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  2. Advertising

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  3. At Sydney's Churches

    An edifice which has been described as an important addition to the ecclesiastical architecture of the State is St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, at Balmain East. ...

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  4. TRAVEL

    The moving tramear is perilous problem of American city life. The car is a necessity, but the drivers will not stop it they can help it. The authorities of ...

    Article : 86 words
  5. INVENTION

    Mr. W. E. Neave, of North Sydney, writes to say in regard to the Lund rudder, which was illustrated in the "Sunday Times" last weak, that he designed one ...

    Article : 101 words
  6. SCIENCE

    By means of an ingenious combination of the stethoscope, microphone, phonograph, and galvanometer, a Dutch physiologist obtains a photographic record of ...

    Article : 48 words
  7. TRADE

    A circular was issued by the British Local Government Board to port sanitary authorities on the subject of the new foreign meat regulations which came into ...

    Article : 77 words
  8. THE USES OF WIRELESS.

    The efficiency of wireless telegraph for communication between the earth and balloons or airships was recently tested near Brussels. Messages were ...

    Article : 65 words
  9. £250,000 CONTRACT FOR TURBINES.

    Messrs. John Brown and Company, Ciydebank, have received the contract for the turbine machinery for the new battleship Neptune, of the Dreadnought class, to be ...

    Article : 73 words
  10. ROYAL MOUNTAINEER.

    The Duke of the Abruzzi, who has been so much talked of recently on account of his acquaintance with Miss Elkins, the American Senator's daughter, intends, ...

    Article : 76 words
  11. NOVEL ARC LAMPS.

    At the recent electrical exhibition in Manchester (Eng.), a novel are lamp was shown, which was provided with carbon magazines. The carbons are arranged in ...

    Article : 98 words
  12. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.

    At a meeting of the scientific committee of the Society for the Destruction of Vermin, hold in London last month. It was resolved that urgent representations be ...

    Article : 74 words
  13. 50 PER CENT. PROFIT ON SUITS.

    Presiding at the annual meeting of the London Woollen Company, Mr. A. H. Abbott said that Jackets and coats were now worn one to two inches longer. ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. PASSENGER AIRSHIPS.

    A "German Aerostation Company" has been formed at Frankfort for tho institution of a passenger service in the air between twenty-six German towns. Several ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. TO PREVENT COLLISIONS AT SEA,

    The ingenious plan by which M. Debrix, a French inventor, measures the distance of an invisible ship depends upon the difference in the velocity of sound waves, ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. PRESERVING MILK.

    A German patent specification describes a process for preserving milk by removing all dissolved oxygen by means of the addition of a small quantity of perrons ...

    Article : 96 words
  17. OIL FUEL FOR RAILWAYS.

    According to the report of the United States Geological Survey on the petroleum industry for 1907, nearly 18,855,691 barrels of oil were consumed that year as fuel ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. HEALTH

    Dr. Mjalman Agner calls attention to a remedy for anaemia which is exceeding[?]gly popular in Sweden—i.c., nettle. He himself was cured of anaemia when he was ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 188 words
  19. AN ELECTRIC BAROMETER.

    An electric barometer has recently been invented, which depends for its operation upon the short-circuiting of a U-shaped carbon filament by means of a barometric ...

    Article : 144 words
  20. WELSH COAL "COMBINE."

    There is good reason for stating, says a Cardiff correspondent, that the Cambrian coal "combine," of which Mr. D. A. Thomas, M.P., is the controlling power, is ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. KETTLE TILTER.

    A simple device is illustrated herewith, which may be used to tilt a kettle in which vegetables or other food is being cooked, so that it may be drained without ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 114 words
  22. OIL WAR IN SCOTLAND.

    The Anglo-American Oil Company—an offshoot or the Standard Oil Company of America—has approached certain wholesale oil firms in Scotland with the view ...

    Article : 172 words
  23. GREAT MEN AND WEAK HEALTH.

    In a series of 500 brains the lowest end highest will, in fact, differ as much, as 650 grams in weight, but there will to round no constant relation between the ...

    Article : 169 words
  24. SUCCESSFUL AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS.

    One of the most successful actresses in Australia taking boy parts is undoubtedly Miss Ethel Buckley, a native of Sydney, now appearing at the Palace Theatre. ...

    Article : 798 words
  25. ILLUMINATED SIGNS WITHOUT "LIGHT."

    Illuminated signs without sources of light form the curious invention of a French engineer, who uses stray light rays, and makes it possible to appropriate ...

    Article : 114 words
  26. HOT AIR FOR NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM.

    Drs. Dausset and Laquerriere have discovered, as the result of treating some 70 patients by a rapid current of hot air, a method which seems to them superior to ...

    Article : 164 words
  27. RELIGION

    Until a few years ago the Rev. W. Dore, who was installed last month as the first vicar of the new parish of Longford, Warwickshire, conducted every one of the ...

    Article : 67 words
  28. HANDY METHOD OF REPAIRING A PUNCTURED TYRE.

    The accompanying sketch shows a bandy device for mending punctures in bicycle tyres. It consists of a common darning needle of a large size and with a large ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 197 words
  29. THE QUEEN AND GEN. BOOTH.

    General Booth, who was operated upon recently for cataract of the right eye at his home, Hadley Wood, Middlesex, has been supported in his great trial by a ...

    Article : 105 words
  30. THE POSSIBILITIES OF AN EARTHQUAKE.

    The distinguished seismologist Emilie Oddone has expressed the view that a great earthquake may, by agitating the whole mass of the earth, cause another great earthquake in a distant and ...

    Article : 163 words
  31. DIET AND EXERCISE FOR DIABETICS.

    Dr. James B. Herrick emphasises the importance of differentiating the various types of diabetes, and calls attention to the value of other factors than the more ...

    Article : 187 words
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  33. A GRAND OLD MAN.

    Beds supplied, 5,449,004; meals 9,557,241. That, in brief, is a twelve months' record of the work of the Salvation Army amongst the submerged, ...

    Article : 157 words
  34. SOME PREHISTORIC MONSTERS.

    Of all the wonderful animals revealed by their potrified remains, says Dr. E. C. Case, perhaps the most striking are the reptiles. The reptiles made their first ...

    Article : 181 words
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  36. MONEY

    State Clubs in Great Britain distributed £1,000,000 at Christmas-time. The new Tabernacle State Club, Old-street, London, alone distributed £11,000. ...

    Article : 24 words
  37. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS

    Messrs. GRIFFITH and HASSEL, Patent Attorneys, Sydney and Melbourne, report that the following applications have been lodged by New South Wales applications during the past weeks:— ...

    Article : 153 words
  38. SORTING METAL COINS.

    It is reported that on Austrian inventor has produced a mechanical device which it is claimed will assort metal coins which have been thrown together regardless of ...

    Article : 149 words
  39. GIFT OF A YEAR'S SALARY.

    Last year many of the leading New York banks presented their clerks with half their yearly salaries, as Yuletide gifts, some receiving £100 and upwards. It ...

    Article : 118 words
  40. NEW SMOKELESS FUEL.

    A new smokeless fuel is produced by mixing two parts by weight of bituminous coal with one of peat, and heating in a retort to 850 deg. F. The fuel yielded has ...

    Article : 85 words
  41. BRAIN WEIGHT AND INTELLIGENCE.

    There is something very mournful, pays Professor W. I. Thomas, in the labors of those men who have devoted their lives to the study of the brain weight of men, ...

    Article : 153 words
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