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work when the veneer is got in its place. I At the same time the former editor will 
The cauls must previously be soap"-" ' 
prevent them sticking to the veneer. 
The cauls must previously be soaped, to | i^se none of his interest or influence ; the 
whole is then left to dry together." The ! ^^'il^ ^^il^ be what it always 
hammer is quite sufficient, however, in 
small cabinet shops, and for amateurs, 
who will not require to cover surfaces of 
any great extent. Veneers 5 feet long and 
18 inches wide can be laid with the 
hammer, without assistance, and without 
leaving a blister. Cauls, however, are 
very necessary if a double-curved surface 
has to be veneered, or a concave surface; 
they need not be used for a simple convex 
surface. By well wetting one side of the 
veneer, it will curl up, and can be easily 
laid on such a surface ; but it will be well 
to bind the M'hole round with some soft 
has been, the representative of the Ama- 
teur Scientist and Mechanic. But with 
relief from the burden of minute detail 
comes greater opportunity to accom- 
plish more important things, and main- 
tain more thoroughly the more important 
departments. 
With the January number, Mr. Fred. T. 
Hodgson, whose name is familiar to 
every reader of the Young Scientist, will 
join us in our editorial work. If you de- 
string, to assist in keeping it down Avhile , ^i^^ see the results, just send on your 
drying. 
Our New Departure. 
IN response to a very large number of 
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1883, and of course the price will at the 
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BOOK NOTICES. 
How to be Weather-Wise. A New View of 
Our Weather Bysteiii. With Illustrations. By 
Isaac P. Noyes. 12mo., pp. 51, price 25 cents. 
Fowler & Wells, Publishers, 753 Broadway, New 
York. 
The methods and operations of our weather 
bureau form one of the most wonderful results 
of modern science. If we take the state of 
practical meteorology at the time thatKsemitz 
wrote his Avork— barely half a century ago— and 
compare it with the results at present within the 
reach of scientific men, we shall obtain one of the. 
most striking illustrations of the interdepen- 
dence of the arts and sciences. No one of them 
grows without lifting all the others up with it.. 
Our modern weather bureau is the outgrowth, 
not only of an improved science of meteorology 
but of our extended system of telegraphy. With- 
out the latter the former would be impossible. 
The work before us gives a very fair view of the 
working of this system, but we think the title is 
rather misleading. Any one who expects to 
learn from its pages how to forecast the weather • 
will, we think, be disappointed. At the same 
time no one can read it carefully without gteau- 
ing much useful and interesting information. 
Keely Outdone. 
The foUowingr, which we clip from an ex- 
chan^e, beats Keely out of sis:ht : " A Rochester 
g-entieman proposes to furnish power to run the 
whole world, so to speak, but more particularly 
the ocean steamers and ships of all kinds, rail- 
road trains, factories, etc. Like the other in- 
ventors, he proposes to get his power very 
cheap— in fact, for nothing. His idea is to con- 
struct a turbine wheel nearly one mile in dia- 
meter, with all the modern improvements. This 
wheel he intt^nds to have placed in the great 
