14 SEPTEMBER 1889, page 12

The Age Of Aluminium.

A CCORDING to an American newspaper, the chemists are at work by hundreds in the States " striving by night and day" to find some means for producing cheap aluminium. If they......

Clouds.

T HE atmospheric vicissitudes of this showery summer have often recalled to our mind a name never to be remembered without gratitude by the lover of Nature,—that of John Ruskin.......