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  2. NAVAL ARCHITECTURE.

    All associated with the maritime industry have learned with satisfaction of the gift by Mr. Alexander Elder of £12,500 for, the endowment of a Chair of Naval Architecture ...

    Article : 541 words
  3. THE EARTH'S STRATA.

    Som e years ago Charles Parsons calculated the cost of making a shaft ten or twelve miles deep in the earth's surface. A twelve-mile shaft would cost £5,000,000 and would ...

    Article : 387 words
  4. SIR THOMAS DEWAR.

    The favorite motto of Sir Thomas Dewar, the well-known whisky distiller, who is credited with having invited Mrs. Garry Nation, the American temperance reformer, to ...

    Article : 394 words
  5. THE NIGHT CLUBS OF LONDON

    The night clubs of London are not what they used to be Perhaps the metropolis is reforming and going to bed earlier, perhaps --and this seems to be the more likely ...

    Article : 673 words
  6. BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MEAT PACKING HOUSES.

    The meat kings of America vow that they gain little or no profit on the sale of meat; that in a year of dear corn for example, they have had to sell at a Joss of as much ...

    Article : 329 words
  7. SLEEP!

    Shakespeare has said the most. beautiful words that have ever been uttered about sleep, and that because he know what it was to seek for it in vain-- ...

    Article : 235 words
  8. NEPTUNE'S MAIL.

    As far back as the reign of Queen Elizabeth, there was a Crown official known as the "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles," whose duty It was to open all sealed bottles oast up by ...

    Article : 257 words
  9. HOW HE CLIMBED.

    Suspended above the desk of a bank president is this motto: "Do the hard things first." Ten years ago he was discount clerk in the same bank. "How did you climb so fast?" asked the unknown writer of this ...

    Article : 318 words
  10. LOVERS.

    They sit within a woodland place, Trellised with rustling light and shade; So like a spirit's is her face That he is half afraid ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. LONDON'S LOVELY WOMEN.

    Mr. Francis Galton has won fame not only by his finger-print system for the iden-tiflcation of criminals, but also by his invention of the term "Eugenics'' as a name for ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. MERITS OF THE BRANCH LINE.

    It was at a railway junction in the south of the United States that the northern traveller found himself hungry, but with only two minutes to spare before his train left. ...

    Article : 150 words
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