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  2. "SILK" FROIVI TREES.

    Fifteen million pairs of "silk" stockings, the product of American forests, were sent out of the United States last year to compete with the ...

    Article : 165 words
  3. WHEN WE WERE JELLY FISH!

    That we all at one time lived in water in the form of jelly-fish, shellfish, crabs, worms, fishes, or water reptiles is the conclusion geologists ...

    Article : 600 words
  4. WHY CREEPERS TURN RED.

    Withered leaves of the autumn soliege turn red because they contain more sugar and less starch than in midsummer, reports an authority. ...

    Article : 193 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    She : "Would you love me any better if I had a million pounds ?" He : "Certainly not. I'd be thinking so much about the money I'd ...

    Article : 742 words
  6. NOVEL FLYING TEST.

    When the war began it was considered that an aeroplane capable of going 60 miles an hour was about all that could reasonably be ...

    Article : 1,721 words
  7. BLOTTING THE AIR.

    All the dust and dirt we breathe can be recorded accurately ! The method was explained to the writer a few days ago by Dr. J. S. ...

    Article : 207 words
  8. FLOWERS KEEPT FOR MONTHS.

    I was told that flowers will keep fresh for a long time if the stalks arc put into potatoes (says a "Daily News" writer.) Here is the method ...

    Article : 185 words
  9. A SONG OF A SHIRT.

    I was needing some warm winter shirts very badly, arid seeing some in a shop window at bargain prices I drew a few thousand pounds out of ...

    Article : 758 words
  10. 'PHONING TO UNCLE SAM.

    A boy stretched himself on the banks of a secluded pond. Picking up a pebble he threw it into the water. As it broke the smooth ...

    Article : 712 words
  11. INTERESTING ITERUS.

    An ordinary snail travels at an average speed of one mile in fourteen days. In two years the cost of ...

    Article : 405 words
  12. AN UNDERSEA TANK.

    The tank, which performed such valiant service in the great war., may have more laurels added to its fame. Instead of crawling over ...

    Article : 342 words
  13. COLOUR SNAPSHOTS.

    If the claims of a Russian professor--Dr. S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky--are correct, a revolution in photography and camera shows is ...

    Article : 283 words
  14. MAKING WATER WORK.

    "I calculate that my tidal turbine, placed in a tidal stream of only two miles an hour, will provide electricity continuously for twenty-four ...

    Article : 177 words
  15. WOMEN LESS COLOURBLIND THAN MEN.

    While 6.6 per cent. of men and 2.2 per cent, of women are affected to some extent by colour-blindness, it can only be regarded as dangerous ...

    Article : 143 words
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