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  2. SCIENTIFIC.

    Comparatively early in the history of steamboats and tramcars the idea of driving them by electricity was entertained. But hitherto the success of experiments made has not been encouraging. Still the ...

    Article : 310 words
  3. LITERATURE

    Tales of shipwreck have always a peculiar fascination for readers of English blood. The adventure of the nation has lain chiefly in the cea. The sea has afforded much history as much protection, has been ...

    Article : 2,397 words
  4. Imagination and Disease.

    It is now an old story about the number of persons killed by cholera and the number killed by fear at Cairo many years ago. But every now and again cases of unique interest occur showing ...

    Article : 402 words
  5. Heart Beats.

    Dr. N. B. Richardson, of London, says:—"I was recently able to convey a considerable amount of conviction to an intelligent scholar by a simple experiment. The scholar was singing the praises of the ...

    Article : 353 words
  6. Scientific Gleanings.

    The lactometer has been declared useless by an English authority. The total Yield of the potato crop of the United States the past season is about 190,000,000 bushels. ...

    Article : 618 words
  7. Hydraulic Machinery.

    The importance of this question should press it on public attention here just now. The water supply of colo[?]ial towns might well he made with a view to utilising it for hydraulic purposes. The old and cruel ...

    Article : 302 words
  8. Literary Notes.

    Whittier says be often wrote his poetry in the presence of his mother and sister, their talk never disconcerting him. A National Association of Journalists, for the protection, of the interests of members of the profession, is about to be ...

    Article : 240 words
  9. Storm Tracks

    Will the laws which govern storms ever be known to man? That they are governed by laws no one can deny. They are effects proceeding from adequate causes, and the link between cause and effect in this ...

    Article : 552 words
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