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  2. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    A garb of semi-invisibility proves to be the fine silvery bubbles often seen clinging to the hair or feathers of birds or animals in water. Dr. Francis Ward ...

    Article : 103 words
  3. MUSICAL CHAT.

    The following music will be sung on November 13th in connection with the dedication of the completed chancel and east window at the Newcastle ...

    Article : 1,249 words
  4. LADIES' COLUMN.

    A good housewife rightly considers that her work should be set about in good time in the morning, but it is impossible to do some of it too early. It is for ...

    Article : 235 words
  5. HOW WAGS THE WORLD.

    A 14-year-old boy named David Detweller, of Memphis, who has lost both his legs, has been taught to swim after a month's tuition (says the New York ...

    Article : 244 words
  6. THE CARNEGIE MILLIONS.

    A tour of Mr. Carnegie's permanent foundations in America has just been made by Dr. John Ross, chairman of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trustees. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 739 words
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  8. THE CLEAVER ANT.

    Not only naturalists, but every one who has watched ants, has wondered how they find their way to and from their nosts. A French naturalist, M. Cornetz, ...

    Article : 224 words
  9. THE TRAINING OF MOTHERS.

    The high mortality among infants is dealt with by the medical officer of health for Islington (London). In his annual report. The cause as every doctor in ...

    Article : 268 words
  10. A DASH FOR FREEDOM.

    A messags received recently from el Paro, Texas, states that Mr. Walter Douglas, the manager of the Mexican Copper Mines, belonging to the Phelps Dodge ...

    Article : 239 words
  11. FUEL VALUE OF FISH.

    "Fish is not heating" has been the declaration of housewives, cooks, and oldfashioned nurses and doctors for many years. But this is by no means exactly ...

    Article : 304 words
  12. THE INFERIOR SEX.

    Woman, according to the latest scientific conclusions, is man interior, because of the smaller percentage of chloride of sodium in her blood. So said the "Matin" ...

    Article : 175 words
  13. WHERE FLIRTING IS FORBIDDEN.

    Many eminent doctors regard kissing as a dangerous and obuoxious habit; but there are places—happily abroad—where kissing and flirting is an offence against ...

    Article : 168 words
  14. PLANTS THAT MIMIC STONES.

    In South Africa there is found a plant of the genus mesembryanthemum growing on stony ground, which so closely resembles a pobble, that it is invartably ...

    Article : 104 words
  15. UNITED AFTER FIFTY YEARS.

    A romantic wedding has just been solemaised between a couple, aged respectively 70 and 68, who were lovers before the American civil war, which separated ...

    Article : 156 words
  16. NAMING THE BABY.

    Chossing a name for a new baby is always a matter of anxious consideration: but in certain lands the anxiety has been minimised by the laying down of rules ...

    Article : 189 words
  17. THE SCIENCE OF HUNGER.

    The following scientific investigation on the suppression of hunger described in "Vosulsche, Zoltung," may be or interest. Remembering the habits of tramps to ...

    Article : 190 words
  18. A GRUESOME DISCOVERY.

    An extraordinary discovery has been made at Le Terreux, near Paris, where the body of a wealthy man who committed suicide 18 months ago was found in ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. GERMAN GIRLS' DOMESTIC LIFE.

    Nothing is more significant of the social condition of a people than the training of its girls in domestic life. In Germany the daughter of the noblieman, of ...

    Article : 183 words
  20. THE TRAMP'S TRICK.

    These experiments showed that the mechanical stimulus of swallowing by reflex auction causes a contraction of the stomach, thus accelerating satiation. This ...

    Article : 176 words
  21. COMPLIMENTS BARRED.

    The United States war Department has adopted a new system of correspondence designed to save time and labour by the oilmination of what were termed ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. THE DANDY OF TO-DAY.

    A new fashion of foppishness is being adopted by ultra-smart mon in London. They are becoming wearers of jewellery like women. Their money is carried in ...

    Article : 377 words
  23. THE CARE OF THE HANDS.

    It should be remembered that the skin of the hands is more exposed to and tried with adverse conditions than any other parts of the body. These who ...

    Article : 367 words
  24. GIRL BABIES STRONGER.

    The "weaker sex" is really the stronger sex, according to a communication made to the Academy of Sciences by Professor Dantan, a French naturalist. He ...

    Article : 87 words
  25. THE JOHANN ORTH MYSTERY.

    The death from a broken heart is reported of the major-domo of "Johann Orth," the Austrian Archduke Johann Salvator, who quitted [?]les, possessions, ...

    Article : 281 words
  26. POWER FROM THE SUN.

    The sun-power plant, which has just been erected for pumping water for irrigation in Egypt, has been a success. If the plant yields all that is expected of it. ...

    Article : 178 words
  27. NEW MUSIC.

    Mrs. C. Hibble's song "Roses of Memory," which as previously mentioned in this column, is a setting of words by Miss Sylvia Pearce, has just been published ...

    Article : 85 words
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