The magnetized iron filings .

Unselfishness draws numbers as a magnet draws steel filings.

Preach, until you are blue in the face, behaviorist tropisms, in which man is pushed and pulled about in his environment as are iron filings in a magnetic field.

We may be assured, if we draw freely, like the magnet of steel which gathers its iron filings about it in beautiful and symmetrical forms, that the things which we attract will also become symmetrical and harmonious with our lives.

They are invisible, though their presence is readily manifested by means of iron filings.

The same is true of any conductor through which an electric current is flowing, and their presence may be shown by means of iron filings.

If an active conductora conductor conveying an electric current, as, for example, a copper wirebe passed vertically through a piece of card-board, or a glass plate, iron filings dusted on the card or plate will arrange themselves in concentric circles around the axis of the wire.

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'Youthful passages of life are,' he says, 'the chippings of Pitt's diamond, set into little heart-rings with mottoes; the stone itself more worth, the filings more gentle and agreeable.

And there before you were now creatures, grouped in an unforeseen manner, like metal filings round an invisible magnet.

As for the metal itself, that is the filings or actual metallic particles or fragments, one ounce is a common dose as a vermifuge; harmless even in that quantity to man, and not always so harmful as could be desired to the parasites for whose disestablishment it is administered.

Of all the horde of adventurous characters who were drawn to the Continent on the outbreak of war as iron-filings are attracted by a magnet, I doubt if there was a more picturesque figure than a little photographer from Kansas named Donald Thompson.

The inflammation of oil of turpentine will be promoted by strewing upon it fine particles of brass filings.

He did so; and afterwards confessed to having kept a portion of the gold filings found in the cinders of his brazier during the operation.

As steel filings respond to a magnet, they came, and as inevitably; stragglingly, suspiciously by day, in flocks that grew to be a perfect cloud by night.

This is the iron filing telephone, which is reversible; for a given magnetic field there is a certain weight of iron filings for maximum intensity.

It appears thus that the advantage of the iron diaphragm over iron filings reduces itself to presenting in a certain volume a much more considerable number of magnetic molecules to the action of the field.

ing that the phenomenon was created in the lower atmosphere, and was more akin to frost than snow; and yet the largest snow-banks were composed of nothing else, and seemed like heaps of blanched iron-filings.

Youthful passages of life are the chippings of Pitt's diamond, set into little heart-rings with mottoes; the stone itself more worth, the filings more gentle and agreeable.

You must understand that gold dust in the mass is practically indistinguishable in appearance from brass filings.

Let us suppose that we secretly sell some perfectly pure brass filings for gold dust, and that they are readily bought of us, because we sell considerably below the market rate.

And again the brass filings disappeared and in the crevice appeared a new globule of gold.

The success of the whole business depended on the fact that brass filings, which bear a strong external resemblance to gold dust, are dissipated in the strong heat of the blow-pipe.

The new country caught the halt like Elder Thorndyke, the lame like the Fewkeses, the outcast like the Bushyagers and the Blivens, the blind like me, the far-seeing like N.V. Creede, the prophets like old Dunlap the Abolitionist and Amos Thatcher, and the great drift of those who felt a drawing toward the frontier like iron filings to a magnet, or came with the wind of emigration like tumble-weeds before the autumn blast.

I could scoff iron-filings an' horseshoe nails an' thank you kindly, ma'am, for a second helpin'.