26 AUGUST 1882, page 3

Dr. Siemens Showed That There Are Many "waste Products"...

instead of being turned to profit, are turned to very posi- tive loss. Thus he estimated the weight of the soot in the pall hanging over Loudon on a winter's day—might he not......

Mr. Cavendish Bentincls, Speaking On Monday, At White-...

to his admiring audience that it was he himself who had suggested to Sir Stafford Northcote that witty application of the phrase used by one of the Witches in Macbeth, — " A......

In General Ducrot, Who Died Last Week, France Has Lost

one of the most sagacious of the Generals of the Second Empire, though not one whom the Republicans would have been at all likely, or, indeed, well advised, to forgive for his......

Consols Were On Friday To 9911.

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Dr. Siemens Delivered The Inaugural Address To The...

on Wednesday at Southampton. He took for his main subject the effect of the search for practical applications of science in widening the sphere of knowledge itself, showing, for......

It Is Impossible, However, Even, To Touch Half The Points

of interest in Dr. Siemens' very popular address. He does not believe that the electric light will at all supersede gas, though it will have a great future of its own. He does......

We Have Got September In August,—not A Little Rain With

that slight chill and crispness in the air which make the autumn morn- ing and evening so invigorating,—and it is to be feared that we may have October in September; but for all......

Dr. Siemens Had Also An Interesting Word To Say On

the con- struction of vessels. He believed that by the use of "mild steel," a material much lighter than iron, and, therefore, allow- ing of a much larger freight, the dangers......

The Welcome News Has Coma This Week That Mr. Benjamin

Leigh Smith, of the Eira ' exploring expedition, with his crew, numbering twenty-five in all, were landed safely at Peter- head last Saturday, by the steam whale-ship Hope,'......