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  2. INFLUENCE OF SALT ON THE COMPLEXION.

    Dr. A. Bergfeld, a German pro[?] has weiteen a book in which [?] us why the Caucasian is [?] the negro black, and the ...

    Article : 259 words
  3. Science Notes & News.

    The mere fact that moths cannot read is no reason why they should detest newspapers, but they do. It isn't exactly the newspaper or its ...

    Article : 115 words
  4. THE STAY-AT-HOME BOAT.

    For centuries the Japanese Government tried to isolate the people and prevent their contact with foreigners of any kind. To ...

    Article : 125 words
  5. Facts & Fancies.

    This is the giant cypres[?] in the swamps of all [?] countries. Often in great storms [?] boughs are rent from the trunk ...

    Article : 840 words
  6. The Poultry Run.

    It usually takes a chicken about six months to pass through the various stages between coming out of the egg and developing into a ...

    Article : 938 words
  7. BOER HOSPITALITY.

    Hospitality among the Boers is free and spontaneous, but, all the same, it is not etiquette for a traveller to drive up to a house and ...

    Article : 385 words
  8. The Farmer.

    The five points to be observed in selecting a good dairy cow are:— 1st. Large body and especially middle piece, indicating a capacity ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. NO MORE LOOSE MATCHES.

    An improved combination for smokers, just patented, consists of a small cylindrical match box, fitted [?] a spring clip to [?] on the ...

    Article : 80 words
  10. A PAIR OF MILLIONAIRESSES

    England cannot claim many of the world's very wealthy women, but it numbers amongst its few the Marchioness of Graham, whose ...

    Article : 277 words
  11. STANDARDISING MILK AND CREAM.

    Having two milks or creams of different richness and requiring to mix them to form a third of different percentage use the following ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 133 words
  12. MANUFACTURED PEARLS.

    Considerable interest has been aroused by a statement made at the annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society by Professor ...

    Article : 162 words
  13. THE SEA-WOLF.

    Among the most destructive inhabitants of the ocean is the seawolf—a kind of dolphin, which attains, when full grown, a length of ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. FEEDING FAT INTO MILK.

    Many investigators have attempted to permanently modify the percentage of fat in cows' milk; no system of feeding has yet been ...

    Article : 212 words
  15. THE POWER OF NIAGARA.

    The energy from Niagara Falls, including operation on both sides, is used at the rate of 126,000-horsepower for electro-chemical process ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. THE DEARTH OF GREAT MEN.

    The dearth of great men is described by a popular writer as one of the portents of the day. Indeed, there are now no great men ...

    Article : 192 words
  17. FOR AIRSHIP SHEDS.

    "Multiply" corrugated sheet-iron recently invented by a German engineer has three curves instead of one curve in each corrugation. Its ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. THE ROMANCE OF THE RAND MINES.

    Up to 1884 there was scarcely a suspicion of gold in the Transvaal, and the country was regarded as a barren land, lacking in all the ...

    Article : 315 words
  19. SHOCKS FOR GAS MANTLES.

    Testing gas mantles was the purpose of experiments recently carcied out. The machine used has a mantle placed on a burner having ...

    Article : 175 words
  20. ROYALTY'S UNCOMMON POSSESSIONS.

    The silver oar, weighing nearly 74oz. which the Prince of Wales has returned to the custody of the Dartmouth Corporation, recalls similar ...

    Article : 127 words
  21. HORSE TALK.

    When horses are doing heavy work they should have one pound of hay to 100 pounds of horse, as a rule. ...

    Article : 294 words
  22. THE ART OF ADVERTISING.

    As I opened the door I saw a man with a burglar's mask kneeling before the safe. The next moment he had turned and shoved a revolver ...

    Article : 213 words
  23. A DOG NEWSBOY.

    Under the above headline, "Our Dumb Animals" has this to say about Spot, a dog known to everybody at Rockville Centre, Long ...

    Article : 231 words
  24. FINDING ERRORS IN THE CHART.

    A non-magnetic yacht, in which bronze is substituted for iron, is now sailing round the world. It is sail that on iron-built ships the ...

    Article : 55 words
  25. THE EARTH'S SENSITIVE CRUST.

    The records of the various instruments devised for the study of earthquakes have shown that the earth's crust is sensitive to a degree ...

    Article : 147 words
  26. THE NOISE THAT SOOTHES.

    When the last cab strike took place in London many people who had become accustomed to the rumbling of cabs in the small hours ...

    Article : 112 words
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