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  2. NOTES ON THE CUP.

    According to Mr. F. H. Heath, the first half-mile of the Melbourne Cup was run in 51sec., the first six furlongs in 1min 17½sec., the first mile in 1min. 45¾sec., ...

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  3. AROUND THE WORLD.

    Russia, saving Europe from the yellow cloud, is lighting for Christ, and her war is a holy war; it is a war for the preservation of Christian civilisation.— ...

    Article : 38 words
  4. LETTERS.

    From W. H. M'Glew, Esq., J.P., Springside, Smith's Hill, W.A., 11th November, 1903. "Seventeen years ago I was suffering ...

    Article : 1,226 words
  5. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    Tea is not taken as a food, neither is it taken as an innocent relish to food, but for its fascinating effects upon the nervous system. Therefore it is not, ...

    Article : 42 words
  6. WOMAN'S LOST HALO.

    Thanks to the shopkeeper's methods of advertising, no detail of a woman's toilet remains a mystery to the ordinary man, and as mystery is the essence ...

    Article : 54 words
  7. PRAISE OF DREAMING.

    It is neither wrong nor unwise to build air-castles. a little dreaming does not prevent doing. It is rather a delight and a stimulation. The world's ...

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  8. MAKING RADIUM RUN A CLOCK.

    An ingenious Englishman, Mr. Harrison Martindale, has invented a radium clock, which, it is computed, could run 30,000 years if uninterfered with. It consists of ...

    Article : 125 words
  9. 23½ KNOTS AN HOUR.

    Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, have produced in the Manxman the fastest turbine-driven merchant steamer afloat. This vessel on it two days' trial ...

    Article : 67 words
  10. DRASTIC SAFETY LAMP TESTS.

    "A child must be able to play with it." This is the supreme teat of a safety lamp that is destined, when discovered, to carry the £150 prize offered by the ...

    Article : 140 words
  11. BLOW TO A BRITISH MONOPOLY.

    A German company has succeeded in obtaining from the Porte a concession for a submarine cable between Constantinople and Constanza (Roumanin), which ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. CURE OF CONSUMPTION.

    From April 1, 1903, the Public Health Department of Berlin will inaugurate new and important action in their energetic campaign against tuberculosis. In ...

    Article : 152 words
  13. FREETRADE AND PROTECTION.

    I am not aware that we can congratulate ourselves upon any great or remarkable recent conversions to the principles of freetrade. But, as I have ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  14. DOCTOR'S £400 FEE.

    The sad death of an American lady, Mrs. Crocker, from cancer and the methods of the doctor who treated her will shortly be again the subject of publicity ...

    Article : 172 words
  15. CAVIARE FROM FROGS.

    From Tzaritzyn, a town on the Volga, comes the report that a new industry has been discovered, that of making caviare from the spawn of a large species ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. CRICKET.

    A meeting of the St. Vincent's club meets at the Oddfellows' Hall, Charles street, at 7.30 to-night. A remarkable bowling feat was ...

    Article : 74 words
  17. SALE OF A VOLCANO.

    A despatch from Mexico City announces that the title to the summit of the Mexican extinet volcano Popocatepetl has passed by purchase to a syndicate ...

    Article : 74 words
  18. HINTS FOR BARBERS.

    The hairdresser is pointed out by the "Lancet" as an object of public danger, for "his occupation is a fruitful channel of the dissemination of disease." The ...

    Article : 166 words
  19. DOG BURIED BY A CLERGYMAN.

    Robed in white and covered with flowers, the body of the favourite dog of the Rev. C. M. Winchester was buried in its master's garden at Middletown, ...

    Article : 82 words
  20. FRENCH NAVAL WEAKNESS.

    The Special Commission at present making a tour of inspection in the French ports has discovered, says the "Temps," so many evidences of faulty ...

    Article : 182 words
  21. TO-MORROW'S MATCHES.

    Westbury v. Whitemore, at Westbury.—Westbury—H. R. Best, S. P. Woolnough, W. Lyons, F. Scott, H. Heaziewood, M. James, George Scott, J. Soden, ...

    Article : 94 words
  22. ANOTHER HAGUE CONFERENCE.

    In reply to the presentation of various resolutions recently adopted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Mr. Roosevelt said:—"I shall at an early date ask ...

    Article : 91 words
  23. BRAIN OPERATIONS.

    The surgical operation on the skull of a boy, which is reported from Indianapolis, is not by any means unique. It is stated that before the operation the ...

    Article : 220 words
  24. LAWN TENNIS

    An interesting round of the above event took place on the Association Ground yesterday afternoon, when Barnard scored a ."straight sets" victory ...

    Article : 124 words
  25. DO SUN SPOTS CAUSE COLD?

    M. Nordmann, the astronomer attached to the Nice Observatory, has come to the conclusion that, contrary to the received opinion, the spots on the sun are ...

    Article : 100 words
  26. COMING CAUSE CELEBRE.

    The cause celebre par excellence of the coming legal year is the action pending in the King's Bench against the Secretary of State for India, brought by ...

    Article : 242 words
  27. NIGHT OF AGONY.

    While two Swiss were returning by a mountain path to their home in the Canton of Soleure they missed the road in the dark and fell 36 feet down the rocks. ...

    Article : 101 words
  28. ATHLETICS.

    A reminder is given that nominations close to-day for Deloraine sports. ...

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  29. CAN OLD AGE BE CURED?

    The startling announcement has been made in connection with Professor Elie Metchinkoff's name, that he had hopes of curing old age! An interview with the ...

    Article : 324 words
  30. RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

    On the subject of the relative strength of the two armies in the Far East, the Russian "Viedomosti," of Moscow, has recently published a most ...

    Article : 740 words
  31. £9000 A YEAR FOR FIVE ROOMS.

    Mr. Thomas Young, a millionaire well known in New York racing circles, has leased for one year the sumptuous Royal suite at the new Hotel St. Regis. It ...

    Article : 112 words
  32. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

    Lord Justice Walker, in opening the Cavan Summer Assizes, stated that if there was no drinking in Ireland it would be the most crimeless country in ...

    Article : 328 words
  33. "BRAINS SYNDICATE."

    The New York police on September 27 arrested two Columbia University students, who were taking examinations for other candidates for admission to state ...

    Article : 111 words
  34. HUMAN SKIN WANTED.

    Miss Emma Gallagher,a wealthy young woman, living at Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, was burned from neck to waist by a gasoline explosion some years ago. ...

    Article : 115 words
  35. REMARKABLE AGRICULTURISTS.

    The Japanese have surprised the world as fighters, but, according to Mr. Harold Bolce they are also the most remarkable agricultural nation in the world. ...

    Article : 108 words
  36. COMEDY OF ERRORS.

    An amusing story is brought of the blunder of a Belgian official at Boma, in the Congo Free State. A European missionary having died at a small ...

    Article : 154 words
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