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  2. Wireless Pictures.

    One of the most important uses so far found for the new science of wireless picture telegraphy is in the forecasting of hurricanes. Weeks before a severe hurricane reaches ...

    Article : 183 words
  3. TOSSED BY RHINOCEROS.

    In British East Africa, the dangers to men and women from wild animals, especially in the Kenya Protectorate, are daily in evidence. One cannot stir ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 258 words
  4. A Poet's Tragedy.

    Edgar Allan Poe was paid £2 for "The Raven"; now £ 10,000 has been paid for the manuscript of the poem. Ten thousand pounds could have kept Poe ...

    Article : 191 words
  5. New Ally of the Chemist.

    A new use for ultra-violet rays has been found by Mr. A. A. King. At the Royal Society's conversazione in London, he showed an apparatus by which ...

    Article : 131 words
  6. £50,000 Surprise for a Nephew.

    Fifty thousand pounds! This is the sum that has come, quite unexpectedly, to Mr. Charles Ashmead Watson, Stoke-on-Trent (Eng.), from an aunt he had ...

    Article : 183 words
  7. Shakespeare in Many Languages.

    Shakespeare was never more widely read than now; the success of the Children's Shakespeare is abundant evidence if there were no more. ...

    Article : 110 words
  8. Air Dash to Wife.

    A dash by ship and air to a sick wife's bedside was made by Mr E. J. S. Carlile, who reached Southampton recently from Buenos Aires by the Royal Mail Steam ...

    Article : 126 words
  9. Eighty Miles an Hour.

    It seems that France now definitely holds the palm for railway speed. The London-to-Exeter express is the only one which can compare with the running time ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. A Buried Flag Comes Back to Light.

    The strange history of a Union Jack comes from that part of Togoland which passed from German to British rule at the close of the war. ...

    Article : 141 words
  11. Duck Beats Sea-hawk.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" Rothesay (Scotland) correspondent wired the following account of a drama on East Loch Talbert:—A wild duck was swimming down the loch, ...

    Article : 124 words
  12. Pig Weighing Half a Ton.

    South Africa has a prize pig called Billy that has been insured for £5000 at a cost of £260 a year. He weights half a ton, is over eight feet ...

    Article : 76 words
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