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  2. MAKING GUNS FOR ALL THE WORLD.

    Out of the wreck of the United States Shipbuilding Company it is said there will arise a rehabilitated corporation, which, if the plans of Mr. Charles M. Schwab are fulfilled, will ...

    Article : 373 words
  3. THE TIGER FIGHTS OF SURAKARTA.

    No story so thrills the blood as that of a light with an enraged tiger, a savage maneating lion, or a mad elephant. It is a sport full of danger and difficulties, and yet ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 593 words
  4. NEW AERIAL PROPELLER.

    Colonel Renard, director of the Pare d'Aerostation at Meudon, has, according to the "Temps," sent a report to the Paris Academy of Science on a new aerial propeller which he ...

    Article : 209 words
  5. THE PRICE FOR A COUNT.

    The coming wedding of Count Cini of Rome, Italy, grand nephew of the late Pope Leo, to Miss Elizabeth Howe, of Pittsburg, has been again announced in the American papers. It ...

    Article : 196 words
  6. TOTAL ABSTAINERS AND INSURANCE.

    A New York telegram of November 23 says:—Total abstainers in the matter of spirituous and malt liquors are likely in the near future to be given special low rates by the leading life ...

    Article : 173 words
  7. NEW NEGRO PROPHET.

    A native prophet has arisen in German SouthWest Africa, and is responsible for the spread of the Hereros rebellion. Colonel Leutwein, in a despatch to the ...

    Article : 150 words
  8. TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN RACE.

    A research fellowship, of the annual value of £250. has been founded by Mr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., to promote the study of "National Eugenics." ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. MOTOR FORGE FOR THE BATTLEFIELD.

    The new motor forge of the United States Army is a vehicle 12½ft. long, driven by a 24 horse-power gasoline engine, and carrying oil for travelling 300 miles at 10 to 12 miles an ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. PRAISE OF THE CYCLE.

    Speaking at the twenty-ninth annual dinner of the Stanley Cycle Club, Sir George Bartley said the difference between a cycle and a motor was that one was ruled by muscle and the other ...

    Article : 61 words
  11. RATS' ROPE WALK.

    Dr. Hope, of Liverpool, told a good rat story at the annual meeting of Fort Sanitary Authorities, held in London recently. If plague was to be prevented, said Dr. Hope, ...

    Article : 76 words
  12. SCARCELY A RELIABLE TEST.

    When the Dyaks of Borneo have to decide which of two parties is in the right, they each have a lump of salt of the same size given them to drop into water, and he whose lump first ...

    Article : 60 words
  13. RID OF WEEDS.

    "Mrs. Symes always reminds me of a gardener." "Don't be unkind; she's a widow now." "Just so—and trying to get rid of her weeds." ...

    Article : 34 words
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