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  2. THE POULTRY RUN.

    This is a useful adjunct in the poultry yard. Common colds may be cured by dipping the heads of the affected birds once a day in water ...

    Article : 139 words
  3. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    One of those momentary silences had fallen upon the party at the luncheon-table. It was broken by the little girl, who had come with her ...

    Article : 79 words
  4. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

    Pure water is pole blue in colour. Damascus, in Syria, is the oldest of all existing cities. Echoes have been known to repeat ...

    Article : 661 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    "Father, I need a new riding habit," said the banker's daughter. "Can't afford it," the banker said. "But, father, what am I to do without a ...

    Article : 719 words
  6. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    It is stated that the best paper is made with the fibre of the mulberry-tree running longitudinally, and when two sheets of this paper—with the ...

    Article : 71 words
  7. CLOCKS—AND WIVES.

    A good clock—like a good wife—should not need constant watching. Some clocks—like some wives—get, wound up every night, and nothing ...

    Article : 324 words
  8. RANDOM READINGS.

    The largest hoard of gold in the world is that hold in the vaults of the Russian State Bank. Ordinarily a visitor may travel ...

    Article : 178 words
  9. OUR DAILY DREAD.

    If a grain of wheat be cut into thin slices three parts can be seen—the inner germ from which the future plant would grow; the kernel, which ...

    Article : 323 words
  10. A FOOLSCAP STORY.

    Have you ever wondered why the big sheets of paper which you usually got to write on at examinations are called foolscap? It is an old ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. A NEW GARAGE TURNTABLE.

    By means of a novel turntable, invented in California, the driver of a motor-car makes his machine reverse itself, in the garage or outside, ...

    Article : 99 words
  12. DID YOU KNOW THIS.

    Egg yolk contains from 0.36 to 0.33 per cent mineral salts. Egg white (albumen) contains from 0.66 to 0.30 per cent. mineral salts. Analysis of ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. WHY DOGS' NOSES ARE COLD.

    When your faithful old dog pokes his nose into your hand, even your affection cannot prevent a little shiver, because the nose is so cold. ...

    Article : 279 words
  14. THE SUPPLY OF MICA.

    The Hazaribagh district of India is one of the most valuable mica-producing areas in the world. Except for a very small amount from Sweden, ...

    Article : 166 words
  15. THE PRINCESS'S ROSES.

    Once upon a time there lived a Princess, beautiful as the day and as happy as the sunbeams. Everyone loved her, and she did not know what ...

    Article : 552 words
  16. "A LARGE PARTY."

    They are telling a very funny anecdote in the United States about ex-President Taft, who, as is well known, is noted for his stoutness. ...

    Article : 172 words
  17. ACCORDING TO LAW.

    A farmer who had lost some cows by the cattle plague was fully persuaded that he had himself been attacked by the epidemic. Forthwith ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 182 words
  18. LEG AILMENTS.

    When a fowl is seen to be in a lame condition the conclusion generally arrived at is that the sufferer has cramp. An examination of the ...

    Article : 312 words
  19. RAZORS GET TIRED.

    Barbers maintain a razor gets tired and is improved after a rest. Any razor, after constant use, while not exactly becoming dull, grows ...

    Article : 179 words
  20. SIX THOUSAND SOLDIERS' BRIDES.

    When Napoleon I. married Marie-Louise, daughter of the Emperor of Austria, on April 22, 1810, he spared no pains to make the happy date a ...

    Article : 428 words
  21. BOUND TO GET ON.

    Street boys are on the make when ever the opportunity offers, and they go about it in a businesslike way. Not long ago the wind blow off a ...

    Article : 174 words
  22. EXPLOSIVE-PROOF SAFE.

    Unless he is provided with an oxyacetylene or oxyhydrogen torch, a burglar will find great difficulty in opening a sate described in a ...

    Article : 222 words
  23. NAMING A NOVEL.

    "The thing to do," said a literary man, "is to call your novel after the name of the leading character—to call it 'John Smith,' or something of that ...

    Article : 197 words
  24. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    Green feed is always good for fowls, and particularly valuable during hot weather. When chicks become weak in the ...

    Article : 280 words
  25. ISN'T IT MARVELLOUS.

    He was a chatty kind of conjurer, and was anxious to open the evening's entertainment merrily. So he stepped forward to the front of the ...

    Article : 171 words
  26. RUSSIA.

    There are no cheap toy-shops in Russia. The Russian ruling senate, was established in 1711. ...

    Article : 217 words
  27. HE SAVED HIMSELF.

    The second act had come to an end. The curtain had fallen, and after a long tumult of applause the audience were gradually relapsing into ...

    Article : 163 words
  28. STOPPING ITS CAPERS.

    A tinker once entered a village shouting: "Kettles to sell! Kettles to sell!" A lady came up to him, and asked ...

    Article : 101 words
  29. THE LANGUAGE OF FLAGS.

    To "strike the flag" is to lower the colours in token of submission. Flags are used as the symbol of rank and command, officers using ...

    Article : 244 words
  30. RIDDLES.

    A word there is, six letters it contains, take one away, and twelve you and remains? Dozens. ...

    Article : 139 words
  31. POPES NEVER PREACH.

    Of all the many strange restrictions which hedge about the Pope, one of the strangest is that he should not be allowed to preach. Only once ...

    Article : 133 words
  32. NOT FATAL.

    Nothing so much vexes a physician as to be sent for in great haste, and to find after his arrival that nothing or next to nothing, is the matter with ...

    Article : 124 words
  33. THE INGENIOUS AUTOGRAPH-HUNTER.

    Some years ago, while on a visit to America, Mr. Hall Caine was beseiged by autograph-hunters, but he refused them all. One day a porter ...

    Article : 113 words
  34. THE OTHER CAT.

    For six years a bitter feud had existed between the Browns and Robinsons, next-door neighbours. The trouble had originated through the ...

    Article : 106 words
  35. WOOD PULP.

    It is claimed by an Austrian inventor that his wood pulp leather is superior to animal leather in fineness and durability. Among the other ...

    Article : 68 words
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