A record is held by the Rev. E. Clapton, vicar of Stebblag. Essex, England. On a recent Sunday he assisted in ringing a poal of 720 changes on the bells before ...
Article : 52 wordsA new tuberculosis treatment is in the field—a sorum, the invention of Professor Cuecurullo, in Italian. It has made an impression so marked in scientific circles ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is a reflection upon the dilatory me-thods of England, says "The Trade Pro-tection Journal," that a comparatively minor country like Denmark should have ...
Article : 98 wordsSo terrible is the tension of life amongst speculators in the American stock market that (according to one of them) unless a man has made a fortune before he Is forty ...
Article : 98 wordsBy means of a combined arrangement of an ordinary reciprocating engine, turbine, electric generate and motor, the Hon. C. A. Parsons has managed to ...
Article : 110 wordsJohn D. Rockefeller's wealth will have aided the achievement of a great been to humanity if the report is confirmed that a cure has been found for cerebro-spinal ...
Article : 137 words"Alpine" lunch and dinner parties above the clouds are the latest fashionable craw in Switzerland. A rendezvous is given at an Alpine ...
Article : 237 wordsThere are four classes in every church, says "Good Words," the people who are ankle-deep, they come once a week to church; once a week, one meal a week ...
Article : 154 words"As quick as lightning" we say, without any definite idea of the actual duration of a flash of the electric fluid. Of Its Instantaneous character we have ...
Article : 132 wordsA Paris banker named Maurice Gallot, the head of a firm which hitherto had enjoyed a large credit and General respect, has been arrested on a charge of fraud. ...
Article : 187 wordsEven a gas monopoly is not a thing likely to yield all that It might, without such stimulation as effective advertising will supply. In an admirable paper by ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Hampstead Tubo is a very fine triumph of engineering skill. The line has a total length of about eight miles, the distance from Charing Cross to ...
Article : 173 wordsDr. Stockton states that chronic bronchitis in the aged Increases in the Winter for the reason that delicate old people seek the warmth and confinement of the poorly ...
Article : 176 wordsJudge Macpherson, speaking at Bristol Place Congregational Church, Edinburgh, on the occasion of the annual strawberry feast, said there had been a great deal of ...
Article : 87 wordsCurious twists are observed in many tree trunks, and the inquiry Just begun suggests the surprising conclusion that they are produced by the earth's rotation, like the ...
Article : 176 wordsIn one of the ancient squares of Florence there stands on a pedestal a marble figure of "Justice," holding up her scales high in the air, to which a melancholy ...
Article : 131 wordsBy his will Mr. George Riley, of Rishton, England, who worked for many years as a platelayer on the railway, has bequeathed £5000 to various public and ...
Article : 89 wordsInventors and dealers in patents scarcely need reminding that inventions of modest pretensions are often highly remunerative. An inventor, in order to ...
Article : 143 wordsA German scholar has said that the angels are counterparts of ourselves—that they are our ideal solves. The Rev. P. B. Meyer says that our angel is the man ...
Article : 108 wordsDr. P. A. Morrow, of England, enumerates a long list of diseases in which the hereditary element has been definitely established. In order to bring modern ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. O. White, second assistant in the English Consular Service in Japan, reports that the Agricultural College, Tokio, recently announced that it has discovered ...
Article : 94 wordsThe history of Paris in mirrors has been discovered by the secretary of the Commission of Ancient Paris. M. Lncien Lambeau. Poking about in old shops and ...
Article : 226 wordsMr. Abraham White, of New York, who made a fortune of £30,000 by the expenditure of a penny stamp, has bid for the whole of the new issue of £8,000,000 worth ...
Article : 156 wordsTragedy followed sharply on the conclusion of an evening service at St. Paul's, Greenwich. As he was leaving the church after preaching a wonderfully Impressive ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Philip Fauth, in his new work on "The Moon in Modern Astronomy," proposes the following new lunar theory : Our satellite must be covered with a ...
Article : 175 wordsAn interesting experiment, to which considerable importance is attached, has been made by the Canadian Pacific Company for the better transportation of ...
Article : 93 wordsFrank Shuman, a chemist of Tacony. Pennsylvania, thinks he has solved the old problem of converting the sun's heat into power. ...
