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  3. Miscellaneous.

    Two hundred penny-in-the-slot machines, which supply newspapers, are now installed in Berlin. An-elephant has only eight teeth ...

    Article : 321 words
  4. Scientific Notes.

    The curious gas lamp of a German engineer is given extra draft by means of an electric current generated by the heated waste gases from the lamp ...

    Article : 86 words
  5. A HOUSE IN POMPEII.

    One house in Pompeii had evidently been in a state of repair when the volcano buried it. Painters' pots and brushes were scattered about. Spots ...

    Article : 112 words
  6. FAST EXPRESS TRAINS.

    Express train speeds are very high to-day. In Great Britain there are eleven daily express trains making runs of from 50 to [?] miles ...

    Article : 123 words
  7. PECULIAR LIFE ON THE PLANET MARS.

    Mars is inhabited by warm-blooded animals, according to the view of Professor Perrier, the celebrated French astronomer. The winter ...

    Article : 226 words
  8. SHIP PROPULSION BY MEANS OF WAVES.

    An inventor is attempting to convince marine engineers of the practicability of propelling vessels across the ocean by means of wave power ...

    Article : 190 words
  9. THE FIRST ADHESIVE POSTAGESTAMP.

    An event of great interest to philatelists has just been celebrated in London—namely, the seventieth anniversary of the day when the world's ...

    Article : 180 words
  10. NEW SWIMMING APPARATUS.

    The swimming apparatus designed by a German swimming master, is both for trained swimmers and those ignorant of the art. When out of use, ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. ABNORMAL EGGS.

    Shell-less eggs are quite common, and are due to a deliciency of shellforming material in the hen's system. They are more often met with in ...

    Article : 517 words
  12. WHAT THE EARTH IS MADE OF.

    A self-heating crust resting on a solid nucleus is the conception of the earth that Prof. E. H. L. Schwarz, a South African geologist, finds to agree ...

    Article : 273 words
  13. JAPANESE STATURE.

    "It is quite a mistake to suppose that the Japanese are a people of short stature." said Mr. Harold Young, in a lecture at the Royal Photographic ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. SENSE ORGAN IN FISHES.

    A new kind of sense organ has been discovered in fishes. The portion of the brain of Vertebrates which bears on its upper side the curious pineal ...

    Article : 103 words
  15. Odds and Ends.

    Ethel: Have you noticed how Lord Blinker drops his aspirates? Fred: It's nothing to the way he drops his vowels: I've got more than a dozen of ...

    Article : 195 words
  16. CURIOUS BRUSHES.

    The cat carries her clothes brush in her mouth, for with her rough tongue she cleanses her glossy coat as a boy brushes his clothes. She licks one ...

    Article : 225 words
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