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  2. INVENTION

    The North British Locomotive Company. Glasgow, has under construction the first steam turbine railway engine (says the "Times"). The experiment, which is ...

    Article : 75 words
  3. TRAVEL

    In consequence of the part played by the gas-lighting equipments of the trains involved in some recent accidents, states a contemporary, the Prussian railway ...

    Article : 51 words
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  5. TRADE

    The monthly report of the Acting Chairman of the Panama Canal to the Secretary of War, dated September 15, states that during the month of August, the total ...

    Article : 102 words
  6. HEALTH

    Mr. John D. Rockefeller announces a donation of £200,000 on the appointment of a commission of eminent medical men to Invest the hook-worm disease which Is ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. SWANS RING BELL WHEN HUNGRY.

    The swans that swim on the moat surrounding the Bishop's palace at Wells, in England, call for food when hungry, by ringing a bell. They were first taught ...

    Article : 62 words
  8. CATS AND PLAGUE.

    Dick Whittington, the pioneer In the work of suppressing African rats by European cats, has a follower In the Governor of the German colony of Togo. In ...

    Article : 136 words
  9. A REMARKABLE BULLET.

    A new ride bullet has just been invented in Austria, says "Popular Science Siftings." It is designed to pierce the shields of field guns, and has a ...

    Article : 91 words
  10. "LINEN" MADE OF PAPER.

    We already have artificial silk, made from wood fibre, and now a German inventor has produced a new kind of cloth, which he weaves from threads which have ...

    Article : 108 words
  11. POLICE DOGS.

    Although the use of police dogs is general in other parts of the German Empire, they have only Just been introduced into Alsace-Lorraine. By a recent edict eight ...

    Article : 78 words
  12. THE VALUE OF THE TURBINE.

    In a recent discussion of the subject of the turbine in "Caasier's Magazine," the advantages of the system for cargo boats are stated as follow: More cargo can be ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. WHAT THE UNITED STATES PRODUCES.

    It is calculated that the United Stales in producing the following per week for fifty-two weeks in the year for every man, woman, and child of the population of ...

    Article : 112 words
  14. ONE MAN HOOKS 14,000 CODFISH.

    Codfishing is done with hand lines, and every fish caught has to be hooked and hauled into the fishing boat, yet Matt Tistil, a member of te crew of the ...

    Article : 86 words
  15. ELECTRICITY AND CANCER.

    Heating the tissues of the body by the passage of very rapidly-alternating currents In the novel Idea lately Introduced Into electrical therapeutics by Drs. Von ...

    Article : 193 words
  16. GRIP-WHEEL FOR HAULING PURPOSES.

    Such a device as shown should be of considerable value of forest lands or in any place where it becomes necessary to drag heavy objects short distances. It ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 64 words
  17. FIGHTING OIL FIRES WITH CANNON.

    An oil company in Indiana has adopted a novel fire-fighting apparatus in the form of a Gib cannon mounted on a freight ear and ever ready to be rushed to any point ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. RAILWAY TREE PLANTING.

    The Pennsylvania Railway is planning to set out more than 1,000,000 trees. This will make a total of 3,430,000 trees planted In the last three years to provide for some ...

    Article : 126 words
  19. NOISELESS MOTOR 'BUS.

    Saturday was a red-letters day in the history of public locomotion in London. The vehicle for which most of the city's inhabitants have longed-a noiseless, ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. RELIGION

    It has become of tile utmost moment for the future of the Church that reasonable revision of the Prayer-book should take place as soon as may be (says "The ...

    Article : 74 words
  21. SEAWEED OUT OF FASHION.

    Seaweed has gone out of fashion a good deal of late years. This applies to It not inerely as an article for decorating village parlors, but as a candidate for more ...

    Article : 154 words
  22. QUEER USE FOR BREAD.

    What is probably the most curious bread in the world is described by Dr. Lodian in "The Scientific American." "Of all the hard-tack breads of the ...

    Article : 373 words
  23. PREACHER'S 7900 SERMONS.

    The Rev. Evan Edwards, of Torquay, formerly pastor of the Upton Vale Raptist Chapel there, recently preached his 7908th sermon. From his old pulpit he ...

    Article : 163 words
  24. HARNESS AND VEHICLE RELEASING DEVICE.

    The harness arrangement shown is provided with trip straps, by the pulling of which the horse can be released from the vehicle. If equipped with such arrange ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 56 words
  25. THE FIRST CITY.

