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  2. EDISON'S OPINIONS.

    A very interesting interview of Edison, by Waldo P. Warren, appears in the "Century Magazine" for July. Mr. Warren writes:— ...

    Article : 1,328 words
  3. SCIENCE AND HEALTH

    The congress of the Royal sanitary Institute at Belfast pledged its support to a proposal by Mr. A. J. Martin, London, for the establishment of a ...

    Article : 106 words
  4. NOTES AND HINTS

    The lids of tin boxes of blacking, toothpowder, tobacco, and the like are very often awkward to remove. There are two methods of dealing with the refractory ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 148 words
  5. AROUND THE WORLD

    The first organised shipment of Transvaal oranges for the English market has arrived in England. Mr. A. D. H. Cochrane, secretary of the South African ...

    Article : 61 words
  6. 332 CENTENARIANS.

    The claim that Bulgarian sour milk is conducive to longevity appears to be borne out by recent statistics, writes a Vienna correspondent, which show 332 ...

    Article : 57 words
  7. BATHING REVELRY.

    The heat (says a recent paragraph from Vienna) has completely changed the character of the quiet and order loving Viennese. Everyone who can by ...

    Article : 262 words
  8. COST OF CONSUMPTION.

    Speaking on "The Economic Cost to the Community of Tuberculosis," at the concluding day's sitting of the Conference of the National Association for the ...

    Article : 282 words
  9. £12,300 FOR EMIGRATION.

    At a meeting of the Central Unemployed Body for London, at the Guildhall, E.C., the finance committee reported that £12,300 had already been ...

    Article : 68 words
  10. KILLED BY COLD WATER.

    A curious incident is reported from Farcet, near Peterborough, Northamptonshire. The water in the River Nene was low, and the heat of the sun ...

    Article : 84 words
  11. PUTTING ON THE NOSE-BAG.

    Information is sometimes acquired by ways which, when related, would almost appear apocrytical. Such is the following case:—A horse's nose-bag having slipped ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 147 words
  12. NEW COPYRIGHT BILL.

    The proposed new Copyright Bill, which will shortly be laid before, the House of Commons, contains a clause which states that the makings or ...

    Article : 107 words
  13. THE KING ON MANNERS.

    Speaking at a speech day celebration at Wolverley School, Worcestershire, the Bishop of Worcester gave an account of a conversation he once had with the King, ...

    Article : 190 words
  14. CAUSES OF INSANITY.

    Doubt as to the increase of insanity, is expressed by the British Commissioners in Lunacy in their annual report. Although on January 1, 1911, there were ...

    Article : 451 words
  15. WIFE'S NEGLECT OF DUTIES.

    A petition for divorce, arising out of alias wife's neglect of household duties, was granted to M. Louis Dorizon at the Palace of Justice, Paris. The judgment ...

    Article : 167 words
  16. INDIA AND THE EMPIRE

    What is to be the status of British Indians in the British Empire? The question is one of the profoundest interest for the future, and it may, become ...

    Article : 1,412 words
  17. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    At a cricket match in Yorkshire an appeal was made against a batsman for "obstructing the field." The out side were not quite clear which umpire should be ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. MARRIED "TO OBLIGE."

    The Court of Common Pleas at Cincinnati heard a petition for annulment of the strange marriage of Mrs. Dolores Cameron Owens, daughter of a University ...

    Article : 221 words
  19. "THE MUG IN THE TUB."

    A curious way of obtaining a livelihood was described at West London County Court, when compensation was sought by Walter John Pit, a showman's ...

    Article : 189 words
  20. HIS FATHER'S GLASS EYE.

    "What's the matter, my lad?" an old gentleman asked of a youngster who was crying lustily in the street. But the boy couldn't reply through his ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. Advertising

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  22. DEFIANT ISLAND.

    The Sligo County Council is much exercised in regard to an island whose inhabitants will not pay rates. Innishmurray, in the Atlantic Ocean, between Sligo and ...

    Article : 323 words
  23. BREAKING IT GENTLY.

    A lady who had recently moved to the suburbs was very fond of her first brood of chickens. Going out one afternoon, she left the household in charge of her ...

    Article : 130 words
  24. ROUGH LIVING CAUSES HEALTH TO BREAK DOWN.

    Mr. T. Carpenter, of Mudgee, N.S.W., who is 67 years of age, says:—"In my younger days 1 did my share of roughing it while following the various occupations ...

    Article : 343 words
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