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  3. INVENTION

    A simple method of clarifying the air of a room has recently been suggested. It consists of an electric fan or venttiator, which is operated in a cylinder, and from ...

    Article : 113 words
  4. SCIENCE

    The heart is the most perfect pumping machine in the world. No inventor has ever surpassed it, and none ever will. It is a double-acting pump, and for its ...

    Article : 124 words
  5. TRADE

    Rubies, emeraids, amethysis, and topazes can now be produced artificially. They are all close relatives, being every one a crystal whose base is aluminium. ...

    Article : 139 words
  6. TRAVEL

    From the records of 130,000 earthquake shocks it has been found that the most shaken countries are: Italy, Japan, Greece, South America, particularly on ...

    Article : 54 words
  7. WOMAN TRAVELLER.

    Miss L. S. Gibbs has successfully scaled the Kinabalu Mountain in British North Borbeo, 13,700 feet high. Miss Gibbs is a member of the Linnean Society, and a ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. A CHAUFFEUR'S HEAD-LAMP.

    When the necessity arises to crawl under a motor car to delve into dark books and corners of the machinery artificial illumination of some kind is ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. SCIENTISTS PUZZLED.

    Sclentists in Denmark are greatly puzzled by a man named Emil Knudsen, aged 36, a Norwegian from Christiania. He has been an object of interest to the ...

    Article : 144 words
  10. CATCH FISH BY ELECTRICITY.

    Fishermen along the line of the Indianopolis, Columbus, and Southern Traction Company, U.S.A. have found a new and very effective way of fishing. The method ...

    Article : 116 words
  11. MAKING PAPER FROM PAPER.

    Many attempts have been made to use old newspapers and other printed shoots in the manufacture of white paper, but the removal of the printers' ink has ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. COLORED MOVING PICTURES.

    The solution of the problem "f colored moving pictures is claimed by Bertnon, a French experimenter. The natural [?] are split up into the three primary colors ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. SO COLD, CANDLE WOULD NOT BURN.

    One of the scientists attached to the Peary expedition tells of the effect of intense cold on a wax candle that he tried to burn. The temperature was 35 ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. WHY RAIN FOLLOWS LIGHTNING.

    The downpour of rain that sometimes follows a flash of lightning is usually supposed to be due to the coalescence of fine drops on losing their electrical charge. ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. EMPIRE TRADE.

    His Majesty's Trade Commissioner in South Africa, Mr. R. Sothern Holland, proposes to establish in connection with his office at Capetown a bureau of commercial ...

    Article : 128 words
  16. MOST LUXURIOUS PRISON IN THE WORLD.

    The moat luxurious prison in the world is in Japan, about 15 miles from Tokio (asserts an America paper). In the midst of gardens, where flourish medlars ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. MACHINE WRAPS 100 ORANGES A MINUTE.

    The orange-packing plants of the Pacific coast have long employed sizers, weighers, brushes, nailing-machines, etc., all of which work automatically, but until very ...

    Article : 147 words
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  19. HEALTH

    The new varcine treatment for influenza has, according to the London "Daily Mail," proved successful. By introducing millions of dead influenza bacilli into ...

    Article : 65 words
  20. HOW HEIGHTS CAN BE COMPUTED.

    The heights of mountains can be measured by means of an ordinary thermometer. The greater the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of water, the ...

    Article : 130 words
  21. RELIGION

    Professor Hilprechi, Professor of Assyrian and of Comparative Semitic Philology in the University of Pennsylvania has been making public his translation of ...

    Article : 280 words
  22. USING WASTE PRODUCTS.

    Norway has furnished the timber merchants of the world with an object-lesson in the utilisation of waste, and given the nations a hint regarding the ...

    Article : 237 words
  23. BATHS AT A COLLIERY.

    An Interesting innovation in a colliery near Manchester, where a plunge hath and separate wash baths have been provided for the use of the colliers when ...

