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  2. TRAVEL

    Lake Morate, in Switzerland, has a habit of turning red about two or three times every ten years. The coloring is due to the presence in large quantities ...

    Article : 52 words
  3. HEALTH

    Thalassotherapy, or treatment of disease by sea air, sea-bathing, etc., is a new subject for accurate investigation. Its results, promise, limitations, etc., will be ...

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  5. INVENTION

    "Yankoo Ingenuity !" is the ejaculation of the bystander as he watches the working of a machine called the Simplex Pile Driver (says on exchange). A heavy steel ...

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  6. SCIENCE

    A recent investigation has just shown that wherever the labor of women approximates to that of men, as in Italy and Ireland, the death rate of women ...

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  7. SLEEPING SICKNESS.

    Dr. Koch, the great scientist, speaking at a grand reception given by twenty-eight medical and scientific societies, in Yokohama, referred to sleeping sickness ...

    Article : 51 words
  8. THE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS.

    The international Sleeping Car Company announce that passengers by their train do luxe, the Trans-Siberian express, now reach Pekin from London in 16 days. As ...

    Article : 69 words
  9. IN THE TRAIN OF THE MOTOR.

    Motor traffic and its consequent dust is exposing all those who live close to the highways to the same evils which occur in many industries in which dust ...

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  10. AN INGENIOUS INSTRUMENT.

    The color of the hair, eyes end akin is measured by a now instrument—a simplified Lovibond tintometed—devised by Mr. J. Gray. The observer looks at the ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. CURE FOR WARTS.

    The very simplest way of getting rid of a wart, states "The Hospital," is by a single application of the X-rays. The time required for a sitting is fifteen to ...

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  12. THE TALLEST CHIMNEY.

    The tallest chimney in the world is now under construction at the Great Falls, Montana, U.S.A. It has a foundation 74 feet in diameter and 506 feet high, with ...

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  13. FOOTWARMER FOR MOTORCAR

    A motor-car footwarmer is illustrated herewith, Fig. 1 being an underside view, and Fig. 2 an enlarged section of a portion allowing the construction and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 138 words
  14. GLYCERINE FOR SCALDS.

    For scalds an application of glycerine is most useful of all things likely to be handy, says "Science Sifting." Strips of linen or lint, well soaked In glycerine ...

    Article : 79 words
  15. GREENLAND'S ICE CAP.

    The largest mass of Ice in the world fills up Dearly the whole of the Interior of Greenland. It is one and a half miles thick. This ice has accumulated since ...

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  16. EXPLOSIONS WITHOUT FLAME.

    M. Dantriche has just announced to the Academic des Sciences of Franco that if to ordinary powder a little more potash or soda is added, at the moment of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. DIABETES, GOUT, AND STRAWBERRIES.

    To some persons who are prohibited from including ordinary sugar in their diet strawberries need not be denied (says "Science Sittings"), since the small ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. COLLEGE FOR WAITERS.

    Swiss hotel-keepers who represent the national Industry of the land of thrift and mountains have outclassed all Europe in preparation for the climbing tourist ...

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  19. PUNCTURE-PROOF BALL-BEARING TYRES.

    One of the recent motor novelties is a ball-bearing puncture-proof tyre. As far as the shoe and the Inner tube are concerned the construction is the same ...

    Article : 151 words
  20. MILK TREATMENT OF OBESITY.

    Dr. P. Moritzk recommends an exclusively milk diet for reducing excessive fat. Its advantages, according to the "British Medical Journal," are its ...

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  21. TRADE

    A new supply of rubber, believed to be practically Inexhaustible, has been discovered in a never-before explored section of Brazil ...

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  22. RELIGION

    At present there are 3,500,000 children enrolled as members of the Band of Hope in the United Kingdom ...

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  23. MONEY

    Herr Samson, a millionaire who recently died at Brussels, has bequeathed his entire fortune of £1,500,000 to the Berlin Academy or Science ...

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  24. CROPS WORTH £27,000,000.

    Mr. McInnes, the freight traffic manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, estimates the value of the wheat, oats, and barley crops in the Dominion at ...

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  25. A WAY THEY HAVE IN PERSIA.

    In Persia bolls ring for prayers five times a day, and merchants, clerks, and customers rush off to the mosques, leaving all business at a standstill ...

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  26. AMERICAN TIPS.

    The American Government having officially decided to recognise the practice of "tipping," each Stale officials is allowed is 8d a day while travelling for ...

    Article : 56 words
  27. TACK AND STAPLE PULLER

    A simple little apparatus for removing tacks and staples easily, without damaging the material from which they are drawn is shown in the accompanying ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  28. SLEEPING SICKNESS.

    The negotiations which have been in progress for some time between Great Britain and Germany (for the conclusion of the agreement to combat sleeping ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  29. LESS WHISKY

    The output of the 150 distilleries in Scotland last year amounted to 22,796,000 proof gallons of whisky—a decrease of 2,043,000 gallons as compared with the previous ...

