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  2. PHOTOGRAPHING UNDER WATER.

    Attempts to photograph submerged objects: with a camera placed in air can result In only, partial success, and this bat rarely. Failure is due to the fact that the photograph is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 982 words
  3. SCIENCE IN PRACTICE.

    One of the most dangerous ol all explosives is a black powder called iodide of nitrogen. When it is dry the slightest touch will often cause Jt to explode with great violence. There ...

    Article : 186 words
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  5. CARROTS FOR BABIES.

    One would scarcely think ol feeding ill babies on carrots, yet this is precisely what bas been reported to have been done with, great success by an Italian physician, Dr. Moto, who ...

    Article : 111 words
  6. Dick Winston's Invention.

    "Dick, what is the answer? Tell me Quick, for Heaven's sake." It's no go. They won't see the gun, Jess." i "They won't eee the gun?" ...

    Article : 3,210 words
  7. ELECTRIC CARRIER.

    Does an electric current when passing through a metal conductor cause any transportation of particles? It is well known that it does so in the liquid conductors known as ...

    Article : 105 words
  8. WAVES IN UPPER AIR.

    It is announced by Miss C. O. Sterens, an English woman astronomer, that by protecting her eyes with screens of some thin textile fabric she has often been able to see crossing ...

    Article : 105 words
  9. ZINC IN PLANTS.

    Traces of many metals are found in plants, j but zinc has hitherto been identified very rare—: ly. In fact, its presence has been looked upon as accidental in many cases, as "when plants ...

    Article : 228 words
  10. ALUMINIUM SLUMP.

    An event of great interest to the users of metals is the recent great drop in the price of aluminium. Owing to the expiration abroad of patents that still hold good in America, the ...

    Article : 184 words
  11. CRUMBLING CATHEDRAL.

    It has geen found that the sea air is rotting the stone of the fine Cathedral of Marseilles (Prance), regarded by some as the most beautiful modern edifice of the kind in France. ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. HOW I LOST £4,000,000.

    A New York telegram to London of May 7 said:-Mr. Charles W. Morse, who just prior to the financial panic of 1807 boasted that he was worth £4,500,000, is to-day penniless and in ...

    Article : 187 words
  13. TAXING ELECTRICITY,

    A Bill to tax electricity and gas lias just been introduced into the German Reichstag. It passes the imperial revenues will benefit, it Is calculated, by about £1,240,000 yearly. ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. THE WORKHOUSE CRICKET.

    Frank Mullet, who was on May 4 at g borough (England) Police Court sentenced to ten days' imprisonment for refusing to perform his allotted task at the Workhouse, said that he ...

    Article : 67 words
  15. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY NULLIFIED

    An Austrian electrician claims to possess an Invention which, he says, will nullify wireless messages in war time The inventor declares that the aparatus makes unintelligible all ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. UNWRITTEN LAW PLEA.

    In a dramatic final plea for the acquittal of Captain Hains, who was beingtried for the murder of Mr. Annis, whom he shot last August, his counsel, Mr. M'Intyre, dropped all pretence ...

    Article : 110 words
  17. VESSELS OF MELTED QUARTZ,

    It is not so long ago that the text books on minerals used to describe quartz as "infusible." The electric furnace has given the lie to this specification, and now some manufacturers of ...

    Article : 129 words
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  20. THE LONELY RECTOR.

    The Bey. John S. Twigge, rector of Ormside, a remote Tillage two miles from Appleby (Eigland), with a population of 200, has resigned his living on account of the loneliness of his ...

    Article : 101 words
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