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  2. Advertising

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  3. TRAVEL

    This novel automobile body can in no better way be described than as a double automobile-coach, its shape and the outside seats reminding one of the early ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 82 words
  4. TRADE

    The process of making metal ribbon by pouring a molten stream on a rotating drum has been so developed that, narrow bands only 1/1000th of an inch thick may ...

    Article : 88 words
  5. HEALTH

    A bunion is an enlarged joint. One of the best things to do is to bathe it in arnica and apply a bunion plaster to protect it from irritation by the shoe. Bathe ...

    Article : 46 words
  6. SCIENCE

    It has been shown that of three wires of the same thickness, one made of gold will sustain 150 pounds ; one made of cop-per, 302 pounds; and one of iron, 510 ...

    Article : 41 words
  7. INVENTION

    A novel alarm for hot bearing consists of a small tube and bulb containing mercury so arranged that of the mercury with temperature closes an ...

    Article : 97 words
  8. THE AGE OF THE WORLD.

    Information derived from a recent experiment with a chunk of thoranite leads the Honorable R. J. Strutt, son of Lord Raylelgh, to be conclusion that it could ...

    Article : 86 words
  9. FEET SOOTHING.

    People who must stand all day should wear very comfortable boots with broad soles, well fitting arches, and proper heels. This is the only possible way of being ...

    Article : 127 words
  10. DANGERS OF SACCHARINE.

    A conference has just been held in Drussels for repressing the use of saccharine in food products or drink. While the drug has 400 times the sweetening ...

    Article : 152 words
  11. A CIRCULAR SAW JOINTING TOOL.

    The jointing of a circular saw requires a special tool that will make the points of the teeth in a perfect circle. The tool Illustrated here ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 123 words
  12. MAGNETISING IRON AND STEEL.

    That magnetism increases the strength of iron and steel seems to have been proved by Mr. W. J. Crawford, at the Technical institute of Belfast. He used ...

    Article : 87 words
  13. A TREE THAT YIELDS MILK AND BREAD.

    A remarkable tree of South America— a region notable for its natural history wonders—is that called the cow-tree. it receives that name because, at certain ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 225 words
  14. STALE ASPARAGUS.

    A medical man has just raised the question whether asparagus develops any deleterious properties if kept for a few days after being cut before it is cooked. Three ...

    Article : 154 words
  15. KILLS PAIN, BUT NOT CONSCIOUSNESS.

    A discovery of an anaesthetic (to destroy consciousness during operations) that is expected to revolutionise the preliminary treatment of surgery patients ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. GAS-MANTLE AS HEATING RADIATOR.

    The Incandescent gas mantle is modified into a heating radiator by M. Marcel Delage a Parisian engineer. A tube of asbestos thread of open mesh, Is formed ...

    Article : 158 words
  17. BREATHING THROUGH THE NOSE.

    In order to ensure restful sleep, no romping or other excitement should be permitted for at least an hour before a child retired. An hour should clapse also ...

    Article : 185 words
  18. VOICE TRAINING.

    Dr. Ottomar Rutz, of Munich, is responsible for a new theory of genius, going considerably farther than the ordinary Monist doctrine, whish aseribes all ...

    Article : 217 words
  19. HOME-MADE WRENCHES.

    The accompanying sketch shows the construction of two wrenches made by a correspondent of the "Blacksmith and Wheelwright." The wrench (Fig. 1) is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 94 words
  20. RELIGION

    The Uganda Mission of the Church Missionary Society is rightly regarded as a Christian miracle of modern days (says the "Pall Mall Gazette"). A nation ...

    Article : 169 words
  21. MONEY

    Two small James 1. silver goblets, only 7in high, and about 10½oz in weight, realised £1130 at, Messrs. Christie's rooms (London) last, month after spirited ...

    Article : 76 words
  22. LAMP WHICH WILL PENETRATE THE DENSEST FOG.

    An important discovery—an electric lamp which can penetrate the densest fog —has been made in somewhat romantic fashion (says a London exchange ...

    Article : 164 words
  23. GETTING RID OF £200,000.

    Mr. Daniel K. Pearsons, of Chicago, popularly known as the Sage of Hinsdale, celebrated his 90th birthday last month, and announced that as he does not expect ...

    Article : 100 words
  24. A HEALTHY WOMAN'S FACE.

    One of the most pitiable sights to be seen is the woman who suffers from anaemia, upon whose face the bloodless seal of poverty of the blood has been set ...

    Article : 408 words
  25. JAPAN'S PROGRESS.

    The ninth issue of the "Financial and Economic Annual of Japan" gives a valuable statistical record of Japan's progress. It shown that the trade depression ...

    Article : 109 words
  26. A NON-POLITICAL VIEW OF ANGLICANISM.

    It would go far to ensure peace and a better understanding if Nonconformists in general would follow the worthy example of one of their recognised leaders—the ...

    Article : 183 words
  27. "ICE-KING'S" RETURN.

    Mr. Charles W. Morse, the former iceking, who, after spending several months in the Tombs Prison, was released last month on £25,000 bail pending his ...

    Article : 135 words
  28. USING THE WEIGHT OP THE BODY AS ENERGY FOR TRANSIT.

    A novel, kind of roller skate, devised by a tutor In tho University of Upsala. Sweden. is called tho "tachypod," and has two large wheels, giving It the appearance ...

    Article : 189 words
  29. REASONABLE TOLERATION.

    The Bishop of Birmingham is a Churchman of no uncertain views, and no one has any doubt as to the particular direction in which those views lie, but he ...

    Article : 249 words
  30. TURBINES FOR CARGO BOATS.

    In the steamship Vespasian, which left the Tyne last month, four specially appointed engineers and two expert coal-weighes are travelling for the purpose ...

    Article : 96 words
  31. A £2000 ORCHID.

    In 1902, writes Mr. Franklin Clarkin. only five of the precious "Cypripedium" orchids were in existence. The next year one specimen alone in the known world ...

    Article : 205 words
  32. GERMAN TAXES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 words
  33. LIBRARIES FOR THE CLERGY.

    In this critical age, when the laity themselves are in so ninny cases well versed in the theological literature of the day they have a very natural demand that their ...

    Article : 221 words
  34. PRIZE GROCER'S SHOP.

    Last year Mr. W. F. Tupman carried off premier honors in the national examination of grocery students, held in London. and being adjudged by a board of experts ...

    Article : 184 words
  35. PATENTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 words
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  37. CHANGELESS ARCTIC TEMPLES OF ICE.

    Amid the bleak Icy deserts of Greenland the survivors of the recent ill-fated Erichsen expedition discovered a crystal palace of superhuman architecture vaster ...

    Article : 244 words
  38. A MISSIONARY'S MULTIFARIOUS DUTIES.

    The duties-which full to the let of some of the missionaries, through the staff being undermanned, is shown by the by no means exceptional case bt a C.M.S. (says ...

    Article : 218 words
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