NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1887.
Reading edition
Contents.
(Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.)
Architecture, naval, during last half century 127
Armament, British, at Victoria* 131
Army, peace, of the United States 129
Aurora borealis* 135
Beam caloric engine* 127
Bench and ironing board, combined* 131
Birds, incendiary 133
Birds, phosphorescent 133
Birds, winter, our* 133
Blind stop, improved* 131
Books and publications, new 138
Boots or shoes, crimping, device for* 131
Brush and comb cleaner* 132
Business and personal 138
Charcoal as fossil 133
Chevreul's black* 137
Cocaine habit, the 128
Correspondence 133
Craze, Yankee, the latest 136
Defense of New York within thirty days' time 132
Dredger, marine, improved* 134
Earthquake, Charleston 133
Electroplating with platinum 132
Emery wheels for gumming saws* 130
Engine, caloric, improved* 127
Eruption in the Tonga group 133
Exhibition, American, London 137
Fish, meat, etc., canned 133
Guns, steel, are they superior? 128
Hats, ladies', protector for* 132
Hydraulic dredging at Washington 134
Injector, Penberthy* 132
Inventions, agricultural 138
Inventions, engineering 138
Inventions, index of 139
Inventions, miscellaneous 138
Life insurance company, a solid 129
Locomotive, three-cylinder 127
Measuring rack, wood, adjustable* 131
Medicine, preventive 129
Nervous patient, treatment, length of 136
Northern lights, the* 135
Notes and queries 138
Patent law, amendment of the, new 128
Patent, steel wire brush 136
Petroleum in Egypt 137
Plasterer's hawk* 131
Pyrofuxin—a new tanning substance from coal 128
Saw gummer, emery vulcanite* 130
Shark, frilled, the* 130
Snails, strength of 137
Sodium, producing, new method of, Castner's 129
Steel rail capacity of the United States 132
Stump puller, improved* 132
Sugar process, new 134
Sun, duration of 134
TThermoscopic balance* 134
Torpedo boat armed with pneumatic dynamite guns* 137
Torpedo, effect of, on an ironclad* 136
Torpedo experiments at Portsmouth* 136