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  2. ENGINEERING FEATS OF THE ANCIENTS.

    There is not an engineer in the world who will not admit that the marvellous accomplishments of the ancient Egyptians in building the ...

    Article : 356 words
  3. SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.

    If the moon had never been born, Professor W. H. Pickering points out the highest intelligence on earth would not have advanced beyond ...

    Article : 1,055 words
  4. JOHN TAKES OUT A PATENT.

    At last and at last John, the Inventor received his letters-patent, and simultaneously the earth stopped turning a time or two. John swam ...

    Article : 1,066 words
  5. THE "MIDDLIN" MAN.

    "How do you do, Mr. Candlish?" said the visitor with the white bow necktie. "You are well, I trust?" "Jest about middlin," replied the ...

    Article : 499 words
  6. USEFUL MEMORANDA.

    That nasty deposit which is to be found in most kettles, commonly called fur, is in reality nothing more or less than the lime contained in the ...

    Article : 1,163 words
  7. THE AGE OF TREES.

    There are few questions of natural history more interesting or on which imagination allows itself more faraway flights than the ages of trees. ...

    Article : 1,103 words
  8. LITERARY IMPOSTORS.

    Clever literary impostors who have deceived the world are numerous. Gamelli Carrieri, a Neapolitan gentleman and scholar, while confined to ...

    Article : 323 words
  9. RADIUM PUZZLES.

    That wonderful substance radium is still puzzling the scientists. The latest conundrum is--"Where does it come from?" Professor Joly has ...

    Article : 188 words
  10. BIG PRICES FOR RARE VOLUMES.

    £800, the price paid by Mr. Quaritch, at Sotheby's, for a copy of the 1609 edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, seems an enormous sum to ...

    Article : 211 words
  11. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    The aristocracy on an average live twenty-five years longer than the working classes. The average walking pace of a ...

    Article : 478 words
  12. WHERE TOWNS GROW RAPIDLY.

    Apropos of the mushroom growth of new towns on the western frontier a locomotive engineer relates the following to the "Minneapolis Journal" ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. THE CANNY SCOT

    A Scotch tourist, wandering about the streets of Paris, at some distance from his hotel, found himself in a strange neighbourhood, and, to make ...

    Article : 418 words
  14. THERE WAS NONE.

    A very well-known leader in former days of the North-Eastern Circuit used to tell this story against himself. He was instructed for the ...

    Article : 275 words
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