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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 56 words
  3. WORTH KNOWING.

    Praise of railway travelling facilities in Germany is given by Miss Lorimer in her "By the Waters of Germany." "Although we were only travelling third ...

    Article : 166 words
  4. ETHICS FOR LIGHTING MEN.

    On May 8, the Chicago "Daily Tribune" published a letter written to his parents by a first-class gun nor of the dreadnought Utah, stationed at Vera Cruz. Amongst other ...

    Article : 162 words
  5. CURIOUS HOBBIES.

    The Sovereigns of Europe have, and have had, some curious hobbies. The classic instance is, of course, "Citizen Capet"—the unfortunate Louis XVI.—who could make ...

    Article : 157 words
  6. A £10,000 GIFT.

    When Bishop Alerding of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was in New York on his way to Rome he paid a visit to Albert H. Gray, chairman of the board of directors of the ...

    Article : 238 words
  7. ANOTHER "FLYING TRAIN."

    Mr. Esson, a partner in the firm of Rodway and Esson, Ltd., of Birmingham, who is resident at Capetown for reasons of health, has designed a train equipped with ...

    Article : 158 words
  8. SEEING BY WIRE.

    "Seeing by whe," was we startling suggestion conveyed in a lecture before the Institute of Automobile Engineers by Dr. A. M. Low, a well-known scientific ...

    Article : 444 words
  9. QUAINT WELSH CUSTOM.

    One of the quaintest of all Welsh customs is the unsheathing of the sword of Taliesin, that takes place every year on the shores of Llyn Greirionydd near Trefriw, North Wales. ...

    Article : 187 words
  10. CLOTH FROM NETTLES.

    An English syndicate has recently paid over £15,000 for the right to make yarn and cloth out of nettle fibre, a German company owning the patent. It expects to build up a ...

    Article : 197 words
  11. CIGARETTE EVIL.

    The cigarette has become universal. Its danger lies in the practice of "inhalation" so commonly adopted.The products of decomposition of nicotine produced by heat ...

    Article : 228 words
  12. CANCER BEDS.

    It often happens that the ravages of diseases, the origin of which appears to be wrapped in obscurity, are eventually traced to the simplest of causes, writes Dr. Charles ...

    Article : 246 words
  13. MEN AFRAID OF THEIR SHADOWS.

    Dr. Wallis Budge tells some interesting things about shadows. They are the recognised portion of man among modern African peoples. In West Africa the natives told ...

    Article : 278 words
  14. PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS.

    Under the primitive mining conditions of today the Choco district of Columbia stands second only to Russia as a producer of platinum. Most of the gold and platinum ...

    Article : 342 words
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