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  2. INVENTION

    A new shade attachment for electric lamps is shown in the accompanying drawings. It is for use when a strong local illumination is so necessary that the pendant or bracket lamp is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 122 words
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  4. TRAVEL

    This curiosity may be seen at the function of King's Cross-road with Pentonville-roaa, London. The names appear one below the other exactly as in sketch. Of course, one of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 83 words
  5. SCIENCE

    The Union of South Africa has decided to establish a general meteorological service, which will supplant the separate services heretofore maintained by Cape Colony, the Orange ...

    Article : 76 words
  6. PENETRATION OF WATER BY SPECTRUM RAYS.

    An important investigation of the penetrative power of different colored rays of light in water has been recently undertaken by Helland-Hansen. The experiments were conducted from ...

    Article : 137 words
  7. A CLOTHES AIRER.

    This picture illustrates a novel clothes' airer that will do away with all the inconvenience the housewife has to contend with when airing clothes in the home. The airer contains eight ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 89 words
  8. AERIAL CABLEWAYS ON ISLAND OF ELBA.

    Aerial cableways arc being used on the historic island of Elba, in the Mediterranean, for the transportation of ore from mines which contain deposits of some of the richest iron one ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 139 words
  9. DO FISHES REMEMBER ?

    Continuing his experiments as to whether fish possess memory or association of ideas. M. Oxner, the French scientist, recently obtained some interesting results. He had already ...

    Article : 150 words
  10. CHEMISTRY OF THE SOIL.

    Dr. A. D. Hall lecturing, last month before the Royal Institution in London, said that experiments had shown that the addition of carbonaceous matter in the form of sugar to an experimental plot poor in nitrogen had ...

    Article : 323 words
  11. MEMORANDUM TABLES FOR WATCHES.

    A neat little device in the form of a memorandum tablet that can be attached over the face of a watch, is shown in the accompanying illustration. It is made of imitation ivory and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 134 words
  12. RELIGION

    The aged rector of Holton, a pleasant little Somersetshire village, had the curious experience one recent Sunday morning of conducting a service, whereat there was only one ...

    Article : 120 words
  13. TRADE

    The rapid growth of small plaice "transplanted" from a shallow in-shore grounds to the richer feeding ground of the Dogger Bank, as compared with fish remaining on the inshore, ...

    Article : 126 words
  14. HEALTH

    "Good News for Fat Men" is the title of a little pamphlet issued at Breslau by the Japanese Dr. Hikada, who has been making ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. MONEY

    A contract was signed last month for the sale to the representatives of an Anglo-French cocoa syndicate, of eight cocoa plantations in the island of St. Thome (Portuguese West. Africa) ...

    Article : 44 words
  16. AERONAUTICS

    Probably the most curious finger-post in the world is that which has just been erected near London at Mason's Hill. Bromley, Kent. It is 18ft high, and has big painted models of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 96 words
  17. ROUND THE WORLD SEARCH FOR RELIGION.

    "God gave us two legs to walk with, and it. He had wished us to be the slaves of the soil one leg would have sufficed.' This is the motto, taken from Heine, of twelve well-to-do ...

    Article : 115 words
  18. £10,000 FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH.

    Under, the will of the late Lord Wandsworth a sum of £10,000 was bequeathed to Sir William Bennett, to be applied, by him at his discretion for the promotion of medical research. Sir ...

    Article : 93 words
  19. WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF STAPLE CROPS.

    That the annual increase in the world's production of staple crops during the past tan years has been two and one-half times faster than the growth of population throughout the ...

    Article : 232 words
  20. SAFETY STIRRUPS.

    A safety stirrup designed particularly for ladies and children who ride astride saddle is finding much favor in England. A successful stirrup must be simple and free from working parts that may fail to act, and this stirrup seems to fit these requirements. It is sold at about the same price as the ordinary stirrup iron. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 61 words
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  22. GOUT AND THE ANCIENTS.

    We hear a good deal of the degeneracy caused by the spread ol civilisation and luxury, says an exchange, and, therefore, learn with some satisfaction that our primeval ancestors were ...

    Article : 231 words
  23. £11,423, COSTS IN OSBORNE CASE.

    The final payment regarding the litigation in the Osborne case (which killed compulsory levies for payments to Labor M.P.'s), was recently made in England by the Amalgamated ...

    Article : 50 words
  24. LEGALITY OF CRUCIFIXES.

    On the legality of crucifixes some interesting remarks and an important judgment were de livered at the Consistory Court recently by the new Chancellor of the Diocese of London ...

    Article : 328 words
  25. ANONYMOUS £50,000 GIFT.

    The committee for the removal of King's College Hospital to South London last month received from an anonymous donor a cheque for £30,000, the first instalment of a donation of ...

    Article : 74 words
  26. AMERICAN PASSENGER-CARRYING RECORD.

    On April 20 George W. Beatty made two circuits of the Nassau Boulevard aerodrome in New York in his Frontier-engined Wright biplane carrying five passengers. The total live load lift ...

    Article : 107 words
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  28. CARGO BOAT PROFITS.

    Rather a useful light on the profits of cargo boat companies is thrown by a comparative table compiled in an English exchange. It deals with the accounts of sixteen different ...

    Article : 311 words
  29. NEW OTTOMAN LOAN.

    According to the latest English mail, an option was then being secured by a French group to float a Turkish loan in France within a twelvemonth, for an amount of at least ...

    Article : 75 words
  30. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 363 King-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents have been lodged at the Commonwealth Patent Office. Melbourne:— ...

    Article : 225 words
  31. TELEPHONE SET FOR AIRMEN.

    The accompanying illustration shows Howard Gill and M. Bernays Johnson connected up by a special telephone apparatus, and ready for a flight in a Wright biplane. Owing to the roar ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 152 words
  32. THE DEADLY FLY.

    Drs. Liasant Cox and Ernest Glynn recently told the Liverpool (Eng.) Medical Association of some observations they bad made upon the numbers and varieties of germs carried by the ...

    Article : 159 words
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