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    Advertising : 1,528 words
  3. Romantic Career.

    Augustus Arthur Perceval, eighth Earl of Egmont, died at his residence. The Hollies, Thames Ditton, on Thursday morning, August 11. His illness was short. On ...

    Article : 777 words
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    Advertising : 487 words
  5. Interesting Items. A STAGE OPTICAL ILLUSION.

    Diffused light for the stage, in place of the usual glare of electric arcs, is obtained by a Spanish engineer by reflecting the rays of an are lamp from, silk bands ...

    Article : 71 words
  6. ELECTRICITY KILLS PAIN.

    A demonstration of the use of electricity as an anaesthetic has just been made- in Hartford. Connecticut, on a patient who was thus anaesthetised while four frozen ...

    Article : 89 words
  7. HOW TO REMOVE GLASS STOPPERS FROM BOTTLES.

    Glass stoppers which are stuck in bottles may be quickly removed by holding the bottle at a slant of about 45 deg. and applying a burning match to the neck of ...

    Article : 109 words
  8. WEIGHT OF THE EARTH.

    The earth weighs 13,000,000,000,000,-000,000,000,000 pounds. In a strict sense of the word the earth has no weight at all, because the weight is really the pull ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. IMITATION ICE FOR SKATING RINKS.

    A newlv-patented German substitute for skating ice is solid at summer temperatures, and is claimed to provide a floor for rinks over which ice skates slip as freely ...

    Article : 110 words
  10. A CURIOSITY OF THE UPPER AIR.

    The reported drying up of lakes in, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, and Tibet, has led to the suggestion that the earth is becoming dessicated, and an old German ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. MR. EDISON'S APPETITE.

    Mr. Thomas Edison, the great inventor, says that people eat too much, sleep too much, and do not work enough. "They go on filling themselves up simply to gratify ...

    Article : 146 words
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  13. MEASURING DEPTH OF WATER BY SOUND.

    An electrical device whereby a sound wave is sent to the sea bottom, in relatively shallow water, and upon being reflected back to the vessel is received by ...

    Article : 124 words
  14. NOVEL "BEARINGS" METAL.

    A metal for the bearings of machinery— cheaper than the usual ones containing copper—has been sought by Professor W. Guertler in a soft matrix of lead ...

    Article : 178 words
  15. ROYAL SHOW AT LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, JUNE, 1910. AWARD OF SILVER MEDAL.

    This latest triumph of the "Alfa-Laval" machine brings up to date a record which is unequalled, not only by cream-separators, but by any agricultural machine. In ...

    Article : 223 words
  16. WONDERFUL OLD CHEESE.

    In the Alpine regions of the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Valais cheese-makers will keep their products for years. They assert that cheese improves with age. At ...

    Article : 134 words
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