Laziness promoted by want of food, 89 by heat, 93 Lead tarnished, 259 LEAVES collect dew unequally, 208 green, 404 light green in spring, 404 in a pond, 419 pale in dark places, 403 promote cold, 161 yellow in autumn, 408 Lid of kettles, &c. hot, 201 Light bread, 276 LIGHT, 363 composed of various colours, 400 divided by a prism, 393 from a flint, 97 of candles, 76 fire, 46 sun, 363 reflected, 364 speed of, 364 sudden painful, 365 LIGHTNING, 3 balls, 6 barks and snaps trees, 27 comes from clouds, 16 from earth, 16 conductors, 22 dangerous, 24 follows dry weather, not wet, 28 forked, 5 fuses metal, 27 kills animals, 7 knocks down churches, 24 maims, 8 passes down the outside of a tree, 14 passes through the inside of animals, 14 purifies air, 27 rare in winter, 28 sheet, 6 summer, 11 common, 28 straight, 6 turns beer sour, 27 not old beer, 27 milk sour, 25 _See danger, safety._ Lilac steel rusts, 259 prevented, 259 LIME and water, 26, 30 burned, 278 hot, 277 purifies bins, 266, 421 sewers, 267, 421 Lime-wash for rooms, 422 Lincoln, rain of, 340 Linen cool wear, 183 dried, 160, 316 Linseed oil boils, 119 LIQUEFACTION, 126 LIQUIDS, 112 bad conductors, 172, 232 cooled, 235 Lisle thread gloves, 188 Liverpool, rain of, 340 LONDON FOG, 225 rain of, 340 Long flues, 110 grass promotes cold, 161 Log of wood, 2 two burn better than one, 44, 52 Looking-glass, 369 Lucifer matches, 284 Lunar caustic, 426 Mackarel scales, &c., 136 Macintosh prevents cold, 158 Madness from starvation, 86 Malt, 270, 272 Man a swimmer, 362 no bigger than a crow, 382 Manchester, rain of, 340 Magpies indicate weather, 153 Marble, 426 MARCH comes in like a lion, 306 goes out like a lamb, 306 dry good, wet bad, 306 flowers undesirable, 307 wind dry, 305 Marsh damp, 280 Marsupium, 392 Meat-covers, 202 MEAT liked in cold weather, 90 loathed in hot, 92 taint removed, 422 tainted by moonlight, 220 MECHANICAL ACTION, 95 Mercury of barometer bright, 260 concave, 325 convex, 325 its rise and fall, 325 METAL collects no dew, 209 feels colder than wood, 168 hotter than wood, 167 fused by fire, 127 by lightning, 27 good conductor, 165 handles burn, 166 reflectors, 193 tea-pots, 197 Milk soured by lightning, 25 Miners' danger, 283 prevented, 265 Mirror, 369