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Show Scientific- Par.-.tJ"Spg, Tho water which drowns us, a fluent stream, can bo walked upon as ice. The bullet which, when fired from a musket, carries car-ries death, vt ill lie harmless if ground to dust beforo being fired. Tho crystallized part of tho oil of roses, so graceful in its fragrance, a solid at ordinary temperatures, though really volatile, is n compound substance containing con-taining exactly tho Faino elements, and in exact!- the ?mn3 projv ''tious, as the gas with which we light our streets. The tea which we daily drink with benefit and pleasure produces pro-duces palpitations, nc-vons tremblings, and even paralysis, if taken in exc-Aja; yet the "peculiar organic .igent called thoiao, to which tea owes its qualities, may bo taken by itself (as theine, not as ten) without any appreciable appreci-able effect. Blackwood's ilasasice. |