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  2. SCIENCE

    Mr. Otto Beit, whose benefactions to medical science are so well known, has given £5000 to the British Homoeopathic Association to constitute a fund, the proceeds of which are to be ...

    Article : 67 words
  3. TRADE

    Major Archer-Shee M.P., states that the balance of trade against Great Britain in her dealings with her principal commercial rivals- Germany, France, America, Holland, and ...

    Article : 389 words
  4. INVENTION.

    This sighting device is designed for use in connection with bomb-dropping apparatus on aeroplanes. A camera or view box contains a ground-glass screen on to which a picture of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 109 words
  5. RELIGION

    Bishop Welldon, Dean of Manchester (Eng.). in an address to members of the theatrical profession, said that a sympathetic understanding between the Church and the stage might be ...

    Article : 299 words
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  7. ELECTRIFIED. BATH.

    "Electrified" patients, -with their hair standing more or less on end, while radium "gas" is being injected into them — such is the spectacle which visitors to Bath may see in the near ...

    Article : 361 words
  8. SMOKE AND CINDER CONDUCTOR FOR LOCOMOTIVES.

    Out of Cripple Creek, Colorado - (U.S.A.), comes this smoke and cinder conductor for loco- notives. The conductor discharges under the urning board of the locomotive. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  9. "SHOT INTO THE ABYSS."

    The Rev. J. E. Flower, who presided at the annual meeting at the London University of the National Home-reading Union, said that young people were allowed to go out of school ...

    Article : 111 words
  10. FOLDING LEG BRACKET.

    This leg bracket, designed to carry the weight of receptacles, such as baskets, pails, and the like, has a carrying arm which may be folded out of the way when not in use. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 38 words
  11. STATE-RAILWAY FALLACIES.

    "Nationalisation of Railways," was the topic for debate recently at the Sideup (Eng.) Institute, when Mr. Emil Davies, chairman of the Railway Nationalisation Society, met Mr. C. .H. ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. HEALTH.

    Medical authorities now claim that "writer's cramp" and other similar states of apparent muscular paralysis are actually due, not to the tiring of the muscles, but to brain fag. it ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE.

    Professor Vivian B. Lewes, speaking on "Liquid Fuels" at the Royal Society of Arts, London, last month, said, in the near future they would be brought face to face with the ...

    Article : 424 words
  14. SOUDAN COTTON.

    The development of the anglo - Egyptian Soudan is dealt with in a letter by Mr. Arno Schmidt, the secretary to the International Cotton Federation. "From my own ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. HAIR CURLER.

    An unusual set of hair-curling tongs is here shown. The device has three troughs, the two outside ones sliding forward when the handles are brought together, so that the rods hinged to their inner ends force the hair against the rod in the stationary middle trough, thus producing a lateral wave of the nair. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
  16. AERONAUTICS

    During a daring flight at Northampton (Eng.) last month, Mr,Hamel controlled his aeroplane in a wind that that was blowing at over fifty miles an hour. so strong was the wind that the ...

    Article : 53 words
  17. MONEY

    Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun., is reported to have set aside £2,000,000 to establish homes throughout America for the reclamation of white slaves. There are now about 100 such ...

    Article : 48 words
  18. MODERN DENTISTRY NOT AT ALL MODERN.

    A medical authority has just stated a number of newly aepuired bits of information that would seem to refute the proposition that modern dentistry is modern. The ...

    Article : 330 words
  19. CADMIUM ALLOY VAPOR LIGHT.

    Many attempts have been made to improve the mercury vapor lamp, which gives a light of high electrical efficiency, but is disadvantageous for some purposes on account of the greenish ...

    Article : 165 words
  20. WEALTH OF THE ROTHSCHILDS.

    A well-informed writer estimates that [?]wealth of the Rothschilds at the present day exceeds four hundred millions sterling and is ivcreasing rapidly every day. Estimating that ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. AVIATION TRAGEDY RELIC.

