MUNN & CO.,
361 Broadway, New York.
Branch Office, 622 and 624 F St., Washington, D. C.


Transcriber's Amendments

Transcriber's Note: Some illustrations may have been moved. We have rendered consistent on a per-word-pair basis the hyphenation or spacing of such pairs when repeated in the same grammatical context. The table of contents has been moved to the front.

Other changes are listed below. The listed source publication page number also applies in this reproduction except for the table of contents since it has been moved.

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10343 [Fig. 1 redrawn slightly to reduce the reader's confusion.]
10345 [Nature.][Heading deleted.]
10345 12,600 lb. per square inch [(psi)].[also in following lines.]
10346 [First line of heading moved to footnote.]
10347 as much as [a] plank of the same size
10347 For these upper floors hard-wood[hardwood] plank,
10349 asserted pretty generally thoughout[throughout] the country
10349 employes[employees] will no longer be known as "gas house
10350 reappear in the little glow lamp[glow-lamp][multiple instances]
10351 through[though] I doubt whether it is visible
10351 due to the vacum[vacuum],
10351 and to the atonishment[astonishment] of my fellow
10352 the many disagreeable symptons[symptoms],
10352 [Part of Care of The Eyes header moved to footnote.]
10354 but on miscroscopical[microscopical] examination
10354 neigborhood[neighborhood] in which we live.
10355 It[Its] parallax, as determined by Sir R. S. Ball,
10355 The well known[well-known] double star 61 Cygni
10356 [Fig. 3: Illegible text re-composed.]
10358 [Advertisements header added.]
10358 [Table of contents moved to front of publication.]
10358 The One Hundred and Twenty Foot[Ton] Shears {Table of Contents}

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