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  2. Worth Knowing.

    The white miner has no holiday, not on Sunday even. Taking a day off means losing his earnings for that day. There are no old miners—no old. working miners, I should say. ...

    Article : 99 words
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  4. WAR BALLOON DESTROYED.

    The German, paper, "Schuss and Waffe," describes a bulet named for its inventor, Len[?]z, for which great things are claimed in the way of destroying dirigible balloons ...

    Article : 179 words
  5. ANTIQUITY OF SMOKING.

    Iron, smoking pipes have been found in Roman ruins on the border of the Lake of Geneva, and also near the Lake of Zurich. Many other pipes of various materials, iron ...

    Article : 122 words
  6. AN ANTS' SEWING CIRCLE.

    A party of German naturalists, recently returned from Ceylon, have reported the existence of a species of ant that has been observed in the act of sewing two leaves ...

    Article : 128 words
  7. ORIGIN OF CALABASH PIPE.

    Losing his pipe during the Boer war, one of our soldiers remedied his loss by picking up a dried African gourd or calabash and utilising this for a smoke. That was the ...

    Article : 200 words
  8. DISEASES OF METALS.

    Metals suffer from contagious diseases analogous to those of living beings. Among these diseases, one of the most striking is called "tin post." Sometimes a block of ...

    Article : 124 words
  9. INVENTOR OF WATERPROOFING.

    Wet weather without a waterproof coat would be but a sad affair for many people. Yet fewer than twemty-five years ago the waterproofing of cloth was unknown. One ...

    Article : 175 words
  10. FISHES THAT CLIMB.

    There aire at least two tropical fishes that spend hour after hour out of the water, squat[?]ing on the mud near the mouths of the rivers, or even, climbing up on the roots ...

    Article : 178 words
  11. "IF YOU CAN'T SMILE."

    In the vestibule of a certain hospital visitors see a card bearing this advice: "Never utter a discouraging word while you are [?] this hospital. You should come here only ...

    Article : 229 words
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