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  2. THE HUMAN MACHINE.

    Professor Jules Amar recently submitted to the Academy of Medicine in Paris the results of his study of the man machine. He proceeded upon ...

    Article : 312 words
  3. A JAPANESE INN.

    Nikko really denotes a whole mountain district rather than a single place, for foreigners usually mean the village of Hachiisbi and its ...

    Article : 740 words
  4. UNIQUE WATER BICYCLE.

    A curious foot-power craft has made its appearance in the waters about New York, which, for lack of a better name, might be called a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 257 words
  5. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    The taste and odour of bananas ripened before cutting are very different from what one finds in the bananas cut green and ripened after ...

    Article : 153 words
  6. CATCHING WHALES IN NETS.

    They catch whales in nets down around New Zealand. The big fish is a conservative creature, according to a writer in the “Wide World,” and. ...

    Article : 1,090 words
  7. MUSIC IN A MAGAZINE.

    Anything that stimulates gaiety in this drab world is a priceless boon. To any music-lover, for instance, suffering from melancholia we would ...

    Article : 385 words
  8. CONDUCTIVE TO LONGEVITY.

    In "La Bevue” Professor Elie Metchnikoif publishes another article on the use of Lactic Microbes as a preventive and as a cure of certain ...

    Article : 487 words
  9. WORTH £100,000,000.

    Wall Street has been engaged in the cheerful occupation of estimating the fortune of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the "oil king." There is no ...

    Article : 193 words
  10. A TIDAL WAVE.

    The sea may flow in waves scarcely varying in height and force for hours and days in succession. They assail the ship exposed to them in ...

    Article : 359 words
  11. A HUGE ELECTRIC CLOCK.

    The palatial offices of the Liverpool friendly society is adorned with a four-dial timepiece, two hundred and twenty feet above the ground, ...

    Article : 232 words
  12. “THE WOOLLY WEST.”

    American newspapers, and those of the wild and woolly West,” when it really was wild and woolly, are particularly interesting. ...

    Article : 515 words
  13. A NEEDLE-THREADING DEVICE.

    To permit of threading needles readily, an inventor has devised a simple contrivance consisting of a magnifying glass with a spring clamp ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 100 words
  14. ACCIDENTS TO SERVANTS.

    When a few years ago employers became liable at law for injuries suffered by employees in the course of their work cartoonists got busy ...

    Article : 392 words
  15. HOW LEAVES KEEP CLEAN.

    The shape of leaves is one of the first things a student of botany learns to distinguish. Even the most careless observer sees that some ...

    Article : 367 words
  16. THE COMEDIAN’S TEARS.

    Happily stage- fright is not one of the emotions which get across the footlights. Audiences are, for the most part, as serenely unconscious of ...

    Article : 302 words
  17. BEYOND THE LAW.

    When Farmer Fairweight came to the City on a flying visit to his grandmother he made up his mind to see all the other sights as well. And ...

    Article : 243 words
  18. AN ENGINEERING FEAT.

    March 5, 1850, must have been a day of great anxiety to the celebrated; engineer Robert Stephenson, for it was the day appointed for the ...

    Article : 244 words
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