    Article : 90 words
  24. AUTOMATIC WARNINGS TO ENGINE-DRIVERS.

    Riding to and fro upon the footplate of an engine, Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Yorke, Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways for the Board of Trade, and Major ...

    Article : 432 words
  25. ALLEGED EVILS OF POTATOES.

    Medical opinion now has stamped the potato as the cause of many of the ills from which humanity suffers and a foe alike to long life and good temper. "My ...

    Article : 112 words
  26. THE ALLEGED CANALS IN MARS.

    Dr. Arrhenius, the famous Swedish scientist and Nobel prize-winner, propounded at a meeting of the Stockholm Society of Physics a new and curious ...

    Article : 205 words
  27. WATER-TRAIN FOR DESERT LINE.

    During the many yours that Russia has been gradually extending the trans-Cus-plan railroad into its vast Asiatic territory north of China, a great scarcity of ...

    Article : 108 words
  28. PURE FOOD CONGRESS.

    The British National Pure Food Association has decided to convene a conference of food manufacturers and distributers to ascertain what measures in the best ...

    Article : 165 words
  29. TRANSFORMING STONE.

    By new methods soft sandstone or limestone or even mortar or concrete, is made hard and impermo[?] to a depth of half an inch or so and after treatment can ...

    Article : 155 words
  30. MONEY

    Mr. T. A. Forsyth, a Boston millionaire, has announced his intention of giving £400,000 for the provision of an infirmary, the main object of which will be the free ...

    Article : 40 words
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  32. £200,000 LIFE POLICY.

    Pittsburg is rejoicing in the possession of one of the most heavily insured men in the world. This is Mr. John H. Jones president of the Pittsburg and Buffalo ...

    Article : 53 words
  33. AERONAUTICS

    Airship trips from Munich to Oberamergall, for the Passion play, have been arranged between May 15 and October 1. The return fare will be £27 10s. ...

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  35. £100,000 FOR A PAINTING.

    At an art sale at New York last month Mr. Otto Kahn, the well-known banker and art collector, paid the record price of £100,000 for a painting of the Holy ...

    Article : 63 words
  36. SMOKE-CONSUMING EXTRAORDINARY.

    The efficiency that has been reached in appliances for abating factory smoke was lately Illustrated in an exhibition of a smoke consumer that has been in an exhibition of a smoke consumer that has been in use two ...

    Article : 178 words
  37. MORE ARMY AIRSHIPS.

    Having complimented Mr. Balfour on laying the foundation of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Mr. Haldane informed the British Science Guild, at the Mansion ...

    Article : 175 words
  38. DYSPEPTICS MUST USE THEIR TEETH.

    A London physician calls attention to the fact that dental cripples cannot get full nutritive value from their food, Partially digested food as it passes through ...

    Article : 182 words
  39. £5,000,000 CONTRACT.

    It was announced recently that the Turkish naval contract has been placed with Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Newcastle: Messrs. Vickers, Sons ...

    Article : 90 words
  40. PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS.

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  41. £600 FOR BURNS' DESK.

    The old mahogany bureau desk used by Robert Burns at Eillsland and Dumfries and at which the poet wrote "Tam o'Shanter," "Auld Lang Syne," and many ...

    Article : 217 words
  42. SIX ENGLISH FLYING MEETINGS.

    So greatly has interest in aviation increased in England of late that the Royal Aero Club has now before it plans for the holding of no fewer than six flying ...

    Article : 284 words
  43. BAD AND UNDERCOOKED MEAT DANGER.

    A British medical journal points out that undercooked meat is not the blessing which the old school of dieticians would have us believe. And, of course, ...

    Article : 159 words
  44. 50 AEROPLANES SOLD.

    Nearly 50 aeroplanes were sold during the Aero Exhibition which was held at Olympia last month. About 80 per cent. of them were monoplanes including aero ...

    Article : 173 words
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