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  2. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    A small dynamo and storage battery have been combined by a Paris inventor with an exercising, machine having bicycle-like action. Training ...

    Article : 81 words
  3. THE FIRST CUP AND SAUCER.

    The beverages of the sixteenth century were water, mead, [?] and ale. In the middle of the next century tea was introduced, and with it came ...

    Article : 336 words
  4. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    In Yucatan the gathering of the famous chicle chewing-gum is an occupation apparently full of romance, not unattended with considerable danger. ...

    Article : 943 words
  5. CHICKENS HATCHED BY BEES.

    Rearing chicks by electricity seems a tall order, yet this is exactly what is being done at a chick farm at Muskogee, Oklahoma, where the ...

    Article : 338 words
  6. THE POULTRY RUN.

    The right development of chickens depends to a great extent upon the proper feeding of them. Not only must the youngsters be supplied with a ...

    Article : 888 words
  7. AMERICAN HUMOUR.

    By Way of Inducement.—A certain youngster in Washington was one day suffering greatly by reason of an aching tooth, His mother was ...

    Article : 861 words
  8. METHOD AND MEALS.

    The arrangement of meals should be made to suit one’s occupation. A heavy dinner at mid-day, when a deal of brain-work or rushing about remains ...

    Article : 253 words
  9. MENDING CELLULOID ARTICLES.

    The great variety of articles made of celluloid for domestic and personal Uses gives value to a simple recipe for mending such articles when broken. ...

    Article : 114 words
  10. THE LIGHT OF THE EARTH.

    The globular light from the whole sky is, it has been observed, superior to the sum of all the quantities of light sent to us separately by the ...

    Article : 128 words
  11. THE JAPANESE IN BRAZIL.

    With a population of but six to the square mile and a vast and rich unoccupied territory, Brazil is attracting Japanese colonisation. During the last ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. INTERCHANGEABLE BLADES FOR OFFICE KNIVES.

    An office knife which serves the purposes of pencil sharpener, eraser and paper cutter is feeing manufactured with interchangeable blades, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 84 words
  13. THE PORTER WAS OBSERVANT.

    A happy young couple were on their way to Scotland. They had to change trains. at Carlisle, and an obliging porter, while struggling with their ...

    Article : 126 words
  14. DRILLING HOLES IN STEEL.

    When holes are drilled and then reamed in soft-steel bars, the metal materially increases in strength, the average limit of elasticity improving ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. KNEW HIS KNOCK.

    The other day a man, with a ruby nose was brought before a magistrate, charged with impersonating a police officer. ...

    Article : 115 words
  16. THE POPE’S PALACE.

    The Vatican is the Papal palace, and derives its name from the hill on which it stands, the Mons Vaticanus, one of the seven hills of Rome. It ...

    Article : 130 words
  17. FLAMELESS HEAT.

    Professor William A. Bone of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, has hit on a manner of gas heating that may greatly ...

    Article : 173 words
  18. TOO MUCH CAVITY.

    One afternoon an esteemed citizen went into a barber’s shop to have a shave, but no sooner, had he taken his seat in one of the chairs, than he ...

    Article : 126 words
  19. LORD KITCHENER’S INFLUENCE.

    While driving one day in Egypt, Lord Kitchener notice an old man in the street whom he recognised as an acquaintance from the Sudan. The ...

    Article : 195 words
  20. CARDS, PLEASE!

    A young married lady had just acquired a new brougham and a new footman to match. “John,” she said, one day, “We ...

    Article : 132 words
  21. FLOATING ON THE DEAD SEA.

    The wonderful buoyance of the Dead Sea, that strange inland sheet of water in Palestine, is proverbial. It is some 47 miles long by 9 miles wide, and lies ...

    Article : 119 words
  22. PORCELAIN SHIPS.

    Liners of porcelain driven by petrol may one day oust the steam-driven ship of steel and wood. The porcelain ship is the plan of Mr. W. Hales Turner, ...

    Article : 201 words
  23. THE PRICE OF FLATTERY.

    “Can I see the lady of the house ?” inquired a pedlar. “Well, yes, you can, if you ain’t blind!” snapped the woman who had ...

    Article : 132 words
  24. MEDICINE FROM HORNS.

    In China a large trade exists in deer, reindeer, and wild-sheep horns for use in medicines, and Houg-Kong, as the chief centre of trade in Chinese ...

    Article : 111 words
  25. FULL PANEL.

    The jurors filed into the jury-box, and after all the twelve seats were filled there still remained one juror standing outside. ...

    Article : 99 words
  26. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    Green food is an important item in the poultry yard, and the fowls that have it every day are not often attacked by diseases. ...

    Article : 50 words
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