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  2. Advertising

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  3. TRAVEL

    The largest picture of a flag in the world is now being painted in the full view of the thousands who daily go up and down the Strand (London). When finished it will cover the ...

    Article : 91 words
  4. TRADE

    To facilitate dealing with the large stocks of valuable shells which reach London from all parts of the world, the port of London authority has provided improved accommodation at ...

    Article : 106 words
  5. INVENTION.

    A little apparatus which automatically cuts off the gas in a burning building and thus prevents explosions and the spreading of flames, has been patented by Mrs. Isabella Gillen, the ...

    Article : 212 words
  6. NIAGARA DWARFED.

    The world's highest waterfall, which makes Niagara look like a tiny stream, was described by Dr. Percy Rendall in a lecture at the West India Committee Rooms, London, last month. ...

    Article : 83 words
  7. SHORTAGE OF OIL.

    Professor Vivian Lewes, lecturing last month at the Royal Society of Arts, London, on liquid fuel, said that nothing short of creating enormous storage facilities, and gradually ...

    Article : 112 words
  8. ELECTRIC ADHESION RAILWAY IN THE ALPS.

    Regardless of the fact that the Berninabahn, in electric Alpine railway, rises nearly 6000ft between Tirano and Bernina-Hospiz, with exceptionally heavy grades, the trains do not run ...

    Article : 83 words
  9. AUTOMATIC HORSE-FEEDING MACHINE.

    The illustration shows an automatic device for feeding grain to horses, which is operated and controlled by the lips of the animal in obtaining a mouthful. It prevents the animal from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 177 words
  10. JAPAN'S MARINE PRODUCTS.

    The marine products exported form Yokohama have been subjected, since April 20 of last year, to examination at the office of the Yokohama League of Merchants dealing in ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. LONG LIFE IN TROUBLED BALKAN STATES.

    Statistics gathered by the painstaking Germans state that there were in Europe at the last count more than 7000 persons over a century old. The richer the country, ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. PROTECTED BRITISH SUGAR.

    The chancellor of the Exchequer (England) has promised the West India Committee that the question of the protection now afforded to the home beet industry shall be consider in ...

    Article : 110 words
  13. NEW AMERICAN DRINKS.

    Three new drinks have been invented to delight the blase imbiber of common cocktails. They are known as the infuriator, the stinger, and the queller. The first is warranted to ...

    Article : 121 words
  14. FOR CLEANLINESS.

    There is probably no place where cleanliness is more necessary than the dairy; thus the large dairies are installing the latest inventions for obtaining absolute cleanliness without waste of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 109 words
  15. AMERICA'S PETROLEUM SUPPLY.

    There was no considerable change in the Quantity of petroleum produced in the United States in 1912 compared with 1911. Nevertheless, according to David T. Day, of the United ...

    Article : 167 words
  16. THE OPIUM CURSE.

    The Governor of Fukien, China, reported last month that the military are steadily destroying the poppy and killing hundreds of armed resisters in the notorious Hsinghwa district. In ...

    Article : 103 words
  17. FEWER FAILURES.

    The number of commercial failures in the United Kingdom in 1912 was 7874, by far the lowest recorded since 1888, the first year under the existing system of deeds of arrangement. ...

    Article : 204 words
  18. WORLD'S LARGEST RAILWAY STATION.

    The world's largest railway station was opened a few minutes after midnight on February 1, when the first train left the New York Central's terminus, and the great engineering ...

    Article : 219 words
  19. A HOSPITAL SIGN.

    It is essential that patients of a hospital should be kept quiet, and, in order to do so, a sign similar to the one here illustrated is now being erected outside most hospitals. Drivers ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 104 words
  20. SCIENCE

    Given few generations and absolute power to do as he liked, said Professor Karl Pearson, lecturing in London last month, and he would get a white man from a dark race. He showed ...

    Article : 73 words
  21. RELIGION

    A Nuremberg (Germany) church seating 1200, has an electric heater for each pew. A 3 in iron tube encloses a smaller tube wound with resistance wire, and this heater runs in front ...

    Article : 55 words
  22. AERONAUTICS

    A hydro-aeroplane which will exceed in size and power the aerial yacht Icare, built by Gabriel Voisin for M. Henry Deutsch de [?]a Meurthe, is now under construction on plans ...

    Article : 90 words
  23. OIL VERSUS STEAM.

    A new era in British shipbuilding is at hand. The success of the oil internal combustion engine, applied to merchant vessels, has led to the formation of a company, with a capital of ...

    Article : 229 words
  24. BISHOP'S CURE FOR "CLERICAL THROAT."

    The Bishop of Chichester condemned the "church voice" and "clerical throat" in the Upper House of Convocation of Canterbury, at Church House, Westminster (Eng.), last month. ...

    Article : 219 words
  25. CONTROL BY ELECTRICITY.

    A railway electric control system, the first of its kind to be installed in Wales, has just been inaugurated on the, Rhymney railway. By telephonic agency all the signal, cabins, ...

    Article : 111 words
  26. LOST IN LONDON'S SMOKE.

    M. Brindejonc des Moulinais had never been in England, so last month he climbed into his Morane-Saulnier monoplane at the Paris aerodrome and flew across to London, arriving in ...

    Article : 216 words
  27. MONEY

    Voluntary offerings of the Church of England for the year ending Easter, 1912, amounted to £7,764,776, as shown by the official year-book shortly to be published. ...

    Article : 33 words
  28. MOTOR 'BUS MUDGUARD.

    This illustration shows a mudguard which is in use on all the motor 'buses in Paris. It is simply a strong sheet of leather which hangs from the axle-cap and catches all the mud which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 43 words
  29. £20,000 BEQUEST FOR PENSIONS.

    The late Sir William Arro[?], me lamous bridge builder, bequeathed £11,000 to Glasgow and weas Scotland information and public [?]. He ...

    Article : 61 words
  30. MELTING POINTS OF "UNMELTABLE" MATTERS.

    The melting points of various beat-resisting materials have been thus determined by tho United States Bureau of Standards : Fireclay trick, 2831deg to 3137deg F.; bauxite brick, ...

    Article : 67 words
  31. GERMAN "NATIONAL FORTUNE."

    The German newspapers publish statistics, showing that German armaments in 1912 cost 21/ per head of population, as compared with 32/ in England and 27/ in France. Germany's ...

    Article : 92 words
  32. WORLD'S WHEAT YIELDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 298 words
  33. THE STABILITY OF AEROPLANES.

    The announcement made by M. Quinton, president of the French National Aerial League, that M. Moreau has succeeded in solving the problem of the stability of the aeroplane, has aroused ...

    Article : 168 words
  34. HOW OLD IS MAN.

    The question of the first appearance of living things is of perennial interest, although tantalisingly uncertain. Professor G. Frederick Wright has now estimated that life has ...

    Article : 120 words
  35. SAVED HIS LIFE.

    Little Jack Vincent was attacked with croup. "He was just at the choking stage, and we had no time to send for medical aid," says his mother, Mrs. Agnes L. Vincent, ...

    Article : 68 words
  36. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 words
  37. WEALTH OF THE RAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 words
  38. TELEPHONE EAR.

    Telephone ear" is a form of ear trouble due to constant use of the telephone. "The ailment is really a form of ear-strain," an aural surgeon who has recently noted ...

    Article : 205 words
  39. FLIES OVER 100 MILES AN HOUR.

    A well-authenticated report from Paris is to the effect that Lieutenant Fequant, of the aviation, corps of the French army, recently flew from Mourmelon to Rheims, a distance of about ...

    Article : 158 words
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