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  2. SCIENCE

    The Rockefeller Institute, according to the "Brooklyn Eagle," has discovered a serum to cure pneumonia. The serum has been used successfully during the past Winter in the hospital ...

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  4. INVENTION.

    A recent invention of Mr. R. A. M'George, of C Phillip-street, Newtown, promises to become a boon to the photographic world. The invention consists of a non-slip ...

    Article : 109 words
  5. TRADE

    As the outcome of the Bombay (Indian) Government's experiments in cottongrowing, 1200 bales of fine staple cotton have been sold, as compared with 120 bales in 1912. The cotton ...

    Article : 62 words
  6. "ELECTRIC" STRAWBERRIES.

    Many interesting experiments are now being carried out in Kent (Eng.), where tests of the various means of hastening and improving the growth of plants and crops by the aid of ...

    Article : 123 words
  7. WOOD FLOUR.

    A product of Norway is wood flour, which is made from sawdust, and comes from clean spruce or pine logs, which are first freed from any particles of bark. This ...

    Article : 73 words
  8. ONE OF MANY SPRING WHEELS FOR AUTOS.

    The particular merit claimed for spring spring wheel shown in this illustration is that the springs are so designed and located that, no matter how the load is applied, it is uniformly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 87 words
  9. SHIPBUILDING TO GO ABROAD.

    A great surprise was created in England last month by the announcement that three large British steamers, costing together half a million sterling, were to be built in France. The ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. ADVANCEMENT OF CHEMISTRY.

    At the annual dinner of the Manchester Society of Chemical Industry, Dr. Fowler, the chairman, said the future advance of technical chemistry would be an advance in what might be called ...

    Article : 289 words
  11. QUININE FACTORIES IN JAVA.

    Java produces about two-thirds of the world's supply of cinchona, and it has for years been regularly shipped to Holland. The large quinine manufactories, mostly situated in Germany, ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. HOW A UNIVERSITY HELPED INVENTORS.

    It is not commonly known that it was an American University that first gave encouragement to Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse when they were toiling over the first telegraph ...

    Article : 153 words
  13. SERVICES TO COTTON TRADE.

    Mr. Arno Schmidt, of Manohester (Eng.), has been awarded the medal of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers of the U.S.A. The announcement of the award was made at ...

    Article : 180 words
  14. ANIMALS AND THE DESIRE TO KILL.

    At the London Aeolian Hall last month, Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton lectured on "The Natural History of the Ten Commandments" and on "Animal Heroes." Dealing in the first place ...

    Article : 277 words
  15. SIX USEFUL KNOTS.

    The pictures below show some knots in common use in the building trade, says this week's "Smallholder." Nos. 1 and 2 show the Clove Hitch, which is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 117 words
  16. RELIGION

    In reply to the request tendered by the Bishop of Birmingham (Eng.) on behalf of the Diocesan Conference that trams should not be run on Sundays, the Tramways Committee decided that ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. THE GREATEST THING IN THE UNIVERSE.

    Our sermon to-day was preached by Pastor Russell, of the London Tabernacle, and was entitled "The Greatest Thing in the Universe," from the following text : ...

    Article : 1,408 words
  18. HEALTH.

    It was announced at a Congress on Internal Medicine at Wiesbaden (Germany), last month, that Professor Emil Behring had discovered a method of producing prolonged immunity from ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. BISHOP DENOUNCES DISESTABLISHMENT BILL.

    At a joint conference of clergy and lay representatives upon Welsh Disestablishment, the Bishop of Bangor (Wales), declared that people did not realise the extent of the injury which ...

    Article : 73 words
  20. DEVICE TO RIVET WOUNDS.

    The surgeon of the future will rivet wounds instead of sewing them up, says Dr. Robert M. Green, a Professor of Anatomy in Harvard Medical School (U.S.A.), who has invented an ...

    Article : 189 words
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  22. POTATOES FOR HEADACHES.

    An unsuspected virtue in the potato is revealed by the "Lancet." It can be employed as a headache cure! "We have little doubt," the "Lancet" says, "that ofttimes a judicious diet ...

    Article : 70 words
  23. CHURCH ACTIVITY.

    A layman, Mr. Harry Barber, gave the presidential address at the fortieth annual meetings of the London Congregational Union at Whitefield's, and reviewed the effects of Church ...

    Article : 202 words
  24. ENGLAND'S VITAL STATISTICS.

    Preliminary figures issued last month by the British Registrar-General show that during last year 872,800 births and 486.932 deaths were registered in England and Wales. Hence the natural ...

    Article : 200 words
  25. DEVICE FOR CHAIN REPAIR OR ADJUSTMENT.

    A simple appliance for joining a broken chain, forming an endless chain, or for shortening a chain to any desired length, is here shown. It may be used either temporarily or permanently ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  29. A NEW TEN COMMANDMENTS.

    The Bulletin of the Chicago School of Sanitary Instruction, reprints the following Ten Commandments of the Housing Committee of the Chicago Women's Aid Association :— ...

    Article : 194 words
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  31. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 words
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