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  2. HUN AIR INGENUITY.

    It is an old Roman lesson of war that it is a lawful thing to learn from an enemy. The Germans are employing all their industry and ...

    Article : 472 words
  3. NEW PETROL SUBSTITUTE.

    The Parisian "Auto" announces the discovery of a new combustible which contains no petrol, coal gas, or alcohol. A trial run on a motor ...

    Article : 150 words
  4. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    An oil stove will burn better and give more heat if raised above the ground. Clean your silver mesh purse by ...

    Article : 425 words
  5. THE BEEF THAT CAME BACK.

    An amusing story was told at the Fanners' Union meeting, London, illustrating the difficulty of identifying cattle after slaughter. A ...

    Article : 109 words
  6. QUEER MASCOTS CARRIED BY AIRMEN.

    All respectable airmen have mascols to safeguard them in their flights. If they did not, air casualties ...

    Article : 546 words
  7. THE EVIL EYE.

    A curious instance of belief in witchcraft was revealed in a case before Justices Heaton and Shall, in the Bombay High Court, on a ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. U.S. IDENTIFICATION DISCS.

    The identification dise of the U.S. Navy officers and men has much to commend itself to notice. On one side of it is an etched finger-print ...

    Article : 163 words
  9. FORTY MILES OF JAM.

    So enormous has the business of Jam-making become in Dundee, Scotland, since the great firms there organised to supply preserves to the ...

    Article : 127 words
  10. A FEW HOWLERS.

    In speaking of blunders the Vice-Provost of Elon, at Slough Secondary School, gave instances which had come under his own observation. A ...

    Article : 140 words
  11. KIDNAPPING AUSTRIAN SENTRIES.

    When you cross the Piave with a British night patrol, the impression with which you return is, above all, that of the almost impudent ...

    Article : 462 words
  12. 100-MILE RANGE.

    The new German long-range gun, which has been bombarding Paris from a distance of 74½ miles, is not by any means the greatest ...

    Article : 302 words
  13. WHAT "COMRADE" MEANS IN WAR.

    A writer in the "American Magazine" says:—"I saw one man coming whose trousers had been torn clean away. ...

    Article : 163 words
  14. NEW AUTOMATIC RIFLE.

    The new Browning automatic rifle and maching-gun, which the Americans will soon be using in Europe, can be fired almost instantaneously ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. WHO IS "EVERYBODY'S DOG?"

    Like our own soldiers, the American "Rookie" has a vocabulary rich in words which you will find in no dictionary. He may, for example, ...

    Article : 194 words
  16. DIED TO SAVE OTHERS.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Azan, one of the French officers at Harvard, was severely wounded at the front. He was visiting his men when a shell ...

    Article : 202 words
  17. KAISER'S U.S. PROPERTY TO BE SOLD.

    Properly owned in the United States by the Kaiser and Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Junker class generally, and the German ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. KILLED 80 GERMANS.

    A posthumous award of the V.C. has been made to Captain A. M. C. McReady-Diarmid, who killed 80 Germans in a day during the ...

    Article : 274 words
  19. SECRET WIRELESS SEIZED.

    The United States Federal authoria wireless apparatus was discovered ties have seized the Tower Office building on Lower Broadway, where ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. £15 A WEEK.

    Unprecedented wages are earned by some of the workers in the Belfast shipyards. The really great wage-carners are the ship-platers, ...

    Article : 186 words
  21. WHERE LEAP YEARS NEVER END.

    Among the Cossacks of the Ukraine, leap years last for ever. When a young woman loves a young man, and desires to be his wife, she ...

    Article : 217 words
  22. FINGER BECOMES A THUMB.

    A wonder of modern surgery was seen recently by the King and Queen in the course of their visit of inspection to the Reading War Hospital ...

    Article : 184 words
  23. INTERESTING ANIMAL PROVERBS.

    The worst pig often gets the best fare. An old dog cannot alter his way of barking. ...

    Article : 149 words
  24. POPULARITY OF WIDOWS.

    The prospects of marriage for widows were greater in 1916, according to figures in the British Registrar-General's Annual Report, than ...

    Article : 166 words
  25. WHY "RANJI" IS STOUT.

    To some he is Prince Ranjitsinhji, to others the Maharajah Jam Sahib of Nawanagar; but the famous Indian cricketer will go down to ...

    Article : 165 words
  26. CURIOUS ORIENTAL CUSTOMS.

    The females of India, in order to keep silence, fill their mouths with water. It is a custom in Siberia that when ...

    Article : 70 words
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