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results to the astronomical soviotias,
movonent of the air at Greenwich Observatory for the year ouding April 30, 1901, was 298- miles-17 miles abore the average for the The greatest recorded preceding 37 years. daily movement was 973 miles on Jamury 27; the least was 72 miles on December 23. The greatest wind pressure of 34.4 pounds per square foot and the greatest hour velocity of 54 miles were both recorded on January 27.
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Nine hundred men manned her, and prominent among them was Corporal Eccles, one of the
hoya of the old brigado."
Corporal Eccles, who spins this yarn to me, is now haloand hearty at 65, and he has served Her Majesty 21. years as a Royal Marine -" soldier und sailor too."
Much has been said 'about a poisonous stkaloid in air from the lungs. After a careful investigation, Herr E. Formanek dude that no poisonous substance exists in the breath of healthy man or arimal, but that the expired air may contain treas of ammonia in case of dental caries or pulmonary complaints. It is
Twould take me days to tell you all my ex- this ammonia--not a special alkaloid of terrify.periences during the 21 years I spent on the old three-deckers, HLM.S. Dragon, Camellian.. ing virulence-that has been collected from and Rodney said the hiff old Corporal, shift expired air.
ing his quid, "but that storm off the Cape in the 'Rodney' was the worst bit' o' weather I oror experienced.
At the brown-coal mines of Prussia, gas from the dry distillation of lignite has been tested for several years for small gas engines; and in one locality three motors of 125 horse. power each are now in use for generating electric current for lighting and power trans- mission. The cost is estimated to be only about one-half of that of operating steam engine from boilers fired byʻlignite,
An alloy of aluminium and antimony is re ported by a German chemist to have a fasing point more than 400 deg. C. above that of either constituent, and a volume about 20 por cent reater than that of the two metals combiusð.
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nitrogen, phospheric acid, and potash-a- mixture was used consisting, for each acre of land, of 1 ewt of nitrate of sola and cwt. of sulphate of ammonia for the nitrogen, 7 cwt. of superphosphate for phosphoric acid, and 4 uwt, of kainit for polash. Swodes were grown ou six different farms, after applications of this complete-manure and of the mix ture minus each essential ingredient in turn. Comparing the yields with that from the completa manure, the greatest loss resulted from onitting nitrogen on two farms, phosphoric acid on two, and potash ou two. Omission of phosphoric acid in one case reduced the crop from 18 tons to I cwt., auff in another from 224 tons to 33 tous. In another place the omission of superphosphate caused a loss of less than two tons of roots, whereas the
Nine hundred men on board her, and 150
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that was caused by a table hurled against me "I carry a wound on my thigh to this day
when scrambling inte my hammock. Aye, m lad, Bailof-Life is full of adventures and tests of endurance. During the whole 21 years of active service I never had a day's "îllness. That's a pretty good record? transferred to H.M.S. Pembroke. She had When my term was nearly completed, I was
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*** Mid-winter it was, and the weather cold and raw.
Pacing abou- 'tween decks," vaidl the Corporal, exposed to the worst of weathers, I caught a severe cold, and I couldn't shake it off. My record was broken.
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Then indigestion sat in. After eating, my stomach became swollen with wind, making a disagreeable rumbling noise and causing great pain. Setend doctors tried to help me, but their inedicine didn't bit the mark. I got worse and worse.
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"Like the sharp stab of a cowardly knife, did a long breath pain me. I got alarmed and nervous, for things were looking ugly,
said the gallant Corporal, "I yet remember that Though this day is the 24th of April, 1900," aching pain that caught me in the back, on the rightside, and that my bowels were very costive. Altogether, I was in a bad way. My wife; when the doctors had failed to holy me--a sheer hulk-insisted on giving a Mother Seil's Syrup, to pull me round.
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A Garman alworbent for collecting dust in sweeping is made by mixing 12 parts by waight of mineral sperm oil with 88 parts of Roman or Portland cement, a few drops of mirbane oil being added. The greasy, sandy mass retains the dust of the surface being cleaned praventing the rising of the particles, and it may be used repeatedly.
The seismograph, or earthquake-recorder, made to serve as a sensitive barometer at the meteorological observatory of Vistorja, B.C.
ved his life. Now he is getting younger every day."
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now sixty five, still young and foll of life and energy-all due, mark you Sir, to Seigel's Syrup. If you think others will try its powers, you may publish this.”
Bach was the Corporal's stirring narrative, and its trath is vonched for by Mr. G. W. Philips, of the Chatham High Street, antaber 312, who writes: “I can verify every word that Mr. Eccles has said. Mother Seigel's Byrup has made a new man of him. No man acquainted with Mr. Lolas's case could doubt the offimoy of Mother Seigel's
ing MARCH dedicated to Hongkong Volunteers Since 1898 a Milne seismograph has had its the stomach and von for all disorders of
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stmospheric pressure recorded by an aerograph, you who are sailing in stormy waters because and it has been found that the horizontal there is trouble within you-mutiny among pendulum tends to move eastward when the your digestive organs, in fact-ost follow in barometrie pressure is high over the Facile the steps of the gallant Corporal, and can
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