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  2. IN THE "RATTLER" OFFICE.

    Managing Editor ("Daily Morning Battler") "Here is a clipping which states that the rice crop in India this year will amount to over three ...

    Article : 189 words
  3. Womans' World. THIRST IN FEVER.

    There used to be a very wide-spread and deep-rooted belief that to give drink to a feverish patient was [?] and dangerous. As a matter of fact, ...

    Article : 136 words
  4. BEAUTIES WITH GOLDEN TEETH.

    It in amazing how ideas of beauty vary with latitude and longitude. In Japan, the professional beauty loves to appear with golden teeth; in ...

    Article : 259 words
  5. BANANA AND POTATO COMPARED.

    The composition of the potato and the banana shown an interesting similarity both an regards total carbohydrate and the amounts ...

    Article : 148 words
  6. ORCHARD AND, GARDEN NOTES. THE ORCHARD.

    The time has now arrived for the general planting of deciduous fruit trees. The soil should have previously been well ploughed and subsoiled, ...

    Article : 1,498 words
  7. BREAD FREE FROM MOULD.

    Numbers of housekeepers are much troubled by the bad-keeping quality of war bread. It is difficult to practice economy by saving and eating ...

    Article : 520 words
  8. CHESHIRE CUTLETS.

    60ozs. cold mutton or beef, 20zs of bread crumbs 10z. butter, 1ooz, four, 1 pint of stock or water, 1 tablespoonful Werecaster [?]auce. Cut the ...

    Article : 129 words
  9. LIONS FEAR MICE.

    Large beasts of prey have a very strong antipathy to rats and mice. When a mouse was thrown into a case where there were two lions the ...

    Article : 133 words
  10. NOVEL READING SULTAN.

    Although the Sultan of Turkey in reputed to be the laziesd potentate in Europe. he is passionately fund of reading. For weeks at a time he will ...

    Article : 329 words
  11. CORNS.

    Corns are usually most painful, in hot weather, when the foot swell and increase the pressure of the foot-gear and the skin of the feet becomes soft ...

    Article : 316 words
  12. FORTUNES IN BIBLES.

    It has happened not infrequently that eccentric wealthy people have concealed sums of money in the family Bible, where it has been discovered ...

    Article : 257 words
  13. AN AERIAL SHEPHERD.

    The gallant little Republic of Venezuela boasts of a remarkable bird which can he trained to tend flocks. Not only does the yak-a-milk, as it ...

    Article : 189 words
  14. SOME MORE "HOWLERS."

    Here are a few choice "howlers," collected from the upper standards of a Sheffield school:—Shylock comes in Shylock Holmes, ...

    Article : 130 words
  15. THE OLDEST MAN IN KHAKI.

    Private J. W. Boucher, of the 257th Canadian Railway Battalion, has been sent home from Franco because he is "too old to fight." He is ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. STEAM-ROLLING A ZEPP.

    Crushing a Zeppelin under a steamroller was the method employed by the French to make use of a fallen airship. When they began to take to ...

    Article : 133 words
  17. ODDS AGAINST GOTHAS.

    An ingenious person has calculated the ehances of the average Londoner being hurt by enemy bombs. "Taking the area of London as, ...

    Article : 162 words
  18. AMERICA'S GREAT ARMY.

    "Speaking as an editor. I may say that America can put 6,000,000 men into the line in France without dislocating industry at all," said Mr. ...

    Article : 214 words
  19. CUTTING THE SHORT.

    A suburban minister, during his discourse one Sunday morning, said: "In each blade of grass there is a sermon." ...

    Article : 62 words
  20. WHERE THE RAINBDW ENDS.

    Do you know where the rainbow ends? (writes an aviator in the "Westminster Gazette"). I do, because I've been there. The rainbow ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. KISS AND BE—ENEMIES.

    Kissing his wife was considered assault and battery in New Jersey recently. The man stands convicted to-day of assault and battery for ...

    Article : 112 words
  22. BRITAIN'S TALLEST SOLDIER.

    Who is the fallest man in the British Army? Hitherto that distinction has bean claimed by a private in the Artists' Rifles, who is 6ft. 9½in. ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. IS SHE?

    Lilla: "After all, woman is a weak vessel." Tommy: "She may be a weak yessel, but the cost of her rigging would ...

    Article : 38 words
  24. DESCRIPTION.

    "Oh, I just love cake, and it's awfully nice!" cried little Dorothy, regarding her dessert. "You should not say. you 'love ...

    Article : 77 words
  25. SHE DID EVERYTHING ELSE.

    A farmer's wife in Connecticut, burrying from milking the cows to the kitchen, from the kitchen to the [?] from the churn to the ...

    Article : 81 words
  26. A BOOMERANG.

    "What's this?" asked the acquited man. "The bill for my services," said the lawyer. ...

    Article : 48 words
  27. SOFT.

    A man who was talking an uneducated friend out to dinner, told him before starting out. "When I introduce you to the ladies say something ...

    Article : 50 words
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