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  2. AMERICAN LLOYDS.

    America is once more invested with Lloyds associations. A few years ago (says the "Mining Standard") when these concerns were in full swing, it become ...

    Article : 305 words
  3. A RACE AGAINST FIRE.

    The Danish steamer Euxinia arrived at Plymouth after an eventful experience calculated to try the nerves of the strongest. On July 12 she left Savannah ...

    Article : 406 words
  4. "HOLDING-UP" A TRAIN.

    A daring and successful train robbery is reported from the United States. The outrage was committed at Marcus, on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railway, ...

    Article : 324 words
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  6. PRESIDENT AS CRACK SHOT.

    President Roosevelt recently at Oyster Bay amazed his guests, among whom were Commandant Snyman, who has been In the United States for a year; young ...

    Article : 391 words
  7. WOLF BREEDING FOR PROFIT.

    The State of Nebraska has paid £30,000 in the last ten years as bounty for the destruction of wolves of within its boundaries, considerably more than half of this ...

    Article : 172 words
  8. ALPINE GLACIERS DISAPPEARING.

    Hotel-keepers in the Alps have a new trouble and are complaining at the loss of patrons. The attractive glaciers are said to be actually passing from the ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. FROM THE BETTING BLUE-BOOK

    The rising of Parliament is, as usual, the signal for the publication of a number of unduly delayed Blue-Books. Of these, the most important is the verbatim report ...

    Article : 461 words
  10. WILLOW TREES FOR EMBANKMENTS.

    It has been found by recent experiments that the value of willows is very great in holding together the banks of streams. They have a natural affinity for ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. NOVELTY IN DRIVING POWER.

    A novelty in the method of application of driving power for propelling automobiles and other vehicles is that designed by an Ohio man. The Inventor transmits ...

    Article : 220 words
  12. THE MOTHER MAKES THE POET.

    In a discussion at the Paris Societe Medico Psychologique on the subject of the heredity of poetic talent, Dr. Chasiln and Dr. Mobius arrived at the conclusion ...

    Article : 156 words
  13. DANGEROUS ELECTRIC LIGHT.

    It is so common a thing to read that fires of mysterious origin were doubtless caused by a defective electric light wire that it is something of a surprise to learn ...

    Article : 111 words
  14. SHIRTS OF MAIL.

    Shirts of mail such as that one which is reported to have saved the life of Prince Obolensky when he was shot at the other day may be more commonly worn than ...

    Article : 144 words
  15. LUMINOUS LIFE-SAVING LINE.

    Captain Andre, a Chicago life-saving official, has made an improvement in the method of throwing life-lines to wrecked or disabled ships. If the wreck happens ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. AGE OF THE WORLD.

    One of the ways of reckoning the age of the world is that adopted by Professor Joly of computing how long a time must have elapsed for the sea, ...

    Article : 211 words
  17. ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY.

    A "Daily Mail" correspondent sends what "Nature" describes as a somewhat gushing account of a most remarkable claim, the genuiness of which it is as yet ...

    Article : 254 words
  18. CURE FOR INSOMNIA.

    It has been found in most cases that insomnia is caused by disordered stomach, says an authority. Between the stomach and the brain there is a close communion, and when ...

    Article : 306 words
  19. LEFT-HANDEDNESS.

    The question of right and left-handedness is so frequently brought up, that any investigations of or light on the subject cannot fail to be of general interest. It ...

    Article : 206 words
  20. FOG-SIGINALS AT SEA.

    The grounding of the Kinfauns Castle on the rocks near St. Catherine's Point, and of the City of Benares at Birling Gap, both recently, once again ...

    Article : 332 words
  21. MR. STEPHEN PHILLIPS' PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE.

    In a New York paper appears the report of an interview which a correspondent of that journal says he had with Mr. Stephen Phillips, while in London. Mr. ...

    Article : 320 words
  22. MARCONI AND WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Before a crowded audience at the Royal Institution, London, recently. Mr. Marconi delivered a lecture on "The Progress of Electric Space Telegraphy." In the ...

    Article : 253 words
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