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  2. SCIENCE NOTES.

    A novel night clock of Professor Hirth, of Munich, contains an electric lamp which lights up when a button is pressed and which throws an enlarged shadow ...

    Article : 59 words
  3. THE WORLD GROWING UGLIER

    Ernest Crosby is a person who would hie back to the allegedly Arcadian days of the eighteenth century, if he could. He sees nothing comforting either in the ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  4. "IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IN THE END."

    The late Mr. Kruger's last words, "I never thought it would be so easy to die," and "Everything, I believe, will come right in the end," bring to the ...

    Article : 722 words
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  6. CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY SCHOOLS.

    An interesting report on the Chicago summer vacation schools by the British Acting-Consul was issued this, week by the Foreign Office. The report states:— ...

    Article : 508 words
  7. CIRCUMVENTED BY ANTS.

    A naturalist found black ants were devouring the skins of some bird, specimens on a table, so he made tar circles on four pieces of paper, and put one under each ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. THE "LEFT" TENDENCY.

    Left-eyedness is looked upon by Dr. George M. Gould, of Philadelphia, as of greater significance than left-handedness. He is seeking facts concerning the two ...

    Article : 79 words
  9. QUEER ANTIDOTE.

    Some, time ago a veterinary surgeon accidentally discovered that turpentine, when taken in poisonous doses, is an antidote to carbolic acid. He was called ...

    Article : 81 words
  10. STRANGE ADVENT.

    The reappearance of sharks in the Baltic Sea, after an absence of one hundred and fifty years, is causing much speculation among, naturalists. One explanation ...

    Article : 82 words
  11. DISEASES OF TREES.

    Most diseases of trees are due to fungi which attack roots or trunks and sometimes branches or leaves. The older the tree the more liable it is to be attacked, ...

    Article : 88 words
  12. A TAIL CHIMNEY STRAIGHTENED.

    A remarkable feat of engineering has been accomplished at the Narragansett Brewery, at Cranston, Rhode Island, where a 192ft. chimney four feet out of ...

    Article : 88 words
  13. GREAT THIRST OF THE TREE.

    It has been computed that if the leaves of an elm tree sixty feet high were spread out on the ground, edge to edge, they would cover five acres of land. ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. RETURN TO OLD REFLECTOR.

    The German Government has erected a new lighthouse on Heligoland, in which a return has been made from the Fresnel lenses and prisms of other ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. BATHING BY MOONLIGHT.

    At many of the seaside resorts in the States ordinary daylight bathing has begun to pall, and its place has been taken by what is known as the "moonlight ...

    Article : 582 words
  16. INCOMBUSTIBLE CELLULOID.

    It is reported that two Frenchmen, MM. Mabille and Leclerc, have patented a process for making a kind of celluloid which is incombustible. To a solution of ...

    Article : 92 words
  17. A SHOE "TIP."

    Wet boots and shoes which taken off will last much longer if they are placed on their sides and allowed to dry, pulling the uppers as flat as possible. By this ...

    Article : 73 words
  18. PHTHISIS MICROBE FOUND.

    Professor Schron, of Naples, the discoverer of life in crystals, has found a new microbe which causes phthisis, a microbe quite different from that causing ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. OLDEST BRITISH SOLDIER.

    Perhaps the most remarkable old man in the world, and certainly the oldest in the service of the British Government, is at present stationed at Fort St. George, ...

    Article : 204 words
  20. THE RACE TO THE NORTH POLE.

    Peary, is going after the North Pole once more. and this is what an American magazine has to say about it:— He will start in the summer of 1905. ...

    Article : 388 words
  21. DOCTOR'S RACE AGAINST TIME.

    In a race across New York State to render assistance to Mrs. Erb, wife of the vice-chairman of the Marquette Railway Company, Dr. Meyer, of New York, ...

    Article : 102 words
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