A NATURAL MAGNET.
♦ A scientific professor was once lecturing in a provincial town on natural philosophy, and in the course of his experiments he introduced a most powerful magnet, with wiich he attracted a block of iron from a distance of two feet. "Can. any of you conceive .a greater attractive power?" demanded the lecturer, i with an air of triumph. "I can," answered a .voice from the au- i dience. j " Not a natural, terrestrial object?" "Yes, indeed." The kcturer, somewhat puzzled, challenge the man who had spoken, to name the air-' tide. ' ■ .• | Then up rose an old countryman. Said he : "I will give you facts, Professor, and you can judge for yourself. When I was a young man there was a little piece o' natural magnet done up in a neat cotton dress as was called Betsy Maria. She could draw me fourteen miles on Sunday, over ploughed land ; no matter what the wind or weather, there wasn't no resisting her. That magnet o' yourn is pretty goodj butv it woa'fc draw so far as Betsy Maria."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7477, 11 August 1902, Page 1
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179A NATURAL MAGNET. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7477, 11 August 1902, Page 1
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