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  2. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    The saltness of the sea has much to do with the ocean currents, which, distribute the heat of the tropics over the colder regions of the earth. ...

    Article : 90 words
  3. TEMPORARY INSANITY.

    Is there such a thing as temporary insanity? Many people think that the exprestion merely covers the kindly ...

    Article : 204 words
  4. SAVE HEART BEATS.

    To live long and well, save four heart by conserving your besrt beats. This may be done by avoiding extreme emotion and violent ...

    Article : 229 words
  5. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    One of the rare occasions when it is better not to keep your mouth shut is when your are standing near a big gun that is being fired. The ...

    Article : 787 words
  6. REASON FOR CAREFULNESS.

    The doctor looked serions. "You should be very careful for at least a month," he said. "It it as bad as that?" asked the ...

    Article : 294 words
  7. WHY MEN ARE BALD.

    In the first place It should be mentioned that even medical authorities can give no adequate or convincing reason for baldness in men. ...

    Article : 468 words
  8. THE POULTRY RUN.

    In treating roup, go through all your birds, says one authority, and pick out all the worse cases, those showing the cheesy. vile smelling ...

    Article : 275 words
  9. A CLOCK MADE FROM STRAW.

    An Ingenious mechanic has made a clock entirely of straw. The clock is six feet high and two feet square, but no cardboard or glue has been used ...

    Article : 138 words
  10. HIS MISTAKE.

    One bright, sunny morning a smail boy was busily spinning his top out-side a suburban house. Along the road came a ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. A HINT.

    Slowly the morning had passed into afternoon; then the afternoon bad also evaporated; and now, as the poet said, "the shades of night were ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. RARE BOOKS.

    A copy of the first printed edition of the Bible was brought from Lisbon by John VI. of Portugal, on the flight of the Royal Family to Brazil in ...

    Article : 153 words
  13. WHITE ORPINGTONS.

    No variety of fowls in these more modern times has become so readily and so deservedly popular as Orpingtons. They have achieved their ...

    Article : 332 words
  14. ROYAL QAK-TREES.

    Teak, during the reign of the Burmese kings, was the royal wood, and the king had a right to all teak. The Palace of the Kings in ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. DO YOU BELIEVE IT?

    As everybody knows, the famous statue of Venus de Mllo is armless. Well, here is the story of how it happened. ...

    Article : 118 words
  16. IT WASN'T A WINNER.

    He was very fond of playing jokes on his wife, and this time he thought he had get a winner. "My dear," he said, as they sat ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. HOW LEAVES PURIFY AIR.

    It has been calculated that a single tree is able through its leaves to purify the air from the carbonic acid arising from the respiration of a ...

    Article : 157 words
  18. HAD HAD HIS VALUE.

    It had nearly broken old Macgregor's heart when he realised that be had put a two-shilling piece in the plate instead of a penny. ...

    Article : 114 words
  19. AS CLEAR AS MUD.

    An Irish corporal in charge of an awkward squad, was putting them through their paces. After they bad performed various ...

    Article : 137 words
  20. DIPLOMACY.

    "Ferdinand, I am beginning to believe baby is like you." "Are you, dear?" "Yes, I notice it more and more every day. I'm so glad!" "Do ...

    Article : 111 words
  21. SAVING THE SITUATION.

    Collection-money was to little Tommy one of the essentials of churchgoing, Every Sunday moraine be saw that his penny was ready. ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. ARTIFICIAL SILK.

    An Ingenious method of producing artificial silk is due to the Japanese inventor, Kishi. The process is based on the use of the commercial ...

    Article : 142 words
  23. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT.

    On their return home from a dinner-party, Mrs. Smith turned to her husband with a look of curiosity on her face. ...

    Article : 63 words
  24. UNCLASSIFIED.

    He was a "knut," and as he passed people paused to gaze at him. A defective heart accounted for his lack of khaki, but a defective brain ...

    Article : 76 words
  25. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    If you want to do well don't breed From any birds that are iess than [?] monthly old. Don't [?] hang about too ...

    Article : 170 words
  26. AN INTERESTING ISLAND.

    The Island of Corfu claims a mart-time history antedating that of Athens According to tradition, this was the land of the Phaeaclans, and here ...

    Article : 79 words
  27. QUITE TRUE.

    In preparing some land for building, a quantity of rock was removed, and about this there was a lawsuit. One of the with [?] a [?] ...

    Article : 73 words
  28. ANCIENT "TAXIS."

    The Chinese some half-dozen ce[?]turies ago had a car with an attachment that measured the long miles the panting coolies covered, and it ...

    Article : 189 words
  29. NEATLY FOLDED.

    "Madge, Harry asked me to marry him last night." "Oh. I am delighted." replied her friend. "How did it happen?" ...

    Article : 76 words
  30. YES, WHY?

    All through tea Tommy sat silent, so silent that his parents at least began to teel alarmed. But the son and heir was only doing some ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. HIS EXCHANGE.

    An old Irishman was placed in the dock charged with obtaining a meal at an eating-house and walking off without paying for it. ...

    Article : 64 words
  32. STILL THE SAME.

    "Do you behave towards your wife now, after ten years of married life, as you did when you were engaged?" asked the person who was always ...

    Article : 52 words
  33. HIS ONLY ACHIEVEMENT.

    "One hundred and one, eh?" exclaimed the visitor, who had had pointed out to him the oldest inhabitant of the town. "Well, that's quite ...

    Article : 64 words
  34. LOOKED FORWARD TO.

    She: "If I'd known you's be such a brute to poor Fido I'd never have married you." He. "The anticipated pleasure of ...

    Article : 39 words
  35. ONE OR THE OTHER.

    Pat: "Yis, sorr, work is scarce, but Oi got a job last Sunday that brought me a sovereign." Mr. Smith: "What! You broke ...

    Article : 44 words
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