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  2. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    Recent tests ball-bearing wheels on German railway carriages are said to have been entirely successful. Two concentric rings with three grooves for ...

    Article : 47 words
  3. ON "WOMAN AND LABOUR."

    Than Olive Schriener there is no finer writer of sweet and melodious English, nor is there any living woman who has voiced more perennially the vague ...

    Article : 1,295 words
  4. LADIES' COLUMN.

    Little girls are again to rejoice in ringlets—that pretty style of hair-dressing which went out of favour some 30 years ago, to be flowed by "crimping," ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. Advertising

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  6. AN OLD IDEA.

    An applicant to the American Patent Office presented for patenting an electrical conduit of wood coated inside and out with pitch. It was promptly refused, ...

    Article : 63 words
  7. WHAT FIGURES MEAN.

    Figures have often been said to tell us everything or nothing. And certainly they tell us nothing if we do not use our imaginations, and the vaster the ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. KING GEORGE AND FASHIONS.

    King Edward was commonly regarded as the best-dressed man in Europe, and so he was accepted as the leader of masculine fashion, not in England alone, but ...

    Article : 771 words
  9. THE VIRTUE OF CHEEP[?]ULNESS.

    There is nothing that helps to brighten the family circles and make it attractive like one cheerful member, who refuses to be do downhearted when things go wrong. ...

    Article : 80 words
  10. LABOUR WAR.

    Labour circles in America have been stirred to their uttermost depths by the arrest of John M Namara, his brother James, and Otis M'Manigal, respectively ...

    Article : 790 words
  11. WIFELY PERFECTION.

    If her husband is a writer, the successful wife must keep the house and the children and the servants, in a continous state of hushed silence, on threat ...

    Article : 120 words
  12. FINDING PEARLS WITH RONTGEN RAYS.

    A suggestion was recently made that Rontgen rays be used to ascertain whether an oyster contains pearls. In this way, it will be unnecessary to open the ...

    Article : 89 words
  13. POINTS FOR THE BUSINESS GIRL.

    It is difficult for any girl, plunged suddenly into some business which is entirely new to her, to evince a keen and intelligent interest in the work she is ...

    Article : 476 words
  14. THE MODERN SPIRIT.

    In these progressive days it is necessary to strike out in an original line, in order to ensure success in all branches of industry. A Continental ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. HOW EGGS ARE PRESERVED.

    Eggs in large quantities are successfully kept in cold storage for many months, but this method cannot be employed by small dealers or housekeepers. ...

    Article : 188 words
  16. MEASURING STARS BRIGHTNESS.

    Stellar photometry, or the measurement of the brightness of stars, has had great development in recent years, and is yielding quite a new conception of the ...

    Article : 245 words
  17. ITALY'S LAST BANDIT.

    Salomone, the most interesting and romantic of the three remaining Italian brigands, all of whom by the way, are securely imprisoned for life, and, as is ...

    Article : 410 words
  18. THE MARRYING AGE.

    What is the proper age at which to get married? asks a lady writer in an English paper. She says: Looking back, one finds that the great men of the world have set ...

    Article : 168 words
  19. ARE FISHES WARMER THAN THE WATER?

    A scientist at Leipsic, wishing to ascertain whether fish are warmer than the water they live in, stuck a needle connected with the thermo-electric ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. KNITTING TIPS.

    Home-knitted stockings can always be depended upon to outlast several succession of machine-made hose. There are, however, many little devices by which ...

    Article : 192 words
  21. CAREER OF BOGUS MARQUIS.

    Reminiscent of the Tichborne sensation of the seventies is the case of a sham French marquis, whose romantic career of fraud has been brought to an abrupt ...

    Article : 391 words
  22. CANADIAN STATISTICS.

    It is estimated that the census in Canada will show a population of a little over 8,000,000. In order to realise the vast strides which Canada has been making in ...

    Article : 239 words
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