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INDEX. 
PAGE 
Parallel Pieces and Parallel Strips. By Joshua Rose, 
ME 34 
Paste Eels 50 
Paste for Mounting Photographs 39 
Paste, Preservation of With Salicylic Acid 112 
Phosphorescent Powders 28 
Photographs, Paste for Mounting 39 
Pictures, Transfernng to Glass 28 
Pine Wood, Painting, Graining, and Varnishing 40 
Plants, How They Breathe 48 
Plants, Training 69 
Plaster Casts of the Face 7 [ 
Plaster-of-Paris 27 
Plaster-of-Paris, To Harden 11 1 
Polishing and Finisning Metals 39 
Pollen as Microscopic Objects 71 
Pond Hunting 22 
Pond-Dwellers, One of Our 97 
Ponds, Examining the Bottoms of 26 
Prints, Transferring, to Wood 4 
Rat Pie 39 
Rivers, Examining the Bottoms of 27 
Rusting, To Prevent 24 
Science in Common-Place Things 96, 121, 128 
Screws, How to Loosen 27 
Scroll-Saw, A Foot-Power, and How to Make It 137 
Scroll-Sawyers, JJesigns for 12 
Scroll-Sawing. By F. T. Hodgson 5) 17 
Shadow Plays 9 
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Shellac, To Pulverize 75 
Silk, How to Distinguish It Under the Microscope 11 
Silver Solder 16 
Skin, Preserving 35, 47, 55 
Snapper's Home. By A. W. Roberts 77 
Spider, How the. Lifted the Mouse 53 
Sponge Spicules 147 
Steel, Annealing, in Boiling Water 50. 
Steel, Hardened, Straightening 51 
Steel, To Polish 16 
Syphon 121 
Telephone, A Cheap 26 
Telescopes, Home-Made. . . i, 18, 32, 46, 56, 66, 81, 94, 
106, 119, 129. 
Thames on Fire, He'll Never Set the no 
Tool Chest Ill 
Triangular Old Files, What They Can be Used for 63 
Trout, When They May be Caught 51: 
Turning, Ornamental 109, 127 
Waterproofing With Paraffine 134 
Welding Cast Steel Cold 139 
Wells, Looking Into, by Means of a Mirror. 6 
Whale, A Breakfast for a. By A. W. Roberts loi, 116 
Wood, Ornamenting 72 
Wood, Transferring Prints and Leaf-Forms to 4 
WorkandLuck 23 
Zinc, Black Coating for iiz 
Zincography for Amateurs 61 
