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  2. SAFETY IN THE MINE.

    An invention which should do much to safeguard the lives of miners is a bell which automatically sounds an alarm if there is a dangerous amount ...

    Article : 174 words
  3. WILL TEA DISAPPEAR ?

    It may surprise you to learn that tea and coffee contain exactly the same ingredients. The most important substance ...

    Article : 191 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Life is full of disappointments. Nothing ever comes oS but buttons. Don't put a man on his feet unless you are sure he won't kick you. ...

    Article : 911 words
  5. MACHINES TO SMASH THINGS.

    One of the most important pieces of apparatus in many factories is a machine used, not for making the goods they turn out, but for ...

    Article : 238 words
  6. RAIN GAUGES.

    A rain-gauge consists of a smail metal cylinder, the lid of which is in the form of a funnel with a specified diameter. Inside the cylinder is a ...

    Article : 205 words
  7. AH SING'S ROMANCE.

    Ah Sing was from the Celestial Kingdom, as his name would imply, but he was not a "Heathen Chinee" for adorning the walls of his little ...

    Article : 1,207 words
  8. EARTHQUAKE WAVES.

    More than one hundred unfortunate people were swept to their deaths by two giant waves, following on the heavy earthquake shocks which ...

    Article : 410 words
  9. BLUNDERS IN HISTORY.

    Most people, if they made a test of their knowledge of the main "facts" of history, would find that many of the incidents which they have all ...

    Article : 575 words
  10. PROOF AGAINST POISON.

    Some animals can absorb enough poison to kill a regiment of men without Buffering any ill effects at all. Morphia, for instance. Of this ...

    Article : 208 words
  11. ELECTRICITY FOR HEARTS.

    One of the most remarkable of recent medical inventions is the static wave device. Its purpose is to regulate the ...

    Article : 179 words
  12. SECRETS OF ANCIENT EGYPT.

    Three thousand five hundred years ago King Tutankh-Amen was Lord of Egypt, then one of the richest and most powerful nations of history. ...

    Article : 610 words
  13. BEETLES THAT BORE.

    It it a startling discovery that Death Watch beetles are perpetually tapping out the doom of many a venerable beam and rafter, as well ...

    Article : 526 words
  14. PEARL POINTS.

    The old belief was that a pearl is formed in an oyster by a grain of sand, or other foreign matter, inserting itself within the shell and setting ...

    Article : 511 words
  15. INTERESTING ITEM

    The oldest boat in the world is being dug out of a bog on the Slesvig coast ; it is believed to date back to the beginning of the second century. ex-Kaiser ; it includes fifty-three palaces, mansions and estates in the neighbourhood of Berlin. In a single day a piano show-room ...

    Article : 329 words
  16. WHERE BIRDS BEAT US.

    Nothing that man has ever invented can compare with the wonderful flying mechanism which Nature has given to birds. ...

    Article : 174 words
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