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  2. SCIENCE

    Senator Bulnes has introduced a bill into the Chinan Senate offering a prize of £500,000 to the inventor of a process which will completely [?] the nitrates contained in the raw ...

    Article : 97 words
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  4. AERONAUTICS

    A monkey whose dally flights in a miniature aeroplane were a feature at a circus in Berlin, had a remarkable escape last month. The aeroplane suddenly capsized while flying at an ...

    Article : 68 words
  5. INVENTION.

    The only unguarded openings through which mice can find an entrance into a piano are the pedal slots, and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 76 words
  6. FLYING BICYCLE.

    A prize of £80 for the first winged motor less bicycle to cover a distance of 16ft 6in at a minimum height of 8in was won by M. Paul Didier, the racing cyclist, at the Pare des ...

    Article : 74 words
  7. "PETROL" FROM FLINTS.

    The possibility of making a cheap fuel for motor-vehicles from flints is discussed in the "Excelsior," Paris. Flints are composed chiefly of silica, and a scientist is now engaged in ...

    Article : 89 words
  8. GRAVITY-FEED EMERGENCY DEVICE. FOR AUTOMOBILES.

    An emergency gravity-feed system for automobiles is shown in the picture. An auxiliary supply tank is mounted near to and above the plane of tie carburettor. A branch pipe extends ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 68 words
  9. AIRMAN ARRESTED.

    A German military aviator named Zippa descended one afternoon last month near the villarge of Marmay (France), in the Department of Haute-Saone. He informed the local gendarmes ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. SCIENCE v. THE ALCHEMIST.

    taking as his subject "Atoms," Sir James Dewar delivered a lecture for juveniles in the Royal Institution, London, last month. Incidentally, Sir James proved that the ancient ...

    Article : 75 words
  11. FRENCH EX-MINISTER'S SON HURT.

    M. Jacques Delcasse, the son of the French ex-Minister, met with an accident upon his first aeroplane flight last month. The biplane in which he went up as passenger ascended above ...

    Article : 111 words
  12. COLOR DURABILITY.

    An Industrial application of the ultra-violet light has been reported from the north of Germany. These rays constitute the chemically active portion of sunlight, responsible for such ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. EYEGLASS CASE AND SCREWDRIVER.

    The wearers of eyeglasses often have need of a tiny screwdriver for use in tightening a loose screw or making an adjustment, but it is seldom that such a screwdriver is at hand. To ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 73 words
  14. AERIAL MOURNER.

    The funeral took place last month in St. Paneras Cemetery, East Finchley (Eng.), of Mr. Alfred Arkell Hardwicke, who was killed in the aviation accident at Wembley. Just as the ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. THE HISTORY OF LEAD-BURNING.

    It is not generally known that the operation of soldering lead pipes with lead (the "leadburning" of to-day) was known and practised in the middle ages. Reference to this matter is ...

    Article : 147 words
  16. DOUGH RAISER.

    This illustration shows a dough-raising attachment for kitchen tables, and comprises a receptacle underneath tho table top at one end, and an arrangement for transmitting the heat ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  17. LONG-DISTANCE PLIGHTS.

    Progress in aviation is so rapid that one hesitates to set bounds to any one phase of its development. The most notable advance of all lately has been the increase, both in ...

    Article : 204 words
  18. SPEAKING LAMP.

    The incandescent lamp is not the mute electrical apparatus some have supposed it to be. It has just been discovered that, given the right conditions, it may be made to speak as readily ...

    Article : 220 words
  19. A BELL GAME FOR BILLIARD TABLES.

    In a bell game for billiard tables, a number of bells are supported above the table in such a manner that the points of the hammers may be struck by the billiard balls, thus sounding ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  20. AVIATION OUTLOOK.

    Concurrently with, the private and passenger hydro-aeroplane, the naval war craft is being rapidly developed. The French Navy, which already posseses a large number of hydro ...

    Article : 221 words
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  22. MONEY

    A working-class family living in the village of Fleigneux, in the "Ardennes, have become entitled, to a fortune of £480,000 awaiting them in London. ...

