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  2. Advertising

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  3. INVENTION

    One of the latest ideas for killing rats is a trop into which the animal walks, attracted by an electric light and a display of food. Once in be cannot get out, ...

    Article : 90 words
  4. SCIENCE

    On the approach of a thunderstorm French pennants often make up a very smoky fire, in the belief that safety from lightning is thus assured. By some this ...

    Article : 33 words
  5. TRAVEL

    The Canary Islands will soon be placed in communication by wireless telegraphy with Europe, Africa and America. ...

    Article : 22 words
  6. LARGEST NATURAL BRIDGE.

    A natural bridge over 300 feet high and with a span of 274 feet, Raid to be the largest known, has been discovered in Utah by members of the State ...

    Article : 36 words
  7. OUTPUT OF RADIUM.

    Ten grammes or about one-third of an ounce of radium chloride, equivalent to one gramme of pure radium, is the total output for eighteen months of the ...

    Article : 56 words
  8. NEW SAFE LOCK.

    A safe lock has been invented which is provided with phonographic mechanism so that it can be opened only by the voice of the owner. A mouthpiece like that of ...

    Article : 90 words
  9. BEST SWIMMERS IN THE WORLD.

    The Korean women are said to be the best swimmers in the world. The woman do practically all the Korean pearl diving. They dive down 50 feet to get the ...

    Article : 55 words
  10. MAKING ROCKS FLOW.

    Rocks can literally be made to flow, by the aid of an hydraulic machine, capable of producing a pressure of one hundred and twenty tons to the square inch. ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. WORLD'S LARGEST ROOM.

    The largest room in the world under one roof and unbroken by pillars is in St. Petersburg. It is 620ft long by 150ft in breadth. By daylight it is used for ...

    Article : 64 words
  12. A PROJECTILE THAT CARRIES LIFE.

    The number of times persons, trapped it the lop of big buildings, have burned to death or dropped to destruction before Hundreds of people, simply because the ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. FOR STERILIZING WATER.

    An apparatus for sterilizing water has recently been put on the market in France, in which ozone is used to destroy the bacteria. The ozone is generated by ...

    Article : 106 words
  14. A ROOSEVELT STORY.

    Cablegrams were received in Rome last month from several New York papers announcing that persistent rumors that Mr. Roosevelt had been killed in a hunting ...

    Article : 90 words
  15. PAVING THAT LASTS FOR EVER.

    A new paving material, devised by a French engineer, consists of the iron shavings from lathes and similar machines, which are mixed with cement, ...

    Article : 125 words
  16. FISH SKIN CLOTHES

    The skin of a certain fish is used as a material for the making of clothes by a tribe of Tartars of Manchuria, who inhabit the banks of the Peony River and ...

    Article : 95 words
  17. MUSIC CHARMED WATER.

    Interesting experiments showing the influence of a tuning fork on jets of water have been made at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. according to an ...

    Article : 151 words
  18. THE LIMBURGER TREE.

    Among the products of the Philippines is a fruit entirely unknown to Europe and America. It is called the durian, whose remarkable qualities have been descanted ...

    Article : 95 words
  19. A MAGIC TABLECLOTH.

    An electrically wired tablecloth, upon which ornamental electric light fixtures di[?]use illumination the moment they are set down, is one of the latest and most ...

    Article : 222 words
  20. EDUCATION AND INSTINCT.

    Isolated from birth to maturity in a dark cell, carefully kept from sights and Bounds and other knowledge of his fellow-creatures, what would a human being ...

    Article : 153 words
  21. READY-MADE LECTURES FOR MOVING PICTURES.

    Ready-made lectures, or lecturettes, taking five or ten minutes to deliver, are now being provided, in the United States, with moving pictures having an ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. WHICH IS YOUR DOMINANT EYE?

    It is the belief of some experimenters that we all have dominant eye, just as we are right or left-handed. One way of testing this is to look at some distant ...

    Article : 188 words
  23. CANDLE TO BURN NEARLY FIVE YEARS.

    A great candle that will burn four years and seen moths, claimed to be the largest ever manufactured, is to be enshrined at the birthplace of Joseph Petrosine in ...

    Article : 121 words
  24. MAKING RAILROAD COLLISIONS IMPOSSIBLE.

    An ambitious device is the La Croix cab signal and automatic stop, a veritable Poo Bah in steel an copper, with almost as many functions as a rural ...

    Article : 334 words
  25. AERONAUTICS

    A fine point in law is likely to develop with the perfection of flying machines. In other words, "Is there a High Seas in the air?" At present an owner might ...

    Article : 271 words
  26. MONEY

    The most recent addition to the ranks of the wealthy heiresses of New York is Miss Katherine Bradley Bigelow, a little girl of tea years. Under the will of her ...

    Article : 76 words
  27. RELIGION

    On November, 24 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred the degree of Doctor in Divinity upon the Rev. J. Batcholor, who has for thirty years worked as a ...

    Article : 113 words
  28. HEALTH

    All degenerative diseases mat cause so much suffering and death In civilisation, are absent from the Eskimo. No at-teriosclerosis, Bright's disease, cirrhosis, ...

    Article : 53 words
  29. TELEPHONES ON TRAINS.

    Portable telephone instruments are being made by the Western Electric Company (U.S.A.) for use on interurban electric railways. The telephone instruments ...

    Article : 111 words
  30. NEW CUP FOR EVERY DRINK.

    That the public drinking cup is an Inter-modiary in the conveyance of germs from one person to another is conceded by all medical authorities, and this fact is the ...

    Article : 170 words
  31. £12,000,000 WILL.

    Mr. John Stewart Kennedy, a retired Scotch-American banker, who died of whooping cough on October 31, at the age of 79, leaves £5,000,000 in his will to ...

    Article : 130 words
  32. HALLEY'S COMET.

    Halley's comet, the most famous comet of history and astronomy. which appears every sixty-seven years, is in sight once more. ...

    Article : 273 words
  33. SALVATION ARMY CHANGES.

    More than 1400 Salvation Army officers changed commands In England towards the end of last month. Included in this number were the 400 ...

    Article : 115 words
  34. EXIT THE TRAPPER.

    The forward march of civilisation has reached the wilds of the Canadian north, and trappers report that their business is rapidly becoming unprofitable on ...

    Article : 325 words
  35. DANGER TO VEGETARIANS.

    Some interesting and weighty observations on vegetarianism have been made by Dr. Karl Noordon, professor of Internal medicine in the University of Vienna, ...

    Article : 250 words
  36. 1900 YEARS' OLD ALTAR TO BE RECONSTRUCTED.

    The festivities for the centennial in 1911 of the proclamation of Rome us capital of United Italy, age going forward, most actively, and will contain many ...

    Article : 414 words
  37. £40,000 FROM LOTTERY.

    Crowds of people gathered outside tho offices of the Credit Francais, Paris, where the first draw in the giant lottery, the last officially-protected gamble in France, ...

    Article : 257 words
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  39. PATENTS.

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  40. CATS SENSE.

    A hitherto undiscovered sense organ in the domestic cat has been discovered by Mr. F. Fritz. It consists of a few long, stiff bristles, or feelers, connected ...

    Article : 79 words
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