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  2. THE WORLDS PROGRESS

    A definite attempt to reform the calendar is to be made by and International Conference that will take place shortly at Geneva. Many suggestions will be made, but the most ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 168 words
  3. NOVEL AND INTERESTING INVENTIONS.

    A special chute conveyor for steamships, the patents for which have been acquired by an American railroad company, is shown. It consists of a combination of chutes extending at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 94 words
  4. SIXTH SENSE FOR SHIPS.

    'The application of the sixth sense to ships." Such a phrase sounds like a phantastic idea of Lewis Carroll's "White Knight," says and exchange. It isn't. It is an extraordinarily ...

    Article : 243 words
  5. REMARKABLE ELECTRIC-SERVICE HOTEL.

    A remarkable hotel, every part of which will be operated by electricity, even to the serving of guests in the dining-rooms, service in the rooms, and the opening and closing of windows, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 182 words
  6. PROGENY OF ONE FLY.

    The accompanying illustration does not show a newly-discovered tomb of Egyptian kings, nor even a monument, says a scientific exchange but a chart designed by Dr. A. L. Murray, in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 121 words
  7. ALCOHOL AND YEAST FROM BANANA MEAL.

    A cheap process of manufacturing alcohol is described by Herr C. Nagel, in a recent communication to a German scientific exchange banana-meal being used as the original ...

    Article : 158 words
  8. CANINE JOY RIDER IN FULL WAR PAINT.

    Now that automobiling has become so popular, the pets of the modern society woman must be [?]bed fashionably for joy-riding expeditions. Note the goggles, fur-lined boats, and handkerchief of the animal, in addition to the Scotch tweed suit, collar and lie, with diamond scarf-pin. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  9. CHILD CARRIER.

    The conditions under which the inventor of this child-carrying basket believes it will prove of value are clearly shown in the illustration. When one hand is occupied in holding up an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  10. TREATMENT OF CANCER.

    An interesting advance in cancer research, which has been made in Professor Czerny's Samaritan house at Heidelberg (Germany), was reported at a meeting of the Naturalists' ...

    Article : 83 words
  11. HIGH SPEED HENS.

    The provisional committee of the International Association of Poultry instructors and investigators began its meetings in London last month. The object of Association is to ...

    Article : 224 words
  12. SAFETY CORN-CUTTER.

    The advent of the safety razor has led to the invention of several devices of like nature for other purposes, such, for instance as cutting the finger nails. The latest is a safety tools for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 20 words
  13. WORK & WAGES THE WORLD OVER

    Flats in which the birth of the child frees the tenant from the payment of rent for the quarter following the happy event are the latest experiment in workmen's housing in ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAY LINES.

    The Chief Commissioner's annual report on the working of the State railways and tramways during this year has been tabled in the Legislative Assembly. It records another year ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. IDEAL DOMESTIC "PLACE."

    The best judge of domestic service should—not unnaturally—be the domestic servant. She should know a good "place" when she is in one, and she should have her own ideas of what a ...

    Article : 429 words
  16. AIDS TO WHARF LABORERS.

    At the last monthly meeting of the Adelaide Employers' Federation an important communication was considered from the Federal Council. Melbourne, respecting the Navigation Bill ...

    Article : 214 words
  17. BRITISH AND GERMAN COMPETITION IN AUSTRALIA.

    Speaking in connection with the Collins Company's rolling stock works, the West Australian Premier (Mr. Scaddan) recently formulated the attitude in respect to preference to British and ...

    Article : 100 words
  18. WHAT ITALY IS FIGHTING FOR.

    It is the general opinion that italy's greatest temptation in North Africa is the villayet Barks, the ancient Cyrensica, in which, for example, are Tobruk, Dombe, Derna, Terks, and Benghazi ; for the district is described as the richest now in dispute between the two Powers. It is true that a good deal of it is desert, but there various fertile tracts along the north and east, and in the north ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 77 words
  19. A PRINCESS WAITRESS.

    It has remained for Princess Maria Alexandrovna Garatzina, whose family is included among the largest land-owners in Russia, says an exchange, to put Tolstoi's teaching to the ...

    Article : 124 words
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    Advertising : 172 words
  21. MONEY'S DIMINISHED SPENDING POWER.

    In the Fifteenth Abstract of Labor Statistics, issued recently by the English Board of Trade, there are figures given for wholesale prices which show that 109.3 pence were required in ...

    Article : 385 words
  22. THE PHILIPPINES TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.

    Conditions in the Philippines are now good, and prospects are excellent. This is the result parity of the fact that whether the Republicans or democrats win in the November elections ...

    Article : 123 words
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