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  3. ALL QUESTIONS ANSWERED

    STATISTICS (In answer to J.M.H,. Uardry): The figures you ask for are not compiled. SNOOKER (to "A.F.," Killarney).—No the colored ball should be left down, as if the ...

    Article : 602 words
  4. HEALTH

    Expressing the opinion that explopsions in mines can be prevented, the Clifton Miners' Committee of the Nottingham Miners' Association (Eng.), suggests that the Government ...

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  5. TRAVEL

    For the first time in the history of the Vancouver courts the chicken oath was administered recently to Mah. Quang, a Chinaman who was a witness in the case of seven men ...

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  6. MONEY

    Dr. Percy Furnivall, a London dentist, urges his patients not to use powder, as it helps to form the tartar .deposit and to wear away the enamel. Instead, he orders them to pass silk ...

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  7. CAMEL RIDES ON A LINER.

    All the sensations of a ride across the desert on camel-back can be had—on board an Atlantic liner! In the new 14,000-ton ship Gelria, belonging ...

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  8. GERMANY HAS GONE MESOTHORIUM MAD.

    Germany has got a craze for mesothdrium, the latest of the multitude of cancer cures to be announced. The London "Times" asserts that "there is hardly a town of importance in the ...

    Article : 236 words
  9. BULL-FIGHTERS' FORTUNES.

    Bombita, the famous Spanish bull-fighter, is retiring from the ring. Though only 34, he has been fighting since he was 19, and has killed in all 3000 bulls. When he gave his last fight, on ...

    Article : 351 words
  10. MISS FREEDOM'S COSTLY TOILET.

    The statue of the Goddess, of Freedom on the top of the dome of the Capitol at Washington has been undergoing a cleansing process. Miss Freedom, who stands 19ft 6in in her bare feet ...

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  11. POMPEII AS IT WAS WILL SOON BE OPENED.

    The director-general of the excavations at Pompeii says he means to make a feature of discovering and preserving the upper floors of the buried buildings. Hitherto only the ground ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. CUTTING THE TEETH OUT OF A MAN'S THROAT.

    A man in Philadelphia swallowed his upper plate with four attached front teeth while asleep. Inserting his fingers into his throat he was able to touch the plate, but in trying to ...

    Article : 283 words
  13. BABY HEIRS TO MILLIONS.

    Seldom has a baby started life with such a prospect of future riches as the Marquess of Bowmont, the little son of the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, who was born a few weeks ago in ...

    Article : 362 words
  14. LULLED TO SLEEP BY A STREAM OF WATER.

    It has often been claimed by authorities that the sound of running water has the effect of lulling anyone to sleep, but In India they go much further than this, for the mothers there ...

    Article : 217 words
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  16. AN AIR PRIZE DISPUTE

    The stewards of the Royal Aero Club have reached a decision in regard to the appeal by the Grahaine-White Aviation Co. against the withdrawal of the competitor's certificate of ...

    Article : 251 words
  17. MINIATURE BOOMERANG FROM A VISITING CARD

    A miniature boomerang may be made by any-one out of a visiting card or a playing card. This must be cut in the form of a letter L, with the arms equal and not more than an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 272 words
  18. A LAKE OF SOAP.

    One of Nature's marvels is to be seen in the N.E. corner of the State of Washington. It is a lake which bears the name of Soap Lake, and is three miles in length by one mile in ...

    Article : 295 words
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  22. FILE HANGS IN COMPRESSED AIR

    A file may be suspended in the air without any visible support if its handle be placed in a jet of compressed air issuing at about 45 degrees from the horizontal. J. W. Cloud, chief ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  23. AIRMAN'S DUEL WITH GALE

    A wonderful feat of airmanship has been accomplished by Captain Liongcroft, ,of the Royal Flying Corps (Eng.), who at Dysart, of the Firth of Forth, in a biplane flew in the ...

    Article : 209 words
  24. 13Q MILES IN 100 MINUTES

    M. Pierre Verrier, flying a Maurice-Farman biplane fitted with a 70-h.p. Renault engine, was the first home in the handicap race from Hendon to Brighton and back, arriving home by the ...

    Article : 153 words
  25. RAFFLED HIS SALARY

    A well-known statesman once said that no amount of legislation would ever stop a man from gambling. People would bet on the slightest pretext and on the smallest things. ...

    Article : 347 words
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  27. STEAMER IN A FIELD.

    Returning empty from Carmarthen to Bristol (Eng.) down the River Towy, whose banks were obliterated by the floods, the s.s. Mertbyr, 143 tons, sailed, into a meadow and got ashore. ...

    Article : 69 words
  28. NEW "LOOPING" AIRMAN.

    M. Maurice Chevillard, the airman, who has frequently flown in England, "looped the loop" in the air live times in succession at Juvisy (France), recently. ...

    Article : 61 words
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  31. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 words
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