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    Congress and the Nicaragua Canal

    Cables of the New East River Bridge

    "A Gross Error"

    The Yacht "Columbia" in European Waters

    The New Naval Programme

    The Explosive Features of Acetylene

    Compressed Cork and Its Uses

    Can White Men Live in the Tropics?

    American Fruits at the Paris Exposition

    The Monument to Robert Fulton

    Death of Sir William Dawson

    The Tidal "Bore" at Moncton

    By Gustav Kobb

    A Destructive Gas Explosion

    An Electric Flash-Light Device

    The Future of South Africa--II

    By Edgar Mels

    Simple Experiments in Physics and Chemistry

    The Lecornu Cellular Kite

    The New York Botanical Garden

    Photographing Living Fishes at Santa Catalina Zoological Station

    By C. F. Holder

    An Improvement in Flue-Cutters

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    • Letters

      Correspondence - December 2, 1899

    • Departments

      The Heavens in December

    • Index of Inventions - December 2, 1899

    • Business and Personal - December 2, 1899

    • Recently Patented Inventions - December 2, 1899

    • Notes and Queries - December 2, 1899

    • Patents - December 2, 1899

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    December 02, 1899

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