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INDEX TO VOLUME VI. 
Acid Stains 
Alloy, Soft 
Ancient Plants and Flowers. 
Anemon«s, Sea 
Ants, Red 
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... 31 
--• 352 
--- 235 
.48, 105 
--- 63 
Applique 185 
Artat Home 270 
Astronomy, 26, 58, 91, 125, 157, 189, 220, 253, 285, 349, 377 
Athletic Notes 314, 345 
Attacus Cecropia 330 
Balloon, Elliptical 
Barometer 
Baseball Bats, Manufacture of. 
Bats...... 
Battery, A Cheap 
Beads, Glass , 
Bearing Reins and Blinkers 
Beauty 249, 280, 
Bedroom *' Tidy " 
Bees; are they Carnivorous ? 
Bees on Boise River 
Bellows, Modern use of 
Bichromates for Positives 
Birds, Our 
Birds, Small, Migration of 
Bismuth in Soft Solders 
Black Bass 
Blackboards 
Black Dye for Wood 
Blood Under the Microscope 
Blue Process , 
Boat Building, Amateur. . . 
■147, 
'97. 232, 
BooTi. Table. 
Builders' Guide. F. T. Hodgson 
Hints on Estimating 
The Metal Turner's Handbook. Paul N. Hasbruck. . . 
The Builder and Woodworker 
Poultry Diseases 
Scientific Proceedings of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute . 
Empire City Philatelist 
The Engineers' Slide Rule and Its Applications 
The American Boy's Handy Book 
The Metal Worker's Pattern Book 
A Dictionary of Useful Animals and their Products 
Practical Carpentry 
Hand Saws 
Workshop Receipts 
Old Italian Embroidery. 
American Newspaper Annual 
Plaster and Plastering ; Mortars and Cements 
Recollections of a Drummer Boy 
Three /assar Girls in England 
The English Bodley Family 
The American Girl's Home-Book of Work and Play 
Zig-zag Journeys in Northern Lands 
V>oov Yard Folks and a Winter Garden 
Magna Charta Stories ^ 
A Year of Sunshine 
Chattterbox for 1883 r - - 
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352 
114 
255 
62 
225 
329 
310 
203 
63 
316 
215 
351 
116 
35 
64 
316 
128 
266 
327 
284 
284 
285 
349 
349 
349 
375 
375 
375 
375 
375 
376 
376 
376 
376 
376 
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Books for Boys 371 
Botany 236 
Boy, A New 181 
Boy, The Mechanical 60 
Bows, Mud 107 
Brass, "Beating" 310 
Brass, To Clean 288 
Brass Polishing 224 
Brass Work, Amateur 12 
Brass Work, Frosting 63 
Breguet 26S 
Bronzes, Hardness of Ancient 286 
Bronzing Liquid 31 
Camping Out. .- - 337 
Cannon Balls, Speed of : 35 
Canoes and Canoeing 230 
Canoe, The Modern , 338 
Canoes, Cheap and Swift 102 
Canaries; How to Keep and Breed Them, 240, 261, 304, 325, 
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Card Basket 17 
Cards, Curious Picture 55, 88 
Carp, German ■67 
Carving, Amateur 239 
Casting in Plaster-of-Paris 84, 118, 143, 165 
Catamaran 256 
Ceilings, Distempering 96 
Cement for Wood and Stone 192 
Chair-Arm, Portable 303 
Chair Back Tidy 309 
Check Rein 329 
Chinese Foot-Rule 304 
Christmas Decorations 14 
Christmas Greens Botany 361 
Christmas Trees 372 
Clock, Curious 351 
Clock, Self-Winding 30 
Coleoptera 339 
Collecting Marine Animals 212 
Coloring Engravings 15a 
Concrete 352 
Cotton-Seed Oil 225 
Courage 2*5 
Crocodile's Jaw, Power of. 29 
Current Notes 30, 127 
Cushion, A N ce 152 
Cutile Fish... 175 
Decalcomanie 149 
Decoration of Door Panels. 54 
Departure, Our New,. 24 
Designs, Metallic, on Gla;ss 128 
Dime Literature 373 
Distempering Ceilings 96 
Divining Rod 97 
Dogs, Firemen's 209, 218, 241 
Dog, Spartan 182 
Doors, Screen 332 
Dore, Death of 191 
Drawings, Copying. , 31 
