INDEX TO VOLUME XXII, 



Articles marked with (*) are illustrated. 



I'AGE I 



A Mucli-neeiled Invention 54 



AccitJent, A Singular 102 



Ailments, Minor 185 



AirSbip, Appropriations for 121 



Alcohol and Crime 128 



Alcohol, The Purification of Recovered 6 



Alcohol with Water, Compound of 52 



Alloy, Fusible 164 



Alloys, Interesting Characteristics of 57 



Allspice 72 



Altars, Prehistoric 68 



Amalgam, Liquid 69 



American Indian Jugglery 99 



American Patent Medicines in Germany 15 



American Railroads, Fast Time on 163 i 



Ammonia, Use of, in Acute Alcoholism 46 , 



Ansemia dependent on Presence of Intestinal Tapeworm ... 14 



AnsDsthetic, A New Local 48 



AnsBslhetic Revelation, The 127 



Analysis, New Methods in 69 



Aniline Industry in Germany, The 150 



Animals, Tiie Sense of 27 



Animals, Ultimate Causes of Actions in 181 



Antimony, The Atomic Weight of 116 



Cinder in the Kyc, How to Treat 31 



Citric Acid, The Stolen Secret of Making 134 



Cleaning Brass 120 



Cleveland Meeting of the American Association, The 153 



Climatology and Health-Resorts 185 



Coal, A Bit of 20 



Cobalt 132 



Cocaine, The Antagonisms of 30 



Coca Plant, The 77 



Colie, Varieties of 20 



Convulsion from Inguinal Hernia 32 



Corn and Water 88 



Cotton-seed Oil In Olive Oil, Detection of 102 



Cramp In the Leg, How to Treat 96 



Crematories 80 



Crematory, A Garbage 15 



Crocodile, A Woolly 116 



Crown Prince of Prussia, The 32 



Crystallization 105 



Crystals, Curious Formation of 134 



Current Meter, An Electrical 133 



Funnels, A New Support for . . 

 Furniture Polish 



1*AGE 



..... 134 

 120 



Antiseptic Agents, The Chemical Incompatibility of , 



Antiseptic Surgery 125 



Antiseptic Surgery, Illustrations of 141 



A nti- Vaccination Theorists 128 



Apothecary, An Automatic 144 



Application of Static Electricity, An 86 



Application of the Electrolysis of Copper to the Measure- 

 ment of Electric Currents 148 



Are Americans a Nervous People? 13 



Art, The Healing 45 



Asbestos for Filtration 70 



Astronomical Phenomena (Monthly) 



11,28, 43, 59, 75, 91, 107, 124, 139, 156, 169, 184 



Atomic Weight of Oxygen, The 105 



Atomic Weight of Oxygen, Redetermination of 57 



A utographoraeter, T'he 6 



Bacon- Shakespeare Controversy, Science in the 89 



Bacon-Shakespeare Lunacy, The 26 



Bacteriology, Usefulness of 15 



Ballast, Electrical 6 



Barnyard Waste 152 



Battery, A Gelatine 37 



Bee-Hive, Chemistry of the 87 



Beer 24 



Bell Telephone Patent, Validity of 73 



Berlin Letter 42, 74, 106 



Bird-Catcher, The Snow as a 74 



Bird's-Nest, A Steel ^ 20 



Birds, The Flight of 38 



Bismuth, Poisoning by 172 



Bismuth Test I34 



* Blossoms, A Device for Measuring 39 



Bohemian Oats 57 



Boiler-Covering, A New 70 



Bone-Cutling by Electricity 158 



Botany a.s a Recreation 3, 17, 35, 51 



* Bowlder, An Immense 138 



Bowlder Rocks 169 



Brass, Lubricant for ; g 



Brass Objects, Black Coating for 54 



Bread-Making, The Chemistry of 179 



Breath, Wash to Perfume the 48 



Bright's Disease, Some Facts concerning 94, 109 



British Association at Bath, The 182 



British Medical Association 172 



Brown-Sequard, Experiments of 31 



Bucquoy on Duodenal Ulcer 31 



Building a Locomotive 150 



Bumping of Fluids during Distillation, To Prevent 23 



Burettes, Cleaning 23 



Butter-Making, Danish " 56 



Buttermilk as a Medicine 95 



Cabling Feat, A 22 



Cakes, Some Immense I80 



Canned Goods I03 



Canned Goods, How to Use ...W 8 



Cannon-l)aU Cure, The 64 



Caramel Fruit \ iqq 



Carbonic- Acid Gas Industry in Germany W. 178 



Carbon Filaments, Testing chemically 148 



Carcinoma 3] 



Catarrh, The .'."!!.'.*.,"] 61 



Celery, A Great Place for !!.!!!![ 40 



Celery, Cooked \\\\ 160 



Celery, How to Blanch no 



Celluloid ;;;;;; 22 



Cement, A Flexible '.!!!!! 164 



Cement, Salt Water for '..'.'.','. 38 



Cement, Useful !!!!!! 23 



Chamois Skin, How to Cleanse 120 



Change of Air, The Stimulus of the -. ". m 



Chemical Apparatus, Simple and Cheap '.\ 21 



Chemical Equivalents, A Simple Method of Illustrating .... 37 



Chemical Notes 54 



Chemical Substance Similar to Glucose ..\W. 41 



Chemical World, A Fury of the \ 132 



Chemistry 132 



Chemistry of a Match !!!*.!."'.!!!!!! 135 i 



Chemistry, The Future of .>, .i!,'! 121 I 



Cherry Stain ^ '.......; ....,,■.< I I18 ! 



