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Nye Bill. Bill Nye's Cordwood

Bill Nye on the Cow Industry

A New Biography of Galileo

Methuselah

Notes on Some Spring Styles

Hunting an Ichthyosaurus

True Merit Rewarded

Bill Nye condoles with Cleveland

No Doubt as to His Condition

Cyclones

The Earth

Francisco Pizarro's Career

Bill Nye

Bill Nye "Incubates."

Bill Nye on Tobacco. – A Discourager of Cannibalism

Bill Nye's Arctic-le

Bill Nye's Answers to Correspondents

Bill Nye Preparing A Political Speech in Advance for a Time of Need

Bill Nye on Railroads

Bill Nye's Letter

Bill Nye

Favored a Higher Fine

How Bill Nye Failed to Make the Amende Honorable – A Pathetic Incident

Seeing a Saw Mill

How A Chinaman Rides the Untamed Broncho

Bill Nye Wants to Know How to Preserve Game

Bill Nye Attends Booth's "Hamlet."

Bill Nye's Advice

A Would-be Hostelry

Bill Nye's Hornets

A Tragedy

The Bronco Cow

Autumn Thoughts

Bill Nye's Advice Bag

Mr. Sweeney's Cat

Bill Nye's Letter

Declined with Thanks

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Galilei, commonly called Galileo, was born at Pisa on the 14th day February, 1564. He was a man who discovered some of the fundamental principles underlying the movements, habits, and personal peculiarities of the earth. He discovered things with marvelous fluency. Born as he was, at a time when the rotary motion of the earth was still in its infancy and astronomy taught only in a crude way, Galileo started in to make a few discoveries and advance some theories of which he was very fond.

He was the son of a musician and learned to play several instruments himself, but not in such a way as to arouse the jealousy of the great musicians of his day. They came and heard him play a few selections and then they went home contented with their own music. Galileo played for several years in the band at Pisa, and people who heard him said that his manner of gazing out over the Pisan hills with a far-away look in his eye after playing a selection, while he gently upended his alto horn and worked the mud-valve as it poured out about a pint of moist melody that had accumulated in the flues of the instrument, was simply grand.

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Galileo was the author of a little work called "I Discarsi e Dimas-Trazioni Matematiche Intorus a Due Muove Scienze." It was a neat little book, of about the medium height, and sold well on the trains, for the Pisan newsboys on the cars were very affable, as they are now, and when they came and leaned an armful of these books on a passenger's leg and poured a long tale into his ear about the wonderful beauty of the work and then pulled in the name of the book from the rear of the last car, where it had been hanging on behind, the passenger would most always buy it and enough of the name to wrap it up in.

He also discovered the isochronism of the pendulum. He saw that the pendulum at certain seasons of the year looked yellow under the eyes, and that it drooped and did not enter into its work with the old zest. He began to study the case with the aid of his new bamboo telescope and wicker-covered microscope. As a result, in ten days he had the pendulum on its feet again.

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