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  2. INVENTION

    Recently some interesting experiments were carried out at Malsons Laffitte, near Paris, with a "wireless torpedo," the invention of a young French engineer, M. ...

    Article : 119 words
  3. SCIENCE

    Shrimps which carry their own lights have been discovered by the Prince of Monaco in the course of his deep-sea fishing in the Mediterrancan. They live at ...

    Article : 56 words
  4. TRAVEL

    The crater of Mauna Loa, in the Sandwich Islands, the largest volcano in the world, is twenty miles in diameter. Sometimes the stream of lava issuing from it is fifty miles long. ...

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  6. RELIGION

    The civic authorities in Berlin, in view of the successful results which have followed similar action in the case of other German towns, have decided to grant next ...

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  7. TRADE

    A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Swiss wine merchant who has made a fortune by sending wins to dead men and compelling the relatives of the ...

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  8. YEAR'S TOLL IN THE ALPS.

    According to a report from Genova, 150 climbers in the Alps have been killed or have died from injuries received in the mountains during the season. The ...

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  9. WHEN TABLETS SHOULD BE ERECTED.

    Visiting the historic Paris Church of Mold, Flintshire, the Bishop of St. Asaph commented on the number of memorial tablets erected therein during recent ...

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  10. THE ROUGHNESS OF THE MOON.

    Professor See says that the roughness of, the surface of our moon shows how many bard knocks it has received in the past. Every planet has gone through a ...

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  11. BOILED LEATHER FOR BREAKFAST.

    Dr. Karl Kumn has been engaged on a journey from the Niger to the Nile since October of last year. The hardships endured were terrible, his oxen died, and ...

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  12. THE TENDENCY TO AMALGAMATE.

    The tendency of the day is unmistakably towards big amalgamations of capital. A month or so ago there was the amalgamation of the London and Westminster and ...

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  13. PRACTICE PIANO KEYBOARD.

    This invention will interest almost anyone, but especially those who are cliffdwellers in modern boarding-houses. It is a practice keyboard, on which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. POLITICS IN THE PULPIT.

    The Rev. Arthur Turberville, minister of the Home Hill Congregational Chapel said recently that one of his chief reasons for joining the Church of England is that ...

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  15. TUNNELLING MONT BLANC.

    Engineers are contemplating piercing Mont Blane for a double line electric railway. The tunnel would be eight miles long and would shorten the distance ...

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  16. THUNDER.

    Experiments made lately by an eminent physical scientist show that the astounding noise following a lightning, discharge is largely due to the dissociation of water ...

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  17. THE AREA OF THE EMPIRE.

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  18. THE TWO ANGELS.

    The following allegory is told among the Turks; Every man has two guardian angels, one on his right shoulder and one on his left. In doing good the angel on ...

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  19. NO CRITICISM ALLOWED.

    The manager of the National Theatre at Ossek, Croatia, has made an appeal to all the journals of the town to refrain from printing any criticisms of the military ...

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  20. DEVICE FOR DRAWING OVOIDS.

    The instrument illustrated herewith can readily be made by any handy man, and will enable him to draw cllipses of various sizes, and ovoids as well. It consists ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 149 words
  21. TRAP TO CATCH SUNBEAMS.

    A comparatively simple experiment, but of great significance, has recently been performed which may mark the beginning of a series of wonderful practical ...

    Article : 161 words
  22. IRONCLAD ROADS

    Interesting experiments in road-making are being carried out by the city of Truro. The system under trial is an entirely novel one the invention of a local man, and it ...

    Article : 101 words
  23. JOAN OF ARE MIRACLES.

    The Congregation of Rites will this month commence to consider the canonisation of Joan of Arc, who was beatified by the Pope in April last, writes the Rome ...

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  24. RARE WINES.

    The champagne industry of Germany is, compared to that of France, its cradle and home, quite young. The fact is obvious in Germany Itself. In Germany, if ...

    Article : 163 words
  25. FOOLING THE BIRDS.

    At the Zoological Gardens in London there has just been completed an arrangement of electric lamps which is to be used for nothing but the deception of the birds ...

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  26. DUST AND HAILSTONES.

    Science teaches us that if it wore not for the countless millions of dust particles that float separately invisible, in the atmosphere there would be no nailstones ...

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  27. "CHURCH UNION."

    With the New Year, writes a correspondent of the "Times," the question of "Church union" passes into a new phase in Canada, as the Congregationalists. ...

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  28. MONEY

    When an appeal was made at the Indian National Congress at Lahore recently for funds to help the Indians in the Transvaal a stream of banknotes, sovereigns, rupees, ...

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  29. TO PRODUCE REINFORCED PULP BOARD.

    The machine illustrated is designed to manufacture reinforced pulp board. The reinforcing fabric is run through the rollers on a endless belt. This reinforcing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  30. MISSION TO LEPERS.

