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  2. SCIENCE.

    A careful analysis of Prussian lightning statistics by K. Langbeck, shows that damage due to lightning has markedly decreased in the cities in recent years. This decrease is ...

    Article : 66 words
  3. INVENTION

    Exhaus[?]e tests [?] recently been made with instruments invented for telephoning through water without wires. The microphone, used in speaking [?] connected in [?] with a ...

    Article : 142 words
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  5. AERONAUTICS

    All records for long-distance hallooning were recently beaten by M. Emile Doubounet and M. Dupont, who ascended from De la Motte Brenil, in France, passed over Austria and Germany, ...

    Article : 154 words
  6. LONG-DISTANCE CAMERA.

    Long-distance photography has been greatly facilitated as the result of the construction of a mammoth long-distance camera in America. This camera, when the bellows are extended ...

    Article : 110 words
  7. AUTOMATIC STABILITY OF AEROPLANE

    It is reported that an engineer in India who has given close study to the equilibrium, of aeroplanes has succeeded in securing almost automatic stability in flight. A recent test was ...

    Article : 170 words
  8. COMBINATION GARMENT.

    A new garment, [?]nown as "The Clifford Combination Apron and West," is made in materials suitable for salesmen and workmen of any trade. It affords entire protection to vest and shirt of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 89 words
  9. INSTINCT IN ANIMALS.

    Dr. R. Chalmers Mitchell, lecturing at the Royal Institution, London, last month, said that the young caracal which he had brought up as a pet at the Zoological Gardens, would offer its ...

    Article : 298 words
  10. LIEUTENANTS, TERRIBLE FALL.

    Elentenant Berner, a French army aviator, had a terrible fill with his monoplane at Senlis from a height of 900ft last month. The machine look fire, and he was rescued by two heroic ...

    Article : 179 words
  11. PAVING THE WAY FOR SCIENCE.

    Some of the customs among primitive peoples seem to give more or less promise or suggestion of later discoveries in science, says in American exchange. Results have been in spite ...

    Article : 389 words
  12. HAIR CUTTER.

    A barber's hair cutter, combining a pair of shears and a comb, is shown. The comb is attached to a clip having a cylindrical barrel, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
  13. FRENCH NAVAL AVIATION.

    Following on the invitation taken by M. Mille-rand, who after consultation with the leading officers of the staff and the directors of his department, decided to ask the French ...

    Article : 240 words
  14. DEVICE FOR REPLACING BELTS.

    This is a device designed for replacing belts, ropes, or other flexible transmissions. For light high-speed machinery, such as are used in clothing shops, round belts or ropes are ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 183 words
  15. HEALTH

    On the ground that absinthe is dangerous to health, the Pure Food Board of the United States Department of Agriculture recently asked the Government to prohibit its importation into ...

    Article : 41 words
  16. RELIGION

    Do people nowadays live too long? According to Dean Inge, who talked last month to a men's meeting at St. James the Less, Bethnal Green, on the "Age of Unrest," at the ...

    Article : 134 words
  17. TRAVEL

    A modem Presidential tour of the United States would be impossible if it were not for the perfected automobile of to-day, says an American exchange. The automobile has widened ...

    Article : 202 words
  18. MONEY

    The rector of Slough (Eng.), who has just been promised £1000 for a new church organ, has received about 8000 in anonymous gifts in loss, than twelve months." One was £800 for ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. GROWTH AS A DISEASE.

    A case of "giants' disease," or aeromegaly, was recently reported from Bradford (Eng.). The patient, Mr. Harry Faulkner, a man of 30, stated that he was a normal boy up to the ...

    Article : 266 words
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  21. TRADE

    Leading Copenhagen financiers set high hopes upon the importance and value of St. Thomas and its excellent harbor when the Panama Canal is opened. The Minister for Finance, ...

    Article : 201 words
  22. INSURING AGAINST AN ELECTION.

    A considerable amount of insurance is being effected at Lloyd's (London) against a general election taking place during 1912. Recently the premium on the risk stood at ten guineas per. ...

    Article : 84 words
  23. FLAT ROCKING SPOOL.

    An interesting new type of spool, claimed by its inventor to be much superior to the ordinary round spool, is illustrated. This spool is extremely simple, being made of a single flat piece ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 181 words
  24. A BISHOP ON CONCEIT.

    The Islington Clerical Meeting, one of the great Evangelical clergy gatherings of the year in England, opened its annual session last month. ...

    Article : 239 words
  25. SIX MILLIONS FOR AN ISLAND.

    The Portuguese Parliament is about to consider the offer of £6,000,000 by a British syndicate for the purchase of the island of Sa[?] Thome, which contains some of the chief could ...

    Article : 79 words
  26. AMONG SAVAGES.

    From the Guinea coast, Mrs. Mary Gaunt, who recently travelled alone through West Africa, travelled up the Volta in a canoe, turning her back on the European outposts for many weeks, ...

    Article : 158 words
  27. PAID IN SALMON.

    The records have been made up of the salmon-canning business of Alaska for the year 1910. It appears that during the year all records in this industry, not only for Alaska but for ...

    Article : 196 words
  28. NEW AMERICAN STEEL TARIFF.

    The presentation of the new Steel Tariff Bill in Congress was the chief event of last month in New York. The Steel Tariff Bill provides for an average ...

    Article : 211 words
  29. FIGHTING CONSUMPTION.

    Incorporation by Royal Charter of the King Edward VII. Welsh National Memorial Fund is now practically assured, says an English exchange. Mr. David Davies, M.P. for ...

    Article : 227 words
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  31. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents have been lodged at the Commonwealth Patent Office, ...

    Article : 203 words
  32. WOMAN MOUNTAINEER.

    Sex-rivalry was the impulse which drove Miss Annie S. Peck, an American lady, to climb Mount Huascaran, a lofty peak of the Andes in Peru, which is at least 22,187ft high, and has ...

    Article : 247 words
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  34. COMPETITION FOR ALL.

    1. A domestic animal. 2. A verb. 3. A number. 1. A state. 2. A possessive pronoun. 3. A verb. 4. A vowel. ...

    Article : 87 words
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