Word: metallism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correct principles of finance. The arrangement of statistics regarding the production and coinage of gold and silver is especially valuable, presenting in graphic form the yield of the mines in each of the periods in the world's history marked by any unusual increase of one or the other metal, and also of the whole period from the discovery of America to the present time . . . Incidentally, Professor Laughlin demolishes the most distinctive portion of the work of Mr. Dana Horton - that relating to the supposed disturbance of the equilibrium of the precious metals by the Bank of England's resumption...
...description of the apparatus used by Prof. Rogers, seems of interest. A cup of Mercury is placed either directly upon the earth or upon a stone shaft which rests on bed rock. Upon the surface of the Mercury is thrown the image of illuminated pin holes in a metal card; or, in some instruments, any other image is used such as the reflection of micrometer lines in a star. Any change in the surface of the mercury causes a blurring of this image, which is reflected from the mercury upon a screen. The reflection is observed by means...
Lost. - A bull terrier bitch, pure white, scarred on the neck. Had on a metal collar lined with leather. Finder will receive reward by returning dog to 34 Beck Hall...
...paper for some years. We have had a humorous paper, a light-almost dilettantic-paper, and a newspaper; and the change in the character of our periodicals does not seem to have proved beneficial to the literary training of contributors. The contributor to the magazine was put upon his metal to write the best essay or criticism in his power. It was in work of this kind that such men as Edward Everett, Cornelius C. Felton, J. O. Sargeaut, James Russell Lowell, Rufus King. James Freeman Clark, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others were trained...
...Institute of Technology is to have a very large exhibit at the New Orleans fair. The exhibit will consist of specimens of work done by the students in wood and metal turning, in forging and casting, in mechanical, architectural and topographical drawings, manuscript books explaining the systems and methods employed in the various departments of the institution, and many other things too numerous to mention...