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  2. RELIGION

    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 ...

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  3. SCIENCE

    A 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 words
  4. TRADE

    It 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 ...

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  5. MONEY

    So 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 ...

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  6. INVENTION

    By 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 words
  7. HEALTH

    John 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
  8. TRAVEL

    "Alpine" lunch and dinner parties above the clouds are the latest fashionable craw in Switzerland. A rendezvous is given at an Alpine ...

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  9. THOROUGHBRED REBELLION.

    There 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 ...

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  10. TIMING THE LIGHTNING.

    "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 ...

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  11. BANKER ARRESTED.

    A 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. ...

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  12. THE PROFITABLE ADVERTISING. OF A MONOPOL.

    Even 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 ...

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  13. A TRIUMPH OF ENGINEERING.

    The 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 ...

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  14. TO PREVENT BRONCHITIS IN THE THROAT.

    Dr. 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 ...

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  15. AN OPTIMISTIC JUDGE.

    Judge Macpherson, speaking at Bristol Place Congregational Church, Edinburgh, on the occasion of the annual strawberry feast, said there had been a great deal of ...

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  16. CURIOUS TREE TWISTS CAUSED BY EARTH'S ROTATION.

    Curious 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 ...

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  17. TRAGIC STORY OF A STATUE

    In 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 ...

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  18. PLATELAYER'S BEQUEST OF £5000 TO CHARITIES.

    By 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 ...

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  19. THE VALUE OF SMALL" INVENTIONS.

    Inventors and dealers in patents scarcely need reminding that inventions of modest pretensions are often highly remunerative. An inventor, in order to ...

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  20. THE GOOD ANGELS.

    A 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 ...

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  21. CAN WE HAVE MARRIAGE RESTRICTIONS.

    Dr. 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 ...

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  22. A NEW METHOD OF MAKING PULP.

    Mr. O. White, second assistant in the English Consular Service in Japan, reports that the Agricultural College, Tokio, recently announced that it has discovered ...

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  23. MIRROR HISTORY OF PARIS. DISCOVERED.

    The 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 ...

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  24. FORTUNE FROM A PENNY.

    Mr. 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 ...

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  25. VICAR DIES IN CHURCH.

    Tragedy 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 ...

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  26. NOVEL LUNAR THEORY.

    Mr. 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 ...

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  27. PERISHABLE PRODUCE.

    An interesting experiment, to which considerable importance is attached, has been made by the Canadian Pacific Company for the better transportation of ...

    Article : 93 words
  28. POWER FROM SUN'S RAYS.

    Frank Shuman, a chemist of Tacony. Pennsylvania, thinks he has solved the old problem of converting the sun's heat into power. ...

    Article : 231 words
  29. TEMPERANCE STEAMSHIP LINE

    A 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 ...

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  30. INDOOR LIFE MEANS DEATH.

    One 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 ...

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  31. QUEST FOR TREASURE.

    A 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 ...

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  32. FREIGHT WAR ENDED.

    The 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 ...

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  33. OLDEST ENGLISH CLERGYMAN.

    Prebendary Hutchinson, vicar of Blurton, North Staffs, celebrated his nlnety-soventh birthday early In September. He is believed to be the oldest clergyman in ...

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  34. MAN THINKS WITH HIS HEART.

    Among the recent arrivals from Glasgow and Gahway (says a Boston paper), were Dr. Joseph Simms and his wife, who have been travelling around the ...

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  35. CALIFORNIA AND CONSUMPTION.

    In 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 ...

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  36. FIFTY YEARS IN THE CHOIR.

    Mr. 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. ...

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  37. AN ANCIENT TEMPLE LOCATED.

    An 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 ...

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  38. SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE.

    The 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 words
  39. U.S. TARIFF AND CANADIAN

    One 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 words
  40. SAVING ELECTRIC CURRENT.

    Users of electricity will benefit considerably by an invention (now perfected by Mr. Howard Lacy), which effects economy by doing away with the ...

    Article : 158 words
  41. TERRITORY SWALLOWED BY THE SEA.

    England 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 words
  42. PAPER PAILS FOR MILK.

    For 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 ...

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  43. BRAIN SECRETS WE HAVE TO FIND OUT.

    The 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 words
  44. A RICH MINE.

    Of 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 words
  45. AUSTRALIAN TIMBER FOR AMERICAN RAILWAYS.

    The 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 ...

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  47. WOMEN TERRORISTS MORE DREADED THAN MEN.

    According 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 words
  48. SCIENTIFIC PLANT FORCING

    The best natural conditions for plant growth are being artificially supplied In one of the greenhouses of the Royal Botanic Gardens, London, and a practical ...

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  49. BIRD CATCHING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

    In the State of Tamaullpas, In Mexico, parrots of the much-prized "double-head" variety—famous as conversationalists—are found in countless flocks: indeed, the ...

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  50. LOTHLESS CHILDREN.

    The unclad life for children, as recommended by Professor Starr, of Chicago University, Is endorsed in principle by eminent Englishmen both from a ...

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  51. PUBLIC OPINION.

    The 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 words
  52. NEW LIGHT AIDS OCULISTS.

    The 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
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  54. LORD AVEBURY AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.

    It 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 ...

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  55. THE TRANSVAAL TOBACCO HARVEST.

    The 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 ...

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  56. HORSESHOES MADE OF ASBESTOS

    Visitors 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
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