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The name of the destructor is the same as that of a class with a preceding tilde sign (~). The ~ and name of the class is written as a single word without any space between them. So the name of the destructor of class Date will be ~Date. The destructor can not be overloaded. [...]

The Telephone The Bell telephone—The Edison transmitter—The granular carbon transmitter—General arrangement of a telephone circuit—Double-line circuits—Telephone exchanges—Submarine telephony. For the purposes of everyday life the telephone is even more useful than the telegraph. Telephones now connect one room of a building with another, house with house, town with town, country with country. An infinitely greater [...]

Cacao Markets From the Plantation to the European Market. SURF BOATS BY THE SIDE OF THE OCEAN LINER, ACCRA. It is mentioned above that on the Gold Coast cacao is brought down to Accra as head-loads, or in barrels, or in motor-lorries. These methods are exceptional; in other countries it is usually put in sacks [...]

Electrolysis, Water Purification, Electroplating Decomposing Liquids.—During the earlier experiments in the field of electricity, after the battery or cell was discovered, it was noted that when a current was formed in the cell, the electrolyte was charged and gases evolved from it. A similar action takes place when a current of electricity passes through a [...]

Introduction of Needlework by BEETON’S CONSISTING OF DESCRIPTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS, ILLUSTRATED BY SIX HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS, OF TATTING PATTERNS. CROCHET PATTERNS. KNITTING PATTERNS. NETTING PATTERNS. EMBROIDERY PATTERNS. POINT LACE PATTERNS. GUIPURE D’ART. BERLIN WORK. MONOGRAMS. INITIALS AND NAMES. PILLOW LACE, AND LACE STITCHES. SAMUEL BUTLER’S PREFACE The Art of Needlework dates from the earliest record of [...]

The woman’s attire would have been chiefly a shortish skirt or wrap of coarse linen, wool, or leather, gathered in front or folded at one hip; grass cloth may also have been in use in most primitive tribes. Probably the upper part of the body was kept bare, except for many ornaments and necklaces, but [...]

Something Challis has told me; something I have learned for myself; and there is something which has come to me from an unknown source. But here again we are confronted with the original difficulty—the difficulty that for some conceptions there is no verbal figure. It is comprehensible, it is, indeed, obvious that the deeper abstract [...]

This brief history of the Hampdenshire Wonder is marked by a stereotyped division into three parts, an arbitrary arrangement dependent on the experience of the writer. The true division becomes manifest at this point. The life of Victor Stott was cut into two distinct sections, between which there is no correlation. The first part should [...]

Heartwood and Sapwood Examination of the end of a log of many species reveals a darker-colored inner portion—the heartwood, surrounded by a lighter-colored zone—the sapwood. In some instances this distinction in color is very marked; in others, the contrast is slight, so that it is not always easy to tell where one leaves off and [...]

Literature is almost similar to art, what is true in painting is true in literature. ‘A novel is not an imitation or an exact copy of life as we live it; it is rather a selection of characters and events drawn from reading, observation, and experience, and woven into an entirely new story.’ (p.20, How [...]