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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 colored ...

    Article : 137 words
  3. HIS FIRST LESSON.

    Algy Montmorency decided to have some boxing lessons. He is one of those tall, thin, nervous people who sometimes manage to get ...

    Article : 171 words
  4. HUGE STRUCTURES.

    The biggest bridge in the world is the Forth Bridge. The British Navy can pass under it, and its biggest Dreadnought looks like a pigmy in ...

    Article : 219 words
  5. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    There are several species of birds that can travel much faster than any aeroplane yet invented. The fastest of them is called the "frigate bird," ...

    Article : 841 words
  6. TOOK THE HINT.

    While he was giving, the greengrocer an order, the fussy old gentleman slipped a strawberry into his mouth ...

    Article : 127 words
  7. EASY WAY OUT.

    "Well, Inswin, you know I'm going to be married next week?" "So I hear. Let me congratulate you, old man." ...

    Article : 146 words
  8. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS

    A suggestion was recently made that Rontgen rays be used to ascertain whether an oyster contains pearls. If the Rontgen rays show ...

    Article : 81 words
  9. PURE ASPHALTUM.

    The "pitch-lake" of Trinidad, a surface of a mile and a half across of pure asphaltum, is perhaps the most remarkable, occurrence of this ...

    Article : 125 words
  10. BREEDING TIPS.

    Before putting the male bird with the hens it is wise to examine his spurs and toenails. If the former point downward at all the hens will ...

    Article : 629 words
  11. MATCHED.

    Two clergymen, totally different in character, were yet firm friends. One was prim and precise, especially careful of his linen, quiet in speech and ...

    Article : 135 words
  12. THEY WERE AGREED.

    With faces solemn and stern, the "good men and true" took their places in the jury-box. "Well, gentlemen," asked the judge, ...

    Article : 119 words
  13. THE BITER BIT.

    A Scottish farmer was selling wool one day to a carrier, and after weighing it he went in to the house to make out an invoice. When he came back ...

    Article : 163 words
  14. THE ARBITRATOR.

    Oh, that baby! It was cuddled and kissed and caressed as though, it were a kitten. It was loked at and leered at as though ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. THE EYE OF THE GUN.

    This is called the telemeter and is used by all artillerists in some shape or other. The telemeter is really a tube with two telescopic ...

    Article : 202 words
  16. THE HEIRLOOM.

    Poor Charlie's heartrending grimaces in school had aroused his teacher's deepest sympathies. The manner in which he would keep squinting in ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. NOT ON YOUR LIFE.

    Softly the nurse smoothed the sufferrer's pillow. He had been admitted only that morning, and now he looked up pleadingly at the nurse who stood ...

    Article : 110 words
  18. EXTREME MEASURES.

    "This towel," said, the attendant in the germ-proof barber's shop, "has been subjected to an extreme heat and is thoroughly sterilised." ...

    Article : 148 words
  19. A DELICATE HINT.

    His wife had been dead for some time, and, having decently mourned her, he cast his eye around for her successor. ...

    Article : 163 words
  20. AN AERIAL ISLAND.

    In Mexico, three miles south of the Mesa Encantada, there is a splendid specimen of fantastic erosion—an "island" in the air, a rock with ...

    Article : 221 words
  21. TOO GREAT A RISK.

    "Ah," remarked the doctor, as he examined the patient's tongue and felt his pulse. I'm glad to find you so much better this morning. That ...

    Article : 96 words
  22. ADAPTABLE.

    "Now lookee 'ere," said the farmer to the manager of the cloth factory, planking down a big parcel of wool, "t' last cloth you made for me was so ...

    Article : 149 words
  23. 'TWAS A COPPER DROPPED.

    The travelling conjurer had been making things appear and disappear, and making hats into rabbits, etc., with great dexterity at his favourite ...

    Article : 127 words
  24. ANOTHER KIND OF LICKING.

    Tommy was writing a long letter to his father when a visitor was brought into the room by his aunt. In his haste to clear the table, ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. CLEAR PROOF.

    Young Brown had caught the craze for muscular development, through which, like teething, mumps, and measles, most of us must go. ...

    Article : 118 words
  26. KNEW SOMETHING.

    School children know a great deal more than they used to do. In fact, some of them, in their own opinions, at least, are quite capable of tutoring ...

    Article : 137 words
  27. LIVING AEROPLANES.

    It would be a mistake to suppose that the bird's wings enable it to fly. If wings spelt flying, any of us could attach a pair and soar into the air. ...

    Article : 181 words
  28. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    It is on record that the original motto on the design for the Victoria Cross was "For the Brave," but Queen Victoria, after reaching a ...

    Article : 96 words
  29. MOST LADY-LIKE.

    "Frances," said the little girl's mother, reprovingly, "you came downstairs so noisily that you could be heard all over the house. Now, go ...

    Article : 81 words
  30. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE

    So far as feeding is concerned, an the broody hen wants is wheat, [?]ushed charcoal, and clean water. Aim for a fair appearance in your ...

    Article : 187 words
  31. IN GREENLAND.

    Courtship and marriage customs among the Greenlanders were in early times simple and unceremonious. We are told that when a ...

    Article : 102 words
  32. THE COLONEL'S DEFEAT.

    The colonel believed in soldiers being bachelors; so he usually refused his men permission to marry. One applicant turned away looking ...

    Article : 107 words
  33. DIDN'T BLAME THEM.

    Uncle Josh was comfortably lighting his pipe in, the living-room last evening when Aunt Maria glanced up from her knitting. ...

    Article : 72 words
  34. EXTRA SPECIAL.

    They were sitting in the richly-furnished drawing-room, with its roseshaded lights, chatting after dinner. "Claude, dear," she said, with a ...

    Article : 50 words
  35. VIOLENT.

    "Was her father violent when you asked him for her hand?" "Was he? Great guns? I thought held shake my hand off.? ...

    Article : 2 words
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