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  3. SCIENCE

    An expedition to investigate the habits of the Hawaiian tree snails is being fitted out by the Academy of Natural Science of New York. The expedition will be headed by Dr. H. A. Pilbry, ...

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  4. INVENTION.

    Charles Borseul, said to be the first discoverer of the principle of the telephone, has just died at the age of 83. Borseul, who was the son of a French officer, devoted himself ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. RELIGION

    Mr. James Rennie, of Hitchin (Eng.), "who for 40 years has been colporteur in the district, has been presented with a purse of £131. During his service he has sold 50,000 Bibles, 800,000 ...

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  6. MONEY

    New York courts have decided that Mr. Edward Russell Thomas must live on £10,000 a year, and devote the rest of his income, £25,000 a year, to paying off his debts of £211,360. ...

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  7. RECORD PRICE FOR A PIGEON.

    Mr. F. Warner, a well-known Essex (Eng.) pigeon financier, at the International Poultry Show last month, gave £100 for a black magpie ben pigeon. The price is believed to be a ...

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  8. MODERN BUDDHISM.

    Ceylon Buddhists in thirty years have been rapidly assimilating Christian ideas and nomenclature. They now have Sunday schools, commemorate Buddha's birthday as Christians do ...

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  9. BELGIAN MAKES ARTIFICIAL MEAT.

    A Belgian chemist, If. Effront, asserts that he has synthetically produced viands, closely resembling butcher's meat in taste, but of greater nutritive value. M. Effront's method is to take ...

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  10. SELF-OILING BEARINGS.

    Thorough lubrication is all important on highspeed machinery, but it is often not easy to obtain. The difficulty is sometimes overcome by what is known as a self-oiling bearing, a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 124 words
  11. LIFE ON A PENNY A DAY.

    The extraordinary low cost on which mothers in some of the poorer districts in London have to bring up their families was pointed oat by Mrs. Premier Reeves in lecturing in Manchester ...

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  12. OLDEST VICAR IN ENGLAND.

    The Rev. W. W. Wingfield. who died last month, was the oldest incumbent in the United Kingdom. He had been vicar of Gulval, near Penzance, nearly seventy-four years. He ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. RICH COALFIELD IN AFRICA.

    The Congo mail brings news of en unexpected treasure of coal found in the Katanga district, on the borders of the River Lukuga—one of the outsets of the Tanganyika Lake. This coal, ...

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  14. GENEALOGICAL LINKS.

    The dedication took place last month of a bell-tower erected at Hingham, in Massachusets, to commemorate the landing of the English pilgrims from Hingham, in Norfolk, 276 years ...

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  15. ELECTRIC FARMING IN GERMANY.

    Figures worked out in Germany indicate that the electrifications of crops on the farm will not be an expensive change, and it should soon become common if the practical increase in yield ...

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  16. BANK OF EGYPT PAYS OUT.

    The senior official receiver and liquidator of the Bank of Egypt made a further payment last month in part redemption of the loan certificates, of 6d in the £ one the amount of the ...

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  17. D.D.'S FOR NONCONFORMISTS.

    The Cambridge University Seriate last month voted by 435 to 326 to throw open the degree of Doctor of Divinity to all candidates, without sectarian restrictions. Until then, divinity ...

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  18. COMBINED PIPE AND CANE.

    A rather novel combination is shown in the form of a walking-stick, the handle of which is a tobacco pipe. It comprises a staff, the upper end of which hollowed and curved, a pipe ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. CURIOUS RAILWAY RATES.

    In the "Manual of Statistics of the Federated Malay States," the following table of railway rates is given: Elephants, lOd per mile each; alligators, bears, hyenas, panthers, tigers, and ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. ARTIFICIAL PEAT.

    It is reported in the German papers that a chemist. Dr. Besgius, of Hanover, has succeeded in producing peat by laboratory experiments. Dr. Bergius has an apparatus especially ...

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  21. QUICKER BAPTISMS.

    Discussing the recommendation to delete the phrase "vulgar tongue" in the administration of the Baptism. Canon Hankey, in the Lower House of Convocation (England) last month said that ...

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  22. LITTLE ASTOR'S GOLD MINE.

    On the petition of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, Surrogate Fowler has ordered that she be paid only £2000 in the, next three years for the support of her child, John Jacob Astor, the ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. CLERIC'S PLAIN MESSAGE.

    At Drax, near Selby, the vicar issued the following notice last month :— "Sunday Evening, November 24.—Children under 14 will be asked to leave the church before ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. BLADE-SPRING ATTACHMENT FOR EYEGLASSES.

    Eyeglasses designed to be easily pat on with one hand are shown in the figure. Combined with the usual spring bridge supporting such glasses is a blade spring arranged under the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. SURVIVING ELECTRIC SHOCKS.

    Some men are able to survive an electric shock that would kill others ; but probably a case reported from Montreal (Canada) is unique. A young man named Murray McQueen is stated ...

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  26. TRAVEL

    Amphipolis, 33 miles from Philipni, was one of the most important cities of ancient Greece, and its strategic position in the past, commanding the highway from the coast to the ...

    Article : 89 words
  27. AERONAUTICS

    Mr. J. L. Hall, an aviator, was accompanied in a monoplane flight at Sheffield (Eng.), by Hans and Greta, two performing apes. The weather being cold, the apes were well wrapped ...

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  28. CHEAPER LIVING IN U.S.A.

    Democrats in the extra session promised by Dr. Wilson, the new American President, next Spring, will undertake the task of reducing the tariff on wool, cotton, metals, chemicals, sugar ...

