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  2. Scientific and Useful. LARGE BELT.

    The largest driving belt in the world has just been manufactured to the order of an Amiens manufacturer, and it is intended to transmit 1000 h.p. It is on the homogeneous system—that is to ...

    Article : 108 words
  3. Scarboro Hotel,

    The subject of our illustration is the hotel recently erected at Doll's Point. The position of the hotel is one of the most charming in the vicinity of the metropolis. The building has ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 927 words
  4. Gleanings. GATHERED FROM EVERYWHERE.

    "The boneless tongue, so small and weak, Can crush and kill," declared the Greek. "The tongue destroys a greater horde," The Turk asserts, "than does the sword." ...

    Article : 130 words
  5. THE LIFE TERM OF BIRDS.

    It is a well known fact that birds enjoy much longer terms of life than do che mammals. Hesiod and Pliny both tell us of rooks that lived to the patriarchal age of 700 years, and that the ...

    Article : 119 words
  6. A Strange Ceremony.

    Upon the death of a Spanish king a singular and imposing ceremony takes place. When the religious rites have been celebrated the body of the monarch is borne on a magnificent catafalque, ...

    Article : 1,149 words
  7. A MEAT DIET.

    The attention of the French Society for the Advancement of Science has recently been directed by certain physicians to the evil effects of an excessive meat diet, or of raw, over-kept, or ...

    Article : 125 words
  8. A GAS WELL RE-OPENED.

    A strange thing has taken place, according to an American scientific journal, at the Royal Gas Wells, near Venice, Pa., U.S. The gas was struck some time ago in the fifth sand, and if ...

    Article : 178 words
  9. Don't Stop at Station Despair.

    We muet trust to the driver, most surely; Why, millions of millions before Have made this same journey securely, And come to that ultimate shore. ...

    Article : 165 words
  10. TYPE-SETTING BY TELEPHONE.

    The management of the London TIMES has utilised the telephone in a unique way. Telephone wires have been laid in the underground railway tunnel between the composing room in ...

    Article : 193 words
  11. Obeying Orders.

    The captain of a vessel just arrived in the harbor of New York, directed one of the crew, an Irishman, to throw the buoy overboard. He was then stepping into his cabin. On his return, the ...

    Article : 70 words
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