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  2. FEATHERED GUESTS.

    People with even the smallest of gardens can attract wild birds to their little domain. A birds' board, for instance, is an unfailing ...

    Article : 422 words
  3. WHY FULLER'S EARTH?

    What is a fuller? In the Bible we read of a fuller's field, and of raimentso white, that a fuller could not make it whiter. So a fuller was. a bleacher ...

    Article : 176 words
  4. THE BITES OF SNAKES.

    Dr. J. Beyer, a German, hasvmade a large number of observations on venomous serpents, and he has experimented with snake venom and its ...

    Article : 1,278 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    It's usually safer to found a friendship on business than to found a business on friendship. An optimist is a man who expects ...

    Article : 826 words
  6. DO ANIMALS LIKE MUSIC?

    It has been generally supposed that the strains of music have a peculiar influence in subduing the untamed spirit of wild animals. This belief ...

    Article : 217 words
  7. BETRAYED BY BLOTS.

    Many a once happy home has been broken up by blotting-paper. A wealthy New York banker who had lived happily with his young wife ...

    Article : 484 words
  8. POPULAR CHINESE ORNAMENT

    Jae has recently become fashionable in England, and at 'jewellers' shops and stores of dealers in articles de luxe one can buy bracelets, ...

    Article : 237 words
  9. OVERCOATS FOR ANIMALS.

    Amusement was caused at a recent Dairy Show in England by a white Runner duck dressed in a check coat tied around its. breast with ribbon. ...

    Article : 235 words
  10. TURTLE LIVES AS LONG AS MAN.

    A gigantic turtle captured in the year 1834, has lately died in the South. African Museum. At the time this animal was captured it was full ...

    Article : 110 words
  11. SAVED FROM THE SUN.

    What is above the air we breathe? This is a problem which is more and morc engaging the attention of science, and it is a matter of singular ...

    Article : 578 words
  12. WHEN PETS BECOME PERILS.

    Horses are becoming fairly rare in Britain, but they have not yet Come to shooting them down, as they are doing in British Columbia. Wild ...

    Article : 324 words
  13. SNUFFING OUT. i

    Offer a woman of to-day a pinch of snuff, and she will be quite as much offended as a Victorian dame by the offer of a cigarette. Yet a century ...

    Article : 209 words
  14. WHITE FLOUR DOES NOT NOURISH.

    That flour produced by the roller mill process has poor dietary properties, is again emphasised by Prof. E.V. Mccollum, in an address lately ...

    Article : 479 words
  15. EVOLUTION OF POPULAR FOODS

    Not a single Old World cereal, vegetable, fruit, or root-crop seems to have reached America before the historic coming of the Europeans. In a ...

    Article : 243 words
  16. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    A torpedo takes four minutes to reach a target 6,500 yards away. England imports wood worth about £30,000,000 from other countries every, ...

    Article : 257 words
  17. COFFEE FOR ONE.

    It doesn't pay to be personal in the Balkans. The duel is still tn institution out there, and the weapons used in affairs of honour are ...

    Article : 214 words
  18. PLANTING TREES BY MACHINERY.

    Machines have been devised to do many things, but one of the most remarkable is used by the United States Forest Service, which sets out ...

    Article : 186 words
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