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  2. WEATHER AND FOOD.

    A scarcity of the cardinal foods of mankind, perceptible in almost every quarter of the world except our Antipodes, is engaging the attention of men of science as well as ...

    Article : 419 words
  3. NEAR AND FAR.

    A verdict of suicide daring temporary insanity was returned last month at the inquest it London of a septuagenarian, who committed suicide by hanging himself in Medway Work ...

    Article : 84 words
  4. CRAZE FOR CHEAPNESS.

    The indictment of fondness for cheap and uneconomical tea and of unskilfness in coffee-making was levelled at the average English housewife by Mr. A. J. Giles, secretary of the ...

    Article : 408 words
  5. ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY.

    Last month the largest and most important exhibition of electrical machinery and appliances ever held in England was opened at Olympia. The enterprise was promoted by the ...

    Article : 1,382 words
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  7. CAUSES OF LUNACY.

    "One of the things which will continually add to the number of either temporary or permanent imbeciles is the competition for work." This statement was made by an English ...

    Article : 118 words
  8. IMPERIAL SOLAR SYSTEM.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) in an interview which appeared in a recent issue of the British "Labor Leader," states that the chief results of the Imperial Conference is that in ...

    Article : 154 words
  9. HAUNTED ALPINIST.

    M. Georges Casella relates in the "Auto" a remarkable conversation with the great Alpinist, Edward Whymper, at Chamonix three days before his death. ...

    Article : 153 words
  10. CHOLERA AND CENSORSHIP.

    A Ministerial circular to the newspapers, signed by the Italian Primo Minister, Signor Giolitti, made an appeal to the patriotic sentiments of Italian journalists, urging them ...

    Article : 160 words
  11. THE SCIENTIFIC SALESMAN.

    Sir James Crichton-Browne, speaking last month at the annual dinner of, the Institute of Certificated Grocers at the Trocadero Restaurant, London, emphasised the importance of ...

    Article : 225 words
  12. THE JOHNSON-WELLS FIGHT.

    Unless the Home Office intervenes the fight between Johnson and Wells for the world's championship will take place at Earl's Court on Monday week (says the London "Times" in a ...

    Article : 819 words
  13. THE MOVE TOWARDS SOBRIETY.

    There are signs that some day we may have a sober England, writes the "Times" in a leading article; not one in which drunkenness is unknown, but one in which it has ceased to be a ...

    Article : 645 words
  14. £240,000 BUILDING NEVER FINISHED.

    An amusing account is given in a Paris newspaper of how the French Government erected a building at a cost of £240,000 nine years ago and after installing a caretaker took no ...

    Article : 394 words
  15. A WAR THAT PAID.

    "Travelled" writes:— A paragraph, in the financial column of a contemporary stating that the Chilian output of nitrate of soda last year broke all previous ...

    Article : 286 words
  16. LABORER AT OXFORD.

    By sheer hard work a young Oldham man named Howarth Johnson, who at the age of 11 went to work in the mill, and up to last month was a laborer in the employ of a firm of textile ...

    Article : 294 words
  17. THE WAR OF THE FUTURE.

    Unfortunately for the military theorist, the two struggles that are at present being waged in the East and West of the old world afford no lesson in the methods of up-to-date ...

    Article : 319 words
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  19. NEARLY BURIED ALIVE.

    On me apparent death of a ninety-year-old sister in the Palermo (Sicily) Convent of Guidino last month the other nuns got the undertaker and prepared for the funeral. ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. REAL STAGE THUNDER.

    There was an amusing incident at His Majesty's Theatre (London) last month during a rehearsal of "Macbeth." Sir Herbert Tree, when in the midst of a long soliloquy which has to be ...

    Article : 95 words
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