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A SURVEY OF MECHANICAL brokeshire, and the Egyptians rais ed the Great Pyramid are picture- DISCOVERIES.

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Idly Langtry.

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of his activities. Other animals have shown themselves capable on and the men, "after abortive accasion of realising mechanical efforts to look like Greek Gods, ideas. I have myself seen," wrote Charles Darwin in "The Descent of Mun," "a young orang put a stick in a crevice, slip his hand to the other end, and use it in the proper manner as a lever." And the orang which escaped from the Zoo for a time some years ago ac tually constructed a file of twisted wire and

cut through a cage-bar with it! Apes as well as man have on their retinas an' area of exact vision (the macula lutea) which is of the utmost importance in esti- Whistler had a formula for engag-Bamshul and Wuobow mating shape and judging distance.ing cooks. “I always ask at once," But even the man-like apes have be said, "Do you drink 1.7 and it ̧ nover invented a tool for turning she says "No, I bow politely and this gift to account.

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