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mission consider the Instrument will be particularly useful at 

 night, as the mere flash of a gun will be suflBcient to give the 

 range of the vessel firing it. Even more satisfactory experiments 

 were made on board "II Terribile," of the Italian navy at Spezzia 

 last month, when it was found that, with the ship moving, the 

 distance of a moving target was ascertained with an error of only 

 1.3 per cent per 1,000 metres range. 



— A series of experiments in treating corn with various sub- 

 stances to prevent its being taken by the striped squirrels was 

 carried on at the Iowa Experiment Station last spring. The corn 

 was treated in the following manner: Smoked with meat in an 

 ordinary smoke-house until the kernels were black; smoked in a 

 barrel with tobacco dust; smoked over night in strong decoctions 

 of tobacco and of quassia chips; soaked in a dilute carbolic-acid 

 mixture, in strong alum water, in salt water, and kerosene. The 

 squirrels would take the corn treated in any of these ways, though 

 the carbolic-acid treatment and the smoking with tobacco made 



the com distasteful, and when in the vicinity of other grain would 

 be left till the last. The best remedy seems to be to harrow the 

 ground immediately after planting to cover the planter tracks, 

 and then to scatter corn about the border of the fields and in the 

 vicinity of the squirrel holes as soon as the com begins to come 

 up. 



— "Schliemann was thirty-four years old," says the Chicago 

 Tribune, " before be knew a word of Greek, and it was not until 

 he was forty-one that he began the study of archaeology, in which 

 he was destined to achieve so much distinction. By the way, 

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 between the late Dr. Schliemann and the Greek girl whom he 

 made his second wife, to the effect that she should improve her 

 knowledge of Homer by learning and reciting fifty lines of the 

 Iliad nightly. Schliemann, when telling the story to his friends, 

 always said that neither tears nor entreaties ever induced him to 

 let her off a single line." 



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