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  2. EXPERIMENTS ON DIET.

    Prof. Atwater, of Connecticut, told the British Association something about the experiments on human beings with different kinds of diet which had been made ...

    Article : 193 words
  3. Ladies' Column.

    IT remains for the season later on to show which of the several new fashion designs exploted by the originators of dress modes will become accepted styles for the ...

    Article : 377 words
  4. DOWAGER COUNTESS OF LYTTON.

    The Dowager Countess, again figuring among the birthday celebrants, is a direct descendant of the first Earl of Clarendon and worried the first Earl of Lytton in ...

    Article : 249 words
  5. Odds and Ends.

    HE: 'And if I were to steal a kiss from you?' She: 'I should expect you to pay it back again at once, sir I' ...

    Article : 35 words
  6. Science and Invention.

    THE Admiralty have decided upon having a motor torpedo-boat built. The vessel will be 130ft. long, and carry on her deek a tube that can be trained all ...

    Article : 71 words
  7. HIS METHOD OF TRAVEL.

    Magistrate (sternly): ' You are a pitiable specimen of humanity. What brought you to all this degradation and disgrace?' Prisoner (proudly): It took three Bob ...

    Article : 38 words
  8. TUBE DELIVERY.

    In any large city in Germany a special delivery card or stamp, costing less than 4d., will cause a message to be shot by tube anywhere in the city. A messenger ...

    Article : 60 words
  9. BACK NEWS.

    'What! never heard of Paderewski Surely you take a newspaper?' 'Niver a wan. An' for why shouid I? When daddy died—good man—sure he lift ...

    Article : 47 words
  10. Farm and Garden.

    MANY breeders believe that sot food— that is, crushed grains or paste—is more easily and completely digested by the birds, and that it produces more tender ...

    Article : 399 words
  11. A DUTIFUL SON.

    A Yorkshire woman, coming down the garden walk, was horrilied at seeing her son standing on his head against the garden wall, 'Johnnie, you wretch,' she cried, ' what ...

    Article : 56 words
  12. A REGISTERING COMPASS.

    Mr Heit, a French inventor, has recently patented a compass which automatically registurs minute by minute. The compass card is [?]ed on a steel pivot, which bests ...

    Article : 74 words
  13. A TAILOR-MADE COSTUME.

    Although dress colours for the summer are mostly dark, and partake largely of russet-reds, chocolate and golden browns, dull greens, and so on, modern fashion ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 254 words
  14. Personalities.

    ONE of the keenost of yachtsmen is the Duke of Sutherland, Hisgrace has again been cruising round the coast of Scotland in his fine yacht Catania. The ...

    Article : 183 words
  15. AH!

    Dauber: 'I'm thinking of getting my right hand insured, like Paderewski, to provide against the stoppage of my work through any accident.' ...

    Article : 61 words
  16. A NEW FUEL.

    This is the result of the inventive effort of a glassworker of Indiana. The fuel consists of refuse from mills, mixed in a certain way with oil. It rosembles putty, ...

    Article : 70 words
  17. RESIDENTS ONLY.

    Dawson; ' That's it foine oul' church yo h[?]v here, Shamus. If [?] 'ud plaze providince whin I deid, I 'ud loike to rist down there beside that ivy-covered wall ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. A RE-INVENTION.

    An instance of a great invention being made and allowed to drop into obscurity to be re-invented later is incidentally mentioned by Mr Andrew D. White, More ...

    Article : 95 words
  19. THE DOG'S DISH.

    Traveller: 'Here, landlord, what'k the matter with your dog? I've driven him away a score of times, but he always comes back again and sits close up to my ...

    Article : 74 words
  20. RIGHT HON. H. H. ASQUITH.

    Mr Asquith is a strong, typical Yorkshireman. He is fifty-two, a busy man, a clover lawyer, a fine speaker, and a keen politician. He can count among his ...

    Article : 124 words
  21. UNBREAKABLE TABLEWARE.

    Mr McNally, the United States Consul at Liege, describes some remarkable tableware manufactured there by the Belgian Company du Val St. Laniboit. A crystal ...

    Article : 226 words
  22. MANNERS.

    The new office boy was sent by his master with a note to a clergyman. and told to wait for an answer. On his return hin employer said: ' Well. John, did you ...

    Article : 94 words
  23. COLQUHOUN-URQUHART.

    By the coming marriage in London of Sir James Colquboun's daughter to a son of Major Urquhart, of the Royal Inniskillings, there will be united two families ...

    Article : 184 words
  24. TREATMENT OF POISONOUS BITES AND STINGS.

    The stings of nearly all insects are acid in nature, and if neutralised at once with an alkali the effect is desstroyed or greatly diminished. All these injuries are ...

    Article : 549 words
  25. THE REASON.

    'Does Shacknasty Johnson live near here? inquired a traveller who was journeying across the Oklanomo prairie. 'No,' replied the man addressed, a ...

    Article : 168 words
  26. NEW PARTING MACHINE.

    New painting machinery has been introduced into the Royal Laboratory, Wool-wich Arsenal. Ambulance waggons, gun carriages, limber carte, shot boxes, etc., ...

    Article : 139 words
  27. SUMMER MILLINERY.

    Much might be written about the new hats, which express many novel, chic features, and are chiefly notable for high, fairly slender crowns, some of which loan ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 381 words
  28. MR JULIUS WERNHER.

    The South African millionaire, Mr Julius Womher, of Wornher, Boit, and Co., has purchased Luton Hoo, where for so many yeats the late Mme, do Falbe lived. Mr ...

    Article : 207 words
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