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  3. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    The value of bees as fortilising agents is well known, and the process by which they work is a most interesting one. Beez collect polled in the first [?] among ...

    Article : 277 words
  4. LONDON'S SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

    Looking back over 37 years of hard labour, among the poor of Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, Woolwich, and Walworth, Canon Horsley, who (says the "Daily ...

    Article : 1,041 words
  5. LADIES' COLUMN.

    This is a moat useful accomplishment, and one to be practised fairly often. Let us "lie low" when we find our friend is irritable, and inclined to snap if ...

    Article : 145 words
  6. THE FRENCH FRONTIER.

    One of the chief occupations of the general staff of the German army is to perfect the scheme of operations to be adopted in the event of a war with ...

    Article : 1,326 words
  7. SELFISH WOMEN.

    The woman who never forgets is invariably selfish, and selfishness is very ageing and unattractive. Women rarely think that it is ill-nature that makes ...

    Article : 154 words
  8. DISCRIMINATING BIRDS.

    The pigeons of St. Mark's, in Venice, are extraordinarily intelligent birds. In some manner they are able to discriminate between residents and visitors in the ...

    Article : 76 words
  9. WHEN TO LAUGH.

    The virtues of laughter in promoting good health are well known, but to get the best out of it one must laugh at the groper time. Hearty laughter stirs ...

    Article : 209 words
  10. SUDDEN DARKNESS.

    A certain time in the year there is a weird natural phenomenon which takes place in Egypt. The sun goes down and darkness comes very suddenly, continuing ...

    Article : 79 words
  11. A FORMIDABLE ANTAGONIST.

    The sword fish is hunted along the Atlantic coast of the United States in order to protect the blue and other fish, and also to obtain its flesh, which is ...

    Article : 89 words
  12. COLOUR AND CHARACTER.

    It is said that a woman's character finds expression in her favourite colour. A woman who prefers orange or green gowns is for instance, said to be ...

    Article : 114 words
  13. MIRAGES.

    The place where mirages moot often occur is in the vicinity of the Dardanelles. Hardly a ship that sails along the Syrian coast fails to see at least one ...

    Article : 130 words
  14. EFFECTS OF SUNLIGHT.

    Careful housewives draw down the blinds in sunny weather to save the carpets. This is a penny wise and pound foolish policy, for nothing keeps sickness ...

    Article : 206 words
  15. IMPROVED MOTOR CYCLE.

    In an electric motor cycle, invented by an American, six cells of storage battery are used to operate a specially-designed 12-volt motor, which drives, on the rear ...

    Article : 162 words
  16. TO BEAUTIFY THE VOICE.

    A very good exercise to develop the voice, make it soft and flexible, and give it carrying power, is the following. It is much practised in the Orient where among the ...

    Article : 143 words
  17. FURNACE COMBINATION.

    A new type of steel furnace in which electric power is applied in combination with the Bessemer process, has been produced by a Sheffield firm. The apparatus ...

    Article : 189 words
  18. THE MODERN WOMAN.

    An eminent artist Miss Lucy Kemp-Welch, writing in the October "Windsor Magazine," says:—"The woman of to-day differs from the woman of earlier times, ...

    Article : 466 words
  19. AN AMAZING APPETITE.

    The medical journals from time to time record instances of the discovery of remarkable collections of foreign bodies within the stomachs of insane persons. ...

    Article : 338 words
  20. SNEEZING IN AEROPLANES.

    Sneezing is one of the greatest perils that confronts aeronauts, declares Harry Atwood, the American aviator, who is creating new United States records for ...

    Article : 154 words
  21. GROOMING FLOWERS.

    The instruments used nowadays by the French florists to prolong the life of cut flowers and remove imperfections are as numerous and delicate as those on a ...

    Article : 221 words
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