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  2. SCIENCE

    The distinguished French physiologist, Prof. Charles Richet, has contrived an air-niter for rooms. Beneath the fans of a ventilator is a reservoir of glycerine. ...

    Article : 90 words
  3. INVENTION

    A novel galvante cell has recently been invented, which generates an alternating runout (relates a London exchange). Tho electrodes of this cell are thin sheets of ...

    Article : 96 words
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  5. TRADE.

    It is estimated that 2,200,000,000 herrings are landed in Britain in a year. Their total value is about £2,000,000. ...

    Article : 26 words
  6. OUR WEALTH AT SEA.

    The world's shipping makes up 41,449,767 tons, and of this total over 45 per cent is owned by the British Empire, their quota being 18,826,442 tons. This ...

    Article : 59 words
  7. HOW LETTERS STRIKE OUR EYES.

    Roman letters of various sizes are commonly called into request by oculists in testing vision. Recent experiments show prent differences in the ease with which ...

    Article : 143 words
  8. FLEXIBLE CRANK-AXLE.

    A new crank-axle has been, patented by Mr. H. Ivatt, chief mechanical mechanical engineer Great Northern Railway. The object is to get flexibility to deal with end thrusts ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 87 words
  9. WORLD'S LARGEST CRANE.

    The gigantic 160-ton crane, which practically completes the equipment of machinery at the Devonport Dockyard (North) Extension, and is said to be the ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. ALCOHOL AS FUEL.

    The belief, that almost immediately the market will be supplied with perfected engines using alcohol for fuel, and that it will be a very simple matter to convert a ...

    Article : 160 words
  11. GLOW IN VACUUM TUBES.

    A new kind of glow in vacuum tubes has been discovered by the Rev. H. V. Gill. A vacuum tube is fitted up containing a small tip of palladium foil, or ...

    Article : 159 words
  12. TELEPHONE AND PHONOGRAPH.

    Some time ago a magnetic phonograph was invented, which its designer hoped to use in connection with the telephone to receive and record messages in the ...

    Article : 156 words
  13. THE WORLD'S TONNAGE.

    From the annual statistics issued by the committee of Lloyds, it appears that though the number of merchant vessels owned in the United Kingdom for the ...

    Article : 188 words
  14. ABOUT ELECTRICITY.

    Professor Nipper recently pointed out the phenomenon of an electric current, when passing round a sharp corner, of apparently projecting a discharge along ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. REMARKABLE HAND SAW.

    This apparently ordinary carpenter saw is capable of being rolled into a complete spiral without breaking or straing beyond its limit, and, although ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 117 words
  16. KNOWING ONE'S POWER COSTS.

    Many steam plants might be run much more economically if scientific methods were adopted (says the "Magazine of Commerce"). Accurate records should ...

    Article : 194 words
  17. MIGHTY ATOMS.

    The change which a single decade has wrought in the general knowledge of atoms and molecules is not easily grasped. Attempting to make the matter more ...

    Article : 190 words
  18. TRAVEL

    Mark Twain, who will bo seventy-four on November 30, has consented to pilot President Taft's boat down the Mississippi in October from St. Louis to New ...

    Article : 85 words
  19. HEALTH.

    The "Scientific American" describes a simple method of testing the quality of milk which should prove useful. It is so simple that it can be tried by anyone, and ...

    Article : 203 words
  20. MONEY

    Over £12,000,000 in duties on tobacco was collected in Great Britain for the twelve months ending March 31 last year. ...

    Article : 24 words
  21. THE BIG BANK AMALGAMATION.

    One of the most Interesting announcements of the month (says the London "Magazine of Commerce") is the arrangement to amalgamate the London and ...

    Article : 192 words
  22. A REMARKABLE BUILDING.

    A building with no brick or woodwork, with thirteen acres of floor space, and with its 40,000 tons of floors, walls, and roof so riveted by great slabs of concrete ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. WHERE THE OLDEST TREE STANDS.

    The town of Kos, the capital of the small Turkish island of the same name off the coast of Asia Minor, can boast of what is believed to be the oldest tree ...

    Article : 120 words
  24. PROMOTING SAFETY IN THE THEATRE.

    The most interesting of many recent inventions for enabling people to escape from theatres in case of fire is a mechanical contrivance by which the entire ...

    Article : 200 words
  25. COMPRESSED ACETYLENE.

    The use of compressed acetylene has hitherto been prevented by the great risk of explosion incurred when this gas is confined under a pressure exceeding ...

    Article : 170 words
  26. AN INEXHAUSTIBLE SUPPLY OF PAPER STOCK.

    In consular aud trade reports communications have appeared on the utillsation of the prickly pear, especially in Australia as to whether it should be eradicated ...

    Article : 194 words
  27. HOW A CONSUMPTIVE WAS CURED.

    "Eat less, and eat it more—a maxim quoted a short time ago—is the subject of a letter from a London food reformer. "I have in my mind," he says, "the case ...

    Article : 135 words
  28. MIGRATION OF PEASANTS TO SIBERIA.

    The migration of peasants to Asiatic Russia is now assuming noticeable proportions (says the English Consul at Klcff). According to the latest reports ...

    Article : 192 words
  29. THE NEWEST LANGUAGE.

    There is in use in some parts of the West Coast or Africa, says a traveller, a system of writing of native invention which is said to be successfully competing ...

    Article : 108 words
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  31. FIXED STARS.

    Writing on the problems with which astronomy will in the future be concerned. Professor E. C. Plekering elects in favor of the study of the fixed stars, ...

    Article : 313 words
  32. THE IMPORTANCE OF INFLUENZA.

    Dr. A, W. Gilchrist states that, influenza is of sufficient economic interest to command the attention and study of a department of State medicine. It is so he says, ...

    Article : 174 words
  33. THE ATTRACTION OF PISA.

    There is a tradition that the Leaning Tower and the building of its group are all that is worth seeing in Pisa, says the "Dial," Few, perhaps, realise that Pisa ...

    Article : 154 words
  34. PATENTS.

    MESSRS, GRIFFITH and HASSEL, Patent Attorneys, of 163 King-street. Sydney and Queen-street Melbourne report that, the following applications for patents have been lodged at the ...

    Article : 183 words
  35. DURABILITY OF IRON VESSELS

    Admiral Douglas, speaking recently on the navy at Sheffield (Ens), alluded regretfully to the comparative durability of the former wooden walls of England ...

    Article : 286 words
  36. TEMPORARY REPAIR OF A HAMMER-HANDLE.

    Hammer handles usually break near the hammer. If the break is not shattered, and run he joined together as shown by ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 74 words
  37. THE PANAMA CANAL.

    According to the Washington correspondent of the New York "Times." fortifications cosing £1,100,000 are to be built to defend the Panama Canal, the most ...

    Article : 240 words
  38. BATHS AND THEIR USES.

    Sir James Barr observes that a little washing does every one good, especially those who only take an annual tub, He adds that the nature of bath must ...

    Article : 121 words
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