Tides and Their Causes

The Great Hoosac Tunnel

Horse-hair Snakes--Wonderful Transformation

Man Proposes, but God Disposes

Extraordinary Effects of an Earthquake

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Answers to Correspondents

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Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Patent Office Decision

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Improvement in Hulling and Cleansing Hominy.


Many of our readers well remember when "hulled corn" was a standing