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hour-glasses and watches. With these latter is a chronoscope, an instrument that can cut a second into 500 parts.

The Steinert collection of material instruments is anther center of attraction, from the earliest keyed instrument the clavichord of Mogart and Beethoven's tunes, through the intermediary harpsichords and pianos d wn to the modern upright.

A Collection of Typewriters.

A collection of typewriters has been assembled this afternoon not female operators, but the writing machines. Some of them are v ery clumsy and have an extremely antique appearance, although none of them are very old.

Guns, revolvers and knives are there in choice variety. The history of electric lighting is made plain and a good many other lines of endeavor are clearly traced. The collection is one of the most valuable and interesting ever gotten up by the museum authorities. New features are hourly being added, Chief Clerk Cox and Prof. Otis T. Mason being busily engaged in the work of direction.