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  2. AN ADVENTURER OF THE BAY.

    The great courtyard was full of bustle. Men were hurrying to and fro some carrying burdens, others busy with sleds where they worked by the ...

    Article : 2,419 words
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  4. POPULAR SCIENCE

    In a battle fought in B.C. 189, one army filled jars with feathers, set them on fire, and blew the smoke with bellows into the faces of their enemies. ...

    Article : 35 words
  5. PAPER BARRELS.

    Barrels made of wood for packing and [?]hipping fruit and such-like commodities are being superseded by barrels made of compressed paper, the cost of which is ...

    Article : 38 words
  6. ANTIQUITY OF SALT USAGE.

    The knowledge and use of salt are as old as man. The use of salt for preserving food was known to the early Egyptians and Assyrians, and the process ...

    Article : 44 words
  7. FAMILIAR OPTICAL ILLUSION.

    Make a small hole in a card, and hold it four or five inches away, and against the sky. Hold a pin-head against the lashes, and gaze through the hole. Then ...

    Article : 68 words
  8. METAL AS HARD AS A DIAMOND.

    The fused mixture of tungsten and tungsten carbides produced by steelmakers at Wetzler, Germany, is claimed to equal diamond for cutting purposes, being ...

    Article : 60 words
  9. BREAD AS FOOD.

    Bread and water diet—is it really nourishing enough to keep prisoners in [?]airly good conidition? Or is it doing them harm? An expert in the United States ...

    Article : 151 words
  10. MAGIC—BLACK AND WHITE.

    Magic, in its popular sense, is dealing with the shades of darkness, and the sup-position is that it is utterely vile and evil. This is not true of genuine magic, ...

    Article : 257 words
  11. SEEING YOUR SPEECH.

    A new terror recording the indiscretions of the "night before" may be added to the [?]olice tests of drunkenness if the discovery of Mr. J. W. Jeaffreson, of ...

    Article : 282 words
  12. HOW TO PREVENT EARTHQUAKES.

    It is a generally accepted fact that earthquakes are due to violent subterranean explosions (writes Sir George Dance in "Popular Science.") Scientific ...

    Article : 380 words
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