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  2. NAVIGATION.

    The "so much desired longitude at sea " is indeed a vastly important thing to a maritime nation like England ; and it is only in ...

    Article : 1,126 words
  3. CURIOUS FARCIES ABOUT LIGHTNING.

    Various methods were employed in old times to ward off danger from the lightning flash, which was supposed, however, to have no power to ...

    Article : 334 words
  4. WONDERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

    It can be confidently asserted that this century will see things Which the boldest minds cannot anticipate. It will revel in what Jules Verne, ...

    Article : 2,638 words
  5. HOW A LIFETIME IS SPENT.

    A man with a mania for statistics and not enough to do to keep him out of mischief has been making calculations regarding the manner ...

    Article : 310 words
  6. IS ILLNESS RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME?

    It is frequently asserted that bodily ailments are mainly responsible for crime, especially crime of the first degree. Whether this assertion ...

    Article : 528 words
  7. THE TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE.

    The actual work of laying the Government Transpacific cable connecting Australia with the home country, via Canada, will be begun ...

    Article : 342 words
  8. THE SALVAGE OF SHIPS.

    Nowadays any sort of wreck can be raised anywhere. The salvage companies almost undertake to raise the earth if they could get a cable ...

    Article : 371 words
  9. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Budapest is to have an exhibition of calculating machines. The finest looking people in Europe are the Tziganes, or gypsies, of ...

    Article : 719 words
  10. WEALTH OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

    An American writer declares that the Emperor William is the richest monarch in the world now that Queen Victoria's estate has been ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

    A good story is going the rounds about a Boer matron and an officer of one of the kilted regiments. The story says :--1 suppose your readers ...

    Article : 261 words
  12. HIS FIRST PHONOGRAPH.

    A remarkable incident in connection with the experiment test of Edison's first phonograph has just narrated for the first time. ...

    Article : 330 words
  13. THE BIGGEST ELECTRIC PLANT IN ASIA.

    Strangely enough the biggest electric plant in Asia is to be found in the hermit land of Corea. It includes electric lights for the capital, ...

    Article : 272 words
  14. A TIP FROM THE GALLERY.

    It was during the performance of Faust in a provincial town. After the duel, "Martha" who rushed in at the head of the crowd, raised ...

    Article : 88 words
  15. HOW STEAM IS MADE.

    When water is heated the animosity of the water particles to each other increases, and the more that heat is applied the more repellant to ...

    Article : 282 words
  16. WHERE ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

    According to the experience of the accident insurance companies, about the safest place for a man to be is in a train or aboard an ocean ...

    Article : 333 words
  17. A TEXT OF SCRIPTURE.

    A Lincolnshire vicar having quarrelled with a parishioner of the name of Hardy, chose for his text on the following Sunday the words, " There ...

    Article : 205 words
  18. A FOLDING PAPER BUCKET.

    So many things are made out of paper nowadays that we may be said to be living in a " paper age." The very latest is a paper pail. ...

    Article : 180 words
  19. HOW IT REACHED HIM.

    One day a teacher was giving the class a lesson in geography, and she was telling them about the Equator, which she said was an imaginary ...

    Article : 87 words
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