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  2. SHORT STORY.

    'YOU look awfully bored, Pettiman. I'm afraid this sort of thing isn't in your line.' Not at all not at all [?]ried the thin ...

    Article : 3,016 words
  3. MALE AND FEMALE VARIABLENESS

    Prof. Karl Pearson, lecturing at the Royal Institution recently on Some Recent Biometric Studies, expressed disagreement with Darwin's theory that man is more ...

    Article : 141 words
  4. THE NEW PLANET.

    Recently Here G. Witt, of the Observatory of Urania, in Berlin, took a photograph of a particular portion of the heavens, giving that picture a very long exposure, so ...

    Article : 248 words
  5. BOMBARDING THE CLOUDS.

    Mr W. L. Moore, chief of the United States Weather Bureau, has recently published his opinion as to the value of dispersing impending hail-storms by the use ...

    Article : 289 words
  6. WARNED BY BIRDS.

    The advantage that occasionally arises from the exact observation of natural phenomena is strikingly exemplified in an incident of the Austro-Prussian war of ...

    Article : 264 words
  7. Miscellaneous.

    'KIN-PAN,' an official paper of China, is the oldest journal in the world, dating back to 911. It became a weekly in 1361, a daily in 1800, and is now a ...

    Article : 81 words
  8. ARCHAIC THRESHING SLEDGES.

    There has just been presented to the National Scottish collection of antiquities two interesting tribula, or threshing sledges, an implement still in use in ...

    Article : 354 words
  9. IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN.

    Japan possesses very few domestic animals, It is the absence of them which strikes the stranger so for[?]ibly in looking upon Japanese landscapes. There are no ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. Science and Invention.

    THIS is a drug obtained from a plant found in Japan, and has been named scopolamine. It is administered by hypodermic injeotion, and has the effect of ...

    Article : 73 words
  11. THE SIBERIAN STATE EXPRESS.

    The Trans-Siberian State Express trains afford the most comfortable railway travelling in the world. The cars are as luxurious but not so sumptuous as the Pullman ...

    Article : 149 words
  12. RADIATION EXPERIMENTS.

    Are metals made radio-active by the in fluence of radium radiations? This is a question which Prof. Thomson, F. R. S., answered in a communication made to the ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. REARING CALVES.

    All practical farmers know that calves born at certain times in the year will as a rule, make far better beasts than [?] calved at other seasons. But, in spite of ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. ENGLAND'S FIRST WARSHIP.

    Every thing to do with the British navy is so interesting that referenoe to a very early contribution to the first line of defence needs no apology. The 'Great ...

    Article : 236 words
  15. A NOISY GRAMAPHONE.

    A gramaphone which, it is said, can be board at a distance of three miles is the latest invention of the Hon. C. A. Parsons, of turbine fame. The instrument, which ...

    Article : 141 words
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