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  2. SELECTION OF SEED POTATOES.

    The manner of seed saving adopted by the generality of farmers is directly calculated not only to lower yields, but to lead to their diminution in the ...

    Article : 200 words
  3. COLLATED PARS.

    Guide books for travellers are an English invention. The engines of a first-class manof-war cost about £1,10,000. ...

    Article : 482 words
  4. GHOSTS IN PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Reginald B. Span tells some weird and uneanny stories of ghosts at Westminster in the June number of the "Oeenli Review." One of ...

    Article : 403 words
  5. FOOD PROBLEMS FOR THE KIDDIES.

    Novel methods are used in America to impress on the children the need for food economy. Mr, Hoover has now called in arithmetic to his aid, ...

    Article : 183 words
  6. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    The proprictors of the undermentioned Commonwealth patents have agreed to arrange for manufacture of their respective inventions in ...

    Article : 278 words
  7. A WISE MAN'S WIT.

    Sir William Crookes, O.M., the distiaguished chemist, was eighty-six years old on June 17—and still he works hard in the cause of science. ...

    Article : 129 words
  8. THE AUTOMATIC SOLDIER.

    A Danish engineer has recently taken out a patent for an apparatus he has evolved and constructed, and which he calls. "The Automatie ...

    Article : 305 words
  9. COMMERCE DEGREES FAVOURED.

    With the endorsement of Arthur J. Balfour, the Foreign Secretary, a campaign is under way to have London University institute the study of ...

    Article : 265 words
  10. DON'T PUT OFF THESE JOBS.

    Nearly everyone of us has in mind a lot of good plans he intends to carry out. " Some time," but too often the "some time" is like the to-morrow in ...

    Article : 501 words
  11. " EVERY GRAIN OF WHEAT."

    "Every grain of wheat one ports can handle," is the reply America has given to the Allies in their time of food shortage. Every grain the ports ...

    Article : 244 words
  12. SPYING ON SPIES.

    Spy spies on spy in Germany. The German office-holder, ex-Ambassador Gerard writes. fears the spies of his rivals. " I often said to Germans ...

    Article : 168 words
  13. RETURN OF THE JEWS TO PALESTINE.

    The famous scholar, Sir William Ramsay, LL.D., D.C.L., writes an important paper on this subjeet in the July "Sunday at Home." Sir ...

    Article : 293 words
  14. KAISER AND ROSNER THERE.

    Emperor William watehed the opening of the last German offensive from an advanced observation post north-west of Reims, his favourite ...

    Article : 186 words
  15. THE EARLIEST ENGLISHMAN.

    It is impossible to estimate in cenuries the time that has clapsed since can appeared in England, but there' abundant evidence showing that he ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. TAKING CARE OF FARM MACHINERY.

    During the winter-we should give careful attention to repairing machinery which will be used next senson. Orders for repair parts and new ...

    Article : 298 words
  17. ATTENDED 18,250 WAKES.

    Funeral services for "Tom" Keegan, for many years a resident of South Chieago, who boasted he never failed to attend the wake of a friend ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. THE AIRMAN'S LOVE-LETTER.

    A pretty bit of chivalry was seen in a London suburb the other day. It was early in the morning. The knight-errant was out on his ...

    Article : 94 words
  19. THE HOSTILITY OF THE CITIES.

    The people of the cities, through their mere agglomeration and easy ability to interchange ideas, become imbued with a greatly over-rated idea of their ...

    Article : 159 words
  20. AMERICAN "HELLO-GIRLS."

    American women are now in a closer proximity with actual warfare than ever before, since their services is telephone operators have been ...

    Article : 84 words
  21. CORRECTED.

    At a dinner some of the soldiers gave for two visitors at camp, members of a famous Canadian regiment, who was home on sick leave, the ...

    Article : 113 words
  22. A, PATRIOTIC BURGLAR.

    A grocery store at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was robbed, one Sunday night, of five saeks of wheat. Apparently, during the ensuing 24 hours, the ...

    Article : 78 words
  23. LARDER TACTICS.

    Friends of Mr. Malcolm Ross, the famous Anzae war correspondent, may know this little story, but it is worth repealing. ...

    Article : 93 words
  24. THE DRENCHED PIGEON.

    "The worst messenger that reaches us," says the officer in charge of a French hydroplane station, "is when we get a drenched homing pigeon, and ...

    Article : 103 words
  25. A CARNEGIE STORY.

    Andrew Carnegie delights in telling the following story:—A tourist visiting a country town stopped in front of a handsome ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. IN HIS GOLFING "SOOT."

    Golfers were a novelty in the neighyourhood, and when a visitor, laden with clubs, was making his way through a wide street, to some ...

    Article : 108 words
  27. ALWAYS "UNS."

    Is it not remarkable that, while other languages translate the second petition in the Lord's Prayer so that it means "May Thy kingdom come," ...

    Article : 109 words
  28. WHAT ELSE COULD HE DO?

    Said the young woman who spends a great deal of time imagining what might happen: "Suppose a fierce lion approached me from one direction, a ...

    Article : 78 words
  29. SOPS TO CERBERUS.

    A butcher's boy, while on his way to deliver an order, encountered a fierce dog, which kept him pinned in a corner by his attack. Presently ...

    Article : 74 words
  30. CAUSE FOR THANKS.

    "I met a real optimist the other day," said a physician," a fellow to whom I certainly doff my hat. He had lost a leg in a railway aeeident, ...

    Article : 58 words
  31. RISKY.

    "Yes," said the druggist's assistant. " I am called up occasionally to compound preseriptions at night." "Isn't a man likely to make ...

    Article : 43 words
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