The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 745
m, the name of the box tree, be-cause they used that kind of woodin making it. It is alluded to bythe Latin poets as a childrens toy,and has been a favorite with allnations, TOURMALINE, Experiments with.Slices of the mineral called tour-maline can be bought of an opti-cian. If one slice be held in… … Fig. I. see through them. (See Fig. i.)Looking through them at a cardpierced with a hole and placed be-tween the experimenter and thelight, he will find that as he turnsone tourmaline quite around, thehole will disappear and reappearagain twice. While they are inthe position where the hole cannotbe…
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