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  2. SCIENCE, ART, AND MANUFACTURES. NEW METHOD OF SILVERING GLASS.

    A new process of silvering glass and other materials has recently been patented. The basis of the new process is, the property of nitric acid to dissolve pure silver, which, being held in solution, is subsequently deposited on the ...

    Article : 146 words
  3. BRIGHTON RACES.

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  4. RANDOM READINGS. THE REALIZATION OF A DREAM.

    I thought lie loved, and blushed to think A maiden's heart should feel A hope, a trust, a joy which yet She could not but conceal. ...

    Article : 201 words
  5. PAYNE'S PATENT FOR PRESERVING WOOD, ETC., AGAINST FIRE.

    On the 15th August, e series of experiments was exhibited on the shingles at low water in front of Whitehall Whart, Canon-row, in the presence of Lord Auckland and several Lords of the Admiralty, the Speaker of the House of ...

    Article : 385 words
  6. CROSSE'S PATENT FOR TURNING SALT WATER INTO FRESH, BY ELECTRICITY.

    We have just had the pleasure of drinking a goblet of water taken from the sea at Margate,as sparkling end agreeable as it drawn from the best pump in London—indeed, it was impossible to tell the difference. The water had been ...

    Article : 112 words
  7. NATURE'S GOLD AND SILVER.

    DRAW high and hear thou miser-hearted man! Silver and gold will curse thee utterly; Curse thee for evermore — as curse they can—If words of warning do not set thee free, ...

    Article : 446 words
  8. MOVING A HOUSE.

    The Americans have been out-done in this kind of work, at Mess s Ransome's and May's, Orwell Foundry, Ipswich, where a brick-built house, two stories high, twenty-six feet by eighteen, has been moved a distance of seventy feet, and ...

    Article : 424 words
  9. PROGRESSIVE TRANSMUTATION.

    The advocate for the progressive transmutation of a species may be fairly pressed with the inquiry, why the essential parts which characterise every individual member of that species have not exhibited any corresponding development. ...

    Article : 493 words
  10. GLASS WATER PIPER.

    At a recent meeting or the Plymouth Town Council, it was determined to lay down glass Water pipes in that town It was stated that the average duration of cast-iron pipes is about ten years. Glass is not liable to corrode nor abrade ...

    Article : 69 words
  11. AUSTRALIAN SILK.

    The Madras Athenaum contains two letters on the subject of Australian silk. The silk produced appears to be nearly equal to the Italian; but grave doubts are expressed as to the prospect of a profitable return for the sums that must ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. SHIPMENTS OF COFFINS.

    The Cincinnati Enquirer tells us of a shipment of forty nests of coffins, five in a nest, just made, from that city, on the steamer Belle of the West, bound for New Orleans. This reminds us of a shock which our collector gave us the other ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. LORD ROSSE A MECHANIC.

    On one occasion, when he was but a youth, he went to an exhibition at the Adelaide Gallery, where some kind of London steam-engine was being exhibited. By some means or other, the exhibitor could not set his engine going; all ...

    Article : 241 words
  14. THE PENDULUM.

    The shape of the globe can be determined from the motion of the pendulum; a statement which will excite no surprise in the minds of some, whilst others may gaze upon its Oscillations and ask, " What connexion can possibly exist ...

    Article : 656 words
  15. ROUGH PLATE GLASS.

    A patent has been obtained for an improved mode of making rough plate glass, the cost of which is considerable diminished by this new method, as the molten glass is transferred directly from the smelting pot to the table, without ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. MY OWN HOME.

    "There is no place like home." Why is the bridal wreath Gemmed love, with tears? Why weep the memories ...

    Article : 117 words
  17. NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE.

    One of the most curious if not stupendous works of modern art on the American Continent is the erection of a footbridge at Niagara Fails, which was opened on the 4th of July last. The following is the composition of the bridge. ...

    Article : 1,169 words
  18. THE PITMAN's HYMN

    "I went down to the bottoms of the mountains: the earth with her bars was about me for ever—yet I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto Thee—into Thine Holy Temple."—Jonah' if., 6, 7. ...

    Article : 249 words
  19. THE RACES OF MAN.

    No race will amalgamate with any other—they die out, or seem slowly to become extinct, like the Copt of antiquity, and the Coptic portion of the modern Jews, perhaps even the whole Hebrew family—or they destroy each other; but ...

    Article : 292 words
  20. Second Day.

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  21. NEW APPLICATION OF INDIAN RUBBER.

    A Boston Paper states that the new track, of the Stonnington Railway is laid on India-rubber, the cars being also mounted on Indian-rubber springs. ...

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  22. PARENTS AND PROGENY.

    Now I perceive that not always as the parents are, so is the progeny. Adam, a good father; Cain, his son, an arch villain; Noah, the father, a saint; Ham, the son, a scamp; Abraham, the father, God-blessed; Ishmael, the son, ...

    Article : 282 words
  23. THE GO A HEAD PRINCIPLE.

    The New York Tribune states that a locomotive saw-mill has been attached to an engine on the Camden and Amboy Railroad, to run between the several depots, for the purpose of sawing wood for the locomotives. ...

    Article : 41 words
  24. THE WIDOWS' AND THE ORPHANS' FRIEND.

    At a public meeting of the Provident Clerks' Mutual Benefit Association, held at Bristol, Dr. Mullinger, the Secretary of the Association, read the following appropriate lines, which were received with loud applause:— ...

    Article : 259 words
  25. GUTTA PERCHA.

    The Boston Chromotype informs us that a gutta percha band has been made in New York, for connecting the machinery at one of the large mills in Lowell, which is 214 feet long and two wide—all in one piece. Its value is about ...

    Article : 48 words
  26. PORTABLE THIEF COLLARS.

    In Stockholm, the watchmen walk in pairs, carrying in their hands a curious instrument for seizing culprits who may endeavour to make their escape, it is so contrived as to shut fast about the neck, being applied below the back ...

    Article : 86 words
  27. THE PARALLELOPIPED STEAM-ENGINE.

    An important improvement bas recently been effected on the steam-engine by John M'Dowall, Esq, of the Walkinshaw Foundry, Johnson—another gem to emblazon the crown of this ingenious engineer. Mr M'Dowall, it is very ...

    Article : 343 words
  28. A ROYAL LESSON ON HUMANITY.

    Queen Caroline, wife of George the Second, being informed that her eldest daughter (afterwards Princess of Orange) was accustomed, at going to rest, to employ one of the ladies of the Court in reading aloud to her until she ...

    Article : 257 words
  29. TRIUMPH OF NATURE OVER ART.

    Whilst travelling on one occasion with the celebrated Robert Stephenson, we were obliged to send a man on foot forty miles. I asked Mr Stephenson what quantify of carbon was necessary to transport a man forty miles by a ...

    Article : 342 words
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