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  2. SCIENCE

    A foreign experimenter reports that after thiree years' researches he has learnt the secret, not only of welding copper, but glass as well, lost for ...

    Article : 84 words
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  4. INVENTION

    For some time past Mr. George Smallwood, coachbuilder, Townsville, has been engaged in bringing to a state of perfection an automatic brake specially adapted ...

    Article : 220 words
  5. HEALTH

    Dr. Tobias (London) states that all forms of diarrhoea respond to physical and especially water remedies, whether they are due to anatomical changes in ...

    Article : 240 words
  6. RELIGION

    It is announced at Washington that the pinna of Mr. George Bodley, the eminent English architect, and Mr. H. Vaughan, a Boston architect, for the construction of ...

    Article : 72 words
  7. ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

    On Monday, JunE 24, being St. John the Baptist's Day, the annual commemoration service of the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem ...

    Article : 334 words
  8. FIRE-RESISTING MATERIAL.

    The demand for material, that, if not positively fire-proof, will at least retard the programs of flames in buildings, led years ago to the invention of various ...

    Article : 315 words
  9. RUNNING MUNICIPAL TROLLY CARS WITH GARBAGE AND REFUSE.

    The city of Nottingham owns two destructors, costing, respectively, £7800 and £20,400. The latter one is equipped with electric machinery costing £2400 ...

    Article : 200 words
  10. SOME REASONS WHY BOILED WATER IS UNFIT TO DRINK.

    Contrary to the very general belief and the universally practised custom, a scientific writer states in a Paris paper that boiled water is unfit to drink. Startling ...

    Article : 471 words
  11. SNAKE-BITE LANCET.

    Sir Lauder Brunton, a well-known London physician and food specialist, has invented a snake-bite lancet which, having been widely distributed to officials in ...

    Article : 83 words
  12. A CHURCH IN PIECES.

    A remarkable church can be seen in Elchwald, Austria. It was first built by an Italian architect at Venice. When it was finished, the church was taken to ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. POTTERY WARE SUPPLANTED.

    Present day control of high temperatures is increasing our list of useful materials, the latest additions being pure iridium and rhodium and fusel silica. Hitherto ...

    Article : 170 words
  14. MONEY

    The Adams Express Company, one of the most important firms of carriers in the United States, announces that it is paying a special dividend of 200 per cent ...

    Article : 211 words
  15. ARTIFICIAL PEARLS.

    Modern imitators of precious stones have become so dexterous at their work that the diamond seems to be the only stone that resists successful imitation. ...

    Article : 159 words
  16. CHOOSE A HOBBY.

    People who are unhappy and out of touch with existence should try and cultivate a hobby. "I owe to gardening," said a lady, "my ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. TRAVEL

    There is at present in the River Thames a vessel whose past is as adventurous as its future promises to be. She is the Nimrod, a Newfoundland sealer, which ...

    Article : 285 words
  18. THE BATTLESHIP SEARCHLIGHT.

    The searchlights to be fitted to His Majesty's battleships now being built on the Clyde are of extraordinary power. The "Glasgow Evening News," in a ...

    Article : 167 words
  19. ANGLING IN A DINING ROOM.

    There is al large hotel in Colorado which has a notable feature of interest in the fact that a trout stream runs right through its dining room! ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. BY WIRELESS TELEPHONE.

    Wireless telegraphy, it is confidently asserted, will soon be superseded (in some directions at least) by the wireless telephone. ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. TO BRING UP A BABY.

    The Borough of Marylebone started a campaign twelve months ago to deal with the prevalent causes of infantile mortality in the district. ...

    Article : 372 words
  22. GOLDEN EGGS.

    Spontaneity is the goose that lays the golden eggs. Many men managing a business or a part of a business—usually a part—think they can kill the goose and get all ...

    Article : 198 words
  23. MAGNETIC INFLUENCE IN MANKIND.

    A distinguished scientist asserts that quite a number of people possess a strange magnetic or electric influence which produces very curious results. Not so long ...

    Article : 183 words
  24. FRESH AIR.

    "In inhaling the air," said a doctor, "our lungs absorb its active principle, oxygen, and give out, besides water, the effete gas, carbon dioxide—that is to say ...

    Article : 182 words
  25. CLOCK AND FAN.

    A very singular clock has been made by an ingenious Swiss workman. It consists of a dozen leaves hinged like an ordinary fan. The number of the hours is marked ...

    Article : 82 words
  26. TO LESSEN THE JAR OF MACHINERY.

    Though many plans to lesson the jar of machinery have been tried, annoyance from steam hammers, &c., continues. A new French remedy is to place under the ...

    Article : 54 words
  27. SOON DISSIPATED.

    "The old saying about riches taking unto themselves wings," said an observant business man, "is well exemplified when we consider the rich, men of to-day. ...

    Article : 149 words
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  29. VOODOO WORSHIP.

    A traveller thus describes the weird rites practised by the negroes of Hayti, and known as voodoo worship. "Called together by the beating of ...

    Article : 149 words
  30. NEW MOTIVE POWER FOR WARSHIPS.

    Vickers, Sons and Maxim, the noted builders of warships and makers of war material, &c., have invented a system of driving battleships by gas, thereby ...

    Article : 58 words
  31. HOW EYE-STRAIN BRINGS DANGER.

    Dr. H. O. Relk argues for the importance of eyestrain as a factor in causing epilepsy. He reports four cases in which epileptic attacks appeared to be entirely ...

    Article : 173 words
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  33. WILL PIERCE ANY ARMOR.

    Colonel Sir Howard Vincent, who is Conservative Member for Central Shef-field, and a noted writer on military subjects, announces that the Hadfield ...

    Article : 42 words
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  36. FOR RHEUMATISM EAT MUCH FRUIT.

    A great many medical authorities take the view that rheumatism is peculiarly the disease of those who eat too much meat, and the theory is strengthened by the ...

    Article : 155 words
  37. PRESERVING THE TEETH.

    Science and invention and the modern application of the facts and methods which; they make available enable the dentist of to-day, states Dr. Thomas Gaddes ...

    Article : 202 words
  38. MILK BATHS FOR THE COMPLEXION.

    A great deal han been written and many enquiries made about milk baths. Milk, as a shin beautifier, is as old as the hills, but its virtues have been recently revived. ...

    Article : 228 words
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