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  2. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 508 words
  3. SCIENCE

    Mr. Valdemar Poulsen last month maintained excellent wireless telephonic communication between stations 420 miles apart. He considers this result most ...

    Article : 51 words
  4. TRADE

    The famous Whitney mansion on Fifth Avenue and Fifty-seventh-street, New York, is advertised as being to let for either residence or business purposes. ...

    Article : 59 words
  5. INVENTION

    Mr. Frederick A. Boyd, a native of this State, who now resides in West Australia, has invented a gramophone horn^ which, he claims, will reproduce the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 148 words
  6. TRAVEL

    The new Republican Government of Portugal will have conferred one of the greatest boons on the country if it succeeds in a campaign it has just undertaken ...

    Article : 130 words
  7. THE COUNTLESS STARS.

    What is the number of the stars? No one knows. Every improvement in the art of photography seems to reveal more and more stars ; and, according to Sir ...

    Article : 52 words
  8. PARIS AS A SEAPORT.

    Owing to the recent rising of the Seine, the question of averting floods was acute. The "Matin" declared that the only method of doing so was to deepen the bed ...

    Article : 76 words
  9. MARVELS OF MEMORY.

    Memory handed down through 30 generations is one of the perplexing facts of science. The beaver flourished along French rivers until killed off for its fur, ...

    Article : 124 words
  10. THE NEW BEETROOT FLOUR.

    In preparing flour from sugar beets, at the establishment of a French manufacturer, the roots are first chopped, and most of the high percentage of water is ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. A STRANGE COLONY.

    The Colonia Cosme, on the Paraguay above Asennsion, is one of the most [?] in the world. The members or the colony make or grow everything they ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. LUMINOUS BIRDS.

    An interesting paper on birds with luminous or phosphorescent plumage has been read before a French society. It has been suggested that the luminosity is due ...

    Article : 175 words
  13. £40,000.000 CANAL SCHEME.

    An important deputation representing of municipalities and 48 Boards of Trade warted upon tho Canadian Ministry last month, and urged the immediate ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. HUGE CUNARD LINER.

    Not the least interesting feature in con[?] with the building of a gigantic vessel like the new Cunarder— which is to he the largest vessel in the world—is ...

    Article : 160 words
  15. PORTABLE CIGARETTE LIGHTERS.

    The Paris correspondent of the London "Times" reports that, the Ministry inters to lay before the Chamber a Lill fer regulating the manufacture, sale and use of ...

    Article : 118 words
  16. STUDY OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

    Dr. Simon Elexner. the learned investigator of the Rockefeller Institute. New York City, who discovered a scrum that greatly reduces mortality of ...

    Article : 257 words
  17. MAMMOTH CAVE IN AUSTRIA.

    A description of the new mammoth cave in Europe has been published by Berman Boch recently discovered near [?] in Austria. The cave is ...

    Article : 147 words
  18. RELIGION

    Dr. Sanday, Lady Margaret, Professor of Divinity at Oxford, giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Divorce in England, said there were two distinct ...

    Article : 115 words
  19. THE PERFECT HOTEL.

    Commencing their tour with the belier that the London hotels were the finest in the world, the hundred Austrian hotel proprietors and managers who were in ...

    Article : 297 words
  20. SWEDISH SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION IN AFRICA.

    Mr. R. J. Cuninghame the African traveller and hunter, who piloted Mr. Roosevelt's expedition through Central Africa, has left to take charge, of an important ...

    Article : 132 words
  21. VENTILATED SHOE.

    Throe Americans have recently put their heads together, and evolved the ventilating scheme, illustrated in the accompanying drawing. The shoo is provided ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 104 words
  22. MONEY

    The coal bill of the fourteen principal railways in the United Kingdom last year totalled £5,603,490. ...

    Article : 22 words
  23. LAST IRISH LORD BISHOP.

    The resignation was announced last month of Dr. William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland. It will take effect from February 1 next. ...

    Article : 129 words
  24. £9350 FOR PEARLS.

    Three pearl necklaces produced £9350 at a sale of jewels from various sources in London last month. The principal lot was a necklace of eighty-five well-matched ...

    Article : 57 words
  25. HEALTH

    "Your eyes are worth more to you than any book," says a New York Hoard of Education pamphlet. "Your safety and your success in life depends on your eyes, ...

    Article : 125 words
  26. INN NAMES.

    Scattered throughout England are some furious inn names, but Germany probably Keeps the record for out-of-the-way signs and fantastic names. The most absurd ...

    Article : 158 words
  27. £230,000 FROM BISCUITS.

    The late Mr. Robert McVitie, of Edinburgh and of Woodcockhill, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, sole partner in the biscuit firm of McVitie find Price, left, personal ...

    Article : 126 words
  28. A GREAT CHURCHMAN.

    Mr. Asquith. at St. Botolph's Church?, Aldgate. London, last month, unveiled a memorial to the late Rev. Robert Henry Hadden, who was vicar of the parish from ...

    Article : 122 words
  29. PNEUMATIC CUSHION FURNITURE.

    Pictured in the accompanying engraving is a section of a chair fitted with pneumatic cushions, furnishing a very soft and comfortable seat and back. To hold ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 100 words
  30. HOW TO ESCAPE A COLD.

    The best way to escape colds, writes a medical authority in an exchange, is to avoid the infective agents. When thorn is an epidemic, public vehicles, theatres, ...

    Article : 134 words
  31. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 375 words
  32. EARNINGS OF KRUPP'S.

    The great armor and gun-making firm of Krupp has announced a 10 per cent, dividend for the year on the share capital of £9,000,000. as compared with 8 per ...

    Article : 109 words
  33. AERONAUTICS

    The Aero Club or France has decided that aeroplanes, before being offered to the public for sale, must be subjected to an official examination, so that their ...

    Article : 61 words
  34. DANGERS IN WALLPAPER AND BOOKS.

    The Berlin health authorities have completed an examination of the books put out by the libraries of that city. Many of them were found to contain the ...

    Article : 164 words
  35. RUBBER FORTUNE.

    Mr. William Wellington Bailey, of Plassy House. Limerick. Ireland, who died last month. leaving personal property in the United Kingdom worth £368,582. made ...

    Article : 178 words
  36. GRAHAME-WHITE'S PROTEST.

    The Aero Club of France has decided to uphold the Roal Aero Club in its protest. instigated by Grahume-White. over the British aviator not being allowed another ...

    Article : 65 words
  37. M. PAULHAN AS "AUNT SALLY."

    The London to Manchester £10,000 prize figures was one of the most successful Christmas toys in Paris. A papier-mache imago of the popular airman, M. Louis ...

    Article : 105 words
  38. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 words
  39. HEART STIMULANT.

    A small metal box containing an [?] light globe and a cup for holding alcohol, is the basis of an invention which, it is expected, will prove of great service in ...

    Article : 225 words
  40. COMMERCIAL AEROPLANES.

    The first use of an aeroplane for carrying express matter was made by the Wright brothers on November 7, last year, when one of their biplanes left the ...

    Article : 151 words
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