kly sum to give them the necessaries
of life until the trouble is adjusted.

The fight promises to be a long and bitter one, for the employers
declare that they must hold out till they win, as defeat means ruin to
them.

The ship-building trade will be the one most seriously affected by the
strike.

G.H. ROSENFELD.

INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.

DETACHABLE SHELVING FOR WINDOWS.--The scent and the sight of flowers are
the source of so much enjoyment to most persons, and the means of
keeping them in our houses, as a rule, is such a puzzle, that the
"detachable shelving for windows" ought to find favor with everybody,
young or old.

This shelving is an apparently simple arrangement of three shelves
connected by strong braces running from one to another, and attached to
the sides of the window in two places by screw-eyes and nuts which are
securely fastened in the outer frame of the window. Simple as it
appears, it is very ingeniously contrived, and forms a most desirable
substitute for the window-ledge itself, which is seldom wide enough for
flower-pots to stand on with any degree of safety.

STATION-INDICATOR.--We remember once travelling in the winter in almost
the last car of a long train, where we could not see the names of the
stations; the conductor shouted out the stopping-places in a way not
easy to understand, and we had no time-table and did not know when the
train was due. It was the most uncomfortable journey it is possible to
imagine. A station-indicator in each car would forever prevent the
recurrence of such discomfort and anxiety. Curiously enough, two have
been invented within six months; the later one has an endless roll with
the names of all the stations on the route, and, by the movement of a
simple bar, after passing one station the name of the next one appears
in its place.

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SIMPLE LESSONS IN THE

STUDY OF NATURE

By I.G. OAKLEY

This is a handy little book, which many a teacher who is looking for means
to offer children genuine nature study may be thankful to get hold of.

Nature lessons, to be entitled to that name, must deal with what can be
handled and scrutinized at leisure by the child, pulled apart, and even
wasted. This can be done with the objects discussed in this book; they are
under the feet of childhood--grass, feathers, a fallen leaf, a budding
twig, or twisted shell