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  2. FROM ALL QUARTERS.

    Electric power derived from the waterfalls of Tivoli, which constitute one of the most famous gems of Italian scenery, is now transmitted about fifteen miles across ...

    Article : 2,128 words
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  4. Poultry and Garden.

    Egg-catching Hens.—It is doubtful if the vicious habit that some hens contract of eating eggs can be called a disease, unless we can imagine it to arise from some ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 826 words
  5. SUBMARINE FOR SIGNALLING.

    The "Sea Bell" system of submarine signalling as tried in Boston Harbour last year, together with a receiver Invented by the late Professor Elisha Gray, and ...

    Article : 449 words
  6. HORRORS OF THE RED SEA.

    All down the Gulf of Suez white-hot sandhills, bearing in the clear, thin air a curious likeness to tiny snow-clad Alps, have hemmed you in; the heat has ...

    Article : 354 words
  7. HOW FOREIGNERS ROB CANADA.

    Since Canada granted a preference tariff to Britain, tons upon tons of German and other foreign textiles have been brought over to England and reshipped to ...

    Article : 114 words
  8. PREPARING WOOD.

    A new process of preparing wood for building is in use in Austria. Green wood is placed in a large wooden trough whose bottom is covered with a lead plate. This ...

    Article : 138 words
  9. GENERAL FRENCH.

    What manner of man to be this cavalry leader who has done so much to retrieve the waning fortunes of a desperate war? Short, somewhat stout, thick-set, his ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. "THE COCK O' THE WALK."

    Shortly after Mr. Wilson Barrett joined the theatrical profession he became a member of a company performing at the old Theatre Royal, Dublin. His part, ...

    Article : 213 words
  11. NO NEGROES IN CONGRESS.

    It is a curious fact that the present session of (the United States) Congress contains no negro member. With the exception of a brief period from 1887 to 1889, ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. THE EXACT COST OF A HORSE POWER

    A French labourer working eight hours in turning a crank at a cost of about 3s per day produces one horse power hour at a cost of 3s 6d. An ox turning a ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. THE APE-LIKE MEN OF THE CONGO FORESTS.

    Sir Henry Johnston contributes a most fascinating paper to the February number of the "Pall Mall Magazine" on the ape-like men whom he has met during his ...

    Article : 321 words
  14. £835,000 FOR RAILWAYS.

    Lord Kitchener, acting on his experience in the Soudan, has arrived at the conclusion that an extension of the South African railways will materially aid in ...

    Article : 149 words
  15. THE GARDEN.

    The recent rains have brought the seeds previously planted, up splendidly, and it now behaves the gardener to keep the seedlings going with a discreet watering. ...

    Article : 487 words
  16. BEST TELEPHONED CITY.

    What is the best telephoned city in the world? asks a writer in the "Chronicle." The question is interesting in view of the coming developments in London. San ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. THE DEVIL-INFESTED COUNTRY.

    Mr. N. Fitzhugh Whithouse, jun., having completed the arrangements for his expedition from Zella to the Upper Nile, left recently for Marseilles. Mr. ...

    Article : 169 words
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