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  2. ALL QUESTIONS ANSWERED

    PEDIGREE (to "R.S.").—By Flavus ex-Queenbird. DAY (to "M.B.," Sydney).—October 25, twenty-two years ago, fell on a Sunday. ...

    Article : 653 words
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  4. TRAVEL

    The people of the town of Ocos, Guatemala, have just lost their lighting plant in a rather strange way, for this lighting plant has gone away to sea. Four years ago a steamer of the ...

    Article : 138 words
  5. SCIENCE

    According to Dr. Charlton Bastian, the creation of life from non-living matter is an assured tact. "Living organisms can be obtained almost at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 378 words
  6. HEALTH

    The work of removing the contents of the old King's College Hospital from Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to the new building at Denmark Hill, has now begun in the bacteriological ...

    Article : 65 words
  7. ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT FOR CRIPPLES.

    Sun treatment has proved so beneficial to the little sufferers from tubercular bone and joint disease at the Cripples' Hospital at Alton, Hampshire, that an apparatus for making ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. A COSTLY CITY.

    Routs in Rio de Janeiro are excessively high. For a single person an unfurnished room in the town or immediate suburbs will cost about £4 a month and about £5 modestly furnished. ...

    Article : 159 words
  9. A SETTLEMENT OF CENTENARIANS.

    A region of centenarians is revealed in one of the latest volumes of the India census, in Rajputana, it appears, among 100,000 people in a selected area there were found nine men and 15 ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. DANGEROUS MICROBES.

    Dust is more dangerous than draught. The dust of the house is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 455 words
  11. OSTRICHES WALTZING MAKE STRANGE SIGHT.

    One of the many strange sights on the plains of Southern Africa is a party of waiting ostriches. When there are a number of them they will start off in the morning, and after ...

    Article : 174 words
  12. AMERICAN RAILWAY TRIES WIRELESS DESPATCHING.

    A test of the wireless telegraph in train-despatching is being made by the Lackawanna Railroad (U.S.A.) on the 65 miles of line between Scranton and Binghamton (N.Y.). For ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. AERONAUTICS

    Lieut. Takeda was descending after a flight in a Maurice biplane at the aerodrome at Tokorozawa (Japan) recently, when an explosion took place. ...

    Article : 56 words
  14. INVENTION

    A combined street-car fender and extra brake, operated by the conductor by means of a pedal, has been patented in Germany. The brake and fender are connected with a system of levers ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 76 words
  15. FIREPROOF RAILWAY CARRIAGES.

    For some time past attention has been given in railway circles to the question of fireproofing coaches, and such coaches are now a feature of up-to-date practice. At Swindon (Eng. ...

    Article : 173 words
  16. HIGHEST SPEED EVER ATTAINED BY MAN.

    M. Guillaux, the famous long-distance airman, flew with a passenger from Savigny-sur-Braye to Paris recently, covering about 119 miles in 50min. He thus travelled at the astonishing ...

    Article : 75 words
  17. MONEY

    Pure silver, broken into small, iregular pieces, forms the pay of the Chinese soldier. Payment is an extraordinary process. The whole [?] the night preceding is occupied in weighing out ...

    Article : 151 words
  18. STOPS AEROPLANES QUICKLY.

    By means of the ingenious device here depicted aeroplanes can now land on the decks of warships after over-sea flights, with little risk to the machine. On a long wooden platform ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 129 words
  19. ROMAN RUINS UNDER KHEDIVE'S PALACE.

    Workmen digging a well in the gardens of Ras-el-Tin Palace, the magnificent Summer residence of the Khedive of Egypt, have discovered what appears to be a maze of ancient Roman ...

    Article : 85 words
  20. TRADE

    What may prove to be a heavy blow to British shipping was agreed to recently by the Tariff Conference Committee after a prolonged discussion with President Wilson. ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. TYPEWRITERS TO BE SUPERSEDED.

    An invention that threatens to do away with stenographers is causing consternation and alarm among Parisian shorthand experts. This new correspondence device consists of ...

    Article : 121 words
  22. WONDERFUL HAIR EXHIBITION.

    Many strange exhibitions for booming trade are held each year, but the palm for oddity must be awarded to the display of human hair which takes place in London every Summer. ...

    Article : 203 words
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  24. WEAR-PREVENTERS FOR LIFTING CABLES.

    This practical little device for protesting lifting cables or chains from being cut by the sharp edges of the structural steel or other heavy metal bodies being hoisted is finding a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 52 words
  25. MONEY IN SONGS.

    The late "Stephen Adams" made a good thing out of his songs, but his profits have often been eclipsed. "Queen of My Heart" brought its composer £40,000 in one year. "Her Golden ...

    Article : 134 words
  26. PEASANT GIRLS WHO SELL THEIR HAIR.

    The hair with which Society women supplement their own can scarcely be termed false, for the simple reason that it comes from the heads of other women. The most famous fair ...

    Article : 236 words
  27. TEA STATISTICS.

    Nearly 3000 cups of tea are annually drunk by each individual in Great Britain, for the estimate per head is about 6½lb, and, roughly speaking, there are 400 cups in each pound. New ...

    Article : 207 words
  28. A NOVEL DEVICE.

    M. Louis Bleriot has invented a device whereby aeroplanes and waterplanes will be able to moor themselves to an overhead cable. Trials of the invention were made recently ...

    Article : 153 words
  29. WHERE NO MONEY IS USED.

    The island of Ascension, in the Atlantic Ocean, is of volcanic formation, and had a population of only 450. It was uninhabited until the con[?]nement of Napoleon at St. Helena ...

    Article : 162 words
  30. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS

    Messrs. GRIFFITH and HASSEL, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for pat[?] have been lodged at the Commonwealth Patent Office, Melbourne:— ...

    Article : 212 words
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  32. SOAP PROVIDED KING JAMES WITH AN INCOME.

    Soap used to provide King James I, with a comfortable addition to his income. That canny monarch granted the Company of Soap-makers of Westminster the monopoly for the ...

    Article : 121 words
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