22 APRIL 1905, page 11

The Importance Of Minor Vices.

T HERE is an amusing sketch in one of Sir A. Conan Doyle's stories of the state of nervousness which is induced, in the case of the ordinary individual, by reading or listening......

Destructive Life.

T HE engineers in charge of a telegraph-line at Hong- kong were surprised recently by the discovery that about seven miles of their cable, though it was well protected and laid......