Children, The Feeding of !....!! 127 ' 



Chloride of Methylene in Cauterization !!...!!! 46 ' 



Chloroform as a Hsemostatic ,..., 46 I 



Chocolate Cakes Igg ' 



Chocolate, Parisian Egg !.'.'!!!,*!!!!!! 24 1 



Dairy, The Chemistry of the 71 



* Dandelion, Tlie Common 65 



Darwin, Agnostic Belief of 



Dead Finish, Simple 



Death Penalty by Electricity, The Infliction of the . 



* Debray, J. H 



Defoliation of Trees, The Rapid 



Delta Metal 



Dentifrices, Select Formulae for 



* Dentistry, Successful Modern 



Dew and Frost 



Dewdrop, The History and Mystery of a 



Diagnosis, A False 172 



Diamond, A North-Carolina 20 



Diamond, An Unpolishable 116 



Diffraction of Sound, The 68 



Discoveries at Pompeii 36 



Discovery of Hydrogen T 52 



Diseases of the Skin 14 



* Distance to the Moon, To Ascertain the 139 



Distillery-Fed Cattle 120 



Do Birds build by Instinct or Reason ? 98 



Do Worms fall during Showers? 12, 29, 35 



Doctor's Life, The Amenities of the 156 



Dr. Moreli Mackenzie and German Physicians 181 



Doctrine of Evolution, The Acceptance of .... 167 



Dram and Ounce, The Resemblance between 73 



Driftwood Fires' 89 



Drug-Stores in Germany _ 96 



Dynamite " 68 



Dynamite for Building 86 



Dysentery 32 



Ear, Injury to the Auricle 46 



Ears, Care of the , m 



Earthquake in Arizona 89 



Eclipse Expedition to Russia l 



* Edelweiss, Tlie 135 



Edison's Phonograph, Improvement on 9 



Eight-hour Day, An 83 



Electric Heat Indicators 175 



Electric Light for Farmers 24 



Electric Lighting, Windmills for 149 



Electric Motor as a Substitute for Steam-Engines 121 



Electric Sunstroke 54 



Eleclricity, Death by 121 



Electricity, Levying Duty on 38 



Electricity, Speed of 148 



Electricity and Wind 88 



Emission of Ammonia by Vegetable Mould 24 



English Fa*t Train Record, The 178 



English Sparrow, Ingenuity of 35 



Engravings, To Copy 154 



Erectitude, The Law of 19 



Erysipelas, Cure for 15 



Ether, Explosion of 38 



Etheric Force. .......; 137 



* Experiment, A Curious 137 



Experimenting, Care in 81 



Explosive, Modern .. 37 



Eye, Photographs of the 144 



Farm , A Pheasant 24 



Felon, How to Abort a 64 



Fermentation 133 



Ferns [ . . 52 



Filling Perfume Jars 120 



Filter, A Quick 134 



Filtration with Filters of Metallic Felt 164 



Filtration, Rapid 173 



*Fire Drawings 113 



Fixed Standard of Length 41 



Fixing Indian Ink 70 



Flavors, Artificial 103 



Flower, The Largest 120 



Flowers by Mail, How to Send 104 



Flowers for Beginners 72 



Flowers, Preservation of 72 



Foliage, Handsome 136 



Food, The Preservation of 3 



Forests and Rainfall |, 52 



Fox, Cunning of the 35 



Fracture of Index Finger, Treatment of 32 



Fraudulent Advertising ." 105 



French Academy of Sciences, The 67 



Frogs : Where did they Come from ? 60 



Frothing in Distillation, Remedy for 38 



Fruit-Canning in California 8 



Fruits, The Acid of s 



Gall-Stones, Use of Bicarbonate of Soda for -14 



Galvanized Iron for Pipes ^^o 



Gardens, Floating ^ 



Gas, A New *" 



Gas Caverns 



Gas-Making 



Gas-Metcr in England, A Patent 



Gas, Sewer 



Gases, Desiccation of 



Germany, Irregular Practice in ...'..'.'.".*.'.*.'.'.*' ^15 



Glasgow Exhibition, A Few Hours in the 190 



Glass-Making .....'.\ \f^ 



Glass and Porcelain Painting A 



Gleanings 8, 24, 40. 88.* m\ 120,*i52, 180 



tiluf, How to Use 



Glycerine as an Infusoricide 

 Glycerine, Internal Use of . . 



