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Page 7 - Corliss engine of 52-horse power and by two steel boilers. The Physical and Chemical Laboratories are equipped for pupils' work. The Drawing Rooms are provided with numerous models and casts. The Reference Library and the Library of the Blatchford Literary Society contain about one thousand volumes.
Page 5 - Chicago public elementary schools, he says:— " These studies in Nature are found to be of great use to the children, making them observe the common things around them with intelligence and giving them instruction about many things that working people have to do with in the course of their labours, and enabling them to bring these theories into practical use. This education turns out the boys...
Page 4 - ... up-stream, with the view of allowing vessels of small draught to make use of them at certain seasons of the year, when the rapids would otherwise be impassable. In practice, however, their only use has been to allow of the occasional passage of undecked flat-bottomed barges carrying from 5 to 7 tons, and drawing 18 inches at extreme low water. At all other seasons the confined artificial channels, which have a width of about 140 feet, are regarded as mere traps at each one of the rapids, and...
Page 18 - ... difficulties stated above. Owing to the recuperative power of the tree it is improbable that the available supply of rubber from the Amazon Valley will be exhausted in the near future. Also the enormous area over which the estates extend, makes it unlikely that unexpected events should occur by which the industry as a whole would be damaged, although, no doubt, local checks may be expected from time to time to occur. For the same reason and owing to the scarcity of labour, it is improbable that...
Page 11 - barriguda" so named, because the trunk increases very rapidly in thickness towards the base, grows in those parts which are almost constantly flooded, named "igapos". It yields plentifully a thin watery latex which is of little value. The third variety, the "casca preta'', grows in those parts where a certain amount of drainage exists, and which form an intermediary zone between the permanently flooded parts and the high land. It is this variety which yields latex from which the rubber of commerce...
Page 16 - These he engages, not on wages but on th-ч condition that he will barter his goods for the rubber they extract. Most of these labourers draw a considerable advance before; they can be persuaded to go up country. With this cargo and crew he proceeds to the district where he intends to work. Having arrived at a place which he considers promising, he despatches some of the most practised labourers, or " Seringueiros, " as they are here named, to explore the forest, find the rubber trees, and open the...
Page 14 - Amapa" is sometimes used to adulterate that of the Hevea. In both cases the adulteration is extremely prejudicial to the quality of rubb-r produced. Three distinct qualities of rubber are manufactured in this dis-, trict named "Fine," "Entrefine", and '' Sernamby
Page 15 - pellets '' to merchants in Manaos, and by them sold to one or other of the export merchants in the same condition as received. By the export merchant it is cut up into small pieces the " Fine " separated from the " Entrefine," and then packed in wooden cases, each case holding about 170 or 160 kilos.
Page 11 - ... history of the world ; a war not for territory, not for naval nor military glory, but for wealth, for industrial supremacy — a contest of brain with brain, skill with skill, economy with economy, technical training with technical training. It is only another example of the " struggle for existence." The war in South Africa or the Philippines is less fatal to the workingman than the ceaseless competition of similar workingmen in other countries. It is this unremitting rivalry between workers...
Page 6 - ... of which is that great quantities of sand and mud are carried down and deposited in the beds of the rivers. As an instance of this, after the breaking up of this last winter, the Duna at Witebsk rose 25J feet above its normal level, and the bar at the mouth of the river silted up from 22 feet to 13 feet 6 inches in the course of a few days. But if, after all, it should be found practicable to make such a canal and its silting-up provided against, would the revenue cover the interest on the capital...