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  3. INVENTION

    A fish-hook that catches the fish eating the bait in the body as well as in the mouth is here illustrated. It consists of a bait hook, a gaff hook hinged to the bait, hook, and a buoyant ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 72 words
  4. AERONAUTICS

    Altered and improved since its flights last year, the Army airship Gamma made: a successful three hours' flight at Aldershot. Hants, England, last month. ...

    Article : 34 words
  5. RELIGION

    [?] view of the break-up of the Pope's health [?] the extraordinary number of vacancies in [?] College, a group of Roman Cardinals [?] the summoning of the Papal ...

    Article : 85 words
  6. MACHINE KILLS SHEEP.

    Wieland, the Swiss aviator, while flying at Biere, near Lausanne, recently, fell from a considerable height on a flock or sheep, killing five and injuring others. One was decapitated by ...

    Article : 47 words
  7. BLESSING BY TELEGRAPH.

    The Archbishop of Westminster read last month the following telegram from the Pope, [?] a message of homage at the [?]catholic Congress, over which he is ...

    Article : 69 words
  8. SHOT AT WHILE PLANING.

    The well-known frenen airman, Hene [?] who was classed after Beaumont and Vedrines in the European circuit, had a thrilling experience at Geneva. While flying at a height of ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. SIMPLE DOOR CLIP.

    The device shown in the accompanying illustration provides a simple clip to prevent a door banging when it is recuired open. It consists of a stiff steel spring or clasp and a "D"-shaped ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 168 words
  10. CUP FOR VALENTINE.

    Valentine, the first English aviator to finish in the great air race, was presented by the Mayor of Brighton with a cup valued at £100, on behalf of the Brighton Hotels Association. ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. HIGHER CRITIC'S VIEWS.

    Cannon Scott Holland, Regius Professor of [?] and Cannon of Christ London [?] gave a notable expression of opinion [?] the latest development of the higher ...

    Article : 283 words
  12. "BEAUMONT'S" GIFT.

    The Lord Mayor of London has received a letter from Paris from Lieut. J. Conneau ("Andre Beaumont") enclosing a cheque for £100 for the charitable work, of London. ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. VOLUNTEER AIRMEN.

    The Berlin "Tageblatt" learns that the Kaiser expressed a desire that as many German airmen as possible should participate in the "Kaiser manoeuvres" this month. ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. AEROPLANAGRAMS.

    "Captain Brenot, conducting experiments in aeroplane with wireless telegraphy, to the Minister for War. Flying between St. Cyr and Rambouillet. We beg to present our sincere ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. EMPTY CHURCHES.

    Some curious persons, standing on the beautiful bridge which spans the Thames at Rich[?] counted recently no fewer than 120,000 [?] woman and children crossing that bridge ...

    Article : 296 words
  16. PULLEY APPARATUS FOR PARALYTICS.

    The accompanying interesting diagram, reproduced from the New York "Medical Record," illustrates the use made by a paralysed person of an exercising apparatus, the invention of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 99 words
  17. MONEY

    The seventy-second annual report of the Muller's Bristol Orphanage and Scriptural Knowledge Institution, for which no appeal is ever made except by prayer, shows the year's ...

    Article : 39 words
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  19. TRADE

    The Chilian Admiralty have recommended the Government to accept the tender of Sir "W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Ltd., for the construction of the Chilian Dreadnoughts. ...

    Article : 53 words
  20. TRAVEL

    A fine piece of reinforced concrete work which w[?] attract the attention of engineer's and architeets, is the Royal Liver Friendly Soci[?] headquarters at Liverpool. This has just ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. RECORD ENDURANCE FLIGHT.

    After the record flight of Captain Felix, of the French Army, another record, that of endurance and also of distance, was made last month. ...

    Article : 193 words
  22. INDIAN FINANCE.

    A supplementary estimate issued by me Government of India last month of moneys to be spent this year, contains the following items: Grant to the King and Queen for the Indian ...

    Article : 64 words
  23. STOREHOUSE OF THE WORLD.

    London is the world's greatest market, for tea and ivory, said Mr. J. G. Broodbank, of the Port Authority, at the Society of Arts, last month. Each year 120,000 tens of tea and the ...

    Article : 71 words
  24. REFORM IN CHINESE CURRENCY.

    Meetings were held in London for the consideration of the reforms to be effected in the currency system of China in accordance with the terms of the £10,000,000 loan negotiated by ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. PANAMA CANAL.

    Colonel Goethals and the force now engaged in completing the Panama Canal will also have the task of fortifying it, and the work of building four forts on the islands on the ...

    Article : 207 words
  26. IRELAND'S PROGRESS.

    Inaugurating an "Irish Week" at Belfast, Mr. T. P. Gill, secretary of the British Department of Agriculture, said that the downward tendency which for many years had marked the ...

    Article : 112 words
  27. AEROPLANE AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

    The aeroplane has not yet reached a stage that would warrant its use as a means of thrills for the general public at amusement parks. The next best thing, therefore, is some device that ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 131 words
  28. NO NONCONFORMIST NEED APPLY.

    In a recent issue, reference was made to a population which waited upon the Bishop of [?] asking him to allow Nonconformists [?] opportunity of obtaining Divinity degrees ...

    Article : 341 words
  29. MULTI MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH.

    Mr. John W. Gates, the American millionaire, died at Paris last, month after a long illness, at the ago of fifty-six. Mr. Gates, who originally conducted a small ...

    Article : 171 words
  30. RECEPTION OF FRENCH AIRMEN.

    After the English Circuit Race last month, a reception was held in London in honor of Lieutenant Conneau (M. Beaumont) and M. Vedrines, the winning and second competitors ...

    Article : 470 words
  31. TABLE OF WASTE.

    See that your employees don't waste trifles in your office. It a clerk upsets a bottle of ink, value 1/, it will be equivalent to the destruction of an article which might have been sold at 4/. ...

    Article : 194 words
  32. SCIENCE

    An active dislike of the sun, amounting in many cases to a physical fear of going out of doors by day, is a curious result of the unusually fine Summer noted by many physicians ...

    Article : 269 words
  33. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS

    Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys of 163 King-street, Sydney and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents have been lodged at the Commonwealth Patent Office Melbourne:— ...

    Article : 179 words
  34. EARL OF YARMOUTH'S DEBTS.

    At the Bankruptcy Court, London, recently, creditors met under a receiving order made against the Earl of Yarmouth. The Chairman reported that the debtor had ...

    Article : 293 words
  35. HEALTH

    Mr. W. B. Patterson, senior dental surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the British Dental Association, said his hearers would ...

    Article : 202 words
  36. COMPETITION FOR ALL.

    "My husband's age." said Mrs. Evergreen, represented by the figures of ray age r[?] He is older than I am, and the different between our ages is one-eleventh of their ...

    Article : 91 words
  37. AEROPLANING IN A CAFE.

    Mile. Marvinght. met with a curious accident while taking part recently in an aviation meeting at St. Etienne[?] France. She was flying on an Antoinette monoplane, when suddenly the ...

    Article : 89 words
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