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    Professor C. V. Riley, entomologist of the United States of Agriculture, furnishes additional information regarding the use of petroleum for destroying insects, in a paper recently delivered before the American ...

    Article : 446 words
  3. MEASLES.

    A child about to have the imeasles will be heavy, drowsy, and feverish. Its eyes will be more or less inflamed and watery looking, its voice hoarse, and there will be running at the nose; it will cough frequently. ...

    Article : 289 words
  4. BLASTING PAPER.

    A new use for paper has been discovered in Vienna by a chemist, who prepares it so that it blasts rocks. It consists of unsized or ordinary blotting paper, coated with a hot mixture of 17 parts yellow prussiate of potash. ...

    Article : 77 words
  5. BLAZE-PROOF DRESSES.

    The numerous light fabrics manufactured for ladies' dresses should be made blaze-proof. Nothing can be more safe or simple. The most delicate white cambric handkerchief, or fleecy gauze, or the finest lace, may, by ...

    Article : 123 words
  6. COFFEE CULTIVATION.

    It appears that the high rate of wages which prevails on the Isthmus of Panama is attracting labour, and making the production of coffee unprofitable in Costa Rica, Columbia, Venezuela, and even Brazil. Only in ...

    Article : 52 words
  7. SAFETY PAPER.

    A new safety paper for bank checks, etc., has been patented in France by Schmidt and Van Gelderzonen, of Amsterdam. Their slips of the prepared safety pulp are placed on the pulp layers on the press felts or couchers, ...

    Article : 126 words
  8. LABOUR IN FIJI.

    The Fiji planters are experiencing considerable difficulty in obtaining sufficient supplies of labour, the cost of Polynesian labour having increased so greatly within the last three years that it has been found impossible to ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. HOW TO MAKE STRAW ROOFS.

    For twenty years I have been making roofs of temporary shelters with rye-straw. The straw should be cut when fully ripe, kept straight, and thrashed clean by hand with a flail. All the grain must be removed from ...

    Article : 527 words
  10. A NEW SELF-REGISTERING SHIPS' COMPASS.

    Mr. Robert Pickwell, civil engineer, of Hull, has introduced an ingenious invention capable of adaptation to every description of ships' compasses. It is at the same time so simple in construction, and supplies so infallible ...

    Article : 590 words
  11. THRIVING YANKEES.

    Charles Goodnight has the largest cattle ranch in the world at the head of Red River, Texas. He began buying land four years ago, getting 275,000 at 35 cents an acre. The mice has risen to 2 dols. an acre. He is still buying. ...

    Article : 127 words
  12. THE OYSTER.

    An oyster will live to the age of 26 years--that is, in in the sea he will. In the restaurant the chances are against him. Sometimes he lasts a long time in the restaurant--oh, a very long time! But he does not live ...

    Article : 312 words
  13. PATAGONIAN GIANTS.

    A party of [?] scientists have just returned from an expedition to the South Pacific, having proved to their own satisfaction that a race of giants once existed in Patagonia. In wandering over Terra del Fuego they ...

    Article : 43 words
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