4 

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 101 

 137 

 39 

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.. « 

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 32,64 



Glycerine Reaction, A i™ 



Golf-Ball's Flight, The ^ 



Government Meddlesomeness »• 



Government Postal Telegraphs, The Question of .' ! ! q 



Gramophone, The 



Grand Magnet at Wi llett's Point, The. ...!.!!!.." i !" i .' 



Gray, Professor Asa 



Green Food in Winter !!.!!..!!..!!! 



Greenhouse Htrawberrios '.'.'.'.'.*.*.!!!! 



Greeks, The Ancient .'.''.*.'.'.' 



Gruenwald on Spectra of Hydrogen, Oxygen,' and Aqueous 



Vapor ^ 



Gun-Cotton, Kxplosion of *"i.'.".*..*.*!.*.*.*.*. " * 



Hammers, Steam 



Headache, Sick .'..'.".'.*.'.'.*.*.'** 



Heliotrope Flowers in Winter !!!!!!!!!!.'! 



Hemenway Exploring Expedition ..'. 



Highest Chimney in the United States, The its 



High Tide in Boston Harbor ji? 



Honey from Apple-Blossoms ', jaI 



Honey Production in California 90 



Hops '"' 



Horses' Age, How to Te 



Horse Sense 



Horse Sense, Do Horsen have .\ a 44 



Horticultural Hints ^n 'l^ 



Horticulture, Ancient .''.'.'.'.'."" 166 



80 



105 

 116 



41 

 120 

 104 



68 



41 

 121 



102 

 63 

 136 



133 



ISO 

 67 



. Ancient 



Hospital, A r.arge. . . 



Hospital Telephone ." -.ro 



Hot Journal, To Cnol a '..'.'.'.'.'. 179 



House Fly, Parasite of the 



Household Hints 



Housekeepers, Scientific Facts for 



House Poison 



How a Mound was Built 



How Birds Learn to Sing . 

 How Celluloid is Made 



178 

 .... 12 

 . 38, 120 

 .... 39 

 .... 46 

 .... 162 

 108, 140 



How to Keep a Koom Coo\ ... .....'.'.'.'.'..'. in^ 



How the Chinese Drill Wells jfj 



Human Blood. The Diagnosis of '. jij 



♦Human Foot-Print, A Fossil '.' ,23 



Hydraulic Cement, A Subslllute for 70 



Hydrocarbons with Rock-Salt in Nature .'.'.'. 140 



Hydrogen Gas, A New Source of 13! 



Hydrophobia, Excision for o. 



Hypnotic, A New ■■............, \\i 



Ice, Explosive 30 



Iced Tomatoes !.!!!."!!!.' iio 



Imat^inntion, Medicine for the 70 



Indian, The, and Physical Pain .......'. is 



Indicator, A Current !!.*.*"!'"* as 



Industrial Memoranda 6, 22,' Ssi'seVioi" liiO.'iei 178 



Industry, A New ........ 102 



Influence of Light upon Electrical Discharges.'.'. lis 



Insect Stings jjX 



Intestinal Obstruction !!!!.'.'!.'.!!!!!'.']" 37 



Iodide of Mercury in Tanning 179 



Iodide of Starch T .'.'.■.'.'.■.'■"."■■ 162 



Iodine, Tincture, to Arrest Vomiting !..!!!'!!'" 32 



Iron Cement ijg 



Iron Naturally Reduced ..!!.!!!.!!!!!!!' 36 



Iron, Passive State of '. ""[ 9 



Iron Rust, To Remove .........". g 



Iron-Smelting Process, A New !!!!!!!!!.'.'!.'! 38 



Iron, The Action of Nitrogen on '. 33 



Irrigation for Family Gardens, Cheap ...'.'.'.' 40 



Jaraes Robinson Nichols 25 



"Japanese Fort, An Ancient !!.!.'!.'.' .'.'!i 57 



Japanese Industries !..'.'.!. $ 



Keloid, Treatment of j^ 



Kent's Cavern : its Wonderful Story of Piehlstorlo Man'l'u, 130 



Kerkook Petroleum Springs j4q 



Kerosene as a Fuel, The Use of .'.'!].'.'.'.'" 85 



Kirchoif, Professor Gus tav Robert ..!!.!! " 



Knife for Post-Mortem Examinations '. 



Knowledge, 'I'he Limitations of 



Kuhnia as a Medicine 



32 



49 



142 



Labels and Acid 23 



Laboratory Notes ,■;...' ■23,' zi'iii, 178 



Laburnum Seeds, Poisoning by 15 



Lamps, Care of !.*!!!.' 56 



Larynx, Extirpation of ..!!.!.!!!!!! 31 



Laundry Suggestions ] , . 104 



Lead- Poisoning from Earthenware !!.!!!!! 181 



Leaden I'ipes First Used \ 62 



