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  4. LONDON AND ITS HOTELS.

    With a population of five and a half millions London harbors every day 120,000 strangers. Some may remain a week, some a month; but all the year ...

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  5. AFRAID OF THE GLASS EYE.

    A year or two ago an artist from San Francisco who wore a glass eye went to Yokohama and established himself in a little bungalow on the outskirts of the ...

    Article : 297 words
  6. ROPE-WALKING ON BOARD SHIP.

    It was in 1876, and on board the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Poo-nah, Blondin was amongst the pasengers on his way to India. One day during ...

    Article : 288 words
  7. RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

    The "Journal de St. Petersburgh," says a correspondent of the "Globe," is one of the oldest newspapers published on the Continent. It has long been the ...

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  8. PHOTGRAPHING SOUND.

    Professor A. G. Webster, of Clark University, America, has devised a delicate apparatus for measuring sound by means of photography. The mechanism is ...

    Article : 289 words
  9. AN ENEMY OF THE COCKROACH.

    The cockroach has one enemy that pursues him with more malevolence than does the cleanly housewife. This is the spider. And not only is this hatred ...

    Article : 211 words
  10. HOW TO POSTPONE OLD AGE.

    Dr. W. Kinnear, in "The Humanitarian," writes that an anatomical experiment and investigation show that the chief characteristics of old age are the ...

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  11. FRENCH EXPLORERS.

    At the last meeting of the Paris Geographical Society information was received with regard to the expeditions which were being undertaken by several ...

    Article : 586 words
  12. THE ORIGIN OF MILITARY TITLES.

    The names by which the various ranks of British officers are known are a strange compound from nearly every language in the world Lieutenant ...

    Article : 294 words
  13. THE HISTORY OF A GREAT DIAMOND.

    The Imperial Treasury of Austria now contains one of the finest diamonds in the world. It is named the Florentine diamond, is worth about 450,000 dollars, ...

    Article : 238 words
  14. A PHENOMENON.

    In a letter to "Nature," Mr. J. S. Stone, writing from Boston, U.S.A., describes an experiment which is at first sight startling. One end of an iron or ...

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  16. A STOCK WATERING DEVICE.

    At the Sydney Stockowners' Exchange, Spring-street, one day last week a device for watering stock, invented by Mr. J. G. Docherty, was exhibited. ...

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  17. WHAT MANNA IS.

    A British medical journal states that a French investigator has recently pub-lished the results of researches into the origin and composition of the manna of ...

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  18. REMARKABLE STOMACH.

    A remarkable operation has been successfully performed at Arras, France, upon a young miner named Oscar Dufour, who had accidentally swallowed a ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. SOLIDIFIED ALCOHOL.

    A German chemist, J. Norden, of Aldenhoven, has succeeded in hardening alcohol until it becomes a solid mass. This will ensure a very much greater ...

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