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  2. CAMERA SCORES BULL'S-EYES.

    A Saving of ammunition in the training of a marksman has been made possible by a remarkable apparatus recently patented by an ...

    Article : 178 words
  3. SHEEP DIPPING.

    During last season certain points which are of interest to sheep-owners came directly under observation. The one which calls for comment just. ...

    Article : 404 words
  4. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    The representatives of the proprietors of the letters patent of the Commonwealth,' now in force in respect of the undermentioned inventions, are ...

    Article : 246 words
  5. GROWING MAIZE UNDER IRRIGATION.

    Much has from time to time been written on the advantages of maize growing, both as a fodder crop for dairy cattle; and for grain[?] That ...

    Article : 608 words
  6. GERMAN TYRANNY.

    A fine of £300 was imposed by the German commandant of Mons on M. Masson, the acting-burgomaster, and one of the leading members of the ...

    Article : 163 words
  7. THE DAIRY FARMER'S OPPORTUNITY.

    As a body, dairy farmers are seldom a ftorded much opportunity of taking definite advantage of economie conditions, and largely ...

    Article : 553 words
  8. NOTHING SERIOUS. BATH NIGHT!

    "Whenk I was workin' at that big [?]e," said the bricklayer, jerking his thumb sideways, "I saw a round. sballow sort o' bagin on top of a ...

    Article : 113 words
  9. A DIFFICULTY SOLVED.

    The old professor was deeply worried, and at last confided in an old friend. "My wife and I [?]t a[?]co about ...

    Article : 95 words
  10. REJOICING "BY ORDER."

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Cologne Gazette" telegraphs to that journal a touching account of the "great seenes" in Berlin during ...

    Article : 192 words
  11. MORE DIAMONDS.

    New diamond fields at Sandrift. South Africa, wore recently thrown open for public staking and digging. The proceedings were carried out in ...

    Article : 105 words
  12. NOT THERE. MY CHILD!

    Tommy had begged hard to come downstatrs for a little while after dinner, and at last his mother had consented. ...

    Article : 273 words
  13. AMAZING FACTS ABOUT STARS.

    Sir Frank W. Dyson, the Astronomer Royal, recently stated that it is now known that the nearest star is 250,000 times as far away from the ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. IN THE TRENCHES.

    In the trenches one evening a battalion of the Leinster Regiment held a "kailce" (seilidh), or Irish singsong, at which there was a spirited ...

    Article : 172 words
  15. FILM OF THE FLEET.

    Two noteworthly series of official war films will be released shortly for public exhibition, "The Kind's Visit to the Grand Fleet" and "The ...

    Article : 156 words
  16. WONDERFUL STEEL HANDS.

    Sir Henry Norman, M.P., after paying a visit recently to Professor Jules Amar, the eminent French soldier surgeon, who is "repairing" ...

    Article : 259 words
  17. COTTON FOR SHELLS.

    It is estimated that it takes 409 lb. oL' cotton to make the powder for one shot from 0110 of tiie German 17 in. The same quantity of cot ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. HELP FROM SPIRITS.

    The remarkable suggestion that "spirit, helpers" will give great aid in the problems of reconstruction after the war was made by Sir Oliver ...

    Article : 220 words
  19. ELECTING A QUEEN COW.

    In the Rhone Valley, Switzerland, an extraordinary ceremony is carried out every summer, This is the choosing of a queen cow by the cows ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. THROUGH SHELL FIRE FOR A LIFE.

    The superb valour of our soldiers at the front is shown in many stirring stories in a recent London "GaZette." ...

    Article : 97 words
  21. AIR RAID NERVES AMONG ANIMALS.

    Many animals, particularly cats and dogs, have shown curious symptoions of illness and uneasiness lately, and veterinary surgeons have been ...

    Article : 179 words
  22. HIS REASON.

    Teacher: "Boys, I would like to impress upon your young minds the recessity of forgiving and forgetting. Forgive the injury your companions ...

    Article : 94 words
  23. ENJOYABLE FICTION.

    "Has Crimson Guleh quit drinking?" "Yes," replied Broncho Bob. "And quit playin faro bank?" ...

    Article : 43 words
  24. WISE PRECAUTION.

    Dugald was ill, and his friend, Donald, took a bottle of whisky to him. Donald gave the invalid one glass, and said:— ...

    Article : 60 words
  25. TOLD BY THE HANDS.

    In prisons and workhouses the language of hands is well understood. The soft, characterless hand of the professional slacker would not ...

    Article : 132 words
  26. COULDNT CORNER 111M.

    An frishman, passing a shop where a notice was displayed saying that everything was sold by the yard, thought he would play a joke on the ...

    Article : 100 words
  27. FELL IN.

    One night a picnic party were sitting out of doors in the moonlight, unusually silent—almost sad,. Suddenly someone, a poetic-looking man, ...

    Article : 73 words
  28. CORRECTED,

    A teacher, instructing her class in grammar, wrote two sentences on the blackboard. The sentences were: "The hen has got three legs," and ...

    Article : 78 words
  29. WILLING TO OBLIGE.

    The old gentleman tucked his baggage away in the train, and then turned to his host's pretty daughter, who had motored him and his son to ...

    Article : 74 words
  30. COPIED.

    Lady (engaging servant): "Why did you leave your last place?" Servant: "I couldn't put up with the way one of the young mistresses ...

    Article : 60 words
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