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  29. HOW SOME CLERGY SUFFER.

    Lord Alverstone, the Lord Chief Justice of England, presiding at a meeting in Kensington in aid of the Bishop of London's Fund for the provision of additional churches and the ...

    Article : 118 words
  30. COMPELLED TO TAKE TO HIS BED.

    "For six years I have been a sufferer from Colic, being compelled at times to take to my bed," says Mr. R. C. Philps, Dutton, S. A., "but now when I get these attacks I take ...

    Article : 78 words
  31. BALLOONING RECORD.

    The winner of the Gordon-Bennett Cup for 1912 is the French balloon Picardia, which covered a distance of 1358 miles. This constitutes a world's record. The British balloon ...

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  32. MUSIC LEAF TURNER.

    This invention relates to music leaf-turners, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap, and effective device adapted to be used in connection with pianos, organs, etc., for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  33. 1,876,000 MILES AT SEA.

    Captain Warr, commodore of the Cunard line of steamers, retired at the end of the year, when he reached the age of 63 years. He has been at for 49 years, nearly 33 of which have ...

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  34. HEAT IN CRYSTALS.

    Professor R. W. Clark, of the Mineralogical Laboratory, University ty of Michigan (U.S.A.), has for several years been experimenting to determine the conductivity of heat in crystals. The ...

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  35. WATER IN CHURCH WINE

    The vexed question of the use of fermented wine in the Eucharist of the Church was discussed by the Bishop of Lincoln, England (Dr. Hicks), in delivering a lecture in Manchester ...

    Article : 315 words
  36. FLEW TO THE MEET.

    Mr. S. F. Cody on his new Government biplane attended the meet of the Aldershot Beagles at Eelmoor Bridge. (Eng.) last month. He descended and shook hands with the master, ...

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  37. £3,056,404 IN COMPENSATION.

    Statistics of compensation and proceedings under the Workmen's Compensation Act in 1911, issued by the British Home Office, show that in the seyen great groups of industries— ...

    Article : 124 words
  38. PROPHECY AND WAR.

    The London "Jewish World" printed the following paragraph last month:—"It has been pointed out that in the Cabbalistic work. 'Zohar,' which is so revered by Chassidim and ...

    Article : 92 words
  39. STUDYING THE PROBLEMS OF THE AIR.

    M. Eiffel, the builder of the famous tower, is carrying out elaborate experiments in wind pressure, by means of which he hopes to solve theoretically the problems of aviation. At ...

    Article : 129 words
  40. PARTS OF GIANT BIRD UXEARTHED.

    While conducting an expedition in Wyoming and New Mexico, in the interests of the American Museum of Natural History, Walter Granger, a noted fossil hunter, discovered in the Wasatch ...

    Article : 133 words
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  42. LOOKING 250 YEARS AHEAD.

    An innovation in municipal financing and endowment funds has been announced at Evansville, Indiana (U.S.A.) Adolph Melzer, a wealthy retired soap manufacturer, has ...

    Article : 135 words
  43. TRADE

    Messrs. J. and P. Coats recently issued their annual statement, showing that the total sum available for distribution is £3,634.534. After paying the fixed dividends, and placing half a ...

    Article : 73 words
  44. LUXURY OF BALLOON TRAVEL.

    A Zeppelin airship leaves the earth with none of the balloon's soaring motion. It is just like a Pullman train, started without perceptible jar, and kept in motion upon a perfect ...

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  45. WOMEN PROUD OF TAKERS OF HEADS

    "I recall vividly ray first trip to an Igorote village in Lepanto Bontoc, the barrio of Baglien," says a writer in the "Christian Herald." "With me was a prospector who had picked up ...

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  46. DRAWING WATER FROM AN OPEN WELL.

    The illustration shows a good rig for drawing water from a well. While the full bucket is being raised the empty one goes down. In this manner nothing but the water is lifted, as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  47. CHURCH ANARCHY.

    In the Upper House of Convocation last month the Bishop of Manchester moved,—"That it is desirable that for the existing Ornaments Rubric the following be substituted : The minister, at ...

    Article : 344 words
  48. MILLIONS FOR INSURANCE.

    In anticipation of the payment from January 15 next of the sickness, disablement, maternity, and other benefits under Part. I. of the National Insurance Act, the necessary money is mounting ...

    Article : 160 words
  49. JAPAN'S TEXTILE TRADE.

    The spinning industry of Japan still continues to be very active, and all the spinning companies are making huge profits. The spinners have had cheaper cotton on account of the ...

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  50. DISCARDED PIGAILS MAY LEAD TO HAT BOOM.

    The tendency of the Chinese to adopt Western ideas in regard to dress is having a beneficial effect on the textile industry of the West Riding of Yorkshire (England), says a trade journal. ...

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  51. THE YOUNGEST OF EUROPE'S GREAT CITIES.

    Odessa is one of the youngest of European cities. Only 120 years ago. Hdji Bey, a little Turkish settlement, nestled on the cliffs that overlook the harbor and dozed under the ...

    Article : 225 words
  52. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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  53. NIAGARA'S RIVALS.

    Ask the next friend or acquaintance you meet which is the greatest waterfull in the world, and he is almost certain to reply, without the slightest hesitation, "Niagara," writes a ...

    Article : 215 words
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  55. STATE RAILWAY FAILURE.

    The budgets of the Western State Railway (France) provide the strongest possible argument against commercial Socialism or State trading, says an English. exchange. The first ...

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