Transcriber’s note: Table of Contents added by Transcriber.

[Advance of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century]	289
[The Applications of Explosives]	300
[A Paradoxical Anarchist]	312
[What Makes the Trolley Car Go]	316
[Woman’s Struggle For Liberty in Germany]	328
[Scenes on the Planets]	337
[Professor Ward on “Naturalism and Agnosticism”]	349
[Destructive Effects of Vagrant Electricity]	357
[Winter Birds in a City Park]	366
[Old Rattler and the King Snake]	371
[Remarkable Volcanic Eruptions in the Philippines]	374
[The Scavengers of the Body]	379
[Editor’s Table]	385
[Fragments of Science]	388
[Minor Paragraphs]	395
[Publications Received]	399

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