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  3. SCIENCE

    Experiments in abrasion conducted at it French mint have proved that aluminium coins will be less rapidly worn than coins made of gold, silver, or oven bronze. ...

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  4. INVENTION

    The French Institute has divided the Osiris prize of 4000 between M. Bleriot, the aeronaut, and Gabriel Voisin, the aeroplane manufacturer, for their ...

    Article : 93 words
  5. TRADE.

    According to a contemporary, the largest electric power transmission line in the world is that of the Niagara-Syracuse- Auburn line, which transmits 30,000 ...

    Article : 46 words
  6. RADIUM FOR CONSUMPTIVE GLANDS.

    Dr. Louis Wickham, head of the Radium Institute in Paris, had recently, a case in which tuberculous (consumptive) glands had been removed on three ...

    Article : 121 words
  7. THE ART OF WOOD PRESERVING.

    According to statistics furnished by the United States Forest Service, the art of wood preservation in that country during the year 1908 called for the use of ...

    Article : 70 words
  8. IMPROVEMENTS FOR SEA-PROPELLORS.

    With a view to enabling marine turbine engine propellers to work at higher efficiency. Mr. Yasuzo Wadagaki, in a paper read before the North-cast Coast ...

    Article : 160 words
  9. TRADE OF THE SUEZ CANAL.

    The worldwide falling off in business in 1908 made itself felt in the traffic through the Suez Canal. During 1908 there passed through the canal 3795 vessels of 13,633,283 ...

    Article : 88 words
  10. FUNCTION OF THE SPLEEN.

    The function of the spleen has been more of lees of a puzzle to physiologists; death is not unused by removing it, and the organisms seem to get on fairly well ...

    Article : 120 words
  11. SAVING WASTE.

    In a process recently patented in Germany for the regeneration of vulcanised India rubber, fragments of old rubber are mixed with from one-tenth to one-fifth ...

    Article : 94 words
  12. A USEFUL CHUCK.

    This little chuck was invented by Mr. R. S. Kirkaldy, of Surry Hills. It is intended to take the place of the more expensive article, and should prove of great ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  13. THE "INTERNATIONAL CANDLE."

    An international agreement is reported between England, France, and the United States upon a unit of candle-power of luminous intensity to be known as the ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. THE RICH RUBBER MARKET.

    "A month or be age we were, all rubbing our eyes at the sight of a 6/ per 1b quotation for rubber, and this week our powers of amazement are further taxed ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. TRAVEL

    The average speed for the trans-Atlantic passage is now within 0.12 knot of the 26-knot mark. Recently the Mauretania, on her passage to the eastward, passed ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. HEALTH.

    Dr. Osier has stated that the question or preserving the teeth is more important than the liquor question. No doubt much dyspepsia is due to decayed and defective ...

    Article : 77 words
  17. RELIGION

    According to a New York paper, the paster of an Indian church has received 60 acres of land as a gift from one of his parishioners. The paster's sermons are ...

    Article : 55 words
  18. ELECTRICITY FROM WIND-POWER

    From time to time we hear (says the "Scientific American") of some enterprising amateur driving an electric generator by means of a windmill, and thus ...

    Article : 162 words
  19. CAN COWS PRODUCE DRUGGED MILK?

    This Question was recently asked in England: "Can boracic acid get into milk sis the result of feeding con on fond containing boracic acid?" Messrs. S. H. ...

    Article : 169 words
  20. NEW HIGH-PRESSURE ENGINE.

    A test was recently made in England of a steam engine designed to work at pressures of as high as one thousand pounds per square inch. According to ...

    Article : 136 words
  21. £10,000 COLLECTION.

    While a vast congregation of 6000 people at Orchard, Maine, U.S., alternately prayed and sang, the Rev. A. B. Simpson collected from them the sum of £10,600 on ...

    Article : 95 words
  22. THE RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD.

