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  2. The Farmer.

    The coats of young stock, an experienced herdsman remarks, are important, and he thus explains his practice with young bulls: "About ...

    Article : 379 words
  3. Science Notes & News.

    M. Schloesing, a member of the French Institute of Science, and director of the tobacco factories, condemns cigarette smoking ...

    Article : 96 words
  4. Facts & Fancies.

    More than one long-lived person has attributed his or her length of years to the habitual eating of onions. Mrs. Rebecca Burns, who ...

    Article : 1,355 words
  5. American Humour.

    "Where's Rip?" inquired the village crony. "He's either shaking hands win somebody at the tavern or out on a ...

    Article : 435 words
  6. MOVING PICTURES BY TELEGRAPH.

    Sending photographs over telephone or telegraph wires has not yet reached a thoroughly practical stage, but a French inventor claims ...

    Article : 210 words
  7. OCCUPATION DISEASES OF NERVES.

    Occupation-neuroses are due not to fatigue of muscles, but to fatigue of certain centres in the brain, which preside over certain groups ...

    Article : 105 words
  8. THE INCUBATOR THERMOMETER.

    The incubator thermometer is responsible to a very great extent for the ultimate results attending the operation of artificial hatching. ...

    Article : 334 words
  9. THE RIDDLE OF LAKE BAIKAL.

    The riddle of Lake Baikal, in Central Asia, is similar to that of Lake Tanganyika, in Central Africa. In both cases a large body of ...

    Article : 133 words
  10. COLOURS IN BYGONE DAYS.

    History shows that the ancients knew many things in which we are ignorant. For instance, many centuries ago people had a marvellous ...

    Article : 115 words
  11. The Poultry Run.

    [?]erhaps some of my readers who have not been at the business very long will appreciate a note on hatching and rearing chickens ...

    Article : 635 words
  12. SOLID PETROL COMING.

    Gogu Constantinescu, a Roumanian, claims to have invented solid patrol. He takes tin after tin of ordinary petrol and turns it out ...

    Article : 137 words
  13. WRITING ON GLASS

    Coloured pencils for writing on glass can be made by melting together, over a slow fire, 100 part of spermaceti, 75 parts of tallow ...

    Article : 66 words
  14. GEORGE SAND'S RUSE.

    One of the most ingenious strategems ever employed at a bazaar was probably that, devised by the famous writer, George Sand, when holding ...

    Article : 149 words
  15. THE ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION OF DUCK EGGS.

    Ducks' eggs require less heat during their period of incubation than hens' eggs. Whilst the temperature in the incubator should, for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 343 words
  16. Words of Wisdom.

    There is no chance in results. Experience cannot be bought with other people's money. It is much easier to be wise in ...

    Article : 128 words
  17. SEA-DRIVEN SHIPS.

    A Brooklyn inventor has devised a plan to apply wave power to the propulsion of vessels crossing the ocean. The model of his invention ...

    Article : 189 words
  18. LONG-DISTANCE MUSIC.

    The transmission of music a distance of 500 miles over an ordinary telephone circuit has recently been successfully accomplished in ...

    Article : 120 words
  19. TOLD BY PRINCE ALEXANDER.

    Prince Alexander George of Teck usually has a store of good stories to tell. One of the best of these relates to when he was stationed at ...

    Article : 269 words
  20. THREE REAR WHEELS.

    An inventor has attached two extra wheels to the rear of his motorcycle, converting it into a unique, but, so he states, very practical ...

    Article : 94 words
  21. FOR MUSICIANS.

    After years of vain effort, Don Angelo Barbieri, an Italian inventor, claims to have succeeded in devising an "automusicograph" ...

    Article : 129 words
  22. AMBITION.

    It has been well said "it is better to have a high standard and strive to reach it than to have a standard so low that our ambitions never look ...

    Article : 61 words
  23. KEEP YOUR TROUBLES SACRED.

    A wife to whom life cannot have been all sunshine writes the following advice to other married pairs: Preserve sacredly the privacies of ...

    Article : 88 words
  24. CURIOSITY OF THE UPPER AIR

    The reported drying up of lakes in Switzerland, Germany, Russia, and Thibet has led to the suggestion that the earth is. becoming ...

    Article : 112 words
  25. NEW IDEA FOR RAILWAYS.

    The long list of accidents, due to spreading rails and breaking wheel flanges, on both electric and steam railways, constitutes the reason for ...

    Article : 137 words
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