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  3. A BOMB CANNON.—A NOVEL TYPE OF HEAVY ORDNANCE.

    THE BOMB GUN READY FOR TRANSPORTATION. DETAILS OF THE BOMB. THE BOMB GUN IN BATTERY READY FOR FIRING. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  4. A PUPPET IN LIFE; IN DEATH A GREAT EMPEROR.

    In life Hsuan-T’ang was no more than a puppet worked by the late Empress Dowager and by the Regent: in death he is a great Emperor, a formidable figure, and as such he is to have a magnificent sepulchre, which is now being built in the neighbourhood of the Western Tombs. The work is going on at a spot that is desolate, but not without grandeur. A thousand workman are engaged, and there has sprung up a village which might almost with reason be called a town. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 238 words
  5. MAGNIFIER FOR THREADING NEEDLES.

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

    Article : 100 words
  6. TAXATION OF CATS.

    The proposal to tax cats in France is not received with unanimous approbation by our Paris contemporaries. One writer observes that Parisians, or a great number ...

    Article : 210 words
  7. AN AUTOMATIC PIPE FELLER.

    Inventors have been busying themselves with attachments for and peculiar designs of tobacco pipes calculated to prevent the accumulation of moisture and to insure ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 242 words
  8. A NOVEL MOTOR SLEDGE EOR A RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE, WITH TURBINE PROPELLER.

    A novel motor sledge for the Grand Duke Cyril of Russia has just keen built. It is constructed on the turbine-propeller system of M. Coanda, and is driven by a Gregoire motor of six cylinders and 30h.p. The sledge is about 12ft. in length, has accommodation for two persons, and is expected to travel at the rate of about ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 77 words
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