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THE RENEWED ERUPTIONS OF THE WEST INDIAN VOLCANOES

... . The West Indian volcanoes have again broken out into fierce activity. So far, indeed, from Mont Pelée in Martinique having quieted down the reports seem to show that the fresh eruptions have been more fierce in character than the out bursts of May 8 or any of the numerous intervening disturbances which have been going on with only small intervals of quietude. Telegrams also state that the ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1902
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2218 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Maps 

THE VOLCANIC UNREST OF THE WORLD

... . HOW THE WEST INDIAN ERUPTIONS N HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED BY A V ■Ji\( SERIES OF OUT- C jjf i S BUR-STS AND SHAH- jfjij ^jlT\ INGS AROUND THE Mi j 'J WHOLE JJ\ WORLD, y The known Interior of the Globe By actual boring the earth is found to consist of layers of sedimentary rocks, formed by sediment under water, which overlay the older rocks which have cooled beneath the surface. The temperature in ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1902
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 294 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations  Maps 

THE HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT AT DOVER

... THE HARBOUR. IMPROVEMENT AT DOVER. The accompanying bird's-eye view of the great har bours at Dover as they will be when completed should interest a wide circle, because the larger one will be a great factor in our national defence, while the accommodation provided by the smaller one will greatly increase the comfort and convenience of the ever growing stream of cross-Channel and transatlantic ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1902
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1248 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

The Panama Canal

... THE prolonged negotiations between the United States and the Republic of Colombia have at last resulted in the signing of a treaty for the transference of the Panama Canal to the Gove ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 491 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Maps 

The Defences of Gibraltar

... ^Itc gefnues of Gibraltar The report of Captain Tizard and Mr. Shield, on the pro posed eastern harbour and dock at Gibraltar, has now been published, and the Commissioners express the opinion that th ...

Published: Saturday 28 February 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 379 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Maps 

Paris Jotting's

... i is Jottings BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT IT is to be presumed that the month of March in Paris will this year go out like a lamb, for there is no doubt that it came in like a lion. The whole of Saturda ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 674 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Maps 

HOW SEMI-CIVILISED KANO COMES TO HAVE CANNIBAL NEIGHBOURS

... AlIa.h-il-AlIah Mahorrva.d Resoul Allah Allah-il-Alla.h Mahomad R.esoul Alla.h X The Sti'ea.m. of M&homedan Influence in AfriceL In advancing northward from Bida to occupy the Fulah states of north Nigeria the British occupation has advanced from savagery into what is by comparison a civilised country. How Bida remains a savage native community in the neighbourhood of Kano, a semi-civilised ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 292 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

Lions in the Ring

... Xicrits in the |Eing H,err Julius Seeth, the famous lion-tamer, has returned once more and for the last time to the Hippodrome. He has largely increased his unique troupe since his last appearances, a ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 554 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Maps 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF DECORATIVE ART: WARING'S BRITISH AND EUROPEAN CONTRACTS

... THE DEVELOPMENT OF DECORATIVE ART The evolution of a great firm is almost a matter of scientific interest. Sometimes it is a case of slow and gradual development; at others the expansion is so rapid hat the firm is no sooner heard of than it is already famous. An illustration of the comparative suddenness with which commercial pre-eminence is occasionally achieved is that of Waring's. Eight or ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1208 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Maps 

A New Melodrama

... Jl Jlclri ^Iclobramn Mr. F. A. Scudamore's new play, A World of Women, brought out on Easter Monday, at the Grand Theatre, Futham, proved to be very little removed in plan or treatment from earlier pr ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 361 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Maps 

WHERE THE DISCOVERY HAS WINTERED ON THE EDGE OF THE GREAT ICE SHEET

... . From the material published by the Royal Geographical Society and from accounts of the voyages of the Discovery and the Morning it is now possible to construct a general view of the Discovery's surroundings in the Antarctic. The view is supposed to be taken from the south looking towards the northern horizon, over which the track of the Discovery from New Zealand can be seen coming south to ...