    During the recant storm in England a quanntity of. wreckage was washed ashore at Lapanne, near Ostend, among it being the spirit reser-voir of an aeroplane. From marks on the ...

    Article : 80 words
  22. MAGAZINE FOR PHONOGRAPH RECORDS.

    This snows a book-like magazine for carrying phonograph records of the disc type. The pages of the book, which is of the loose-leaf type, are in the form of envelopes into which the discs are slipped. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 40 words
  23. PREFERENCE IN LEATHER.

    The English "Shoe and Leather Record," in an interesting leading article recently, shows how a tariff on leather might be framed so as to give a valuable preference to the ...

    Article : 226 words
  24. FLIGHT IN A SNOWSTORM.

    After 3 full morning's flying trials by members of the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, the Army airship Gamma left Farnborough (Eng.) one day recently at one o'clock ...

    Article : 203 words
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  26. ANCIENT COINS FOUND.

    While digging in his garden at Marmery, a French vinegrower unearthed a beautiful granite vase, the contents of which give out a metallic ring. Having cleared the mouth, out ...

    Article : 185 words
  27. NEW METAL CAP FOR BEVERAGE BOTTLES.

    The ora [?]ary metal cap, now almost universally used for beer bottles and bottles containing soft beverages, is not as satisfactory as it might be because an opener is required. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 65 words
  28. WIRELESS AND SHOCKS.

    That high power Hertizan waves emitted by modern wireless telegraph stations are capable of setting up high electromotive forces in metal structures in the immediate vicinity ...

    Article : 63 words
  29. GOOD FOR THE NERVES.

    A well-known London nerve specialist has said that "all neurasthenics (that is, people with unhealthy nerves) haye desiccated nerves and suffer from an insufficiency of fluid in the ...

    Article : 436 words
  30. COUGHING PLANT.

    a French botanist claims to have discovered a plant that actually coughs. The plant, which is found in tropical regions, possesses the power to cough in the most approved fashion. ...

    Article : 134 words
  31. BRILLIANT FLYING AT HENDON.

    Gustav Hamel, the popular aviator, gave a thrilling performance at the Hendon Aerodrome (Eng.) last month, when the sunny and springlike weather attracted a record crowd. After a ...

    Article : 72 words
  32. BRITAIN'S TRAMWAYS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 372 words
  33. CUSTOMS AND COINAGE.

    Whether the habits and customs of a people regulate their coinage, or whether the reverse is the case, might be made the subject of interesting speculations. The Chinese "cash" may ...

    Article : 273 words
  34. A TOOTHED NUT-CRACKER.

    This nut-cracker differs from the usual kind in that only one jaw is provided with a file surface, the other having pointed teeth. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  35. GERMAN ARMY AIRSHIPS.

    It is stated in the Berlin papers that the War Ministry has ordered two more Zeppelin airships, both of which will be ready early in the Summer. The purchase of a second aerial ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. THE STORY OF MINOR PLANETS.

    Mr.A.C.D. Crommelin, of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Eng.), gave a lecture last month in the theatre of the Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, London , on ...

    Article : 275 words
  37. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 words
  38. FLYING LAW IN AUSTRIA.

    The Austrian Home Office has issued a decree 'by which the flying of aircraft over certain zones is prohibited for military reasons. Aircraft which accidentally get over such zones ...

    Article : 147 words
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  40. AIRSHIP ON A HOUSE.

    The wooden-frame airship Schutte-Lanz. while engaged in trial flights from the shed at Blesdorff, near Berlin, with a view to purchase by the War Office, met with a serious accident ...

    Article : 143 words
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  42. GIANTS LIVED IN CALIFORNIA.

    Recent excavations indicate that the peninsula south of San Francisco once was inhabited by a race of giant stature. Professor Harold Heath. of the zoologic department of Stanford ...

    Article : 90 words
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