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  2. NATIVE MUSIC

    Can Australian composers produce music that touches a world value ? The enthusiastic Opera League may say "Yes." Though the affirmation is congenial, a margin of doubt ...

    Article : 324 words
  3. WAR MADNESS

    The military correspondent of the London Times" lias just written a review of the developments which have taken place in foreign armaments. Apart altogether from the interest ...

    Article : 969 words
  4. THE BANSHEE

    About the end of 'SI I went to live on the estate of Hobartville, Richmond, originally formed by Capt. William Cox, son of the old and deservedly famed Blue Mountain road ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,203 words
  5. MAGIC

    The wave of occultism that has lately spread from the East across to America and England has revived the strange subject of magic Though long regarded as only an outworn superstition, ...

    Article : 906 words
  6. KNOCK-OUT BLOW EXPLAINED BY FRENCH SURGEON

    A knockout results from a blow in one of three places: In the neck, in the pit of the stomach, on the lower jaw. The latter is the most usual. This sends its recipient down like ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 714 words
  7. HOW FAR AWAY

    There are twenty stars of the first magnitude is stars that apear brightest to the naked eye Of these only fifteen are ever visible in northern Latitudes. "With these ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 702 words
  8. TESTS PROVE SMOKING DECREASES MENTAL EFFICIENCY

    That smoking decreases the mental efficiency of the smoker is the principal conclusion drawn by Dr. Arthur Derment Bush, instructor in physiology, University of Vermont (U.S.A.); from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 580 words
  9. PRICE OF BRAINS

    The man who draws the biggest salary in Australia outside the Governor-General is probably Mr. Delprat, of the Broken Hill Proprietary, with some £10,000 a year. But in ...

    Article : 769 words
  10. AN ELECTRIC PRAYING MACHINE

    Driven by a small stream of water, a certain waterwheel serves to turn the rice mill of a tiny Ladaki village in the foothills of the Himalayas behind Simia, the Summer capital of India. ...

    Article : 377 words
  11. THE YELLOW PERIL IN RUSSIA

    The influential "Novoe Vremya" of St. petersing demands exclusion of the Chinese from Russia by laws similar to those in force in the United States. Hither to the Chinese ...

    Article : 315 words
  12. JAPANESE SPINNING MILLS IN CHINA

    The Shanghai Spinning Company, owned by the "Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, proposes to double its present capital of 1,000,000 taels, the increase to be applied of [?] ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. HEIGHT OF THE TOWER OF BABEL

    The details of the great Tower of Babel, the remains of which utilitarian Turkish contractors removed from, the-face of the earth, are ensured to us by the finding recently of the clay ablet ...

    Article : 192 words
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