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The Metropolitan Asylums Board have appointed a research
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According to the "Manila Captain John Watson was mur од December 19 dered and Lieutenant Kinzie B. Edmunds seriously wounded by a Moro who sneaked through the lines of the camp at Lake Seit
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DEATH TO THE BACILLI. known for the cure of phthisis. It also produces excellent results At a meeting of the Academic Cost of Animals for experiment. Committes of the Royal Society duct discovered by Doctor Giu-soute or chronio, in broncho-al- In the scientific world the pro-in cases of bronchial catarrh, Washington, D. C., Nov. 23, Literature in Caxton Hall recent-seppe Bandiera of Palermo (89-91 veolitis, bronchitis and similar The Treasury Department was ly the Edmond de l'olignao Rue Cavour) is making a good diseases. Boware of imitations. advised to-day that it could got prize was awarded to Mr. John deal of noise, for a great number Only accept bottles of Pation An- very choice line of monkeys at Masefield for his poem "The of consumptives have been able, tisptique Bandiera. Sole depot, $12 each and Japanono dancing Everlasting Mercy." mice at $12 a dozen. The quota- Mr. J. M. Barrie, who presided, health. Submitted to the exam-Cavour, Palermo, to which all thanks to it, to recover their Pharmacio Nationale, 89/01 Rue tions came from animal dealers. said that the Committee existed ination of numerous scientists, orders should ba addressed. Monkeys, rats and mice are want to attend to the standards of style this specific has been recognised Price, 5 france per bottle. ad by the Public Health Service in this country. He remembered and approved as the sole remedy for experiments with bubonio long ago being in the company of which science can definitely offer plague and other disauses in a very distinguished writer. Hawail. White rats and white They were in a club where they that the most popular doctors to- against tuberculosis; so much so mice cost $3 and $6 a dozen, were always talking about style, day do not disdain to prescribe rospectively, while rabbits and and on that occasion every one the Antiseptic Potion as an infal- guinea pigs can bo had at very was very brilliant, on thelible remedy, not only in tuber subject. At laat his friend culosis but against bronchitis and said something, and in compulmonary catarrhs-fatal disea- New York, Nov. 11-Some rather childish. How strange it science has owned itself power- Jols, and fell upon them while
parison what he said soundad es which till now, medical budy has stolen a package of was, and yet, perkapa, not strange lesa to combat. banknotes printed 1300 years ago at all, that the only man among by Chinese bankers of the T'Ang them who had a style was the dynasty.
only one did not soom to known They belong to the collection of all about it. Style, he fancied, Mr. A. W. Bahr of Shanghai, was simply the way in which time, it has already made a great which has just beon brought to an artist painted his picture. reputation among us. In treating this country. Their lony was There was no other difference chest disease, with this new anti- the motion calendar of the Feder- discovered when the collection. between 3 Venus by Titan wis unpacked here. The face and a Venus by Tom Smithi. It optio, the distinguished inventor al District Uourt, says the New value of the missing notes runs buanded rather hard on Tom. Mr. results which open up new paths Judge Coxe came upon a title
Las obtained some, marvellous York "Evening Post," Circuit; from 2 costs up and the total Verrall was a "little candle," as to the healing art, even where which was too much for him. So amount called for is less than all men were, but one who cant maladies hitherto regarded as to get over the difficulty he dir- $50.
widely the beams of fiue scholar neurable are concerned.
ected Clerk Rookmore to osli No. Thoy are worth 300 times that
ship and a flame. He had found sum, however, as objects of art his grave in the hearts of all young specific have, over all other an- Judge Cox was: "Dampatiesack. The substances composing this 17. The title which stumped and antiquity. A New Type of Flying Machine man. It was there ho had painttiseptics, the advantage of des-ties-selspabet versus-United Fruit
ed his picture. He (Mr. Barrie) troying microbes without injuring Company." While the aeroplanes now in
At the request. of Grat raet Mr. Lang at St. Andrews the organs, and of possessing the lawyers, the hearing of the use are based on the kito principle of sliding on. the air them thought was called after spread easily over the
which, he understood, most of such a diffusive power that they motion was postponed for a week. Dresden' engineer, Harr
whole Panama Law Difficulties. Baumguertel, is now showing him. Mr. Lang was as Scotch as surface infested by bacilli the Washington, November 23.- another type in the arena of peat. Lang and Stevenson were
propagators and generators of The recent announcement that tro Scottial musketeers. Johannisthal, near Berlin. His machine has no plane" but is through their style could be heard suppuration. Consequently feve- ongines and other main suxiliary rishness disappeare, appetite re- machinery of ships would be im- provided with two horizontal what Mr. Howells called the
ported free under the Panama turns and strength increases. propellers arranged ono above swashbuckle wasting on his
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Melton Mowbray, Pork Pies, Beal, (Translation from a French aeronnut is sealed, as the whole PP. Sheehan, and "The Kaave
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