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  30. WORLD'S LARGEST CHOIR.

    The largest choir in the world is that of the Mormon Temple at Salt Lakes City. It consists of 350 voices, all beautifully trained ...

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  31. £120,000,000 IN BAD MONEY.

    One may gain some Idea of the almost incrodible extent to which counterfeiting is practised in America from the fact that each year the authorities detect and ...

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  32. GENERAL BOOTH IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The man for work Is General Booth, as the majority of all sects admit. No man of any Christian community, at such an advanced ago, shows such a readiness or ...

    Article : 133 words
  33. ATLANTIC COMBINE.

    Herr Ballin, manager of the Haruburg-American Line, has approached the chief British steamship lines with a proposal for the co-ordination of the sailings of the ...

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  34. AGED NUN'S LONG JOURNEY.

    The Mother-Goneral of the Order of Grey Nuns, who is 69 years of ago, is about to mako a remarkable Journey into the Canadian far north. to inspect the ...

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  35. RADIUM FROM THE SEA.

    Some experiments have been recently carried out which appear to show that the sea water round the coast of Ireland possesses a richness in radium not ...

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  36. PEARLS OF PRICE.

    Earon de Forest is one of the wealthiest men in England. He owns houses In London and Paris, and large estates in Austraia, his annual income being, It is said ...

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  37. BREAD MADE FROM FISH ROE.

    At the present moment In Russia, in the eastern regions where, owing to the hard Benson, there is what they term in that country a "little famine," the ...

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  38. RECEPTACLE FOR PAINT

    Mr. A. Cronvall, Malmo, Sweden, has invented an extremely useful and convenient means for storing paint tn a semi-final state, or any other similar material ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  39. £100,000 FOR MR. BUXTON.

    The late Mrs. Emily Mary Buxton, of Cobham, Surrey, the mother of Mr. Sydney Buxton, M.P., the Postmaster-General, left property worth £113,502. She ...

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  40. WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

    Very satisfactory results have attended the wireless telephony tests which have been taking place recently on board British warships at Portsmouth ...

    Article : 94 words
  41. IDOLS AT 10s A DOZEN.

    Confirmation has just been given at Birmingham Police Court to the often made assertion that that city is the birthplace of many of the Idols and Images ...

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  42. HARVEST OF PATENT MEDICINES

    The amount expended in patent medicines in the United Kingdom since 1860 is stated to be approximately as follows : l860. £ 350,000 ; 1870, £580,000; 1880 ...

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  43. HOW PEARLS ARE MADE.

    Living in Indian sea a is a voracious sting-ray (Trygon), the intestines of which, afford food and lodging to a peculiar little tapeworm (Tetrarhynchus ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  44. LIVING ON NATIONAL PRODUCTS.

    The islands in and around the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hayti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Jamaica, and others of British possession, and the French ...

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  45. PEDLAR'S £12.000 FORTUNE.

    The will of a pediar who left an estate valued at £11,937 Us l1d has Just been admitted to probate in London. He was Mr. Harris Norman, a Polish Jew, of ...

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  46. A NOVEL BLOW-PIPE

    A novel blow-lamp for soldering is shown in the accompanying illustration. It is the invention of Mr. D. Hughes, of 12a Now Dock-road, Llanelly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  47. SOCIALISM AND RELIGION.

    The Bishop of Carlisle, says the "Pall Mall Gazette," has been giving some of his people, his views on Socialism with an attempt to distinguish between true and ...

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  48. FALLING REVENUE.

    The Imperial Treasury return of the revenue for the first half of the financial year was issued last month. It shows that the receipts between April 1 and ...

    Article : 144 words
  49. GLASS SPINNING.

    A future Industry of much importance is foreseen by M. E. Lemaire, a French writer, in the use of spun-glass. Modern glass-spinning was developed by J. de ...

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  50. SUNDAY SCHOOL SCHOLARS.

    It is estimated that there are 7,395,593 Sunday school scholars in the United Kingdom. There are 707,312 teachers and 45,401 Sunday schools ...

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  51. DISEASES CURED BY RADIUM.

    Dr. W. Deane Butcher has reported his experience in radium-therapy to the British Medical Association. Some years ago he got a patch of eczema on the ...

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  52. NEW TERROR FOR NAVAL WAR.

    A new torpedo, which after exploding In the ordinary way will project an explosive shell into the interior of the ship it strike's, has been invented by ...

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  53. DEATH AT 113.

    The Rev. Alexander Mans died recently in the Aged People's Home at London (Ontario) at the ago of 118. He was for many yours a minister at the ...

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  54. MISSIONS TO HELP THE COLONIES

    "Missions of Help" are likely to become a permanent feature of the work of the Anglican Church, says the "Pall Mall Gazette." The "Mission of Help" to ...

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