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  3. AERONAUTICS

    Four people were killed and several injured at Buecheu-buren, in Rhenish Prussia, recently when si machine piloted by a military aviator fell among a crowd of spectators. ...

    Article : 65 words
  4. ALL QUESTIONS ANSWERED

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  5. TRAVEL

    Excavations at Pompeii have led to the discovery of the ruins of the port of Pompeii 700 metres beyond the gates of the town, and about 1250 metres from the sea. ...

    Article : 57 words
  6. TRADE

    Sir Benjamin Browne, presiding at the annual meeting of Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., engineers and shipbuilders, at Newcastle, anticipated the firm being fully employed for ...

    Article : 97 words
  7. SCIENCE

    Experimenters have succeeded in producing titanium in the electric furnace. In its pure form it is much, harder than steel or quartz, and when combined with silicon, to form a ...

    Article : 56 words
  8. SOME FAMOUS ECHOES.

    Among the most noted echoes is that heard from the suspension bridge across the Menai Strait, between India and Ceylon. The sound of a blow from a hammer en one of the main ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. IMPORTANT-X-RAY DISCOVERY.

    That the identity of X-rays and light is proved, the only difference in the properties being due to the extremely short wave-length of the X-rays, is one conclusion reached by ...

    Article : 138 words
  10. NEW NAVY FLYING BOATS.

    Experiments are being made at launders' works, Isle of Wight, with three types of flying boats—not waterplanes, but boats fitted wite an aeroplane to lift them from the water. One ...

    Article : 112 words
  11. CHINESE WOOD-OIL TREE.

    The Chinese wood-oil tree is the subject of a circular by David Fairchild, recently published by the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry, the purpose of the publication being to advocate an ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. AIRSHIP v. AEROPLANE RACE

    During the recent Corman Army manoeuvres the Blue airship Zeppelin 1., with Count Zep pelin in command, new over the Red army an "destroyed" the Red aeroplane station at Re ...

    Article : 120 words
  13. SWISS GLACIERS GROWING.

    Owing to the cold Summers of 1912 and 1913 the Swiss glaciers, which for several years had been receding, have again begun to grow. The Swiss meteorological authorities report that ...

    Article : 115 words
  14. VOLCANIC DUST.

    In a paper presented to the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America in January, Mr. W. J. Hurnphrys, of the U.S.A. Weather Bureau, examines the question whether the ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. SAWDUST AS FUEL.

    A new industry may be successfully combined with the planing mills—that of making sawdust briquets to be used for firing under the boilers, thus considerably decreasing the cost ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. EXPLORERS OF THE AIR.

    The limit to which manned balloons co[?] ascend is about 20,000 feet, but a pounding baloon lately sent up in Italy, at Pavia. reached a height of 121,000 feet, nearly 23 miles. T[?] ...

    Article : 168 words
  17. A DEAD LANGUAGE READ AT LAST.

    To discover a language—or, rather, to learn to read a language long forgotten—is the achievement of a young Frenchman, M. R. Gauthiot. All we have known of Sogdiana and ...

    Article : 151 words
  18. SALTS OF LANTHANUM.

    Sails of lanthanum appear to have special action upon microbe life such as is not observed with other rare earth metals. For instance, when a culture of the microbe B. ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. LORD MURRAY'S OIL DEAL.

    What Lord Murray, formerly the Master of Elibank and Chief Government Whip, was doing while the Marconi Committee was trying to locate his whereabouts in South America, has ...

    Article : 244 words
  20. THE CREATION OF THE WORLD—GREAT DISCOVERY.

    A tablet dug up in the Nippur some years ago has just been translated by Dr. Arne Poebel, of Pennsylvania University, who believes he has unveiled the oldest story so far ...

    Article : 136 words
  21. GODY'S APPARATUS SOLD FOR A SONG

    Though there was a good attendance and great interest was shown in the proceedings, only low prices were realised when the Cody biplane and machinery were sold at Lallan's Plain. ...

    Article : 201 words
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  23. MONEY

    Whenever the Bank of England gets worth of gold coins the money Is sent in a batch to be weighed at the Mint. Since the order for the exchange of light gold cons came ...

    Article : 141 words
  24. INVENTION

    An automatic mans for steadying aeroplanes car be considered as discovered, says M. Quinton, president of the French National Aerial League. The apparatus is that of Mr. Moreau ...

    Article : 257 words
  25. TWO LEANING TOWERS.

    The leaning tower of Pisa is world-famous, but there are two leaning towers that arc seldom heard of, though they are certainly marvels of architecture and worthy of much ...

    Article : 168 words
  26. BRITISH SHELLS GET US NAVY CONTRACT.

    Test by the American Navy of 12in shells supplied by the Hadfield Steel Foundry Company, of Sheffield, to the U.S.A. Government, have proved most satisfactory, and the firm ...

    Article : 211 words
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  28. "[?] KING" AND HIS SON.

    At a trial at Portraund (Westphalia) recently, insinuations of bank-wrecking were made in connection with Herr August Thyssen, the foremost figure in the German steel and iron ...

    Article : 176 words
  29. MONUMENTS FOR LIARS.

    So truthful are the members of the race known as the Sea Dyaks or Borneo that when a really good he is told to them they buila a monument to keep green the memory of the perpetrator. ...

    Article : 216 words
  30. RELIGION

    At Kandy, in Ceylon, is kept Buddha's tooth, which is the object of the unbounded reverence of more than 400,000,000 people. When this holy molar was brought to Ceylon ...

    Article : 277 words
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  32. HEALTH

    For the last ten years or so a number of Irish doctors interested in mental diseases have been trying to locate the causes of the widespread lunacy among the people of County Kerry. It ...

    Article : 165 words
  33. ELECTRIC ICE-CREAM FREEZER.

    An electric ice-cream freezer lias been devised by a London Inventor. In the usual freezer tank, generally of larger size for wholesale manufacture, hotels, or the like, is mounted ...

    Article : 142 words
  34. TIGHT-LACING DEATH.

    "Death was due to heart-failure from tight-lacing," said Dr. Ives, of Southampton, at an inquest on Mary Adams, aged 26, a domestic servant, of Richmond Hill, Surrey, who died ...

    Article : 49 words
  35. SUBMARINE TELEPHONE.

    What is probably the first ocean telephone call station is in Platte Fougere lighthouse, on a rock lying about a mile and a quarter to the north-east of Guernsey, Channel Islands. ...

    Article : 261 words
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  37. NEW CHINESE ALPHABET ON ROMAN PLAN.

    Ad educational conference sitting in Peking has devised a new alphabet for expressing the sounds of the Chinese language. This alphabet consists of parts of Chinese characters which ...

    Article : 95 words
  38. COMMON TOWEL DANGERS.

    The dangers of the common drinking cup and. the common towel have been receiving the attention of doctors. A recent examination of public drinking cups found in various parts of ...

    Article : 246 words
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  40. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS

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