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  2. Short Story

    Miss Minns rested uncomfortably in a corner of a crowded tube railway compartment, wedged into the smallest possible compass by the inrush of ...

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  3. Humour

    "Would you call for help if I attempted to kiss you?" "Not unless you required it." "Did you over soo anybody so ...

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  4. INTERESTING WAR NOTES

    Petrograd is one of the few European capitals which have never been besieged or captured by enemy forces. On May 27th, 1703, Peter the Great founded ...

    Article : 91 words
  5. MODERN GUNS.

    One of the most remarkable national feats in the history of this or any country has been the bringing of the artillery arm into ...

    Article : 1,335 words
  6. HOW PIGEONS CARRY MESSAGES.

    The general notion that all that has a feather in the bird's tail. But it was I soon found that the twine which kept the missive in its place cut or damaged ...

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  7. HORRORS OF PRISON CAMPS.

    The dreadful suferings of our soldiers interned in the great German prison camp at Wittenberg have pro[?]oundly touched and shocked public ...

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  8. RICH PROVINCES.

    Quite apart from strong sentimental reasons, French people want to got their lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine back because of their actual value. ...

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  9. MEASURING DISTANCES BY RIFLE.

    The reader must have noticed how different thing look on a return journey from what they did on setting out. The scout must make himself ...

    Article : 242 words
  10. THE EARTH'S TIDES.

    Everybody knows how the ocean ebbs and flows in what we call tides. But until now it has never been understood that the ...

    Article : 289 words
  11. Items of Interest

    If we hope to instruct others we should familiarise our minds to some fixed and determinate principles of action.—Coleridge. ...

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  12. ROUMANIA'S ARMY.

    Roumania has an army of between 600,000 and 700,000 troops, all well-trained men, like most of the men in the Balkans. Roumania has the ...

    Article : 137 words
  13. RUSSIA'S ROADS.

    Russia is almost a roadless land. It is inconceivable to the foreign visitor who has ever left the beaten track of the railways in Russia how a great ...

    Article : 133 words
  14. ABOUT HOLLAND.

    Perhaps no neutral country is more affected by this war than Holland. She is maintaining an army at the present time of something like 300,000 soldiers ...

    Article : 261 words
  15. RETAINING THE SWORD.

    The Turks have allowed General Townshend to retain his sword—the same honour which the Russians paid to Sir William Fenwick Williams when ...

    Article : 209 words
  16. Excusable.

    A rather good story is told of a creditor who called to see his debtor, whom he found busy carving the Christmas turkey. ...

    Article : 174 words
  17. MANGOLD SOWING.

    Trials have been made with the object of showing whether a variation in the distance of the plants apart would make any alteration in the yield or ...

    Article : 196 words
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