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  2. BLOOD POISONING FROM A TYPEWRITER.

    The fatal fac[?] with which the blood can be poisoned by a foreign body has long been exemplified in innumerable instances, while there are many substances which are not poisons, ...

    Article : 290 words
  3. THE DEVIL AND THE BALLOON

    There was a very amusing interruption recently to some experiments in Rome of the Balloon Corps of the Italian Army. A sudden gust of wind swept away the baloon, made ...

    Article : 623 words
  4. THE MOST ANCIENT MACHINE TOOL.

    There can be very little doubt that the patter's wheel, or potter's lathe, as it is also [?]ermed, represents to-day the most ancient form of machine tool known. Among the many ...

    Article : 419 words
  5. ART IN PERFUMES.

    The historic ladies of ancient Rome understood the art of perfumes, and in modern days it has been duly studied by Americans and Parisians. It is only within a very few ...

    Article : 701 words
  6. WHY TRADE UNIONS ARE IMPOSSIBLE IN AMERICA.

    It is difficult for one who has not been in America, and who naturally fancies it is a country inhabited by Americans (says " Engineering"), to realise the heterogeneous ...

    Article : 282 words
  7. A PLEA FOR LOW-BUILT HOUSES.

    The houses of London are growing loftier, and are casting longer shadows. The passion for flats, combined with the greed of landlords, is more resolutely excluding the sun from our ...

    Article : 215 words
  8. TWO STAGE SCENES.

    When Charles Kean was playing " Richard III.," his fearful grimaces in character paralysed all the other actors with fright, much to his amusement. On one occasion a new man ...

    Article : 468 words
  9. THE SCOT IN FICTION.

    For one miser in Scotland (says Jane Helen Findlater, in Atlantic Monthly) there are twenty men whose frugality is infinitely noble; and it is well to remember the ...

    Article : 292 words
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