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  2. SUBSTITUTE FOR PAPER.

    A new product for making [?] has been found in zacaton gra[?] from the fact that the roots are [?] [?]en ively used in the making [?] ...

    Article : 296 words
  3. TOWN V. COUNTRY WOMEN.

    The country girl of eighteen years is said to have a great advantage in looks over her city cousin, but she loses in the race every year after that ...

    Article : 409 words
  4. SUNK SUBMARINE.

    The King has awarded the Albert Medal in gold to Commander Francis Herbert Heaveningham Goodhart, D.S.O., R.N., who lost his life in an ...

    Article : 266 words
  5. HOW TIME IS RECKONED.

    The opinion is common that time is taken from the sun. This was once true, and still holds good at sea, but the sun presents many difficulties ...

    Article : 453 words
  6. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    As Private Pat Mulligan, of the— Irish, was leaning against the sandbag parapet, dividing his period of guard between nervous glances at his ...

    Article : 178 words
  7. 'ZEPPS' AND LOTTERIES.

    Many people are urging the Govern ment in England to raise money for the war by means of premium bonds Had it not been for the help of a ...

    Article : 516 words
  8. OZONE CURES.

    Gratifying success has attended the ozone-treatment department of the Queen Alexandra Hospital for soldiers at Millbank. About eighteen ...

    Article : 372 words
  9. IN PLACE OF THIS DIVINE.

    A well-known divine, whose theological discourses drew crowded houses in all the principal cities, accepted an invitation to lecture in a small ...

    Article : 155 words
  10. CLEVER DETECTIVES.

    The task of identifying dead bodies is very often extremely difficult. Of course, finger-prints and photographs make identification fairly easy, and ...

    Article : 234 words
  11. BOY IN BATTLE.

    How a 15-year-old boy impersonated his elder brother in a great battle in France was told at Folkestone Police Court recently, when ...

    Article : 319 words
  12. NEW WAY OF PAYING OLD BILLS.

    A tailor in a certain Scotch village took a notion to start a public house but before doing so he. considered it would be wise to consult the laird. ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. WHAT THE BARBER THOUGHT.

    In illustrating the slight esteem in which scientific men are held in the country, Professor Sir. H. S. Jackson, one of the new Knights ...

    Article : 150 words
  14. HIS MOTHER'S IMAGE.

    A schoolmaster received the following note one morning from a pupil: "Dear Sir,—Please! eskcoose little Tommy for his absens ytstiday as he ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. CUP OMELETTES.

    Mince 1 onion and boil tender, beat 2 eggs lightly, mix strained onion and eggs with 1 breakfastcupful of breadcrumbs and stir in a little ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. AN IRISH APPARITION.

    A Tulsk (County Roscommon) correspondent (says "Lloyd's Weekly" of April 28) reports a strange apparition at Kiltrustan, near ...

    Article : 204 words
  17. QUAINT THEFTS BY RATS.

    Rats destroy £18,000,000 of human food yearly in the United Kingdom, an agricultural expert stated recently. ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. LAWSUITS OVER TRIFLES.

    There are numerous foolish people who are ready to seize upon the smallest grievance, real or fancied, as a pretext for getting the costly ...

    Article : 334 words
  19. ELECTRIC BATHING MACHINE.

    A recently invented bathing machine not only washes the body, but also gives a massage and dries the skin without the use of a towel in ...

    Article : 188 words
  20. HOW TO MAKE DIAMONDS.

    The possibility of making diamonds artificially was discussed by Sir Charles Parsons, who delivered the eighth annual leeture before the ...

    Article : 205 words
  21. QUAINT MANUSCRIPTS.

    In the Japasese city of Matsue, Izumo Province, there lived until recently an industrious maker of clogs, named Jisuke Nishitani. ...

    Article : 155 words
  22. HEROES ON STAMPS.

    Two French deputies are possessed of the ambitions but attractive idea of doing away with the present postage stamp of their country. They ...

    Article : 83 words
  23. BATTLEFIELD ECONOMY.

    One of the greatest economic achievements in the war is the work of the Salvage Corps at the front. Thousands npon thousands of tons ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. TOO FLY.

    A bold plan was frustrated by the Italians the other day. Two Austrian airmen escaped across country from their machines, which had been ...

    Article : 86 words
  25. VILLAGES MADE FAMOUS.

    War brings into prominence many places, small and insignificant in themselves. The names of tiny villages like Givenchy and Messines, for ...

    Article : 175 words
  26. SAMMY AND HIS PAPER.

    Cheerful reading and rollicking humour fill the eight pages of a paper produced in the trenches by the men of the American Expeditionary Force. ...

    Article : 141 words
  27. A JAPANESE JOY-DAY.

    The happiest day in the year to the Japanese boys falls in May. On a chosen day of this month thet all celebrate their birthdays, whether ...

    Article : 167 words
  28. BETRAYED BY SLANG.

    Incredibly neat was the self-betrayal of one spy at Gallipoli, who was unversed in the intricacies of Australian idiom. It was the day ...

    Article : 174 words
  29. AN AUSTRIAN LOSS.

    Large stores were destroyed by a fire which completely gutted two immense warehouses at the Eastern Railway Station at Vienna, which ...

    Article : 87 words
  30. VIVID DESCRIPTION.

    Is the matter of picturesque expression there is no one to excel a bright Hibernian. A judge was questioning an ...

    Article : 68 words
  31. A MISTAKEN CONCEPTION.

    "What's wrong with Glithers?" "He has a mistaken conception of his duty as a citizen." "Yes?" ...

    Article : 51 words
  32. CARELESS.

    "Bridget, did you get the flowers that I am to wear to-night in my hair?" "Yes, mum, butp" ...

    Article : 33 words
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