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  2. Worth Knowing.

    Persons often travel many thousand miles in order to marry, but a young Jewish widow of Russia recently travelled half-way Ground the world and back, simply to ask a ...

    Article : 87 words
  3. NOISY NORWEGIAN "COMMERCIAL.

    The commercial traveller is a disturbing; element in the small Norwegian hotels, says Mr. H. K. Daniels in his book, "Home Lifo in Norway." He comes and goes at all ...

    Article : 181 words
  4. TAX ON BACHELORS.

    The Austrian House of Lords has passed in a modified form the tax on bachelors proposed in the Lower House. As the modification is very insignificant it is certain that ...

    Article : 211 words
  5. NOVEL USE FOR ALCOHOL.

    Cubes of "solid alcohol" are coming into use in Germany and to some extent in America for cooking, heating curling irons or small amounts of water, and for any purpose ...

    Article : 90 words
  6. A VACUUM BENCH.

    A certain American foundry has made an interesting application of the "principle of the vacuum cleaner to carry off the dust raised in the process of rubbing castings. The use ...

    Article : 131 words
  7. GIGANTIC WATER WHEELS.

    The power-house of the new dam across the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa (U.S.A.), will eventually contain thirty of the largest water-wheels ever built. Each turbine ...

    Article : 161 words
  8. AERIAL TRAMWAY FOR MILK CANS.

    An aerial tramway is used for transporting milk cans on a large dairy farm near Biltmore, in New Connecticut (U.S.A.). The cableway leads from the milking barns the ...

    Article : 109 words
  9. NAPOLEON'S KINGLY ROBES.

    The new number of the "Revue des Etudes Napoliennes" gives some details about the cost of the Coronation robes worn by Napoleon and' Josephine that will cause envy ...

    Article : 182 words
  10. PLANTS THAT COUCH.

    The existence of carnivorous plants, laughing plants and plants that weep has long been known to students of the curiosities of vegetation. Now the name of the coughing ...

    Article : 192 words
  11. HOW FISH ARE DROWNED.

    When a fish is taken out of the water, it is drowned by the air. The "gills must be wet in order to extract the airy and as soon as they are taken out of the water, which ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. WORTH MORE THAN CARUSO.

    J. T. O'Neil, of Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, arrived in New York recently by the White Star liner Celtic with a brown Irish skylark in a bulkheaded cage that held also ...

    Article : 170 words
  13. WIRELESS SIGNALS FOR AVIATORS.

    New problems are arising concerning serial navigation, such as the question of guidance on starless nights or over fog bound land, when the aeronaut will be unable to find his ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. LETTER'S TWO YEARS' TRIP.

    Mr. Harry T. Plunkett, a civil engineer, is on his way to Topeka, Kansas, to claim a bride whose letter accepting his proposal of marriage was written fourteen months ago. ...

    Article : 179 words
  15. LEAGUE OF POLITENESS.

    A League of Politeness, for the purpose of cultivating the externals of courtesy, is being created in New York. There will be branches throughout the States, the ...

    Article : 211 words
  16. WORKING MAN ARTIST.

    Walworth has a working-man artist, whoso powers have been attracting attention. Born at Manchester in 1867, Matthew Mooney was taken at the age of three to Glasgow. He ...

    Article : 166 words
  17. A RAILWAY FOR ICELAND.

    Iceland is to have a railway. The present methods of transportation there are extremely primitive. Although in the southern part of the island there are a few carriage roads ...

    Article : 145 words
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