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  2. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

    No other social propaganda of modern date has called forth so much effort or enlisted such a numerous army of workers as that which has applied itself ...

    Article : 2,466 words
  3. AROUND THE WORLD.

    At the international Agricultural Exhibition which is to be held in Vienna this month a most interesting exhibit of bees will be shown, in which will be seen ...

    Article : 61 words
  4. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    Worry is a habit that grows very rapidly. The more it is indulged in the stronger it becomes. When you discover that you are its victim just stop ...

    Article : 85 words
  5. THE GARDEN.

    The large-flowered species and varieties of dipladenia are among the freest and most persistent bloomers of any plants in cultivation, provided they ...

    Article : 392 words
  6. WHEN MARCONI WAS A STUDENT.

    An interesting story is told of Marconi when he was a student and in lodgings at Leghorn. Residing in the same house says the Rome correspondent of the ...

    Article : 347 words
  7. TO ABOLISH SEA-SICKNESS.

    How to overcome sea-sickness is the problem M. Ture, a French naval officer and formerly a pupil of the Ecole Polytechnique, set himself to solve, and which ...

    Article : 249 words
  8. JILTING CAUSES WAR.

    Passengers from Honduras report a civil war there, caused by Dr. C. Bonilla, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, jilting President Sierra's daughter. When ...

    Article : 63 words
  9. THE HEART.

    A person who has lived 70 years has had passed through his heart about 675,920 tons of blood, the whole of the blood in the body passing through the ...

    Article : 93 words
  10. THE SILENT CLUB.

    According to the "Gaulois" there exists in Paris a club the members and servants of which consist entirely of deaf mutes. Nobody connected with the establishment ...

    Article : 80 words
  11. DOCTORING TREES.

    A new method of feeding trees and plants without the agency of the roots has been discovered by the well-known entomologist M. S. A. Mokrshzki, who ...

    Article : 194 words
  12. THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE.

    One night in November last an innate of an old man's home at Nanterre (Seine), France, was returning home after an evening out, during which he had ...

    Article : 93 words
  13. TALE OF ANCIENT TITLES.

    The romantic claim of the sister peeresses, the Countess of Yarborough (Baroness Conycrs) and the Countess of Powis, to the ancient baronies ...

    Article : 376 words
  14. ANCIENT MODERNITY.

    In a recent lecture on the excavations at Cnossos, in Crete, Mr. Arthur Evans stated that it had been discovered that the huge two-storeyed palace of Minos was ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. INCREDIBLE FOLLY.

    In Cambridgeshire life there is still to be found a hovering of superstition. A remarkable example of this came before Bottishaim Petty Sessions. It apeared ...

    Article : 204 words
  16. CHLOROFORM AS FIRST AID.

    Mrs. Ballington Booth, the well-known evangelist, has made a public appeal on behalf of the victims of American railway disasters. She calls attention to ...

    Article : 181 words
  17. FLOWER GARDEN.

    Provided the situation is favourable and the soil a suitable one, it is often better to sow seeds of even the choicest hardy plants in the open air. When ...

    Article : 585 words
  18. WANDERINGS OF FISH.

    Various Norwegian and German scientists will attempt to determine the exact route taken every year by herrings, had docks, flounders, and salmon. ...

    Article : 100 words
  19. THE HAUNTED FARMER.

    A farmer living near Amstetten, Austria, has recently been delivered from a systematic persecution by ghosts. For some time past his house has been ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. SOMETHING NEW IN LIGHTING.

    Mr. P. C. Hewitt, an American, has invented a mercury vapour lamp for which he claims that it gives from the same current of electricity a light eight ...

    Article : 193 words
  21. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Many a profit is without honour, even in its own business. We could get along better with the inevitable if it would make reasonable ...

    Article : 307 words
  22. ECCENTRIC PILGRIMS.

    The Moscow paper "News of the Day" gives an interesting account of the adventures of two Englishmen in Russia. These men, it is stated, came from a ...

    Article : 338 words
  23. MR. CARNEGIE'S NEW HOBBY.

    The Washington correspondent of the "Herald" states that at a recent meeting of educational experts in New York an offer was received from Mr. Carnegie of a ...

    Article : 118 words
  24. CONSUMPTION AND ITS CURE.

    Professor Behring, who discovered the serum for diphtheria, lectured at Vienna before a learned audience on his latest experiments on the combating of ...

    Article : 188 words
  25. NOVEL RAILWAY PROJECT.

    By a regulation which has recently come into force on French railways, any first or second class passenger travelling with packages of money, valuable ...

    Article : 125 words
  26. COSTLY FOUNTAIN FOR A KING.

    The New York firm which furnished the marble and bronze court and electric fountain for Mr. George Gould's Lakewood residence has been asked by the ...

    Article : 129 words
  27. OF ONE MIND.

    A rather pompous would-be member of Parliament rose on one occasion to make an extended speech at an electioneering meeting. He began:— ...

    Article : 61 words
  28. WORD BLINDNESS.

    Some curious instances of the physical defect of "word blindness" are given in the "Lancet." The disease is, fortunately, uncommon. In one case the ...

    Article : 174 words
  29. "THE BLIND SHALL SEE."

    A marvellous discovery, due to I'rofessor Peter Stiens, of Paris, is made public by Dr. Caze in the "Revue des Revues" under the title "And the Blind Shall ...

    Article : 361 words
  30. PLAYWRIGHTS' REVOLT.

    A very vigorous protest against the theatrical censorship as practised under Herr von Hammerstein, the Minister of the Interior, was made by a literary ...

    Article : 345 words
  31. SOON COUNTED.

    All kinds of questions come to the answers-to-correspondents man of a daily, paper, and the impatience he occasionally manifests is not surprising. ...

    Article : 71 words
  32. AN ART MYSTERY.

    It will be remembered that in 1900 the famous Francois vase in the Florence Museum was smashed to pieces by one of the attendants, who suddenly went mad. ...

    Article : 145 words
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  34. WHAT WE NEED.

    The class in Sunday school was listening to a lesson on patience. This was what came of it, at least in the minds of the more literal-minded children:— ...

    Article : 120 words
  35. NEW FORM OF DUEL.

    The official "Sabaikalskija Wiedomosti," the Government organ, published in Blagovestchensk, contains this amusing paragraph:—"In view of the fact that no ...

    Article : 182 words
  36. WHAT IS A COUGH?

    A spasmodic effort to expel the mucus from the bronchial tubes. A cold causes a more abundant secretion of mucus, and when the lungs and bronchial tubes are ...

    Article : 114 words
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