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Day
26
Month
February
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlie material doctrine which all BClenii.if men have been assumeil to protese Kas been attaoki-d in the house of its frlends. Dr. Wilhelm Oswald, of Leipsic, the author oí severa] standard Chemical worto, lias delivered an address on what he calis fnie Failure oí Bcientllic Mate.i ilism, aïlirmins: that a theory based on oiurgy should replace the one resrtInsï upon matter and f orce. A iraiiBlatiou wlll appear in Appleton's l'opular Science Monthly ïor March. One of the most nqteworthy articlee in the MarcU number of Harper's wffl be Professor Woodrow Wilson's sketch entitled "Colonel Washington, "Arcadlan Bee-Ranching," by MTss Ninetta Eames ; "Where Fancy was Bied," by Owen Wister ; "Jane Hubbs's Salvation," 'by Mrs. Helen Huntington ; 'The 'Bobs' of Ling-Foo," by Julián Ralph ; and "The Nerves oí a War Ship," iby Park Benjamin, wÜl al-o appear in lis number- together wltla instalments oí t.he seriáis 'On Snow Slioes to the Barren Grounds,-' "PerBonal Becollections of Joan oí Are," "Briséis," and the "Germán Struggle for Libertj;." Tliere has beem wide spread interest in ttoe work of the Chicago Woman's Educational Union in relation to the preparation of a seleetion of readings froni the Bible ior public public schools. Folio wing the suggestioois of the late Professor Swing, they have been wo-rking ior the past two years with the counsel of the committee which he suggested, composed of representative men of various religious bodies. Tüeir work is soon to be published by Scott, Foresman & Co., of Chicago. An article by Cleveland Moffétt in MeClure's Magazine lor March, wül describe the curious and important scientiiic uses lately made of kites, especially in the departments of meteorology, electrlcity and photography. It will also describe how io make the modern tailless kite, how to ily kites in tandem, and t!he poesibilities of the kite as a coming instrument of war. Along with other pictures, there will be a number of vlewfl ptartographed from a kite, at an elevation, in some instances, of 1,500 feet.

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Ann Arbor Courier