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  2. THE SPEED OF RAILWAY TRAINS.

    The speed of railway trains is restricted within three theoretical limits. First, a physical limit of eighty miles an hour, beyond which it is found impossible for a train to hold the track; second, ...

    Article : 88 words
  3. UNEXPLORED CANADA.

    According to a statement of Dr. G. M. Dawson, in the Ottawa NATURALIST, there are neatly a million square miles, or from one-thiid to onefourth of the whole Canadian Dominion, ...

    Article : 43 words
  4. Lord Popetoun's Visit

    The first visit of any Governor of Victoria to Wangaratta took place on September 19, when the Pastoral and Agricultural Show was opened by Lord Hopetoun. Everything was done to make ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 556 words
  5. REMARKABLE SURGICAL APPLIANCES.

    The " mended " human being will be of strange construction in the future. The experiments of a surgeon in Berlin have enabled him to introduce catgut and ivory as substitutes for muscle and ...

    Article : 84 words
  6. Scientific and Useful.

    Holland, with a population of tour millions and a small revenue of £9,000,000, spends £136,000 per annum of State income on her four universities. Scotland, with the same number of ...

    Article : 46 words
  7. OVERHEAD OR UNDERGROUND WIRES.

    It has for some years been the practice at the Berlin post and telegraph office to record all storms and electric disturbances, their direction, force, extent, &c., and the result has ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. A POWERFUL RIVAL OF JUTE.

    Reports from Tiflis mention the discovery of a plant, kanoff, which may probably become a poweiful rival of jute. To what special genus the plant belongs is not stated, but ...

    Article : 131 words
  9. THE ANGLO-FRENCH TELEPHONE.

    M. Jules Roche, French Minister for Commerce and Industry, said recently: "This establishment of the telephone I am certainly disposed to look upon as of great importance, politically ...

    Article : 51 words
  10. CRUSHED STEEL.

    Crushed steel is said to be coming into use for cutting stone. It appears to be made by quenching very high carbon steel in cold water from an excessively high temperature, such as would ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. PEAT FUEL.

    A St. Petersburg journal states that a Russian civil engineer. M. de Nicaloff, has succeeded in producing a fuel from peat, greatly resembling ant[?]hracite coal. The inventor has obtained a ...

    Article : 147 words
  12. PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN ENGLAND.

    A report prepared recently shows that from January 1 to July, about 700 head of stock have been slaughtered in Cumberland (England), under orders of the local authority, for the ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. MINERAL OIL IN INDIA.

    Since the year 1884 the imports of mineral oil into India has increased from 13 to 39 million gallons per year. It would be hard, writes the ENGLISHMAN, to find a parallel in the history of ...

    Article : 217 words
  14. A SUBMARINE BOAT.

    The French submarine war boat, Goubot, bas recently made some very successful trials at Cherbourg Harbor. The boat remained under water two hours, moving from place to place, and ...

    Article : 100 words
  15. STRASBURG UNIVERSITY AND LIBRARY.

    Strasburg rebuilt her university and library at a cost of £711,000, and receives an annual subvention of £43,000. Eight laboratories are provided, so as to equip it fully with the modern ...

    Article : 96 words
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