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  2. WONDERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

    It can be confidently asserted that this certainly will see things which the boldest minds cannot anticipate. It will revel in what Jules [?] ...

    Article : 2,416 words
  3. CURIOUS FANCIES ABOUT LIGHTNING.

    Various thethods were employed in old times to ward off danger from the lightning flash, which was supposed however, to have no power to ...

    Article : 318 words
  4. IS ILLNESS RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME?

    It is frequently asserted that bodily ailments are mainly responsible for crime especially crime of the first degree. Whether this assertion ...

    Article : 415 words
  5. HOW A LIFETIME IS SPENT.

    A man with a mania for statistics and not enough to do to keep him out of mischief has been making calculations regarding the manner ...

    Article : 240 words
  6. THE TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE.

    The actual work of laying the Government Tratispacific cable connecting Australia with the home country via Canada, will be begun ...

    Article : 287 words
  7. NAVIGATION.

    The “so much[?] at sea” is indeed a [?] out thing to a maritime [?] it is only in ...

    Article : 1,015 words
  8. THE SALVAGE OF SHIPS.

    Nowadays any sort of wreck can be raised anywhere. The salvage companies almost undertake to raise the earth if they could get a cable ...

    Article : 361 words
  9. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Budapest is to have an exhibition of calculating machines. The finest looking people in Europe are the Tziganes, or gypsies, of ...

    Article : 685 words
  10. WEALTH OF THE GERMAN-EMPEROR.

    An American writer declares that the Emperor William is the richest monarch in the world now that Queen Victoria’s estate has been ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

    A good story is going the rounds about a Doer matron and an officer of one of the kilted regiments The story says :—I suppose your readers ...

    Article : 254 words
  12. HIS FIRST PHONOGRAPH.

    Remarkable incident in connection with the experiment test of Edison’s first phonograph has just narrated for the first time. ...

    Article : 306 words
  13. THE BIGGEST ELECTRIC PLANT IN ASIA.

    Strangely enough the biggest electric plant in Asia is to be found in the hermit land of Corea. It includes electric lights for the capital, ...

    Article : 247 words
  14. A TIP FROM THE GALLERY.

    It was during the performance of Faust in a provincial town. After the duel, “Martha” who rushed in at the head of the crowd, raised ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. HOW STEAM IS MADE.

    When water is heated the animosity of the water particles to each other increases, and the more that heat is applied the more repellent to ...

    Article : 302 words
  16. WHERE ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

    According to the experience of the accident insurance companies about the safest place for a man to be is in a train, or aboard an ocean ...

    Article : 134 words
  17. A TEXT OF SCRIPTURE.

    A Lincolnshire vicar having quarrelled with a parishioner of the name of Hardy [?] for his text on the following [?] “There ...

    Article : 56 words
  18. A FOLDING PAPER BUCKET.

    So many things are made out of paper nowadays that we may be said to be living in a “paper age.” The very latest is a paper [?] ...

    Article : 134 words
  19. HOW IT REACHED HIM

    One day a teacher was giving the class a lesson in geography, and she was telling them about the Equator, which she said was an imaginary ...

    Article : 73 words
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