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  3. SCIENCE.

    Straw, pressed into blocks, and made hard enough to use as pavement, is used for this purpose in some of the streets of Warsaw. Study of an ancient bridge at Loucade has convinced ...

    Article : 227 words
  4. A Left-handed Nation.

    Missionaries in India are well aware of the peculiarity of Eastern people of doing things, as it seems to us, by the rule of contrary. According to an article in "Work," the ...

    Article : 190 words
  5. Remarkable Japanese Paper, &c., from Bark.

    The Japanese excel in the making of paper from the bark of trees and shrubs. Among the remarkable varieties Mr. D. G. Fairehihl mentions ihe thin rainproof paper used instead of glass for windows: the ...

    Article : 114 words
  6. Quack Cures.

    In a little Russian village situated not far from the town of Orla, a native recently sought the advice of a travelling quack. This man prescribed a course of mud baths. The patient was to bury himself in the mud ...

    Article : 99 words
  7. Regarding an Old Custom.

    Very terrible in its sinister significance is the custom of putting coins under the foundation stone of a building about to be erected, for these pieces of gold and silver and bronze ...

    Article : 354 words
  8. How to Secure Purer Water.

    There have lately been several cases of lead-poisoning in Oldham (England) caused by the drinking water. The water with which Oldham is supplied is drawn off peal land, and has a strong tendency to dissolve the lead ...

    Article : 131 words
  9. New Cause of "Indigestion."

    In an address he recently gave at Walthamstow, Dr. St. Clair B. Shadwell (says "Science Siftings") pointed out the very curious fact that certain pains which are generally put down as neuralgia, indigestion, and even ...

    Article : 127 words
  10. Don't Cross Your Knees.

    A medical authority his recently uttered a warning against the habit of sitting with one knee crossed over the other—a pose which is nowadays almost as common among women as among men. This ...

    Article : 145 words
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  12. What is Worry?

    There are plenty of people of whom it is said that they can never "make up their minds." The term "worry" is often the name for trouble, the essential part of which is the "difficulty of milking up the mind." ...

    Article : 191 words
  13. Food Preservatives.

    Tinned emergency foods and bad condensed milks are often adulterated with boracic acid to make them keep. Many of these foods are necessary to the existence of an army in war time, but you should fight ...

    Article : 198 words
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