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  2. TOPICAL ARTICLE.

    We are creditably informed--says the "London Budget"--that the idea of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan the czar of industry and the ...

    Article : 1,214 words
  3. IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC.

    Australia, is determined that no flag other than that of Great Britain shall wave over the New Hebrides. France may share the ...

    Article : 1,014 words
  4. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    The screw of an Atlantic liner cost about £4,000. A cubic foot of cork weighs 15th : a cubic foot of gold weighs 1,155ft ...

    Article : 361 words
  5. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC BY SUBMARINE.

    So far the practibility of the submarine boat has only been successfully tested in limited radii of action, but the results achieved on ...

    Article : 1,531 words
  6. NO HERO.

    To-morrow I am to be married to the brightest and sweetest girl in the world. Then, after the wedding trip I am to settle down to my new ...

    Article : 1,391 words
  7. FUNNY SCENE IN A MENAGERIE.

    We were loitering past the animal show, said the man who had been visiting the International Exhibition, when we noticed a queer sort of ...

    Article : 327 words
  8. QUEER PRISONS IN PLANTS.

    Narcotics so appeal to the imagination that sober statements are difficult. Traveller's tales, intending truth, are often exaggerated. The ...

    Article : 777 words
  9. OTHER LANDS.

    In Brazil a species of tree-frog constructs in the water a curious nest or fortification to protest its young from the attacks of fish. ...

    Article : 515 words
  10. ELECTRO MAGNETIC OPTICS.

    A foreman who was watching a gang of men cutting steel rails, bent over close to one on which the hammer was descending when a piece ...

    Article : 137 words
  11. HAT AND EYE MEASURE.

    It is necessary to make use only of the eyes and the brim of the hat to measure the width of any ordinary stream, or even a good-sized ...

    Article : 465 words
  12. STREETS ONE OVER ANOTHER.

    Dr. Stubben, a German architect, has recently published, some ingenious ideas regarding the city of the future. His notion is that it will ...

    Article : 161 words
  13. CHLOROFORMED PLANTS.

    The curious stunted trees of the Japanese have always been the wonder and envy of gardeners the world over. But a German chemist now ...

    Article : 126 words
  14. THE AGE OF FISH TOLD BY EARS.

    How to tell the age of [?] is a problem in which size is not ture criterion; for a fish which has been well fed may be twice the size of one ...

    Article : 38 words
  15. CHARACTER IN LAUGHTER.

    Clearly a person's character is shown by the manner in which he laughs, or rather by the sound he makes. It is maintained by a ...

    Article : 91 words
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