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  2. WHERE TYPISTS STUTTER.

    The doctors from time to time have to deal with a variety of complaints which they term trade diseases, such as painters' colic, ...

    Article : 207 words
  3. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

    Baseless auspicious of "gun-running" to evade the official prohibition against importing arms into Ireland, led to a little comedy in ...

    Article : 129 words
  4. "SAVING THE EMPIRE."

    Almost immediately it is probable that a naval conference will meet in London to discuss the insistent problems of naval defence; and an ...

    Article : 510 words
  5. Indian Border Raids.

    From time to time a short paragraph in the English papers, more especially during the winter months, draws the attention of the public to ...

    Article : 794 words
  6. KING OF THE CEREALS.

    Of all the cereals that grow, flourish, and enrich the agriculturist, none is more beautiful — both from an aesthetic and commercial ...

    Article : 504 words
  7. Fleas and Flies Have their Parasites.

    The latest discovery announced in the Paris Academy of Sciences is that of the parasite of the flea, which, it is claimed, is the chief ...

    Article : 274 words
  8. Salt Marvels.

    That the salt industry in Great Britain is one of considerable magnitude is evident from the fact that the United Kingdom produces ...

    Article : 694 words
  9. HONEYMOON UNDER THE SEA.

    Remembering the recent and zealous attempts of reporters to "track" the newly-married daughter of President Wilson, Colonel Flemming, an ...

    Article : 168 words
  10. DRIVING SIGNALS.

    For the regulation of motor traffic, a correspondent suggests a simple system of signalling by horn blowing. When a motor is approaching a ...

    Article : 149 words
  11. Weakest of all Animals.

    We do not find curvature of the spine, hernia, displacement of internal organs, and many other anatomical distortions in the upright ...

    Article : 600 words
  12. WONDERS OF THE CARDIAGRAPH

    Prince Arthur of Connaught, who was accompanied by Princess Arthur, in opening the new building in Westmoreland-street, W., of the National ...

    Article : 195 words
  13. STALKED BY FIFTEEN LIONS.

    A message from Capetown gives details of the terrible fate which befell a Greek trader named Sataras, while on a journey from Barotse. ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. NEW ZEALAND HAS SURPLUS.

    A surplus of £100.000 is announced by the New Zealand Government for the financial year ending March 31, 1914. ...

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  15. WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS.

    As an example of pathetic ignorance and misplaced—though no doubt conscientious—zeal, we can have no more striking instance than those ...

    Article : 375 words
  16. BENEFICENT FORESTS.

    The important effect upon climate which the presence or lack of forests makes, is a subject which cannot be often enough repeated until all ...

    Article : 382 words
  17. STEEL RAILWAY CARRIAGES.

    Steel is not only displacing timber in railway carriage construction, but also for freight vehicles as well. In order to obtain rigidity and strength ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. WIRE ROPES FOR THE PANAMA CANAL.

    Tests have recently been carried out in the United States of wire ropes to be used as towing lines at the great locks on the Panama Canal. ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. DO JUDGES JOKE TOO MUCH?

    Although complaints are heard that some of our judges joke too much, they are not quite so free and easy in court as certain occupants of ...

    Article : 143 words
  20. A CELLULOID SUBSTITUTE.

    German leather workers have recently been experimenting with a new process of preparing leather by means of which it becomes almost ...

    Article : 124 words
  21. Speech by Telephone.

    President Wilson has created a precedent in speech-making which will probably be imitated by future Presidents and prominent politicians ...

    Article : 213 words
  22. A Freak of Nature.

    While cutting up an ash-tree, [?], in circumference, at Embleton Saw[?], Cumberland, the sawyers observed a dark object in the centre ...

    Article : 227 words
  23. "DEAR UNCLE SAM."

    A little Seattle schoolgirl, Lottie Lester, has been the means of moving the Government of the United States to a rare act of official ...

    Article : 165 words
  24. A SMART DETECTIVE.

    What would Sherlock Holmes say to this? There had been a theft of luggage and valuables worth over £200 from Leicester Railway-station, ...

    Article : 133 words
  25. AUSTRALIAN COMPOSER.

    Mr. G. W. Marshall-Hall's opera "Romeo and Juliet," has been pubished in London. His composition "Stella," the first Australian grand ...

    Article : 41 words
  26. A PECULIAR PUNISHMENT

    A convicted former has been sentenced by a Californian Judge to serve two years as a hermit in the mountains. Because the prisoner is ...

    Article : 47 words
  27. HOUSE DENTISTS.

    A lucrative business is done in New Zealand by horse dentists, who travel throughout the country districts and examine teams of horses ...

    Article : 27 words
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