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  2. MACHINES THAT WORK "MIRACLES."

    In this age of miracles, when one revolutionary invention succeeds another with bewildering rapidity, there are few more amazing than the ...

    Article : 1,229 words
  3. Conserving the Water Supply.

    During the summer months many young plants are unable to survive on account of the dryness of the soil surrounding their roots. In ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 174 words
  4. The Gallant Three Hundred.

    Seldom have British soldiers faced such fearful odds as those of Scarlett's Heavy Brigade in their historical cavalry charge at the ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  5. MOTOR-CYCLE MANIA.

    A writer in the "New York Herald" describes the sensations: You can't see anything much when you are whirling round the track. ...

    Article : 958 words
  6. Bushranging Days.

    Probably the only man in New Zealand at the present time having the honour of being the holder of the Cross of the legion of Honor ...

    Article : 661 words
  7. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Mr. G. A. Bannatyne, a Douglas (Isle of Man) native well known in Lancashire, has been killed in the wreck of a Canadian military train ...

    Article : 685 words
  8. Difficulties of Bible Translation.

    The greatest difficulty of all Bible translation is to find words to convey to the people's minds abstract and ethical ideas which are ...

    Article : 224 words
  9. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    It is significant of the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles just held that all orthodox Jews repair to a little hut-like arrangement erected ...

    Article : 84 words
  10. CHINESE LOGIC.

    A tourist, in pricing tea in a Chinese store in Shanghai, was surprised to find that he could purchase five pounds of a certain kind ...

    Article : 89 words
  11. A MERCURY GAME.

    A mercury game requiring steady nerves and much patience has recently become popular in Paris. It is played with a rectangular ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 211 words
  12. CURATIVE POWERS OF FOOD.

    Dr. Victor Ayer has complied this list of vegetable virtues: Watercress is an excellent blood purifier. Lettuce has a soothing effect on the ...

    Article : 174 words
  13. A WONDERFUL TREE.

    The rain tree of Peru can be cultivated with very little trouble, for it seems indifferent as to the soilin which it grows. The tree ...

    Article : 233 words
  14. A RUBBER SUBSTITUTE FROM SEA FISH.

    A report coming from Amsterdam tells of a factory established at Ymuiden, at the mouth of the North Sea Canal in Holland, to produce a ...

    Article : 187 words
  15. BY "BOTTLE" POST.

    The herring-boat Pansy brought into Yarmouth a three-feet model ship, fully rigged, which was picked up at sea sixty miles east of ...

    Article : 472 words
  16. DONKEYS IN INDIA.

    Donkeys, donkeys, donkeys— and still more donkeys—coming through our garden gate. What was the meaning of it ? Grey donkeys, ...

    Article : 430 words
  17. A Sailor's Life.

    A sailor has no easy time When on the D P sails. It's R D finds aloft to climb, Exposed to L C gales. ...

    Article : 256 words
  18. LAMP-EYED TERRORS OF DEEP SEAS.

    The Prince of Monaco presented recently to the Academy of Sciences in Paris some notes about cephalopods captured by him at an ...

    Article : 163 words
  19. Magnifying

    Just imagine seeing things through a magnifying glass millions und millions of times more powerful than the most powerful microscope on ...

    Article : 313 words
  20. SUMMARY JUSTICE.

    On the arrival of the judge who had convened a court in one of the towns of Arkansas circuit, it was found that no pens, ink, or ...

    Article : 200 words
  21. Useful Pets.

    When I first took up my residence in Singapore one of the strangest things I saw was the number of lizards that crawled about the ...

    Article : 155 words
  22. BEHIND HIS HACK.

    Father : "Tommy, how many limes have you been whacked at school to-day ?" Tommy "Oh, I never take any ...

    Article : 118 words
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