    America still continues, by a wide margin, to lead the world in the extent of its railway system. Out of a total of 594,867 miles of railroad in the whole world, ...

    Article : 120 words
  23. THE FIRST RADIUM CONGRESS.

    For the first time since radium claimed the attention of the world of science an International congress will be held to discuss its wonderful properties. It is ...

    Article : 84 words
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  25. EXTENSION TOOL FOR CUTTING KEYWAYS.

    This tool is especially adapted to cutting keyways in pulley castings and internal work of a similar kind. The tool may be used be used in a shaper in place of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 127 words
  26. SEWAGE AS A PROFITABLE EXPLOITATION.

    The utilising of the solid matter of sewage by the method of Dr. Grossman is now being tested, and it claimed to have proved hygienic, effective and economical, ...

    Article : 218 words
  27. THE PAN-ANGLICAN THANK-OFFERING.

    The committee appointed to deal with this offering have now finally allotted £17,000 out of the £22,000 which goes to Canada, the remainder being reserved ...

    Article : 94 words
  28. LEAD PRODUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

    The smelter production of lead in the United States in 1908, as given by C. E. Stebenthal of the United States Geological Survey, under date of May 24, was ...

    Article : 140 words
  29. FOREIGN OBJECTS IN THE EYE.

    Many hospitals in England are provided with a special apparatus for extracting iron and steel fragments from the eye by means of powerful electra magnets. ...

    Article : 169 words
  30. SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINESE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.

    One of the most interesting features of the rebuilding of San Francisco's famed Chinatown in the new telephone exchange building to handle the large number of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 95 words
  31. THE STRENGTH OF CONGREGATIONALISM.

    The statistics of the numerical strength or Congregationalism throughout the world, which have Just been tabulated, show that the denomination is ...

    Article : 132 words
  32. USE FOR IMPERFECT BALL-BEARINGS.

    A great many of the steel balls made for bearings are discarded because of imperfections. Some are not round, some unevenly hardened, and some have flat ...

    Article : 178 words
  33. SUBSTITUTE FOR LARGE CONDENSERS.

    As a substitute for large condensers using paper, glass, or mica for the dielectric, an electrolytic condenser has bren devised, which consists of aluminium ...

    Article : 197 words
  34. TREATMENT OF SCIATICA.

    Professor Karl Petren has made a special investigation concerning the treatment of sciatica and allied, conditions. He considers that the majority of ...

    Article : 181 words
  35. HOW TO RESTORE THE APPARENTLY DEAD.

    Drs. Stewart and Crile have shown that a combination of artificial respiration, heart massage (for which an opening has to be made via the abdomen), occlusion ...

    Article : 208 words
  36. THE PREVENTION OF A CLERGYMAN'S MARRIAGE.

    Canon Hensley, Henson, in a letter to the London "Times," calls attention to the indefinite postponement of the marriage of the Rev. A. E. Foster, vicar of ...

    Article : 167 words
  37. BACK FROM CENTRAL AFRICA.

    Miss Charlotte Mansfield, the woman explorer, who left London last January to go through Central Africa, is back again in London. ...

    Article : 294 words
  38. CURING TOBACCO WITH GAS HEAT.

    Curing tobacco with the heat from gas stoves has been successfully tried out by a tobacco company in Dayton U.S.A.). Two stoves wore placed in tightly-closed ...

    Article : 182 words
  39. IS DEAFNESS PREVENTIBLE?

    Dr. W. Settlor Bryant says that all deafness is preventable; further all forms and almost all cases of middle-car deafness are the results of infection. This is ...

    Article : 262 words
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  41. USE OF BODY ENERGY.

    A bulletin recently issued by the United States Department of Agriculture sets forth the result of a long series of experiments carried on by Dr. Benedict and ...

    Article : 236 words
  42. MONEY

    Net liabilities £854,641 Deficiency as regards shareholders £1.502,076 Available assets Nill. ...

    Article : 293 words
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