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  4. SCIENCE.

    Aluminium and lead will not alloy. [?]ney mix when melted, but separate when cooling. Experiments have shown that the disease afflicting those who work in a compressed atmosphere is induced ...

    Article : 219 words
  5. LARGE STEEL CHIMNEYS.

    The steel chimney of largest diameter in the United States is at the smelting works of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, at Douglas. Ariz. This is 200 feet in height, 25 feet internal diameter, and ...

    Article : 74 words
  6. GREENLAND'S GLORY.

    The largest mass of ice in the world is probably the one which fills up nearly the whole of the interior of Greenland, where it has accumulated since before the dawn of history, it is believed now ...

    Article : 111 words
  7. WHY DO STARS SEEM RAYED?

    An attempt to account for the familiar rayed or starlike appearance of the stars when seen by the naked eye is made by W. Holtz in an article on the "Appearance of Stars." He finds that all stars ...

    Article : 131 words
  8. LIQUID AIR TO SET EXPLOSIVE GOING.

    Liquid air blasting cartridges, as described by M. Jacquier, are made by packing powdered charcoal in a case of stout paper, and covering this with an asbestos wad through which a paper tube passes to ...

    Article : 124 words
  9. ELECTRIC LIGHT v GAS: A STRUGGLE.

    It cannot be disputed successfully, the "Times" points out, that the improvement of the incandescent gas mantle puts electric lighting, from the standpoint of economy at any rate, in a secondary ...

    Article : 130 words
  10. VALUE OF FATTY FOODS.

    A great many people discard all fat from their diet. If there is the least bit of fat with the meat they are very careful to trim it off and eat only the lean. They seem never to think that perhaps this part of the meat ...

    Article : 176 words
  11. THE SUN NOT BURNED OUT.

    It has been stated by such authorities as Kelvin, Newcomb, and Ball that the future of the sun's activity will be comparatively short—not more than 10,000,000 years—and some have even suggested that ...

    Article : 190 words
  12. HOW TO TREAT OLD AGE.

    From the failure of memory for recent events while things belonging to the remote past are remembered, which is one of the characters of age, Sir Samuel Wilks draws, according to the "British Medical Journal," a ...

    Article : 210 words
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