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 deemed absolutely impossible. A vessel can carry in a small chest, which two men can lift, a week's supply of nourishment for five hundred people.

Antiseptics of pleasant taste and non-poisonous character permit the preservation to almost illimitable extent, of heretofore perishable foods.

The profusion of new dyes is so great that industrial chemists have, by common consent, restricted the output of shades to enable buyers and manufacturers to keep up with the pace. The shades for each year are announced in advance two to five years ahead. Among these dyes are many which have a sheen truly metallic, thus producing effects never before dreamed of outside of Nature's laboratory. The butterfly and the peacock are out-rivaled; the gorgeous beauties with which Brazil abounded before her more complete settlement and civilization, cast into the shade. Truly "Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like unto one of these" might the on-looker say on beholding a bevy of young girls, clad in the latest spring fashions.

There have been produced numberless new