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  2. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    "The housefly is largely responsible for the high death-rate from diarrhoea," remarked D)r. Sephton, at the Lancashire County Council meeting. "If ...

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  3. KAISER AND CAPTAIN.

    Though other foreign princes and monarchs lave been made honorary officers of the British Navy the German Emperor remains to-day, according to, ...

    Article : 607 words
  4. AROUND THE WORLD

    According to the "Germania," a new programme for an increase in the German navy will, in spite of in official denials, be placed before the Reichstag this ...

    Article : 34 words
  5. THE GERMAN ATTITUDE.

    Far-seeing people must note that Germany is lying in wait silently, preparing for the pasychological moment to act on her castern frontier for making "order ...

    Article : 38 words
  6. PAIN-KILLING HERB.

    A natural pain-killer has just been discovered in a Japanese herb to which the name of Scopolamin has been given. The new anaesthetie is said to surpass ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. MINIATURE AMMUNITION.

    Lord Roberts and those associated with him in the extension of miniature rifle ranges have succeeded in winning anctiner concession from the British ...

    Article : 51 words
  8. HEEL YOUR OWN BOOTS.

    Shoemakers state that much more care is new exercised in keeping the boots in a smart shape than formerly. Above all, there is the strongest objection to the ...

    Article : 154 words
  9. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    When does the cannon roar? When Vickers Maxim. Young doctor—"Did you diagnose his case as appendicitis, or merely the ...

    Article : 349 words
  10. ISRAEL'S PILLAR OF FIRE.

    The sacred fire of Israel, according to Mr. F. H. Balkwill in the "Nineteenth Century," was a composition of naphtha or liquid bitumen known to the Persians ...

    Article : 480 words
  11. KAISER'S GRIM ORDER.

    "Visit the full penalty of the law upon the guilty, regardless of person or position." This grim instruction telegraphed to Berlin from the Baltic ...

    Article : 247 words
  12. OVER-MOTHERED GIRLS.

    The exits and the entrances of the mother during the daughter's courtship acts need to be 'well timed. If she posses the tact to retire gracefully at the ...

    Article : 63 words
  13. POISON IN POSTAGE STAMPS.

    People should never lick postage. stamps. Apart from the dirty fingers through which they may have passed,' one class has now been proved to be ...

    Article : 189 words
  14. £14,000,000 FOR CHARITIES.

    The "New York Sun" states that Mrs. Russell Sage, who is now 77 years old, will distribute her husband's estate of £14,000,000 among various charities, ...

    Article : 76 words
  15. "BESSES" BAND IN NEW YORK.

    The Besses o' the Barn Band arrived by the Majestic at New York on August 2 for a four months' tour in the United States, en route for Australia. Their ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. GERMANY'S FIRST SUBMARINE.

    Germany's first submarine was launched on August 2 at Kiel. Her tonnage is 180, length 127ft., speed nine knots under water and twelve on the surface. ...

    Article : 66 words
  17. SHOULD WE EAT OUR MEAT RAW?

    There are already many who argue that the nutritive value of food is impaired by cooking it. In this they can now boast the support of Dr. Richet, ...

    Article : 464 words
  18. CHILD EDITOR'S VENTURE.

    Another newspaper is to make its appearance in London, but this time the journal is an importation from America, and the editor is a little girl of 12. ...

    Article : 147 words
  19. BORN IN THE CONDEMNED CELL.

    Fran Bloemers, of Derendorf, Germany, who recently gave birth to a son in a prison cell while awaiting execution of her death sentence for complicity in the ...

    Article : 70 words
  20. SPRING CLEANING.

    The Spring cleaning of the house is important, but the Spring cleaning of the system is more so. How is it that when Spring approaches you find yourself ...

    Article : 300 words
  21. LONDON'S MUNICIPAL PALACE.

    After some discussion the 'London County Council has decided to invite designs from architects of all nationalities for tile large county hall to be erected ...

    Article : 71 words
  22. HIGH TIME.

    "I, trust your honour will excuse me this time," said an habitual drunkard at the Police Court; "it is my misfortune—I am a child of genius." ...

    Article : 56 words
  23. GIRL AS COACHMAN.

    Elisa Copiato, aged 16, disappeared about three months ago from her house in Porto San Giorgio, writes a Rome correspondent. Her family made ...

    Article : 195 words
  24. COURT-MARTIAL OVERAWED.

    A Sicilian sergeant named Alestra, accused of having abandoned his position during the Cretan rebellion and of leaving a wounded comrade at the mercy of ...

    Article : 101 words
  25. HIS BEST BARGAIN.

    "George," said his wife, looking with crushing scorn at the gaudy rug he had bought at a special sale. "I wonder. if ever in your life you know a good ...

    Article : 97 words
  26. ARE ALL THINGS ALIVE?

    Dr. C. W. Saleeby, in an interesting article in "Harper's Magazine," boldly asks, what is life? and continues:—"More and more do thinking men ...

    Article : 567 words
  27. AGRICULTURAL HOWLERS

    Eight thousand children sent in essay's and drawings on agricultural sub jects for prizes offered by the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society. ...

    Article : 186 words
  28. GREAT RECORD SADLY BROKEN.

    Sir Charles Scotter, presiding at the half-yearly meting of the London and South-Western Railway, said; that from January 1, 1889, to June 30 last— ...

    Article : 108 words
  29. AN EFFECTIVE RECIPE.

    "Don't talk to me about the recipes in that magazine," said Mrs. Lane with great energy. "Wasn't that the very magazine that advised me to put on that ...

    Article : 110 words
  30. FABLE ON PEACE.

    The "Spectator" discusses the question, of disarmament, and concludes with Aesop's fable of the cock and the fox, which it thinks fits the situation:— ...

    Article : 171 words
  31. RECIPE FOR POPULARITY.

    It cannot be too clearly understood (says the "Daily avail") that the greatest caution must be exercised in approaching the three parties of American ...

    Article : 335 words
  32. TRAGEDY OF A WINDMILL.

    A terrible accident occurred at Saint Die, France, where Mme. Duvic, wife of the owner of the sawmills of Sainte Marguerite, was killed by the mill wheel. ...

    Article : 134 words
  33. THE HEADACHE HABIT.

    Severe periodical headaches of the kind which almost force the sufferer to drugs are almost always either ocular or gouty (says a medical writer). They can ...

    Article : 261 words
  34. A BUSINESS MAN'S ADVICE TO HIS SON.

    Begin each day's work with a memo of what has to be done in order of urgency. Do one thing only at a time. In any business interviews, note, in ...

    Article : 165 words
  35. BAD JAM FOR THE NAVY.

    The Secretary to the Admiralty stated last month that the quantity of American tonned meat in stock at the various victualling yards was about 1,68,000lb. ...

    Article : 127 words
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