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  2. INVENTION

    A German not long ago invented a horse-shoe of paper, prepared by saturating with oil, turpentine, and other ingredients. Thin layers of such paper are glued to ...

    Article : 76 words
  3. TRADE

    Six big American agricultural implement makers have combined together to get control of the Russian market ...

    Article : 26 words
  4. SCIENCE

    Dr. Robert Koch, the great German bacteriologist, who discovered the pthisis bacilli in 1890, In at present visiting the East, in connection with his investigation ...

    Article : 43 words
  5. HEALTH

    Mr. Henry Phipps has given £100,000 to the foundation of a special clinic at the John Hopkins' Hospital, Baltimore, U.S.A., for the study and cure of mental diseases ...

    Article : 69 words
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    Advertising : 399 words
  7. BRITISH COMPETITION.

    Owing to the fact that their prices were lower than American and Canadian firms, the Stanton Iron Company of Nottingham (Eng.) has received an order for 300,000 ...

    Article : 37 words
  8. PECULIAR WAYS OF THE STAR-FISH.

    The starfish, netted, commits suicide. It dissolves into many pieces, which escape through the meshes of the net. Then a kind of resurrection takes place, each place ...

    Article : 38 words
  9. FINGER NAILS AS AN INDEX.

    Modern medical men declare that the finger nails afford better evidence as to the state of a person's health than the eye or the color or texture of the skin ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. AN IMPROVED SAW.

    Mr. J. H. Barker, Sheffield, England, has invented a saw in which the cutting-edges of the teeth are made of high-speed steel brazed into recesses cut in the front of the ...

    Article : 86 words
  11. FIVE YEARS' FOREIGN TRADE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
  12. THE BRAIN OF AN ANT.

    With its microscopic brain the ant has not the power of reason, said Mr. Henry Hill, at the London Institution recently. Experiments have proved that ; but it is ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. POISONED BY IMPURE MILK

    Addressing the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Hastings, of Toronto made the following remarkable statement:—"If the truth was known," said the doctor ...

    Article : 52 words
  14. APPARATUS FOR REMOVING PAINT.

    Mr. Joseph H. Storm, jun., Amersfoot, Notberlands, has invented the apparatus for removing paint shown in the accompanying illustration, which is practically a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 126 words
  15. THE MANUFACTURE OF SHIMOSE

    The Japanese Government is importing large numbers of Yucca plants from Chili. The tops of the plants are said to contain an abundance of picric acid, which the ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. 11,027,230 CHOLERA VICTIMS.

    Three of India's worst scourges— cholera, plague, and small-pox—are dealt with in statistics published as a White-paper last month. Cholera killed 11,027,230 ...

    Article : 70 words
  17. "STRAWBERRY JAM."

    The passing of a "Pure Food Law" in the United States has led to some quaint exposures. Under this measure, manufacturers of drugs, tinned and potted foods ...

    Article : 99 words
  18. REMARKABLE VOLCANIC OUTBURST.

    During the volcanic outburst which occurred in the island of Savali, Samoa, on May 10, the flow of lava, which was the greatest in the history of the island ...

    Article : 43 words
  19. NO PLACE FOR DOCTORS.

    Addressing the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, Sir Wilfrid Laurler said that five years ago his health broke down, and he consulted the best ...

    Article : 86 words
  20. USES OF COLOPHONY.

    According to a recent patent specification, colophony is submitted to a partial dry distillation at a temperature of 230-300 deg. C. until the loss by distillation ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 86 words
  21. CANADA'S RAILWAY KING.

    As President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Sir Thomas Shaughnessy is head of the most gigantic railroad corporation in the world, which owns or controls 13,000 ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. LYING ON THE BACK.

    There are many arguments to be employed in demonstrating the undesirability of lying on the back, but perhaps none more cogent than the curious fact ...

    Article : 85 words
  23. SEEING ONE'S OWN VOICE.

    An ingenious machine has been invented by means of which sound can be visualised. All sound comes from air vibrations, which radiate from the centre of a circle ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. PRIZE FOR BEING VACCINATED

    To induce the people of Madrid to allow themselves to be vaccinated (vaccination is not compulsory in Spain) the mayor of the capital is giving a lottery ticket free ...

    Article : 87 words
  25. MONEY

    £24,800 FINE FOR SMUGGLING The tribunal of Domodossola, Italy, has fined a wealthy merchant of Naples, named Indaco, £24,800 for smuggling 1380lb of ...

    Article : 87 words
  26. TRAVEL

    M. Tournay, a Belgian engineer, has been commissioned by the committee for the International Exhibition at Brussels in 1910 to erect a tower at Ixelles which will be ...

    Article : 57 words
  27. HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY.

    A model demonstration of a new high-speed railway was given at Aldwych England, recently by its inventor, Mr. E.W. C. Kearney. It is constructed on ...

    Article : 134 words
  28. LUSITANIA'S NEW RECORD.

    The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived at New York on June 12, having again broken all records, including that recently established by the Mauretanla. The Lusitanla's ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. RELIGION

    A Hebrew Bible in the Vatican weighs 3201b, and is the largest Bible in the world. It is entirely in manuscript ...

