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It will be observed that a certain number of Tufts's words are not to be found in any of ihc books of English slang; while, fi-om the correctness of the remainder, it is unlike); that he invented even these. The words benny lay (robbery), briar (a saw), drag (a prisoner, i.e., one dragged ?),_^awier (vitriol), gentleman (a crowbar), hammers to you {im- plying comprehension), hookees (cattle) , jarvel (a Jacket), kin (a stone) , nij^ing-jig (gallows) , roram (the sun), to scrag a lay (to steal from a hedge), snuskin (a naii), spread (a saddle), tap- ster and yapater (a dog), thump- kin (a barn of hay), and wheel (a dollar), — these are not found in the other hsts, and some of them are dilficull to explain. Other phrases, though not else- where mentioned, are easy of ileriTation ; as crahhin (crab- ken?), dead up to (like dead ^ure), dinge (dingy), leg-bags (stockings), long togs (long- clothes), mitre (hat), and prad- liolder (bridle). In a few cases the phrase is preserved by Mat- seU (1859) as a part of Ameri- can slang, although not be found in the English slaug dictionai-ies ; thus, trick, in the lething stolen, and andub (unlock), which apparently survives here in the phrase under-dubber (turnkey), lu regard to any word untraced, I should be glad of suggestions. T. W. Higginsos.

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����Experiments have been undertaken at the physio- logical station in Paris to study these moveraents. In fig. 1 a man la seen running upon the experiment- track, and lu the same figure the recording apparatus is shown. A tetegniph-ilno. resting upun poles placed fifty metres apart, reaches around the troclc, which Is halt a kilometre in circumference. The runner, as he passes each post, finds hb course barred by a hori- zontal rod (Bg. 2), which gives way before the slight- est pressure, but which cannot t>e moved without causing nn iulerruptiou in the circuit of the telegrapb- line. Tbis Interruption records itself in the lalxiratory

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