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  2. SCIENCE

    Interesting experiments on the possibility or suspending life for a definite period are being' carried out by Professor Raoul Picket, at Geneva, in one case he froze live goldfish in ice to a ...

    Article : 86 words
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  4. INVENTION

    Piano keys made from milk were exhibited at the Pianoforte and Music Trades Exhibition which opened at Islington, London, last month. Ivory is being largely supplanted for making ...

    Article : 74 words
  5. RELIGION.

    As a service in aid of an English Lifeboat Institution recently the Rev. Louis Butler preached from the lifeboat, which was manned by the [?] in service costume. ...

    Article : 40 words
  6. CONGREGATIONAL STATISTICS.

    Official statistics regarding the Congregational [?] show that there are 16,269 places of [?] throughout the world. There are [?] members of the church, an increase of ...

    Article : 68 words
  7. THE TIN-CUP MOSQUITO TRAP.

    A correspondent of an English scientific paper writes that a simple and effective mosquito trap, well known in every mosquito country, consists of a tin cup or tin can attached to a ...

    Article : 112 words
  8. NEW WATER-SOFTENING PROCESS.

    A water-softener now being produced on a considerable scale in Germany is the material known as "permutit," which is a kind of artificial zeolite, and is made by fusing together ...

    Article : 212 words
  9. SAINTS AND SHORTHAND.

    [?] Andura Gossi, a Spanish shorthand [?] has submitted a petition to the Pope asking for the appointment of a patron saint of [?] hand-writers, and presented the claims of ...

    Article : 85 words
  10. ELECTRIC LAMP WHICH MAY REVOLUTIONISE LIGHTING.

    Of an important character is a discovery which, according to a statement at Rugby (Eng.), may revolutionise electric lighting. It was announced by Mr. H. N. Sporborg, of the British of an in thickness, used in any length or bent to any shape. At the same time, its tensile strength has been increased. Hitherto tungsten has only been producible in short lengths. The ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. 1360 MISSIONARIES.

    The English Church Missionary Society last [?] issued its annual report. Its first two missionaries were sent in 1804 to West Africa. [?] men were sent to Australia and New ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. COAL-DUST DANGER.

    It being generally agreed that great colliery explosions, however they may originate, are spread by the progressive ignition of fine coal-dust, Professor W. M. thornton, of the ...

    Article : 291 words
  13. PRIMATE AND THE VETO ACT.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury was among those who helped to pass the Parliament Bill in the House of Lords, and in reply to a correspondent who wrote to him on the subject the ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. GAS HEATER.

    This shows a gas heater, the flame of which playing upon the asbestos fibre face-board, gives on appearance not unlike that of a tree with the leaves on fire. The metal of which the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 62 words
  15. BRITISH PRIMATE'S PRAYER DURING THE STRIKE.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury recommended the following prayer for use, under due authority in parish churches and elsewhere during to recent labor anxiety:— ...

    Article : 120 words
  16. HOG YOKE.

    A hog vote, which requires the joint service or both ears and the nose, is illustrated. It is a rod adapted to be passed through the snout of the hog, a bar supported by the rod at a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 97 words
  17. DEATH OF BISHOP WORDSWORTH.

    Dr. John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury who died at his palace last month from heart failure was the son of the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, and ...

    Article : 143 words
  18. TRADE

    The systematic efforts of German traders to induce the German public to abstain from using imported goods, says a Florence paper, are shown by a pamphlet recently published and ...

    Article : 191 words
  19. TRAVEL

    A train one mile in length was recently required to haul the Ripling Circus of Toronto from place to place. The train had accommodation for 1280 men, women, and children, and children, and ...

    Article : 46 words
  20. AERONAUTICS

    In connection with the proposed aviation race from Shorefcam, England, to Dieppe, France, the Royal Aero Club have decided that they cannot sanction the flight, as they consider the journey ...

    Article : 68 words
  21. HEALTH

    Two patients suffering from that strange and dangerous disease, spotted fever, are under treatment in London. One case was admitted to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Western ...

    Article : 43 words
  22. CALF WEANER.

    This calf weaner is strapped over the nose and around the neck in such manner that it does not interfere with the animal's grazing, while the spurs prevent suckling. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  23. DIVINITY AT SEA.

