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  2. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    Tar water would seem to be an ideal mixture for watering the streets of cities where the odour would be an acceptable variant to that of decomposing ...

    Article : 74 words
  3. AROUND THE WORLD

    The college professors who tell us all about what volcanoes do would perform much more important public service if they would tell when the ...

    Article : 41 words
  4. BISHOP FIGHTS THE FLAMES.

    The Bishop of Mylapore, Madras, was travelling by express between Calcutta and Madras, when the oil lamp in his carriage exploded. He was alone at ...

    Article : 83 words
  5. [PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT .] THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT.

    It was impossible that I could listen to this sort of talk unmoved. He had the unfortunate woman at his mercy, and I knew him well enough by this ...

    Article : 3,189 words
  6. GERMAN ENGINES FOR INDIA.

    The Schwartzkopff Machine Company of Berlin has received from the Indian Government another order for 21 locomotives of standard gouge. They ...

    Article : 32 words
  7. MOBBING A BISHOP.

    Clerical scandals are prolific in Portugal Just now. At the festivities at Aveiro in honour of Santa Joanna, the Bishop of Coimbra, known as the ...

    Article : 103 words
  8. HURTFUL HOLIDAYS.

    The question whether all this holiday making is really for the good of the people who take part in it is one which should certainly be asked. In ...

    Article : 73 words
  9. A "SEDDONTARY" OCCUPATION.

    Mr. Seddon has made a speech in favour of direct Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament:— It Seddon stands for pluck and grit ...

    Article : 43 words
  10. THE LONGEST SPARK.

    The induction coil which produces the longest spark for service in wireless telegraphy is said to be one which is flashing messages between the ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. EATEN BY COYOTES.

    A despatch from Monterey, Mexico, published by the "Sun," states that Mr. Campbell Davies, an Englishman, has been killed and eaten by coyotes, near ...

    Article : 199 words
  12. A TRAGIC STORY.

    On the arrival of the American liner Rhynland at Queenstown a very pathetic story was related. Mr. and Mrs Charles Bellew. passengers by the ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. INGENIOUS BETTING SWINDLE.

    Three men recently discovered an ingenious method of defrauding a bookmaker in Paris. While two of them were discussing which horse they ...

    Article : 97 words
  14. BEST POSITION FOR RESTING.

    During every moment of life muscular work is being performed. Whatever the position of the body the work is greater in the waking state than while ...

    Article : 289 words
  15. TRAGEDY OF AN OXYGEN TUBE.

    The doctor of the French Transatlan tic Company's steamer Vilie d'Alger met with his death in singular circumstances. During the voyage from ...

    Article : 77 words
  16. CURIOUS SUPERSTITION.

    Although the famine over the greater part of Rajputana, Gujerat, and the Central Indian states is less widespread than hitherto, there will nevertheless ...

    Article : 104 words
  17. THE KING'S "BULL'S-EYE."

    At the inauguration of the International shooting competition at Rome King Victor Emmanuel fired the first shot. General Emmanuel told him that ...

    Article : 79 words
  18. A MYSTERIOUS CASTLE.

    The paper read at the last meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna, describing an ancient castle said to have been discovered in the land of the ...

    Article : 100 words
  19. THE KAISER ON FUTURE WAR.

    After the sham fight at Gravelotte, repeating the defence of the German attacks on the Moacou and Point du Jour farms during the Franco-German ...

    Article : 80 words
  20. REPULSIVE POWER OF LIGHT.

    The Swedish chemist Arrhenius has recently put forth a comprehensive theory which (writes Mr. Garrett P. Services in the "Cosmopolitan") ...

    Article : 445 words
  21. MR. EDISON'S TRIUMPH.

    Mr. Edison announced on May 28 that he had solved the problem of producing a practical storage battery for long-distance motor-cars. A vehicle ...

    Article : 112 words
  22. AN ODD "SAINT."

    A young woman of Fate, In the northern provinces of Portugal, has been in a sort of trance for three months. She does not est. drink, or speak. but ...

    Article : 87 words
  23. SIBERIA'S OPIUM CURSE.

    Opium smoking is increasing in Eastern Siberia and causing the authorities some anxiety owing to the frequent deaths there from. The police ...

    Article : 74 words
  24. AMENITIES OF STATUARY.

    The Polish papers referring to the Kaiser's offer of a status of Frederick the Great to the United States point out that George Washington described [?] ...

    Article : 145 words
  25. ON A RUNAWAY ENGINE.

    At the railway station at Louburg on the Klev-Poltava line, is Russia, a number of people were inspecting a new express engine. Among them was ...

    Article : 95 words
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