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  3. TRADE

    The deep interest which the Kaiser takes in the German mercantile marine has received a fresh and notable illustraion. On his way to the regatta at Kiel his Imperial ...

    Article : 160 words
  4. HEALTH

    Heading by wireless current is the latest scientific idea. An apparatus has been devised by a Berlin firm of electricians, who claim that by its agency the ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. SCIENCE

    No substance that refuses to dissolve in water has an odor. It is the actual substance itself, floating in particles in the air, that appeals to the nose, and not ...

    Article : 105 words
  6. INVENTION

    A tender Hint can be drawn behind a motor car and in which a full dinner for a large party can be prepared, is the latest thing in the motoring world. ...

    Article : 122 words
  7. HALLEY'S COMET AND THE TALMUD.

    A French scientist has been wondering whether it would not be of interest to ascertain if before Halley any scientist had thought of the perodicity of comets. ...

    Article : 212 words
  8. ERADICATING TUBERCULOSIS.

    The Brush Local Government Board has issued a report by Professor Delepino on the prevalence and source of tubercle bac[?] in cows' milk. After showing that ...

    Article : 116 words
  9. DENTAL MIRROR FOR MOTOR INSPECTION.

    The mirror shown in this illustration is of the type uses by dentists in examining the teeth of a patient, and as such is vividly associated with dental chairs, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 127 words
  10. NOVEL CHIMNEYLESS BOILER.

    The chimneyless steam boiler and furnace now in operation on a Russian naval torpedo boat, the invention of a Russian naval engineer named Schmidt, disposes ...

    Article : 191 words
  11. DEALNG WITH CONSUMPTION.

    Sir James Barr, in his inaugural address at the opening of a tuberculosis exhibition at Liverpool last month, declared his conviction that to medical officers of ...

    Article : 181 words
  12. A CLIP FOR A CLOTHES-LINE POLE.

    Often, in windy weather when clothes are hung on a line to dry, the wind swings the line to and fro, causing the props to drop from under It. and letting the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 163 words
  13. EARTH TIDES.

    At the Royal Institution, London, recently, Prof. A. E. H. Love delivered a lecture on "Earth Tides," As the result of the observations of Dr. Haccker at ...

    Article : 318 words
  14. TRAVEL

    The telephones used on the steamship Lusitania are quite interesting. The induction coll, condenser, and bell of the instrument are enclosed in a small white ...

    Article : 90 words
  15. TO REMOVE BIRTH-MARKS.

    Carbonic acid gas in the form of a snow 100deg. below zero is the basis of a new treatment for lupus, bithmarks, and moles which, after an extensive trial, is ...

    Article : 351 words
  16. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

    "For years I suffered unceasingly from chronic pain in the back and head, scarcely having a moment's peace. Sometimes I would grow dizzy, and seem to ...

    Article : 243 words
  17. AERONAUTICS

    Mr. Walter Brookins recently ascended 4384½ft on a Wright biplane, making a world's "record" for height. M. Leon Morane started from Toury Aviation ...

    Article : 61 words
  18. RELIGION

    The committee of the Church Missionary Society has decided that the estimates for 1911-1912 are to be reduced to £385,000. and those for 1910-1911 as nearly as ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. UNDERGROUND TRAMS IN CHICAGO.

    Bion J. Arnold has been appointed subway engineer for the city of Chicago, and it is probable that about nine miles of subway will be put under construction ...

    Article : 84 words
  20. A NEW ENGLISH-BUILT AEROPLANSE.

    The new English-built aeroplane in which Mr. Grahame-White proposes to fly from London to Paris has the following dimensions:—Length of the wings 33ft, ...

    Article : 185 words
  21. CHRISTIAN UNION IN CANADA.

    The movement for the union of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational Churches is making headway. A basis of union was agreed upon two years ago ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. CONCRETE RESISTS SHOT AND SHELL.

    Several targets, made completely of reinforced concrete, have been erected for the purpose of testing the projectile-resisting power of such material with a ...

    Article : 242 words
  23. MONEY

    It is not unlikely that the Chancellor of the Exchequer may estimate in his forthcoming Budget for a total receipt into the Exchequer of £25,000,000 from ...

    Article : 148 words
  24. NEW METHODIST HALL IN LONDON.

    The British Wesleyan Methodists are taking steps for the erection of a new central hall in Edmonton, now one of the most crowded suburbs of London. Over ...

    Article : 102 words
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  26. A RECORD FLIGHT IN AMERICA.

    Mr. Curtiss, the American airman, last month won the prize of £2000 offered by the "New York World" by flying from Albany to Governor's Island, New York, ...

    Article : 297 words
  27. THE HISTORY OF MALARIA.

    Major Ronald Ross, F.R.S., in his second of two lectures on malaria at the Royal institution, London, last month, said that the evidence of the knowledge that ...

    Article : 344 words
  28. COST OF BUILDING A FLEET OF DIRIGIBLES.

    In many French professional circles it is thought that aeroplanes have not yet reached a stage of development fitting thorn to play a very groat part in ...

    Article : 173 words
  29. BIG METHODIST CAMP MEETING.

    In celebration of the Primitive Methodist centenary, camp meetings were held last month on the hillside of Mow Cop, North Staffordshire. Ten thousand ...

    Article : 129 words
  30. LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE.

    A new type of long-distance telephone was recently tested successfully over a circuit extending from New York to Chicago by way of Pittsburg, and return. ...

    Article : 106 words
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  32. MR. ROOSEVELT ON RELIGION.

    At the World's Mission Conference at Edinburgh a letter from Mr. Roosevelt was read, in which he remarked that nothing like this conference had ever ...

    Article : 145 words
  33. TELEPHONING WITH LIGHT.

    Phototelephony has reached a commercial basis in Germany. Ernst Rhumer, of Berlin, has contrived an apparatus by which Intelligible speech can be ...

    Article : 143 words
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  35. THE "AERO-CAR BOAT."

    The Grawert apparatus, which may be summarily described as the "aero-car-boat," is being rapidly completed in a small ...

    Article : 221 words
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  37. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 254 words
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