    A mission to lepers has been established in Java by the Salvation Army. The patients are said to be chiefly Japanese. It appears to be quite a mistake to think ...

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  31. NEW DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA.

    Further details are to hand of the journey just concluded by Mr. Fred Shelford, the engineer, in connection with the projected railway from the Uganda ...

    Article : 276 words
  32. AERONAUTICS

    An ingenious flying machine named the ski-biplane has been constructed by Messrs. Maire and Perrin, of Morges, near Lausanne. The machine, with its long ...

    Article : 76 words
  33. £1,300,000 FOR FACTORY HAND.

    A telegram from Evreux, in Normandy, to a London daily, says that a working man named Maliet, employed as an ironmonger in a large factory, has just ...

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  34. INFINITELY LITTLE.

    The eighty-thousandth part of an inch is the smallest distance that can be clearly appreciated by microscopic observation. In this distance it is computed, that two ...

    Article : 177 words
  35. £4000 BONUS FOR WORKERS.

    The twenty-fifth distribution under, the profit-sharing scheme at Sir William Hartley's jam works at Aintree, Liverpool, took place recently, when £4000 was ...

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  36. IMPROVED NIPPLE GRIP. .

    When one wishes to replace a row broken spokes in a bicycle wheel, he often finds that he has no nipple grip, while a bicycle wrench proves to be too long ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  37. BRITISH NAVAL AIRSHIP.

    Little is known of the airship which Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim are building for the British Admiralty, and which will be the first airship in the ...

    Article : 139 words
  38. WOMAN AVIATOR'S PERIL.

    The Baroness do Laroche, the first woman aviator, had a narrow escape from death while making a trial flight on a Voisin biplane at Chalons recently. ...

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  39. PAN-ANGLICAN THANK-OFFERING.

    Latest mails show that further progress has been made with the work of allocating the sums to be given to various countries, provinces, and daughter ...

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  40. 10,000 ACRES AND £200,000 FOR NEW YORK STATE.

    Ten thousand acres of magnificent tend, accompanied by £200,000 for the purpose of converting it into a public park of unrivalled beauty, was Mrs. Harriman's ...

    Article : 117 words
  41. RECORD TOWN TO TOWN FLIGHT.

    On the last day of a year ever memorable in the annals of aviation, Mr. Maurice Rarman succeeded in setting up a new cross-country record by a magnificent ...

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  42. BIGGEST TELESCPOE ON EARTH.

    A telescope 68ft. long with a lens 70in, wide has just been set up in the new observatory at Treptow, near Berlin. This telescope is the biggest now in existence, ...

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  43. MR. CODY'S RECENT FLIGHT.

    Mr. Cody recently made his longdeferred attempt to fly from Liverpool to Manchester for Sir William Hartley's £1000 prize to the aviator who ...

    Article : 146 words
  44. HEALTH

    By the establishment of the Radium Bank of Great Britain which will be opened near Cavendish-square within the next six months, radium will be placed within ...

    Article : 147 words
  45. PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS

    Messrs. Giffiths and Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents have ben lodged at the ...

    Article : 268 words
  46. CONGREGATIONAL STATISTICS.

    The returns furnished officially to the forthcoming issue of the "Congregational Year Book" for 1910 will show that in Great Britain and Ireland there are now ...

    Article : 158 words
  47. AMERICA'S MANY MILLIONS.

    Returns made to the United States Monetary Commission by 22,491 banks and financial institutions on April 28, 1909. place the total backing resources of the ...

    Article : 131 words
  48. AEROPLANES AS PRESENTS.

    By way of sequel to the aviation craze there are not many children in Paris now who do not possess flying-machines of some kind, even if they cost only a penny ...

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  49. HOW SHOWERS FALL.

    Warm air is capable of holding more minsture in suspension than is cold air. When by any means a layer of current of warm air which in saturated with moisture ...

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  50. HIGHEST FLIGHT.

    M. Paulhan at Los Angeles, California, recently capped all records for high-flying. On arriving at Los Angeles, M. Paulban promised to perform great feats. "I shall ...

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  51. SOVEREIGN SUNLIGHT.

    Concerning the "color cure" mentioned recently in this column, an English medical authority says that the red ray is rich in therapeutic results for the treatment of ...

    Article : 175 words
  52. BIPLANE FLIGHTS.

    The Hon. C. S. Rolls was out on his Wright biplane at Shellbeach, Isle of Sheppy, recently, and made some interesting flights, describing circles and figures ...

    Article : 123 words
  53. 13,000,000 FEWER COINS.

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  54. DOINGS OF MISSIONARIES.

    A report of the Church Missionary Society, London, details the following doings of their missionaries:— The Bishop of Uganda has ordained in ...

    Article : 217 words
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  56. BALLOONS 12½ MILES UP.

    Mr. W. H. Dines, who is actively interested in the tests, now being carried out. to gauge the temperature of the air oft high altitudes, was able recently to ...

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