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  2. SOLDIERS' SUPERSTITIONS.

    The vogue of mascots and backbringers of various sorts, and often of weird construction, is considerable in the armies of to-day. We heat ...

    Article : 1,180 words
  3. BACTERIAL TOXINS IN SOILS.

    Excerpt from a paper read before the Agriculture section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at its Australian meeting, ...

    Article : 915 words
  4. ELECTRIFIED PATIENTS.

    "The best equipped electrical workshop in Europe for repairing injured soldiers" was the description an R.A.M.C. colonel recently applied ...

    Article : 338 words
  5. MIMIC WHO MADE A PRISONER.

    One of the most remarkable characters brought to light by the war, writes Mr. Sterling Heilig from Complegne, is Achille, who is attached to ...

    Article : 290 words
  6. CHINA'S FIRST LOCOMOTIVE.

    China's first locomotive, often spoken of as the Chinese "Rocket," has a story as interesting in some respects and more exciting than that ...

    Article : 253 words
  7. PRINCESS MARY.

    Everyone who knows is talking in Great Britain of the steadfast war work done by Princess Mary. The war has brought her opportunities of ...

    Article : 453 words
  8. HURLING BARBED WIRE AT THE ENEMY.

    An inventor in Detroit, U.S.A., has invented a novel projectile, which shoots barbed wire instead of bullets. The inventor claims that his ...

    Article : 135 words
  9. CRIMES OF THE SEA.

    Could there be any surprise, asked Lord Beresford, speaking at Hall recently, that British merchant sailors had decided to boycott Germans ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. WHAT TO DO.

    An onion poultice boats all others for easily neuralgie or rheumatic pains, sore throats, etc. Adding a pinch of salt when ...

    Article : 157 words
  11. [?]RAT HARVEST OF DESTRUCTION.

    It is estimated in Boston, U.S.A., that the rat; particularly the voracious brown variety, costs the United States alone from £10,000,000 to ...

    Article : 220 words
  12. AMERICAN AMBULANCE TRAIN.

    The first ambulance train for the American Army has been built in England. A sixth of a mile long it stood a few weeks ago in two ...

    Article : 140 words
  13. JAW WORKED BY MOTOR.

    For a form of lockjaw in a young girl, New York surgeons performed an operation affecting the muscles of the lower jaw, and then, to restore ...

    Article : 66 words
  14. HULLO, FATHER!"

    In his lecture on "War Aims and Peace" at Queen's Hall, London, the Earl of Denbigh incidentally told an excellent story. ...

    Article : 85 words
  15. BILLY SUNDAY'S FIGHT.

    Billy Sunday, the famous evangelist, had a bout with lists with a German sympathiser on his platform at Atlanta, Georgia, one night recently, ...

    Article : 180 words
  16. COMPASS CURIOSITIES.

    Professor J. A. Fleming recently delivered the first of the Faraday Lectures for young people at the Royal Institution, London, taking for ...

    Article : 312 words
  17. TRAPPED REVOLUTIONARY.

    The "Hnadelsblad" states:—"It is now established that Karl Minster, the German editor of the revolutionary Socialist, 'Kampf,' ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. FESTIVITY A BAD THING.

    Aware that self-denial means a step to victory, the nation will pass through the customary festive occasion (Christmas) with light diet but ...

    Article : 97 words
  19. WORKMAN EARNS £998 A YEAR.

    In a case for non-payment of income tax dealt with by the Nottingham magistrates at Mansfield recently, it was shown that a workman ...

    Article : 68 words
  20. SMITH'S HEN.

    The Smiths had an old hen which insisted upon neglecting her comfortable nest to lay at daily egg in the coal cellar. ...

    Article : 86 words
  21. BUTTER—AND BUTTER.

    "What is butter to-day, please?" she asked the shopman wearily, feeling for her money. "Butter is butter to-day, ma'am," ...

    Article : 50 words
  22. BILL ADMITTED IT.

    "I understand old man Simpkins was very much opposed to his daughter marrying Bill Smith; called Bill a fool, and all that sort of thing." ...

    Article : 50 words
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