    In Its steamship trade foreign and domestic (observes "Leslie's Weekly") New York leads London, and It Is far ahead of London In the extent of Its bank ...

    Article : 154 words
  26. NOVELTIES IN WAR APPLIANCES.

    An illuminating shell, which bursts into flame in the air and acts as a temporary searchlight, is amongst, the latest ideas, of war inventors. This shell, which has ...

    Article : 229 words
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  28. AERONAUTICS

    In order, as he said, to kill the significance of the old saying "Pigs might fly," Mr. Moore-Brabazon recently took a young pig, christened learus II., for a ...

    Article : 44 words
  29. HINTS FOR THE CHURCHES.

    The Rev. W. Temple (son of the late Archbishop), speaking In Glasgow to a conference of students representing the Theological Halls of the Church of ...

    Article : 170 words
  30. SCIENCE

    Prof. Percival Lowell has noted at his Flagstaff Observatory that the antarctic canals of Mars arc disappearing. This, waning of the much-discussed canals ...

    Article : 86 words
  31. EVERY MAN HIS OWN COBBLER.

    Revolution in footwear seems to be promised by an ingenious Invention, Unown as the "Forbee" sole and heel, which shortly will be placed on the market. ...

    Article : 160 words
  32. MONEY

    A new gold coin, worth about £4 4s, is to be put into circulation in Austria-Hungary. It is stamped with the half-length portrait of the Emperor, while the ...

    Article : 50 words
  33. GERMANY TO ENGLAND.

    The Zeppelin Airship Construction Company Is making preparations to build in the immediate future a shed In Hamburg capable of accommodating the . ...

    Article : 67 words
  34. ARRIVAL OF THE MONO-RAILWAY CAR.

    A successful trail of mono-railway carriage carrying 10 people was mede at Gillingham. Kent, last month, under the superintendence of Mr. Louis Brennan, ...

    Article : 541 words
  35. THE COLOR OF FOAM.

    By the nature of their component parts, team and clouds have a similarity ; clouds are formed of what Is called an Infinite number of minute globules of water; a ...

    Article : 111 words
  36. ALUMINIUM BETTER THAN GOLD.

    Experiments in abrasion at a French mini have proved thai aluminium coins will be, less rapidly worn by use than coins made of gold, silver, or oven bronze. ...

    Article : 36 words
  37. GLASS BRICKS.

    Germany uses glass bricks for building purposes with measurable success. In Berlin is constructed a, small villa, the walls of which are built of dark green ...

    Article : 291 words
  38. MAXIM'S BIPLANE.

    In view of his classic experiments of twenty years ago and his construction of a gigantic aeroplane, the announcement that Sir Hiram Maxim has built a new ...

    Article : 117 words
  39. BISHOP GORE'S INDICTMENT.

    As president of the Christian Social Union, the Bishop of Birmingham addressed a large gathering or working men at Bethnal Green. Dr. Gore said that "a ...

    Article : 296 words
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  41. SANITARY PAPER MONEY.

    The United States Treasury Department will soon take up the subject of providing sanitary paper money. Not the least of the reforms proposed is the proposition ...

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  42. OZONE AS STERILISER.

    The water of the Marne River at a point near Paris is being sterilised by a new ozoning plant at a cost of about two pence a thousand feet. Ozone generators ...

    Article : 110 words
  43. CANADA'S COINAGE.

    Canada's legal gold coinage is that of the linked States. If a man goes to a Canadian bank to demand gold for notes or for a credit of any kind, the law says ...

    Article : 145 words
  44. WIRELESS FOR AIRSHIPS.

    A system of wireless signalling tfr airships has been Invented by Dr. Frederich Lux. The idea of the inventor, states the "Electrical Engineer," is that all ...

    Article : 135 words
  45. AUTOGRAPHS AS CHARACTER STUDIES.

    The revelations of the autograph as a mental photograph, a graphic representation, of social relationships, have never been fully appreciated, by the sociologist ...

    Article : 134 words
  46. RULES OF THE AIR.

    The commission "Aerienne Mixte," which is the ruling body of France in matters aeronautical, has issued the following rules relating to travel in the air: ...

    Article : 170 words
  47. NEW DANGERS IN AVIATION.

    The rapid progress of aviation has caused attention to be drawn train a new direction to the dangers of atmospheric electricity, In an article in the ...

    Article : 151 words
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