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Everyone has seen and greatly admired the hoar frosts that deck the trees and telegraph wires In the spring and fall of each year, but it will be news to many to learn that this exquisite picture made by nature can be almost perfectly Imitated, Any boy or girl can do the trick. Take a sprig of some plant and set it on, a small wooden stand in the center of •which is a small, stout dish containing benzoic acid. If a spirit lamp containing alcohol is placed under the dish and a glass jar over It and the twig the acid will turn to vapor. When it cools a beautiful deposit of white crystals will be seen on the twig. If there is difficulty in getting a jar a wide bottle of large stee will do, the lower part of the bottle being removed by the burning of a strand of wool •which has previously been dipped in turpentine. When the experiment is performed the cork must be left in- the bottle to prevent the vapor fromet%japlng.
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