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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,110 words
  3. INVENTION

    Mr. E. J. Blckford, wall known in Westralia, Victoria, and New South Wales, has invented a scat for railway carriages and other purposes. It is called ...

    Article : 130 words
  4. TRADE

    According to the Washington Bureau of Manufactures, a Gallcian engineer has Invented a compound of crude petroleum, cinders, and sand which may be used ...

    Article : 38 words
  5. SCIENCE

    What is probably the first direct photograph of a rainbow in colors was shown at the Royal Photographic Society's exhibitions in London recently. It was taken on ...

    Article : 53 words
  6. THE SEASONS AND DISEASE.

    Many authorities contend that seasons affect the human organism, and Dr. A. Magalssen, a German physician, now reports that even epidemic diseases are ...

    Article : 52 words
  7. LONDON'S SHIPPING.

    According to an official statement issued recently, 10.458 vessels, of a gross tonnage of 11,160,367, entered in the foreign trade at the Port of London last year, while ...

    Article : 54 words
  8. NEEDLE-THREADING MACHINE.

    An automatic machine capable of threading 1000 noodles per minute is a mechanical marvel of a Swiss factory. The operation includes picking up the ...

    Article : 51 words
  9. A WONDERFUL OPERATION.

    Should he survive—and the operating physicians now believe he will—Henry Bemus, an Englishman, will have his head for the remainder of his life partially ...

    Article : 76 words
  10. "MATURED" CIGARS.

    Artificially matured elgars are produced in the following way: Boxes of cigars are laid on a grating or gridiron over a trough or vessel containing powdered calcium ...

    Article : 83 words
  11. NOVEL ERASER.

    An electric motor-driven rubber eraser is a now device for use in a draughting room. It is far superior to the hand eraser, as It will make absolutely clean ...

    Article : 88 words
  12. AN EVERLASTING FOUNTAIN.

    Mr. P. C. Johnson, of 60 Regent-st., Paddington, supplies the following particulars and diagram for the construction of a fountain which he claims will work ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 236 words
  13. TEA AND COFFEE SUPPLANTING BEER.

    Germans, supposed to be the greatest beer-drinkers in the world, are becoming great tea and coffee drinkers. Statistics show that in Munich, tho great beer city ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. A SCRIBING TOOL.

    The sketch shows a tool for tracing the outline or edge of work that rises above, a level surface, and cannot be traced with a scriber in the ordinary way. Much ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 145 words
  15. 150,000,000 PINS AND NEEDLES DAILY.

    Aachen and the other German towns of Schmabach, Iscrohn, Ichtorshausen, and Atlona, provide three-quarters of the world with pins and needles; Great ...

    Article : 123 words
  16. SMUGGLERS BUSY.

    Some curious details of the working of the Merchandise Marks Act in the year ending March last are given in the annual report of the imperial Commissioners of ...

    Article : 156 words
  17. A SIMPLE GRINDING AND POLISHING APPARATUS.

    We illustrate herewith an apparatus for grinding and polishing metal and other articles, in which a band, 15, passes over a direct-driven leather-covered ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 100 words
  18. ALLEGED CURE FOR LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA.

    Locomotor ataxia, the nervous disease that is tho puzzle of the medical profession, can be positively cured by simple surgical methods, according to Dr. Le ...

    Article : 160 words
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    "NOWGUNNIES" AT WORK. Machinery cannot compete with the "Nowgunnies," or professional stonecarriers of India, who work for from 5d to 8d per day of ten hours ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
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  21. HEALTH

    A method of treatment strongly advocated by the "Hospital" for sprains of the ankle, in preference to the usual plan of rest and elevation, is that of firmly ...

    Article : 98 words
  22. TRAVEL

    Hadstock, in Essex (England), possesses what is probably a unique water supply. It is entirely derived from a deep well in the parish churchyard. The well is over ...

    Article : 87 words
  23. FLEXIBLE LINK SHAFTING.

    Mr. G. H. Gillette, of 114 West 32nd-st, New York, U.S.A., has invented a novel form of flexible driving-shafts. Links, 5 of soft brass, malleable Iron, or the links ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 139 words
  24. BRITAIN'S 113,000 CABS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 words
  25. CLEAN DRINKING WATER.

    Sterilising drinking water is done in the safest manner by boiling it. When, however, this is impracticable, the "Engineering Times" says that water can be rapidly ...

    Article : 122 words
  26. "PHOTOGRAPHY AT SEA."

    An article in the "American Annual of Photography" states that many persons refrain from picture-making at sea from fear that unless a small baud camera be ...

    Article : 340 words
  27. RELIGION

    Miss Gertrude von Petzold, M.A., the first woman to hold a ministry in the United Kingdom, preached her farewell sermon at the Free Christian Church in ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. MONEY

    A wonderful story of a self-made man is recalled by the recent death of Signor Giovanni Moroslnl, the famous New York banker. After serving in the Italian army ...

    Article : 159 words
  29. FOUR AIDS TO SLEEP.

    Sleepless nights may be averted by one or other of the following four remedies (says an English exchange). Hot milk, which, however. should not be boiled ...

    Article : 110 words
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  31. THE WINE FOR HOLY COMMUNION.

    According to the "Guardian," the Rev. G. Donyer, vicar of the populous pariah of Christ Church, Blackburn (Eng.), has been without a curate for the past twelve ...

    Article : 149 words
  32. THEATRE VENTILATION.

    Ozone in theatre ventilation is being tried in Stuttgart, Germany. The sterllising effects of ozone have been known for some time, but no successful attempts ...

    Article : 182 words
  33. FRESH AIR AND SUNLIGHT IN SCHOOL. CURRICULUM.

    At the first International Moral Education Congress held in England last month. Professor M. E. Sadler, of the University of Manchester. who is the first president ...

    Article : 172 words
  34. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    Messrs. GRIFFITH and ALLEN. Patent Attorneys, Sydney and Melbourne, report that the following applications have been lodged by New South Wales' applicants during the past week ...

    Article : 171 words
  35. WHITEFIELD'S LATEST INNOVATION.

    Whitefield's, the Rev. Silvester Horne's church in Tottenham Court-road, London, says an English writer, is notorious for starting innovations, but the latest ...

    Article : 136 words
  36. £52,000,000 IN SAVINGS BANKS.

    Depositors in Imperial savings banks for the year ending November last numbered 1.780.214, says' a Parliamentary White-paper just issued. Their average ...

    Article : 45 words
  37. £66,000 FOR SCIENCE.

    Mr. Jacob Sassoon has Riven the Govenor of Bombay £66,600 to establish a central college of science. Miss Hamabal Pettit has set apart jewellery valued ...

    Article : 56 words
  38. A RAJAH'S TESTIMONY TO MISSIONARY SUCCESS.

    A Hindu 'Rajah—Udhaya Varma Avergel, B.A.—distributed the prizes to the scholars of the Church Missionary Society's High School at Mavelikara, Tra ...

    Article : 221 words
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