THE GERMAN NATIONAL MONUMENT.--WAR AND PEACE.
A writer in the London Lancet ridicules a
habit of being in great haste and terribly pressed for time which is
common among all classes of commercial men, and argues that in most
cases there is not the least cause for it, and that it is done to convey
a notion of the tremendous volume of business which almost overwhelms
the house. The writer further says that, when developed into a confirmed
habit, it is fertile in provoking nervous maladies.
THE ART ASPECTS OF MODERN DRESS.
ARTISANS' DWELLINGS, HORNSEY.
ENLARGING ON ARGENTIC PAPER AND OPALS.
THE MANUFACTURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC
LENSES.
IMPROVED DEVELOPERS FOR GELATINE PLATES.
THE PREPARATION OF LARD FOR USE IN PHARMACY.
ANTI-CORROSION PAINT.
CARBON IN STEEL.
APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING STARCH FROM POTATOES.
A SIMPLE APPARATUS FOR DESCRIBING ELLIPSES.
THE MANUFACTURE OF CHARCOAL IN KILNS.
The belief that population in the West Indies is stationary is
so far from accurate that, as Sir Anthony Musgrave points out, it
is increasing more rapidly than the population of the United
Kingdom. The statistics of population show an increase of 16 per
cent. on the last decennial period, while the increase in the
United Kingdom in the ten years preceding the last census was under
11 per cent. This increase appears to be general, and is only
slightly influenced by immigration. "The population of the West
Indies," adds Sir A. Musgrave, "is now greater than that of any of
the larger Australian colonies, and three times that of New
Zealand."
HEAT DEVELOPED IN FORGING.
A NOVEL PROPELLER ENGINE.
THE NEW RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOAT, THE POTI.
A NEW STEAMER PROPELLED BY HYDRAULIC REACTION.
A NEW FORM OF FLEXIBLE BAND DYNAMOMETER.
SEE'S GAS STOVE.
The number of persons killed by wild animals and snakes in India
last year was 22,125, against 21,427 in the previous year, and of
cattle, 46,707, against 44,669. Of the human beings destroyed,
2,606 were killed by wild animals, and 19,519 by snakes. Of the
deaths occasioned by the attacks of wild animals, 895 were caused
by tigers, 278 by wolves, 207 by leopards, 356 by jackals, and 202
by alligators; 18,591 wild animals and 322,421 snakes were
destroyed, for which the Government paid rewards amounting to
141,653 rupees.
RECTIFICATION OF ALCOHOL BY ELECTRICITY.
PLASTIC CARBON FOR BATTERIES.
RECENT STUDIES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ALKALOIDS.
ON THE TREATMENT OF CONGESTIVE HEADACHE.
THE USE OF THE MULLEIN PLANT IN THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY
CONSUMPTION.
ACTION OF MINERAL WATERS AND OF HOT WATER UPON THE BILE.
VIVISECTION.
INSANITY FROM ALCOHOL.
PLANTAIN AS A STYPTIC.
DANGER FROM FLIES.
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS.
ON THE MINERALOGICAL LOCALITIES IN AND AROUND NEW YORK
CITY.
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT CHURCH IN JERUSALEM.
DAMMARA AUSTRALIS
HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY TRANSPLANT TREES.
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