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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 319 words
  3. SCIENCE

    To open the closed thing cavities of a consumptive and to drain them is, the "Westminister Gazette" observes, the latest of a long list of recent triumphs ...

    Article : 225 words
  4. TRAVEL

    He came into too office the other day. He called himself "Le Globe-Trotter," and, baring his abundant locks, loosed upon us, mercilessly, the story of ...

    Article : 232 words
  5. TRADE

    The report of tho United States steel corporation for the year ended December 31, 1907, shows not earnings for the lost three months of the year of £8,150,000 ...

    Article : 82 words
  6. RUINING THE BRITISH HOP TRADE.

    A complete exposure of the American plan to ruin the English hop Industry by dumping all their surplus produce in this country has been made by Mr. Durst, the ...

    Article : 187 words
  7. THE STUDY OF [?]SMOLOGY

    What Professor [?] IIne does not know about earthquakes is known to no man. When tho chair [?] Seismology was founded in the University of Tokio he was ...

    Article : 112 words
  8. SIX YEARS BEHIND HORSES.

    Senor Rodriguez, a Mexican, a few years ago conceived the idea of visiting all South American points of importance, and he included in his itinerary several out ...

    Article : 69 words
  9. INVENTION

    Novel horseshoes are being experimented with in Germany. They consist of thin layers of prepared paper, glued to the hoof till tho requisite thickness is ...

    Article : 42 words
  10. RELIGION

    The passage in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, if read : "As yet we see things dimly, reflected as in a mirror, but then face to face, makes the sense plain ...

    Article : 92 words
  11. MONEY

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 words
  12. RUBBER AREAS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

    At a meeting held not long ago in Mexico City, of Mexican rubber planters, Dr. Pehr Oisson-Seffer made the following statement in reference to the areas of ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. REVIVAL OF AN OLD CUSTOM.

    Until quite recently it has been the custom for many years for the "confirmation" of Bishops-elect to take place in Bow Church, Cheapside. It was ...

    Article : 232 words
  14. WORLD'S LARGEST BED OF SALT.

    The largest bed of salt in the world is said to have been discovered at Fort McMurray, Manitoba. It is 200ft deep, and extends for 300 miles ...

    Article : 33 words
  15. MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE PACIFIC.

    The yacht Galilee, in the service of the deportment of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegle Institution, has for two years and a half been making a magnetic ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. CHEAPEST POLICE FORCE IN THE WORLD.

    The cheapest effective police force in the world is the Canadian North-west Mounted Police, whose territory extends from Herschell Island to Kenora—the ...

    Article : 120 words
  17. LIFE-SAVING CLOTHES.

    A Norwegian inventor has patented a suit of clothes which will protect its wearer against drowning. The clothes are lined with a non-absorbent material, made ...

    Article : 98 words
  18. AN AUTOCRATIC PROHIBITIONIST.

    General Booth has been tolling an interviewer his opinions of the Licensing Laws, and how they ought to be amended from a Salvation Army standpoint ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. SEA ISLAND COTTON IN WEST INDIES.

    There has boon a remarkable extension of Sea Island cotton cultivation in the West Indies during the post few years. For the year 1908, there are 24,000 acres ...

    Article : 128 words
  20. REMARKABLE TRIO OF FINANCIERS.

    Mr. H. L. Bischoffshcim, who has Just died, belonged to a remarkable trio of financiers, who not only worked together and made fortunes for one another, but ...

    Article : 159 words
  21. NEW WAY OF CUTTING STEEL.

    A novel method of cutting steel has been patented In Belgium. The process consists of first heating the metal by means of an oxyhydrogen flame, and then ...

    Article : 81 words
  22. HEALTH

    Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of England, states that the chief quarrel which hyglene has with clothing is that there is too much of it; that garments come down too ...

    Article : 114 words
  23. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS IN CHINA.

    While the Belgian electric street railway lines in Tientsin, China, do not as yet pay much, the Chinese are riding on the cars in over-increasing numbers, and ...

    Article : 54 words
  24. REFRIGERATION IN WESTERN SIBERIA.

    A correspondent of the "Novee Vremya" observes that Western Siberia, as far as the cattle business is concerned, is coming rapidly under the control of the Germans ...

    Article : 67 words
  25. "STATE-PAID" CLERGY.

    It seems almost Incredible, in these more enlightened days, and after the constant assertions to the contrary by those in authority, that the statement that the ...

    Article : 240 words
  26. MEMORIAL TO QUEEN ANNE.

    An unusual event will be the unveiling of a memorial tablet in an American church to an English Queen. This ceremony will be performed in October to ...

    Article : 98 words
  27. THE LAST OF AN ANCIENT INN.

    The Skip Tavern, at Greenwich, one of the most famous of London's riverside inns, has closed its doors after an existence extending back to the days of the ...

    Article : 200 words
  28. DEEP-SEA DIVING.

    An ingenious new diving-bell has lately been patented by a Swabian inventor. It is claimed that with this apparatus a descent can bo made into the very depths of ...

    Article : 44 words
  29. SADDLER INHERITS £365,000.

    The most talked-about man in Dublin a Edward Corcoran, the saddler, who has inherited a fortune estimated at £365,000 by his solicitor ...

    Article : 145 words
  30. NEW INSULATING MATERIAL.

    According to some technical papers, a Bavarian named Muller has patented a new insulating material that claims to have nearly as good a specific resistance as ...

    Article : 98 words
  31. TOBACCO-GROWING IN IRELAND.

    Writing to tho Dublin Industrial Association in favor of a reduction of duty on tobacco, Col. Everard states that the refund of duty guaranteed to experimental ...

    Article : 121 words
  32. FURE WATER FOR CHILDREN.

    Dr. M. Barbor, of England, after widely investigating the influence of water on the various bodily functions, now makes a plea for its greater internal use for ...

    Article : 213 words
  33. SENT HIS CHEQUE.

    Being unable to attend the enthronement of the Bishop of Chichester, a London gentleman, in a letter of regret to Dr. Ridgeway, said that he would give ...

    Article : 38 words
  34. A GREAT RUSSIAN PRIEST.

    Father Gregory Petroff, the most noted priest in the Russian Church next to Father John of Cronstadt, was deprived of his ecclesiastical rank at a session of ...

    Article : 210 words
  35. BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.

    When the Bank of England note returns to the bank it is never re-issued. It is cancelled by having the signature of the chief cashier torn off. After the ...

    Article : 93 words
  36. A NOISELESS TYPEWRITER.

    An inventor has just patented a typewriter which he says is practically noiseless. The type impression is made by pneumatic pressure supplied through small ...

    Article : 81 words
  37. DEAL IN TINNED MEAT.

    An unprecedented state of affairs exists at present in the relations of the English and American markets in tinned meats, says the "Express ...

    Article : 250 words
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  39. PERSIAN SUPERSTITION.

    The need of Christian missionary work in Persia is apparent if only to counteract the evils of the gross superstition which exists in that country. Dr. Lucy Molony ...

    Article : 174 words
  40. TO LOCATE SUNKEN VESSELS.

    To lessen risk of loss of submarines, torpedoes used in naval practice and other objects liable to sink in the sea, a French oceanographer has invented a receptacle of ...

    Article : 82 words
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  43. WHY MEN FAIL IN BUSINESS.

    Why do men fall ? Is it Inexperience, incompetency, neglect or fraud ? If you put this question 'to a hundred men, ninety-nine will probably answer ...

    Article : 350 words
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