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  2. Guns which Shot Jewels.

    When the English garrison at Nimeguen, in 1794, ran out of shot, they fired penny-pieces instead, and the ill-disciplined French troops ran ...

    Article : 277 words
  3. He Captured a General.

    There is no prouder soldier in Belgium to-day than Jean Jacques Rousseau, who, at the moment of writing, is being tended in a hospital at ...

    Article : 280 words
  4. WAR THE DESTROYER.

    The word chance conveys to the untrained mind the idea of something beyond the pale of natural law, something which obeys no rule ...

    Article : 1,228 words
  5. Ladies' Column.

    In these days of flats, space is of considerable importance and sometimes the housekeeper finds that her kitchen or scullery conveniences have ...

    Article : 243 words
  6. A Boy's Model of a Battleship.

    Samuel Orkin, a Boston boy, who has been in the United States but nine years, has built a battleship model, which because of its ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 438 words
  7. Hospitals for Warships.

    Amongst the greatest engineering marvels of to-day are the gigantic floating-docks owned by the British Admiralty and utilised for the repair ...

    Article : 429 words
  8. An Army on the March.

    The civilian is reading just now many references to independent cavalry, the advance guard, advance cavalry, point and flank patrols, the ...

    Article : 626 words
  9. LOOFAH DOLL FOR BABY.

    We all know how easy it is to please baby. Something new in the way of toys never fails to do so. Here is an idea for a cunning little ...

    Article : 195 words
  10. Deep-Sea Sharpers.

    Despite the utmost vigilance on the part of the steamship companies, the number of professional thieves, or "crooks," as our American friends ...

    Article : 685 words
  11. Training Carrier-Pigeons.

    The announcement that carrier-pigeons are used for certain purposes in connection with His Majesty's Service makes it clear that England ...

    Article : 292 words
  12. DAINTY FEET.

    Australian women show a lamentable tendency towards following the example of their English sisters and neglecting the appearance of their ...

    Article : 310 words
  13. A Fruit Picker.

    Scattered fruit on a tree is hard to pick by climbing a ladder. If the fruit is shaken off, the fall will cause bruises that make it unfit for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 113 words
  14. Poisoning Tree Scale.

    A correspondent in "Science" relates the following rather startling experiment in killing tree scalc by poisoning the sap of the tree. He ...

    Article : 438 words
  15. Martial Music.

    One of the most deadly battles of recent years, that of Slivnitza, in which the Bulgarians under Prince Alexander of Battenberg, defeated ...

    Article : 423 words
  16. DATES IN AUSTRALIA.

    Much interest has been displayed by those who have seen a bunch of dates forwarded from Hergott Springs, Central Australia the fruit ...

    Article : 241 words
  17. Justifiable Homicide.

    They were discussing the effects of ccrtain noises, on the nervous system. "I simply cannot bear the ...

    Article : 159 words
  18. COMPENSATION.

    They were tiger hunting, and the elephants were picking their way through the thorny scrub. The colonel, whose wife was behind in the ...

    Article : 132 words
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