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  2. [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.] THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT.

    "It's too horrible! it's devilish!" I cried springing to my feet. [?] took [?] to me that not a hair of their heads should be harmed." ...

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  3. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    A German medical man (Dr. Reh) has designed an acetylene lamp for the use of the surgeon on the battlefield. ...

    Article : 28 words
  4. AROUND THE WORLD

    At a meeting of the Board of Trade, Montreal, a resolution was adopted declaring it to be Canada's duty to contribute to Imperial defence, and ...

    Article : 51 words
  5. THE LATEST SUBMARINE.

    The latest submarine, invented by Mr. T. J. Moriarty, of Newport, R.I., U.S.A. takes the form of a boot so small that it may be propelled, guided, ...

    Article : 39 words
  6. THE BABU KNEW.

    Asked what would happen if England should withdraw from India, a highly educated Babu in Calcutta answered, "Go into a zoological garden, ...

    Article : 49 words
  7. FRENCH EASTERN SOUDAN.

    Captain Lenfant, in command of the Lower Niger flotilla, has succeeded in revictualling by water the French Eastern Soudan. He reports the ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. FOR FILTERING.

    Mr. W. G. Stratton recommends chamois leather for filtering thick liquids. It should be well rinsed in cold water, then wrung, and fixed on the top of a ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. WON BY A SINGLE VOTE.

    A curious election result is reported from Montanban (Ille-et-Vilaine), France, where out of a constituency numbering about 30,000 the Radical ...

    Article : 43 words
  10. CUTTING IRON.

    A New York telegram states that by Julius Hasdhke's process for cutting iron with a carbon point carrying electricity only a current of 50 volts is ...

    Article : 51 words
  11. £8000 FOUND IN THE MUD.

    A remarkable discovery was made at Liverpool the other day. In the mud behing the landing stage, at low water, a cash box was found ...

    Article : 52 words
  12. POLAR SANATORIUM.

    Dr. Bunge, a Russian medical man, proposes to establish a sanatorium for consumptives in the Polar regions. He has observed that the members of ...

    Article : 68 words
  13. CURIOUS SCHOOL ACCIDENT.

    A schoolboy named Baylis was awarded £150 damages against the London School Board by a special jury in Mr. Justice Grantham's court for ...

    Article : 88 words
  14. FIGHTING NEAR LAKE CHAD.

    The British mission sent to Lake Chad in January last to occupy the province of Yakoba and put down raiding and slave-trading was very ...

    Article : 119 words
  15. INSTANTANEOUS X-RAY PHOTO.

    An X-ray photograph of any portion of the human body can now be taken perfectly in one second, instead of the tedious and exhausting exposure of ...

    Article : 85 words
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    Advertising : 501 words
  17. A TOO-POWERFUL BRAKE.

    Dr. Real, of Geneva, has invented a new brake whereby an electric tramcar running at the rate of 20 miles an hour was stopped on a steep slope ...

    Article : 79 words
  18. PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS.

    The latest utterances on the subject of tuberculosis is that of Professor Behring, who has satisfied himself, notwithstanding the statements of Professor ...

    Article : 257 words
  19. PITTSBURG OIL DISASTER.

    Twenty persons were killed, and 200 badly burned, in the fire at Sheraden. The physicians believe that 150 of the latter will die. The cause of the ...

    Article : 157 words
  20. SUN RISING WHITE.

    Lava dust fell at Kingston, Jamaica, on May 12 in faily large quantities—on the highest points of the island less than on the plains. It was ...

    Article : 97 words
  21. HEALING THE WOUNDED HEART.

    To-day a surgeon who crosses his arms before a wound in the heart made by a pistol ball or a knife thrust is lacking in scientific knowledge and ...

    Article : 177 words
  22. ROBBING A ROYAL PALACE.

    The burglary at King George's palace at Tatoi, 20 miles from Athens, by five of the gendarmes on guard there, was discovered in a curious ...

    Article : 181 words
  23. WAISTS AND CORSETS.

    Attention has been lately drawn by certain medical men to the disproportion which exists between the measurement of the female waist taken outside ...

    Article : 505 words
  24. BURIED TOWNS.

    Italy is not the only country that can boast of its buried towns and villages. In Scotland there are the Culbin Sands, covering a large tract of ...

    Article : 77 words
  25. AN EXCITING PURSUIT.

    A most sensational pursuit took place on the St. Lawrence river. On a warrant issued in Montreal, on the complaint of the Georgia (U.S.) ...

    Article : 260 words
  26. THE FALLEN MIGHTY.

    Manufacturers of artists' colours now often use mummies in making their colours, and it is almost certain that a small percentage of some ancient ...

    Article : 80 words
  27. RUSSIAN DESIGNS ON INDIA.

    With all her boastings of the perfections of her Central Asian railways. no one knows better than the Russians themselves that in a sustained ...

    Article : 104 words
  28. AMERICA HAS ITS DOUBTS.

    The Americans are nowise so dazzled by feats of finance as Englishmen suppose them to be. There is a strong undercurrent of solicitude respecting ...

    Article : 90 words
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