets are now proving a great convenience for picking up ...

    Article : 79 words
  7. RARE METALS USEFUL.

    Within the last two hundred years, about fifty metals have been discovered. Most of them, it is true, have been looked upon by the world as curiosities, says J. Gordon Ogden ...

    Article : 205 words
  8. HEAT IN WOODS.

    Contrary to a widespread belief that hard woods give more heat in burning than soft varieties, the scientists at Washington (U.S.A.) are contending that the greatest heating power ...

    Article : 84 words
  9. GARDEN NOTES.

    To the amateur gardener who is interested in the upkeep of the household requirements from the kitchen garden this month is full of "potentialities," if we may be permitted to use such ...

    Article : 715 words
  10. CELLULAR IRONCLADS.

    Modern warships may be described as being made of cells, like a honeycomb. Dreadnoughts are divided into a number of separate watertight and shell-proof compartments by means ...

    Article : 75 words
  11. SWIMMING MACHINE.

    A swimming machine, which can be packed in an ordinary travelling bag, and weighs only ten pounds, has been invented by a Frenchman of the name of Gamier. It combines some of the ...

    Article : 183 words
  12. SCENTS OF BUTTERFLIES.

    Our sense of smell is not sufficiently exquisite for us to appreciate the perfumes of butterflies and moths. We can scarcely analyse an odor; it is a harmony of which we are ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. NATURAL SOAP.

    Natural soap is not heard of every day; yet it not only exists, but is highly prized by Jack Tar in tropical regions when the purser reports that the ship's supply of soap has given ...

    Article : 130 words
  14. SPIRAL STAIRCASE OF FERROCONCRETE.

    This artistic concrete staircase attracted much attention at the Franco-British exhibition in London, because of its graceful, slender lines. It would seem too frail to bear ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
  15. BENEFIT OF YAWNING.

    Dr. Emil Bunzi, of Vienna, Austria, in speaking of diseases of throat and remedies, said that yawning had, its great value. Yawning has recently been recommended ...

    Article : 153 words
  16. MEAT AND APPENDICITIS.

    Dr. John Polak, in a lecture on the "Causes and the Prevention of Appendicitis," has stated that appendicitis is second in importance only to tuberculosis and cancer. In ...

    Article : 179 words
  17. ERRORS OF EXERCISE.

    What the average business man or office worker is doing when he rushes through his gymnasium, cyclone-fashion, pumps on the parallel bar or swings on the horizontal bar ...

    Article : 164 words
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  19. BACK TO WATER POWER.

    How great is the future possibility of water power wil be readily understood when it is stated that the available power of the Niagara Falls alone is nearly as much as that ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. WHAT IS A POISON?

    It has been found very difficult by authorities to define the word poison. For instance, a dose of powdered glass will kill a man, but can it be said to "poison" him A dose of ...

    Article : 160 words
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  22. DYED FISH.

    Some little time ago (says an English scientific paper) we exposed the fact that bloaters, bacon, and such like delicacies are no longer necessarily smoked in the old-fashioned, honest ...

    Article : 182 words
  23. AVIATORS CUSHIONS.

    Two American aviators, Messrs. A. H. Forbes and J. C. Yates have recently made an ascension in a new ballon, the Viking, one of the largest and most up to date aerostats thus far ...

    Article : 125 words
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