    The Rev. C. H. Hicks, Rector of Seething, a [?] clerie who each Summer goes to the [?] to work among the Yarmouth and [?]loft fishermen engaged in the herring ...

    Article : 205 words
  24. KILL THAT FLY.

    The municipal authorities of Baltimore (U.S.A.), to encourage the crusade against flies, have decided to pay children at the rate of one penny per quart of flies delivered dead at their ...

    Article : 37 words
  25. CHINESE TASTE IN MOTOR-CARS.

    The American Vice-Consul-General at Singapore, in a report on local trade prospects in Cycles and motor-cars, says that the Chinese, who possess most of the wealth of the district, ...

    Article : 84 words
  26. OFFICER'S AVIATION RECORD.

    Lieutenant Gerrard, R.M.L.I., last month in England flew with Lieutenant Lushington as a passenger, on a Short biplane, for 4h 15MIN, at an average height of 1100ft., in a wind of from ...

    Article : 94 words
  27. FIGHT AGAINST INSECT DISEASE CARRIERS.

    An information bureau exclusively devoted to the study of the misdeeds of insects of every description is now an important part of the Natural History branch of the British Museum ...

    Article : 176 words
  28. POTATO GATHERER.

    This shows an implement for picking up potatoes in the field. The method of "operation is easily understood, the hoe retaining the potatoes and forcing them Into the net when the shovel- ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 56 words
  29. THE COMING OF THE FUNNELLESS SHIP.

    Such rapid progress has been made at White-inch, Govan, with the construction of the 5000-ton oil-engined liner for the Danish East Asiatic Company, Copenhagen, that she may be running ...

    Article : 369 words
  30. SHORTER CANADA PASSAGE.

    In a letter to an English daily asking for support for the proposal to make Galway a Transatlantic port, Mr. Robert Worthington, writing from Dublin, says that Ireland's claims ...

    Article : 159 words
  31. SOMERSAULTED 1500 FEET.

    One of the most amazing escapes in the whole history of aviation was reported last month. Lieutenant Reynolds, one of several officers who were taking Army aeroplanes to Thetford. had ...

    Article : 100 words
  32. A FAMOUS NONCONFORMIST.

    The death of Dr. Guinness Rogers took place at his house at Clapham Common, London, last month. Dr. Rogers, who was in his eighty-ninth year, ...

    Article : 233 words
  33. MONEY

    During the last ten years there has been an increase in the savings among the population of Italy of £120,000,000. Wages have been increasing during this period. ...

    Article : 36 words
  34. AIRSHIP DISTRESS SIGNALS.

    The authorities at Aldershot have evolve! a signal of distress for airships, and have issued , the following notification to the troops :— "When an airship is seen close to the ...

    Article : 116 words
  35. RACE FOR A LINER.

    A typical instance of American "hustle" attended the departure of the liner Philadelphia from Southampton last month. Just before 10 o'clock Mr. Balch, a citizen of Boston. U.S.A., ...

    Article : 172 words
  36. CONMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents have been lodged at the Commonwealth Patent Office, ...

    Article : 178 words
  37. LEFT SIX MILLIONS.

    According to the statement of the, family lawyer (says a New York despatch), Mr. J. W. Gates has left £6,000,000. The bulk goes to his wife and son, but £200,000. is left to ...

    Article : 57 words
  38. THRILLING ESCAPE IN ENGLISH CHANNEL.

    Reminiscent of Latham's famous exploits in mid-Channel was the accident which befel Mr. 0. C. Morrison, on a Bleriot monoplane, off Folke-stone, last month. His intention was to fly to ...

    Article : 146 words
  39. CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

    The delegates who last month assembled in Newcastle-on-Tyne for the second National Roman Catholic Congress dealt with the affairs [?] twenty-three Catholic social and religious ...

    Article : 215 words
  40. BANK OF ENGLAND.

    The stock of paid notes for five years is about 91 millions. They fill 16,000 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would extend nearly three miles. If these notes were placed in a pile they ...

    Article : 133 words
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  42. TEST WHICH COST A LIFE.

    Aviation took another life in England last month, the fatality occurring whilst a military aeroplane of a new pattern was being experimented with on Farnborough Common, Alder ...

    Article : 157 words
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