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  2. Short Story

    Melancholy:-melancholy was not the word for it! Who would not be grim and glum, I asked myself, as I start out into the stormy night from ...

    Article : 3,585 words
  3. MISCELLANEOUS.

    In the British Royal Family morgenatic marriages have been very frequent, especially in the eighteenth century, and it was to check these ...

    Article : 158 words
  4. VALUABLE STAMP COLLECTIONS.

    Huge though the sum of £20,000, which has been paid for part of the late Earl of Crawford's collection of stamps ...

    Article : 184 words
  5. FARM AND FIELD

    A manure is a substance which increase the fertility of the soil and causes it to grow larger crops. It is oly since the beginning of the 19th ...

    Article : 394 words
  6. SCIENCE NOTES.

    A Scotch engineer has succeeded in building a combination motor-car and motor-boat. The craft has already undergone successful trials around and ...

    Article : 90 words
  7. TIMING THE ACTION OF THE HEART.

    At a meeting of the Court of Governors of the London Hospital a few days ago it was stated that the heart department had been placed ...

    Article : 243 words
  8. A FUNERAL MOTOR CAR.

    A San Francisco undertaker has built a funeral car that is far more than a hearse, for, in addition to the space for the casket and flowers, there are ...

    Article : 129 words
  9. NOVEL LIQUID METER.

    The Leinert liquid motor is an automatic measurer for water, petroleum, sugar juice, and other liquids, measuroments being made by weight and ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. THE ARMY AUTOMOBILE IN SERVICE.

    An armoured automobile was lately given some actual work in operations in Morocco, this belonging to the Spanish army. The present car is provided ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. GEAR SHIFTER.

    The electric gear shifter now has become fairly common, and there are several devices of the kind operated by compressed air. Now, however ...

    Article : 122 words
  12. Odds and Ends.

    "Did you see any sharks when you were crossing the Atlantic, Mr. Butts?" asked Miss Mills. "Yes," replied Butts, sadly. "I ...

    Article : 211 words
  13. POTASH AND POTATOES.

    It is well known that nitrogen is most essential for cereals, phosphate for turnips, and similarly that potash is the great requisite for potatoes. This ...

    Article : 281 words
  14. MOLASSES FOR MINES.

    Mr. Launcelot Ussher, of South Africa, has introduced a new dustlaying preparation for use in mines, the base of which is molasses. It is ...

    Article : 119 words
  15. PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE.

    There has lately been exhibited at a Court jeweller's in Bond Street, London, a striking collection of pearls. One ...

    Article : 239 words
  16. AN "UNSINKABLE" SHIP.

    Mr. Caino, of Trapp, Llandilo Carmarthenshire, a retired sea captain of many years experience, has constructed and patented a model ship the ...

    Article : 382 words
  17. FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPE

    Mv. Karl Reichert, of Vienna, has constructed a fluorescent microscope which is of advantage in certain cases. The lighting of the object to be ...

    Article : 129 words
  18. LIME WATER FOR CALVES.

    Lime water is so easily made and is so useful on the farm that it is a wonder that a supply of it is not kept for some purposes, such as treatment ...

    Article : 155 words
  19. Not Quite.

    Dolly: "Wasn't he Kitty's s[?] Gladys: "Yes; but he didn't." Dolly: "Didn't what?" Glidys "Didn't suit her!" ...

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  20. NEW TYPE OF CYCLE-CAR.

    There has been placed upon the market lately a cycle-car which has an unusually novel method of power transmission. The vehicle is propelled ...

    Article : 155 words
  21. The Answer.

    "Miss Ethel," said a shy young man, "if I were to throw you a kiss, what would you say?" "I'd say you were the laziest man I ...

    Article : 34 words
  22. Just So!

    She: "I don't see why you should hesitate to marry on [?] a year. papa says my gowns never cost more than that." ...

    Article : 47 words
  23. FERTILISING MICROBES.

    Professor Bottomley delivered a lecture on "Bacterm of the Soil" recently. In the soil, he said, microbes were comparatively few neat the ...

    Article : 318 words
  24. OUST CHARGED WITH ELECTRICITY.

    The curious experimental electrical machine described by W. A. Douglas Rudge to the Cambridge Philosophical Society ...

    Article : 169 words
  25. EGYPTIAN DONKEYS.

    To see our local Mayor riding on a donkey would doubtless cause endless amusement, but this happens every day in Egypt. There the donkey is ...

    Article : 406 words
  26. True.

    Isaac (seeing the sights of the city for the first time): "Say, pa. why do they call this 'ere building the Exchange?" ...

    Article : 43 words
  27. "TASTELESS MEDICINE" CUP.

    An ingenious Frenchman has invented a cup which will mask the taste of nauseous medicine. It is called a pomponnette. This vessel holds twice ...

    Article : 195 words
  28. Had the "Pull" There.

    Sue: "You said you were going to marry an artist, and now you are engaged to a dentist. Fio: "Well; isn't he an artist? He ...

    Article : 36 words
  29. Not Always.

    Visitor (at the National Gullery): "Wry, them's the very same pictures I saw here the day before yesterday. Attendant (dryly): "Quite [?] ...

    Article : 51 words
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