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ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.







[Illustration: FROM DR. FRANKLIN'S BROOM-CORN SEED. See Page 223.]



Boston:
D. Lothrop & Company,
Franklin Street.

Copyright, 1881,
By D. Lothrop & Company.




TABLE OF CONTENTS.

                                       Page
How Newspapers are made.                 11
Umbrellas.                               38
Paul and the Comb-makers.                54
In the Gas-works.                        69
Racing a Thunder-storm.                  86
August's "'Speriment."                  103
The Birds Of Winter.            