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  2. Electricity at the World Fair.

    The modern developments of electricity and the infinite divers[?] of its uses, even to the specialist, comes as a revelation, and to the casual observer the recent strides made by this the youngest and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,524 words
  3. Scientific and Useful.

    The laying of a duplicate cable of the Central and South American Telegraph Company has been completed (says an English contemporary). The new cable is 2524 miles in length, and extends ...

    Article : 92 words
  4. SUCKLING THE GREENLAND WHALE.

    The Greenland whale ia constantly on the move travelling through the deep at the rate of 20 knots an hour, scooping up the dainty molluscs on which it feeds. It never "shows up" to feed its young, ...

    Article : 167 words
  5. THE DEPARTURE OF DR. NANSEN.

    Dr. Nansen had quite an unexpected send-off on his journey to the North Pole. The steamship Rollo, with 160 "Polytechnic" passengers on board, was on a trip to the North Cape, when ...

    Article : 172 words
  6. BATHING AFTER EXERCISE.

    On this subject the LANCET remarks in a recent number: "The popular notion of the injurious effect of a cold bath taken by one who is overheated from exercise must possess—as all such ...

    Article : 255 words
  7. THE FATE OF THE SUN.

    The sun will become extinct. It is constantly losing a part of the heat, for the force it radiates into space is well nigh inconceivable. The heat emitted by ...

    Article : 381 words
  8. Protection from Sunstroke.

    It is now coming to be believed that sunstroke is caused, not by the heat rays of the sun, but by the actinic or chemical rays. It is accordingly advised that, in sunny countries like India, the ...

    Article : 74 words
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