    Article : 32 words
  30. SHIPPING COMBINE'S PROFITS

    At the annual meeting of the International Mercantile Marine (Plerpont Morgan's Combine), held in New York last month. It was stated that the net profits ...

    Article : 40 words
  31. GALE SCATTERS BANK NOTES

    A gale of extraordinary violence raged recently at Buffalo, U.S.A., wrecking the officers' quarters of the military state camp. The most serious mishap was the ...

    Article : 54 words
  32. GLACIERS DISAPPEARING.

    A party of Swiss scientists who have been exploring the glacier region of the Canton of Valois (Switzerland) have published the following report : "During the ...

    Article : 89 words
  33. CASH REGISTERS IN CHURCH.

    Cash registers have been placed inside each entrance of a fashionable Roman Catholic church at Worcester, Mass, U.S.A. Worshippers, instead of contributing ...

    Article : 64 words
  34. A MECHANICAL CASHIER.

    An automatic money sorter has just been put on the market by an Austrian. It assorts metal coins which have been thrown together regardless of their ...

    Article : 128 words
  35. RECOVERED £2600 FROM DEPTHS.

    Signer Sitterio, a lawyer, of Milan, while crossing Lake Maggidre by steamer recently, dropped overboard a portfolio containing £2600 in bank notes. The steamer ...

    Article : 64 words
  36. FEWER METHODIST MEMBERS.

    At the conference of the Primitive Methodist Church at Wesley's Chapel, City-road, London, recently, the president, the Rev. J. Pickett, gave the following figures ...

    Article : 68 words
  37. THE HONEY GUIDE OF AFRICA.

    The honey guide is a bird which has been localised in Africa. When it desires to teed upon some comb which it has discovered, it makes its way to a ...

    Article : 134 words
  38. SWEATING GOLD.

    Gold in transit by sea "sweats," however tightly it may be packed. It is usually sent in stout kegs, and squeezed in as tight as possible ; but there is a ...

    Article : 65 words
  39. DEAR MEAT.

    The price of meat has risen from 20 to 25 per cent, recently in Berlin, and beefsteak fillet is now sold at 2s per pound, according to a recent despatch ...

    Article : 117 words
  40. A USEFUL LIFTING JACK.

    The lifting-Jack illustrated herewith has the special advantages of simplicity and rapid adaptability to its work. It consists of a tubular standard. A having ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 191 words
  41. BOILERMAKER'S £8000 PRIZE

    Antoine David, 26, of Toulon, a boiler-maker, has won a prize of £8000 in the Roubalx lottery. David was formerly employed at the Mossageries Maritimes ...

    Article : 84 words
  42. AIR AND WATER PRESSURE.

    The earth's surface is the plane of demarcation for water and atmospheric pressure. The barometer indicates increased pressure as we go down in mines, and ...

    Article : 67 words
  43. A CHURCH-SMASHING PREACHER.

    Dr. Russell Conwell, who has been preaching recently in London, is possibly the most picturesque and arresting personality in American religious life ...

    Article : 125 words
  44. SIR REDVERS BULLER'S FAITH

    The Rev. Paul B. Bull, Naval Chaplain, Devonport, Naval Barracks, speaking of the religious convictions of the late General Buller, says he once wrote to ask for ...

    Article : 181 words
  45. £50,000,000 UNCLAIMED.

    Mr. H. Bottomley. M.P., estimates that the total value of the unclaimed balances and securities held by the banks of the United Kingdom is at least £50,000,000 ...

    Article : 138 words
  46. GRINDERS' DUST AND DISEASE.

    Sheffield (Eng.) has been much interested of late in the subject of disease arising from grinders' dust. Dr. Scorfleld, the medical officer of health, has issued a ...

    Article : 99 words
  47. REFORM IN CHINA.

    A missionary working in the province of Fuh-Klen writes a remarkable article in the "Church Missionary Gleaner" for June on the subject of "Changing China," from ...

    Article : 128 words
  48. EXPERIMENTS IN LIGHT VISIBILITY.

    The result of the experiments in light visibility conducted by Germany and the Netherlands working in harmony are given as follows:—A light of 1 candle-power is ...

    Article : 78 words
  49. AUTOMATIC MAGNETIC HARDENING OF STEEL.

    Gauging the hardening temperature of steel by magnet is the curious method devised by Taylor and Mudford, British metallurgists. A permanent magnet is made ...

    Article : 119 words
  50. FIGHTING TYPHOID WITH ALCOHOL.

    Dr. Guide Fornasieri, of Turin, says the "Lancet," finds that oven when moderate-ly diluted, alcohol antagonises the bacillus of typhoid fever, destroying; its vitality ...

    Article : 89 words
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  52. PUBLIC OPINION.

    The opinions of the loading skin authorities of the world, viz., the late Professor Sir Rrasmus Wilson, F.R.S., Dr. Redwood, Ph., D., F.C.S., F.D.C., Mr. John L. Milton ...

    Article : 54 words
  53. CONCRETE ARMOR FOR WARSHIP.

    An Italian engineer, Signor d'Adda, has submitted proposals to the Italian Government for the use of concrete armor on Italy's new warships. A series ...

    Article : 177 words
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