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  3. AERONAUTICS

    The German Minister for War has bought for the army the Siemens-Schuckert dirigible airship. In trials the vessel attained a speed of 43 miles an hour. ...

    Article : 33 words
  4. INVENTION.

    LIFE-PRESERVER BECOMES CHAIR OR BED. Lives may be saved by the use of the chair shown in the accompanying illustration. The inventor designed it primarily for use on boats, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 136 words
  5. SCIENCE.

    The Highway Department of the City of Leeds (England) has recently treated portions of a macadam roadway with granular calcium chloride to combat the dust. Solutions of the latter ...

    Article : 68 words
  6. NEW FRENCH AERO CLUB.

    Bleriot, who resigned in July last from the Aero Club of France, has started a new organisation called the Aviators' Friendly Association. Among his adherents are many famous aviators ...

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  7. A GREAT RESERVOIR FOR BUENOS AYRES.

    The largest elevated reservoir in the "world is to be erected at Caballito, near Buenos Ayres, in connection with the sanitary improvement schemes of the Argentine capital. It will ...

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  8. DELIVERING A FLYING MACHINE BY AIR.

    A Caudron bi-plane was recently delivered by the maker to Commander Felix, at St. Cyr (France). The distance from Crotoy to the point of delivery was ninety-six miles, which ...

    Article : 55 words
  9. RESISTANCE TESTS.

    The French military authorities have been making some remarkable tests with Bleriot monoplanes. On a special railway train a Bleriot monoplane was mounted in such a manner ...

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  10. STINGS RESTORE SIGHT.

    While changing a swarm of bees from one hive to another George Bailey, who lives near Placerville (U.S.A.), and makes a living selling honey, but who had been almost blind for some time ...

    Article : 97 words
  11. A BERLINER ENGINE.

    Mr. Emil Berliner, of Washington (U.S.A.), well known in connection with his telephone and other important inventions, has patented a rotary gas engine which has a rotating crank ...

    Article : 70 words
  12. INFLUENCE OF HEAT UPON METALS.

    To ascertain the extent to which repeated melting influenced the strength and reliability of bearing metals, an investigation was made by the German official testing bureau for ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. NEW AEROPLANE CONSTRUCTION.

    Spencer M. Brown, of Portland (U.S.A.), has patented an aeroplane which has a pair of upwardly inclined wings which are united at their .lower edges, and each of the wings is broken ...

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  14. SIXTEEN-HOUR JOURNEY IN DIRIGIBLE.

    The French dirigible "Conte" has made a trip lasting sixteen hours and twenty-four minutes. Under the direction of M. Cohen the craft left from the vicinity of Meaux and Fontainebeau, ...

    Article : 64 words
  15. CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.

    At a meeting of the Medical Society of Berlin Dr. Friedrich Franz Friedrich announced the discovery of another cure for all forms of tuberculosis, including tuberculosis of the lungs and ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. BICYCLE-HANDLE AEROPLANE CONTROL.

    Believing that an airman who has previously learned to ride a bicycle will have nothing to unlearn, and 'will be better to maintain lateral and longitudinal stability if he has a control ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. TRADE.

    Exports from the United States to Canada are now averaging £200,000 a day. Three years ago they averaged £100,000 a day, and a dozen years ago they averaged £50,000. ...

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  18. TRAVEL.

    Four-year-old Lilian Duncan, who recently arrived at" Hoose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Camilla, to live with her uncle after the death of her parents, travelled by land and sea from ...

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  19. RELIGION

    The Bishop of St. Asaph (Wales) has been leaking over some old records in his diocese, and he related one discovery when opening "a bazaar at Mold. He found that in 1749, in the ...

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  20. MEN IRON WITH THEIR FEET.

    One of the most curious sights to behold in Cairo, is men ironing with their feet. It is simply a custom of the country. The men were employed in the native tailoring ...

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  21. INVESTIGATING ACCIDENTS

    The Public Safety and Accidents Investigation Committee of the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain promises to fulfil a useful purpose in the development of aviation. Judging from the ...

    Article : 76 words
  22. BRITAIN'S BEST CUSTOMERS.

    The following interesting table is given in "The Tariff Reformer's Pocket Book and Diary for 1913," just published by the Tariff Reform League: ...

    Article : 207 words
  23. CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN IN LONDON.

    Captain Amundsen, the famous explorer, arrived in London last month. He was met by the Norwegian Minister, members of the Royal Geographical Society, and others. In an ...

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  24. PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO BISHOPS.

    Principal Lloyd, of Emmanuel College, Sebasta, Saskatoon, said at the Queen's Hall. London, last month, that the Bishops of Western Canadian dioceses were so overwhelmed by ...

    Article : 68 words
  25. ACID-PROOF IRON COMPOSITION.

    Iron alloys containing a certain percentage of cromium are usually employed in the manufacture of articles and apparatus which should resist the action of acids. These compositions ...

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  26. AERIAL TAXI-CABS.

    The aerial taxi-cab, or berline, built, for Deutsche do la Meurthe by Bleriot, the French builder, has been making some remarkable flights. The 100 horse-power motor has been ...

    Article : 82 words
  27. EXPLORATION OF THE EAST.

    Dr. Filippo de Filippi has submitted to the Council of the Royal Geographical Society a plan for a scientific expedition which he has projected to the "Western Himalaya and ...

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  28. AN ARCHBISHOP ON FICTION.

