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  2. SHELLS TO GROW CROPS.

    Three hundred and fifty thousand tons of shells. When the War ended such was the amazing quantity of ammunition England had on her ...

    Article : 634 words
  3. SENDING OIL BY CABLE.

    Many of the great oilfields are situated near coaets where the water is shallow for several miles out to sea. This means that large tankers can ...

    Article : 220 words
  4. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    In Holland there are 930 miles of canals. Australia exports 24,600,000 rabbit [?]ins every year. ...

    Article : 283 words
  5. GOLD BY THE POUND.

    A nugget of pure gold weighing no less than five pounds was found recently in California. Its discoverers were two elderly men who had ...

    Article : 190 words
  6. WHAT IS A TELLER?

    The explanations of some of the terms used by bankers are amusing as well as surprising. Take the use of the word "teller" for cashier. In ...

    Article : 238 words
  7. BILL'S NUGGET.

    There was only three in our party. Tom and me had come to Coolgardie together, being did mates and then we came across Bill on the field. He ...

    Article : 1,939 words
  8. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    A clergyman tells a story of a man be had approached for a contribution towards the church funds. No amount of persuasion would ...

    Article : 762 words
  9. COWBOYS' TALL TALES.

    The novelist and the film producer have made the cowboy such a rough-riding, quick-shooting "hero" that one —would think his life was filled ...

    Article : 558 words
  10. WHERE CRICKET BEGAN.

    Pessimists have been prophesying the decay of cricket for years, and was confidently asserted that would never be the same after the ...

    Article : 298 words
  11. MEASURING A CONTINENT.

    Until recently no great continent had ever been measured by means of the surveyor's chain. Maps are usually made by means ...

    Article : 290 words
  12. DON'T BE TOO FUNNY

    Is wittiness wise? Does it pay to be funny? These questions are asked with special reference to the case of a man ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. GERMS PASS THROUGH WALLS

    Five hundred monkeys have been used in the last three years in experiments by which the vaccine now in use against pneumonia has been ...

    Article : 288 words
  14. WISE MEN SAY.

    Habits are a first cobwebs, at last cables. Economy is the easu chair of old age. ...

    Article : 233 words
  15. "EVERY DAY AND IN EVERY WAY."

    It is nice to know that better times are coming. The Millennium is predicted—but, unfortunately, it will not be due for three or four ...

    Article : 238 words
  16. THE WORLD'S CINEMAS.

    How many cinema theatres are there in the world? The United States heads the list with 18,000 followed by Germany ...

    Article : 113 words
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