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  2. CHURCH BUILT FROM ONE TREE.

    Santa Rosa, in California, has a Baptist church which seats 200 people, built entirely from one giant redwood which, whilst standing, was 18ft. in ...

    Article : 133 words
  3. THE EARTHQUAKE RECORDER.

    Though the world is still awaiting an earthquake forecaster, it already has an earthquake indicator. This is the seismograph, the invention of a ...

    Article : 204 words
  4. MISTAKES WE MAKE.

    "A cheque or agreement signed on a Sunday is void," is a statement sometimes heard. Actually, the law provides that a cheque signed on such a ...

    Article : 406 words
  5. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    The Angler: "Is this a public lake, my man?" The inhabitant: "Aye." The Angler: "Then it won't be a ...

    Article : 1,855 words
  6. ELECTRICITY IN THE HOME.

    A news item sent out from Washington announced that President and Mrs. Coolidge have just inspected the model house erected by the General ...

    Article : 729 words
  7. TRIUMPH OF A SCIENTIST.

    Isaac Newton, born in 1648, is rather vaguely held in esteem as the man who, seeing an apple tumble from a tree, perceived the significance of ...

    Article : 811 words
  8. WHO'S WHO?

    Inhabitants of the little village of Hohenberg, near Cologne, are absorbed in working out the complexities of two matrimonial adventures besides ...

    Article : 812 words
  9. SUGAR FROM DAHLIAS.

    In the near future the dahlia is likely to become one of the chief sources of the world's sugar supply. The new formula for dahlia sugar has ...

    Article : 149 words
  10. FROM SMALL IDEAS.

    The pith jam cartons used so much during the war made the fortune of the man who first thought of them, and the man who turned a piece of ...

    Article : 189 words
  11. PLANT THAT MADDENS.

    Among the curious plants of Queensland is the "stinging tree," a luxurious shrub, pleasing to the eye, but dangerous to the touch. It grows from two ...

    Article : 615 words
  12. A FALLEN PLANET?

    Astronomers have long known that between the orbits of Mars and, Jupiter a large number of tiny planetary bodies revolve round the sun. Some ...

    Article : 239 words
  13. WASTED WORDS.

    Johnston missed his train the other evening, so he went to have his hair cut. When he entered the barber's shop he was in a quarrelsome frame ...

    Article : 115 words
  14. ALL WRONG.

    The people didn't merely look at Professor Branefog—they stared. He knew he was absent-minded at times, and he wondered whether he had ...

    Article : 238 words
  15. LABOUR IN VAIN.

    In the vicinity of the little town where Robinson was staying there were some prolific fishing-grounds, and there it was his custom to cast ...

    Article : 250 words
  16. FOOT TESTS FOR FIANCEES.

    A scientist who recently examined the feet of five hundred girl students at the Kansas University must at the present moment be one of the most ...

    Article : 233 words
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