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  2. HINTS ON WEED CONTROL.

    Weeds are often referred to us plants out of place. They certainly lire plants that intrude themselves where they acr least wanted, and ...

    Article : 885 words
  3. SALVING SUNKEN CARGOES.

    Experts employed by the British Government have already been at work devising schemes for salving cargoes from sunken vessels round ...

    Article : 151 words
  4. ORCHARD AND GARDEN NOTES.

    Orchard ploughing should now be finished, and the main work for the next few months mill be an endeavour to keep the soil surface loose, ...

    Article : 1,162 words
  5. THE JESTER OF THE R.A.F.

    Captain Gordon Bell, who lost his life while testing an aeroplane in France, was a great character, and a source of joy to everyone who knew ...

    Article : 154 words
  6. BRIGHT SUGGESTION.

    They were only down in the country for a day, and had managed to get into conversation with old Farmer Popeorn. The two Londoners ...

    Article : 73 words
  7. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Boiling water, to which a little borax has been added, will remove tea stains from a tablecloth. If you put your griddle cake ...

    Article : 428 words
  8. SOME HIKE.

    "Astronomers tell us," said the man of statistics, "that an express train moving a hundred miles a second would consume several million ...

    Article : 85 words
  9. SOLDIERS OF NAPOLEON.

    There is still a magic in Napoleon's name, upstart as he was. A French army on the Italian front chose for its artillery training school one of ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. AMERICANESE.

    The Americans in France are leaving their mark, not only on the Germans, but on current speech. We are all talking of "the pocket" to-day, ...

    Article : 184 words
  11. NOT UP TO HIM.

    "Well, corporal," said the officer, "it's a proud mother that'll be waiting to greet you when you get home this time." ...

    Article : 84 words
  12. "PORT BOTTLERS."

    "That was a great feat our navy accomplished the other day at Zeebrugge." "Yes, They would do very well in ...

    Article : 51 words
  13. HOW TO LIVE TO NINETY.

    Our lowest ambition should be a life of ninety years, says Dr. T. Bodley Scott, author of "The Road to a Healthy Old Age." Our main task ...

    Article : 165 words
  14. CAUSE UNEXPLAINED.

    Unable Seaman: "When I come round again the surgeon 'e says to me, 'I'm blooming sorry, mate, 1 don't know what I was thinking ...

    Article : 87 words
  15. FILMS BY WIRELESS.

    The progress which has been made in cinematography during the last few years is nothing to the developments which experts confidently ...

    Article : 148 words
  16. WOMEN AS BOOTBLACKS.

    Presumably all the bootblacks are called up or engaged in more lucrative posts, and women have not taken on the work, for they are rare now ...

    Article : 112 words
  17. AN ACADEMIC QUESTION.

    "Scientists are not fully agreed as to whether we are descended from monkeys, or monkeys are descended from us," said Mr. Twobble. ...

    Article : 81 words
  18. TWO KNITTING NEEDLES IN ONE.

    The present necessity for much knitting of warm comforts for out soldier and suitor lads has led to the invention of a new knitting needle, ...

    Article : 224 words
  19. AMERICA AND ITS MEN.

    The American soldier has come in to strike the winning blow, and we must all take care of him. There is something noble in this promise the ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. MURMAN COAST CLIMATE.

    Describing the Murman coast of Russia, where Allied troops have landed, Mr. F. 'Hedges Butter, F.R.G.S., says:— ...

    Article : 177 words
  21. FROZEN.

    There were plenty of empty scats in the ear, but the smiling youth, who wore his hat on the buck part of his head, stopped apposite the ...

    Article : 74 words
  22. COURTESY ON THE RAILWAY.

    An American railway company has issued a charming little essay on courtesy, which is printed on the time-tables and on conspicuous ...

    Article : 123 words
  23. "FORE."

    This story will be appreciated by golfers. A certain rustic had been hit some-what forcibly in the eye by a golf. ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. WILD AND WOOLLY.

    At Boston recently £200 per lb. was calised for wool. The wool was [?]lipped from sheep that graze on the White House lawn, and was sold at ...

    Article : 65 words
  25. A DOG UNDER SHELL-FIRE.

    In a letter describing the behaviour of domestic animals under fire, a soldier says:—A big black mongrel came into our improvised trench late one ...

    Article : 122 words
  26. MILLIONS IN GOLD.

    The Mint at Ottawa has handled 200,000,000 worth of bullion for the British Government and the Bank of England. Its recent enlargement has ...

    Article : 50 words
  27. A TRUTHFUL SCOT.

    A lawyer was examining a Scottish farmer. "You'll affirm that when this happened you were going home to a meal. Let us be quite ...

    Article : 106 words
  28. FIGHTING ITALIANS.

    The Sassari Brigade was one of those which were "broken" in the great Austro-German drive, but it was quickly remade, and now it has ...

    Article : 82 words
  29. BIGGER FEET.

    A series of studies of soldiers' feet and the proper fitting of boots has just been completed by a special stag of officers and expert ...

    Article : 90 words
  30. NOTHING TOO LOW.

    It is reported that the latest fiendsh trick of the Huns is to conceal [?]ombs on the bodies of dead soldiers, [?]o that, when burying parties go to ...

    Article : 44 words
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