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  2. BREATHING EXERCISES.

    Breathing exercises are healthful and developing, but one must ever keep in mind that in order to get really good results—a round, fine waist ...

    Article : 93 words
  3. PROTECTING THE VOLUNTEERS

    Here is a once-familiar story of the younger Pitt which may bear retelling for the present generation. The solemn and stiff-necked statesman had ...

    Article : 164 words
  4. American Humour.

    Great Chance.—Artist (surprising a burglar): "Stay just where you are for five minutes. The light effect is simply fine!" ...

    Article : 795 words
  5. Facts and Fancies.

    In 1888 Janos Meryessi, who was eighty-four years old, jumped off the suspension bridge at Budapest into the Danube. He was rescued, and ...

    Article : 913 words
  6. The Poultry Run.

    After any outbreak of disease, after any incursion of red-mite, to check the spread of liver disease or consumption, nothing is better than ...

    Article : 142 words
  7. A PARADIES FOR MEN.

    In the new buildings that have lately been opened by a large London stores there is a club room in which men can wait while their wives do their ...

    Article : 188 words
  8. Science Notes and News.

    An electrical engineer of Heiligenstadt, Saxony, named Franz Doering, claims to have perfected an apparatus whereby electric light and electric ...

    Article : 110 words
  9. TRAGEDY OF A DOT.

    A claim for damages for alienation of affection has been lodged by a New York man against an American telegraph company owing to a remarkable ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. ILLUMINATING GAS FROM SEWERS.

    It is reported that illuminating gas is to be made in Austria by a somewhat unusual process, and for this purpose a plant is being erected at ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. A TRAP NEST.

    Recording nests that trap the fowl on entering are a mixed blessing, as often an inquisitive intruder shuts herself in, occupying the nest for half ...

    Article : 160 words
  12. THE MOTORISTS "EXAM."

    "What is an automoblie ?" "It is an infernal machine used by the classes for dealing death to the masses." ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. WHAT HELPED.

    "Was it a case of love at first sight?" "No, second sight. The first time he saw her he didn't know she was an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  14. ETHER IN THE BLOOD.

    A new method of administering an anaesthetic is attracting the attention of medical men. A vein in the arm is selected, and under a local ...

    Article : 119 words
  15. WAGNER'S DOGS.

    Wagner, the great musical composer, had several dog friends. At one time, in Vienna, hE had a dog named Pol, and at another time one called ...

    Article : 175 words
  16. DEFORMITIES IN CHICKENS.

    There are many deformities to which wrongly managed or wrongly bred chickens are subject, and such deformities are very annoying to the ...

    Article : 626 words
  17. A SEVENTEEN-YEAR SLEEP.

    Herbst ("Berliner klinische Wochenschrift") reports the case of Gesine Meyer,' aged 44, who slept seventeen years. In the six years preceding the ...

    Article : 314 words
  18. "OUT OF SORTS."

    That out-of-sorts feeling from which everyone suffers at times arises in most cases from one or two causes. Either the stomach is lazy and wants a day ...

    Article : 315 words
  19. THE POWER OF AN AIR BRAKE.

    Some idea of the power of an air brake may be gained from the following facts: It takes a powerful locomotive drawing a train of ten ...

    Article : 107 words
  20. THE PINEAPPLE AND ITS MEDICINAL PROPERTIES.

    One of the leading medical authorities of Cuba claims that the juice of the pineapple materially aids the digestion of the proteids of both ...

    Article : 198 words
  21. ELECTRIC POWER FROM GATUN LAKE.

    Electric power will be used almost exclusively for operating the Panama Canal. The hydro-electric station will be situated adjacent to the north wall ...

    Article : 76 words
  22. THE CAUSE OF THE SOURING OF MILK IN THUNDERSTORMS.

    Everybody is familiar with the fact that milk is more apt to turn sour in stormy weather than at other times. The cause of this has been a matter ...

    Article : 193 words
  23. PECULIAR LIFE ON THE PLANET MARS.

    Mars is inhabited by warm-blooded animals, according to the view of Professor Perrier, the celebrated French astronomer. The winter season on ...

    Article : 243 words
  24. BUTTERMILK.

    Buttermilk as a remedial agent canner be praised too highly. The lactic acid, the [?]our of the buttermilk, attacks and dissolves every sort of ...

    Article : 223 words
  25. SUCH IS HYPOCRISY.

    In Madagascar, where roads are few and hotels almost unknown, the people are very hospitable. It is the custom for a traveller at the end of his day's ...

    Article : 200 words
  26. CANADIUM.

    The discovery of what is believed to be a new noble metal may have important scientific and commercial results. The new metal was found by ...

    Article : 133 words
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