    The Archbishop of York (Dr. Lang), at the dinner of the Edinburgh Scott Club last month, said the typical novel of the present day in Great Britain was a study of the abnormal. The ...

    Article : 139 words
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  30. FRENCH WIRELESS EXPERIMENTS.

    The French officers are doing some very good work with aeroplanes carrying wireless apparatus, and within a recent period the results are improving. The latest experiments were made ...

    Article : 116 words
  31. RATTLESNAKE FARM.

    With enormous profits as an incentive Colonel F. W. Brown and George S. Ziller, of Berkely Springs, Virgina (U.S.A.), have formed a stock company to engage in "rattlesnake ...

    Article : 87 words
  32. FOR EXAMINING INTERIOR OF PIPES.

    An electric lamp of the self contained battery type, especially arranged for use in examining the interior of pipes, can be sean in the accompanying drawing. Curved springs radiating from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  33. CADMIUM ALLOY VAPOR LIGHT.

    Many attempts have been made to improve the mercury-vapor lamp, which gives a light of high electrical efficiency, but is disadvantageous for some purposes on account ...

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  34. MONEY

    English bank cashiers state that there Is quite a. famine in oppers owing to the Insurance Act, the odd pence necessary for the weekly wages causing employers to use coppers to an ...

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  35. THE BISHOP'S ARGUMENT.

    The Bishop of London recalled his experiences in the East End a quarter of a century ago, when addressing a men's meeting at Bethnal Green recently. "Twenty-five years ago, when I ...

    Article : 161 words
  36. NEW TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE.

    Herr Ballin, Director-General of the Hamburg-American Line, stated last month, that it was the intention of the company to develop the Boston passenger traffic next season. A ...

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  37. PLYING GUN.

    Actual firing with ball ammunition from a quick-firing gun mounted in a biplane took place at Ash Ranges, near Aldershot (Eng.). Mr. Geoffrey de Haviland was the pilot and Mr. ...

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  38. SHOWMAN LEAVES £22,000.

    Mr. Frank Charles Bostock, Kensington-mancions, Earl's Court, S.W., London, described in his will as an "entrepreneur," proprietor of "Bostock's Jungle," who died October 8, aged ...

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  39. PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM-WASHER

    This illustrates a photographic-film washer adapted for use in the bathroom. It comprises a cylindrical body to which the films are at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  40. A LINGERING LEGACY.

    Mrs. Louise Remsen, of Toronto (Canada), who died leaving estate valued at £1100, bequeathed to her husband the sum of £1/10/, to be paid in Instalments of 2½d per week. ...

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  41. HEALTH.

    Mr. Masterman stated in the House of Commons last month that the deaths from consumption in the United Kingdom in 1910 numbered:— ...

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  42. THE CHURCH AND MIRACLES.

    What is a miracle? What is its philosophic basis? What is the historical evidence for miracles? These were some of the questions discussed at the Church Congress a ...

    Article : 219 words
  43. AS IN THE ANCIENT DAYS.

    Rural Egypt remains the came to-day as it has been for countless generations. One of the quaintest sights but in the country is a native wedding. The bride and bridegroom are ...

    Article : 137 words
  44. BURIED MILLIONS.

    The public examination in bankruptcy of Arthur Ormsby, a business agent, was concluded in London. He said that in September, 1911, a gentleman from Bolivia told him he knew where ...

    Article : 123 words
  45. NOVEL CONTROL IDEAS.

    Stability, both in design and in the control, forms one of the most difficult problems that yet remain partly unsolved in aviation says the aeronautical expert of in London exchange, ...

    Article : 345 words
  46. FLEXIBLE METALLIC FINGER COT.

    A flexible metal protection for a sore thumb or finger is here shown. The so-called "cot" is composed of flexibly connected U-shaped metal links provided with' an extension which fastens ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  47. VACCINATION DRIVES TYPHOID FROM ARMY.

    Medical officers of the United States Army are much gratified with the continued success of anti-typhoid vaccination. Records show that among the 57,000 troops in the United States ...

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  48. HOSPITAL REFUSES £6000.

    The Royal Lancaster Infirmary Committee consider that the conditions attached to a be[?]est of about £6000 under the will of the late Mr. John. Jowitt, an estate agent and a ...

    Article : 118 words
  49. BURNING FOR 200 TEARS.

    A man who was described as living in one of the loneliest parts of England has been given a Parliamentary vote by the revising barrister at Brampton, Cumberland. ...

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  50. RELIGIOUS LEADERS' MANIFESTO ON THE WAR.

    The following letter was sent recently to the London "Daily Express." signed by the Bishop of Oxford, Canon Barnett, Dr. Clifford, Canon H. S. Holland, Mr. D. C. Lathbury, the Rev. J. ...

    Article : 395 words
  51. LONGER LIFE FOR HEAVY FOLK.

    The greater the weight the lower the death rate in families with a tubercular history, was a principle indicated by insurance society statistics, said the secretary to the Scottish ...

    Article : 108 words
  52. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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  54. FOOD AND ITS EFFECTS.

    Dr. Stanley Kill, president of ClarK's' College, lecturing before the Harvard Philosophical Club, U.S.A., stated that "a man is what he eats." The psychic life of a child and all animals centres ...

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  55. A FORBES CHILD BAD WITH DIARRHOEA.

    "Quite recently my boy Jack was very bad with Diarrhoea," says Mrs. M. Lee, oi Forbes, N.S.W. "For quite, a fortnight he was ill, and got down very weak. My husband bought a bottle of ...

    Article : 77 words
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