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  4. SCIENCE,

    The erasing machine is designed to lighten the labours of the draughtsman. A circular ink eraser is fastened by a screw in the place of the usual drill of a dental engine, and, ...

    Article : 111 words
  5. GREAT SLEEPERS.

    The tortoise is a great sleeper. One was a domestic pet in an English house, and when his time for hibernating came he selected a corner of the dim coal cellar for his winter ...

    Article : 110 words
  6. MYSTERIOUS STRENGTH OF ROOTS.

    In some interesting remarks Dr. E. B. Copeland refers to the cocoanut tree and its water relations. Even on large trees, it seems, the roots are only about a third of an inch in ...

    Article : 159 words
  7. GROWTH OF FINGER-NAILS.

    The growth of the average finger-nail Is computed to be one-thirty-second of an inch a week, or a little more than an inch and a half a year. The finger-nails are said to grow ...

    Article : 170 words
  8. UNEXPLORED SPACE ABOVE.

    Above us, states Professor Trowbridge, there extends a vast unexplored space far more interesting, from a scientific point of view, than the icy regions around the North Pole. ...

    Article : 186 words
  9. REV. J. H. JOWETT ON "NEW FACES."

    At the Christmas morning service in Carr'slane Church, Mr. Jowett began his sermon with an allusion to the weather that instantly secured a responsive interest in his ...

    Article : 389 words
  10. EXTRAORDINARY NEW MATERIAL PRODUCED.

    Another new material bas been evolved from the electric furnace, and has received the name of "alundum" from its discoverers. The substance, though not of first ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. NEW MEASURING DEVICE: NEAREST TO PERPETUAL, MOTION.

    About 80 years ago Dr. Robert Brown discovered that microscopic particles—such as powdered indigo, carmine, gamboge, etc.—keep in rapid movement when suspended in ...

    Article : 161 words
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