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Identifier: stnicholasserial4821dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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who build castlesin the air, who build boats,and whose achievementsin the future will buildthis country, I christenthis boat, the handiworkof Joe Frelinghuysen, theRaritan. The Raritan will sail over a water hazard on theRaritan Valley Country Club golf-course in searchof misdirected balls. What Senator Henry Cabot Lodge said at thememorial services held in July over the bodiesof the soldier dead brought home from Francemust have come straight from the heart. Onelittle sentence of four words in his speech em-bodied beautifully and completely the spirit ofthe occasion: Here they lie victorious. These memorial services were held just beforethe third anniversary of Chateau-Thierry. Fromthat anniversary until the coming of ArmisticeDay, in November, every hour that passes recallsthe tremendous days of 1918, when Americanswere living in one high hope and brave resolve—the hope and resolve that these gallant soldiersof ours gave their lives to make sure. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLK
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THE PELTON WHEEL CAN HANDLE A HEAD OF WATER OVER A MILE HIGH IN A SINGLE DROP A HEQUAL TO SEVEN WOOLWORTH BUILDINGS. INSET, DETAIL OF WHEEL. (SEE NEXT PAGE) THE BUCKET THAT DID NOT SPLASH Many a reliable invention has come from anaccidental occurrence; but coupled with thechance event, there must always be some observ-ant individual to grasp the situation and make themost of it. And so it behooves us to be ever onthe alert, ready to take in the lesson that chancemay teach us. It was chance that led to the dis-covery of the Pelton wheel. Prior to its invention,there were three general types of water-wheelsthat had been handed down to us from the daysof the ancient Egyptians: the overshot wheel, inwhich the water flows over the top of the wheeland turns it partly by its weight and partly by itsvelocity; the undershot wheel, in which the waterstrikes against the buckets at the bottom of thewheel and turns the wheel by its velocity alone;and the breast-wheel, in which the water entersthe

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