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  2. MOVING PICTURES.

    A book on "Moving Pictures: How they are Made and Worked," published by Heinemann, contains some good stories. When "Daddy" Paul obtained the film ...

    Article : 453 words
  3. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    The electric lighting station of Bremen, Germany, has adopted a method for the sale of current by which it hopes to reach small consumers and induce them ...

    Article : 130 words
  4. LADIES' COLUMN.

    Women generally do not do justice to pretty gowns because they have not learned how to put on their things smartly or even neatly. A smart woman can ...

    Article : 121 words
  5. HOW WAGS THE WORLD.

    Just after the railway accident at the Pout des Coquetiers, Paris, recently, a man with face and scalp bleeding profusely hurried up to one of the doctors, ...

    Article : 134 words
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    Advertising : 1,547 words
  7. LORD LISTER.

    The death of Lord Lister five days ago removes the last survivor of the great men of the mid-Victorian era, and the fact that his discoveries have already ...

    Article : 1,248 words
  8. SINGING LESSONS AND HEALTH.

    Any child with an ordinary voice will learn to sing it properly taught. Apart from the obvious advantage of acquiring a useful and pleasure-giving ...

    Article : 176 words
  9. HARNESSING NIAGARA.

    A novel scheme to make the fall of water over the Canadian or Horseshoo Falls at Niagara more uniform, and to carry out in a measure the idea of the ...

    Article : 267 words
  10. CENSUS FOR FRANCE.

    The results of last year's census in France have now been officially published They show that the population numbers but little over 39,500,000 persons, ...

    Article : 108 words
  11. SOLDIERS TO ARREST NEGRO.

    At Scottsville a negro who had become insane killed his father and then barricaded himself in his house. He fired a number of shots at a sheriff's posse ...

    Article : 86 words
  12. GOOD FOR THE COMPLEXION.

    It is good to eat some sort of green food every day, and there are many who believe that happiness and beauty lie in the taking or hot water, broad and cheese, ...

    Article : 172 words
  13. WIVES SCARCE IN KANSAS.

    Bachelors in Kansas have decided to form a combine for the settlement of the matrimonial problem. Marriageable young women are so scarce in Grant ...

    Article : 206 words
  14. GAS v. ELECTRIC LIGHT.

    Tests on the influence of light sources on the air of a dwelling room were made in a room 14ft long, 12ft wide, and 12ft high, provided with one door and two ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. RECENT BRITISH STRIKE.

    Some surprising and significant comments upon the great railway strike in the United Kingdom are contributed to the "National Review" by Mr. Philip ...

    Article : 452 words
  16. THE QUEEN'S CARNATION.

    It was at Kensington Palace, London, that Queen Mary first gained her first love for flowers. In the long, sombre passages oat that vast edifice a girl with ...

    Article : 144 words
  17. LIGHT FROM THE STARS.

    A scientist at the observatory of Paris has made some interesting calculations of the intrinsic light of a number of stars, based on the results he had previously ...

    Article : 152 words
  18. DINNER BY TELEPHONE.

    Mr. Charles R. Anderson, a wealthy New York broker, who is at present visiting Denver, has created a record in the matter of dinners. It happened that ...

    Article : 105 words
  19. THE BEST HUSBAND.

    Women love genius at long range; they admire wealth and power as expressed by men who control the business world; they are proud of the homage of intellect ...

    Article : 247 words
  20. LIFE FROM DEAD MATERIAL.

    Evidence that living plants or animals are still being produced from lifeless materials is offered by Dr. H. C. Bastian. In experiments described at the Royal ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. AN OLD AMBITION.

    The oldest member of Parliament in the world, the Hungarian deputy Mr. Joseph Madarasz, who is now in his ninety-ninth year, issues a denial of the ...

    Article : 106 words
  22. 200 PHOTOGRAPHS.

    A somewhat amusing but method of drawing their employees' attention to the effect of small wastes is a[?]pted by the Pere Marquette railway. A ...

    Article : 123 words
  23. AMUSING THE POLICE.

    A complete cinematograph theatre has been established in the Central Police Office in Vienna, in which all films must be shown for censorship before they are ...

    Article : 78 words
  24. HARDENING CHILDREN.

    It is a grave error to suppose that a child can be hardened by exposing it to the elements without it being suitably clad and well nourished. Instead of trying to ...

    Article : 304 words
  25. A LUCKY BLACK-AND-TAN.

    A black-and-tan terrier named "Babi" has inherited £1000 in the funds from his late mistress, Mme, Kabo, who has died at Budapest. When her will was ...

    Article : 82 words
  26. LIGHTNING CALCULATOR.

    Arthur F. Griffith, a famous lightning calculator, who four years ago was a farm hand, bas boon found dead in bed, of apoplexy. He has puzzled ...

    Article : 463 words
  27. FROST ON MARS.

    The following statement has been issued from the Lowell Observatory, giving supplementary information regarding the announcement by Professor Percival ...

    Article : 119 words
  28. BOROUGH OF SIX HOUSES.

    According to the census returns just published, the population of the smallest borough in Belgium—Zootonay, a short way inland from Ostend—is twenty-six ...

    Article : 117 words
  29. POISON MYSTERY.

    Is there such a thing as a "hypnotic poison?" This problem has been discussed at length during the trial in Berlin of a Russian swindler named ...

    Article : 117 words
  30. ONE THOUSAND GIRLS MISSING.

    The police authorities of New York announce that during the past year they have received notification that no fewer than 1000 girls and young women were ...

    Article : 115 words
  31. A NATION'S GREAT ASSET.

    Queen Helene of Italy is always doing gracious things for children. "I love them for themselves," she said; "but, at the same time, they are the greatest asset a nation ...

    Article : 107 words
  32. A LUMINOUS METAL.

    For generations the peasants of Cornwall have handed down a legent that at night there may be seen a faintly luminous metal among the rocks brought from ...

    Article : 119 words
  33. STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.

    The great works which are at present being undertaken at the Cathedral of Strasburg have for aim to secure and consolidate the different parts of the sacred ...

    Article : 139 words
  34. COCKROACH AND CONSUMPTION.

    Dr. C. Conyers Morrell has been making experiments which tend to show that the common cockroach is able by contamination with its faces to bring about ...

    Article : 149 words
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