    Article : 32 words
  23. TRADE

    The number of distilleries in England working during the year ended September, 1912, was seven, in Scotland 120, and in Ireland 25. The amounts of spirits manufactured during the year ...

    Article : 63 words
  24. RELIGION

    The Rev. Edmund Alexander May, of ,Yeovil, Somerset, England, who died on October 10 last, left directions in his will that his-funeral should be of the simplest possible character, without ...

    Article : 66 words
  25. HEALTH.

    Dr. G. W. Saleeby (Eng.) discusses in a recent publication what ought to be the next step in Eugenics. He says that in Sir George Newman's last report there were 8 per cent, of our ...

    Article : 122 words
  26. NO MORE COPPERS.

    The French Chamber of Deputies adopted a till last month providing for the withdrawal from circulation of the present copper coinage and the, substitution, for it of nickel coins with ...

    Article : 42 words
  27. METROPOLITAN OF INDIA.

    Dr. Lefroy, Bishop of Lahore, who has been appointed Bishop of Calcutta, and Metropolitan of India, has spent all his working life in the Eastern Empire. As Bishop of Lahore since ...

    Article : 71 words
  28. A QUEER TRADE.

    The destruction of a million black beetles in one week is a recent record of a firm of beetle destroyers, a business which is worthy of a place in the list of London's queer trades. Mr. B. ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. THE PRICE OF CHARITY.

    Within two years after the death of E. H. Harriman, the American railway magnate, his window received 6000 begging letters asking for an aggregate of £66,750,000, or more than three ...

    Article : 40 words
  30. UNDETECTED CONSUMPTION.

    The modern treatment of tuberculosis is the subject of articles by 36 specialists in the London "Practitioner." In an introduction summarising the findings of the different ...

    Article : 106 words
  31. WALKING ON THE CEILING.

    An apparatus for trapeze performers, by means of which they may walk upside down in imitation of a fly on a ceiling, is here illustrated. A series of vacuum cups, open at their ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 92 words
  32. "SCATTER A FEW WILD FLOWERS."

    Dr. Kitchin, Dean of Durham (Eng.), who died in October, left £1248. His will was Written, in his own hand on a half-sheet of foolscap, and closes with the following words :— "Let no one ...

    Article : 109 words
  33. TURNOVER OF £15,961,773,000.

    The total amount of bills, cheques, etc., paid at the London bankers' clearing-house during 1912, according to the annual statement, was £15,961,773,000. an the increase of £1,347,896,000 on ...

    Article : 64 words
  34. GERMAN COTTON MARKET.

    A "Cotton Futures Market," with a "Clearing House," will be inaugurated at Bremen (Germany), this year, probably at the beginning of April. This will probably result in the ...

    Article : 126 words
  35. PUSHED OUT OF A BALLOON.

    An exciting balloon flight was experienced by Captain Penfold, the Australian aeronaut, Mr. Spencer, the pilot, and a representative of Gaumont's moving pictures last month. The ...

    Article : 376 words
  36. MUSICAL SCHOOLBOYS.

    The value of musical teaching for schoolboys, both from an intellectual and from a hygienic point of view, was urged by Dr. Lyttelton. headmaster of Eton (Eng.), at a conference ...

    Article : 137 words
  37. PROFIT ON COINAGE.

    Judge Rentoul, examining a London Mint official in a coinage case, which came before him recently, elicited the fact that a crown piece costs the Mint 1/6 in the making, leaving a ...

    Article : 161 words
  38. ARCHDEACON AND SUICIDE.

    Replying to Criticisms concerning the action of a Bexhill (Eng.)- clergyman in refusing to read the burial service of the Church of England at the funeral of a servant girl who drowned ...

    Article : 239 words
  39. COTTON PROM SOUDAN.

    The Oldham (Eng.) Chamber of Commerce last month appointed representatives to wait upon the Prime Minister in regard to an application that the Government should guarantee a ...

    Article : 152 words
  40. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 words
  41. SCIENTIST'S SECRET.

    What is claimed to be an efficient agent against consumption is said to have been discovered by a German who will not tell. Not long before his death, Professor Koch, the ...

    Article : 219 words
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