Article : 231 wordsA line of temperance steamships is the latest idea of the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. "If I had the money," says the famous author of "In His Steps," "I would build ...
Article : 77 wordsOne of the most promising ways of helping to maintain the health of those restored at sanatoria is by the establishment of labor or farm colonies, where ...
Article : 96 wordsA romantic search for treasure and specie, valued at nearly a million sterling, is about to be made by a private London syndicate, which proposes to salve the ...
Article : 237 wordsThe important announcement has been made that the freight war to the East, which started about two years ago, has been concluded at last. The companies ...
Article : 119 wordsPrebendary Hutchinson, vicar of Blurton, North Staffs, celebrated his nlnety-soventh birthday early In September. He is believed to be the oldest clergyman in ...
Article : 32 wordsAmong the recent arrivals from Glasgow and Gahway (says a Boston paper), were Dr. Joseph Simms and his wife, who have been travelling around the ...
Article : 153 wordsIn preparing a proposed ordinance for the regulation of tubercular sufferers in Los Angeles, the Board of Health has decided that a section of the measure should ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. Reuben Anscombe, a Bisle'y prize-winner, of Cuckfield, Sussex (England), has just completed 50 years' continuous service as a choirman at Cuckfield Parish Church. ...
Article : 39 wordsAn Egyptian sun temple and a city that has been lost for 3300 years have been located by Professor James H. Breasted, of the University of Chicago. It Is the temple ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Bishop of Liverpool, writing on the Deceased Wife's Sister Act, says it would be wrong to say that the Act legalised a union which was sinful or Immoral, but Its ...
Article : 197 wordsOne point upon which New England and the North-west can agree is the removal of obstructions to our trade with Canada (says a leading New York Journal ...
Article : 158 wordsUsers of electricity will benefit considerably by an invention (now perfected by Mr. Howard Lacy), which effects economy by doing away with the ...
Article : 158 wordsEngland has surrendered 524 square, miles of her territory to the waves within the last thousand years. More recently the advance of the waters has been much ...
Article : 190 wordsFor years London's milk supply has been blamed by medical men and health officers for a great deal of the infant mortality. Now the dairy companies are to deliver ...
Article : 196 wordsThe science of psychology does not to this day agreo upon two distinct Kinds, which leaves It as Professor Jamos has admitted : "Psychology is but a string of ...
Article : 108 wordsOf all the gold mines of the North American continent, that which paid the largest dividends in 1806, and is now putting the most money into the pockets of ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Santa Fe Railway has made arrangements to send the manager of its tie and timber department, Mr. E. O. Faulkner, to Australia to make a study of the ...
Article : 304 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 247 wordsAccording to an English resident of St. Petersburg, the fact that Russian revolutionaries have now adopted the method of entrusting the execution of their schemes ...
Article : 148 wordsThe best natural conditions for plant growth are being artificially supplied In one of the greenhouses of the Royal Botanic Gardens, London, and a practical ...
Article : 126 wordsIn the State of Tamaullpas, In Mexico, parrots of the much-prized "double-head" variety—famous as conversationalists—are found in countless flocks: indeed, the ...
Article : 201 wordsThe unclad life for children, as recommended by Professor Starr, of Chicago University, Is endorsed in principle by eminent Englishmen both from a ...
Article : 160 wordsThe opinions of the leading skin authorities of the world, viz., the late Profoasor Sir Krasmus Wilson, F.R.S., Dr. Redwood. Ph., D., F.C.S., F.D.C.. Mr. John L. Milton ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Academy of Science at Paris reports that Dr. Fortin has discovered that the light from a mercury vapor lamp, passing through two sheets of blue glass and ...
Article : 128 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 522 wordsIt is a significant fact that the Industrial Freedom League—which represents all who are opposed to municipal trading—has for its president and vice-president two ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Inestimable been of cheap and good tobacco is likely to be preserved to South Africa, whatever else may, be in store. Transvaal tobacco-growers' have ...
Article : 127 wordsVisitors to the volcane of Kilauea, on the Pacific island of Hawaii, generally ride on horseback, and in crossing what is known as the "pit," the horses suffer much ...
Article : 121 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 48 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 25 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 20 Oct 1907, Page 6
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: