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  2. The Poultry Run.

    One of the troubles that chickens rc heir to is that of cramp. This is a source of annoyance to the poultry keeper. The first symptoms of cramp ...

    Article : 240 words
  3. COST OF DISCOVERING AMERICA.

    Documents which have been recently discovered at Palos Spain, give interesting particulars of the outlay made by Colombus, on his ...

    Article : 98 words
  4. Facts and Fancies.

    Experiments have for some time been carried out in Germany with a view to abolishing the system of incarcerating lunatics in asylums, and a town has ...

    Article : 910 words
  5. Science Notes and News.

    A gas engine erected several thousand feet above the sea level did not give the power expected, and it was suspected that the deficiency was due ...

    Article : 88 words
  6. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT DIAMONDS.

    A diamond which is perfectly free from colour is of the first water, and one of the first things the woman who understands diamonds looks at is the ...

    Article : 309 words
  7. POTS AND PANS.

    Writing of the improvement of the status of Oriental women, Saint Nihal Singh, in the "Edinburgh Review," quotes by way of contrast some old ...

    Article : 215 words
  8. American Humour.

    A gentleman who was once stopped by an old man begging, replied, "Don't you know, my man, that fortune knocks once at every man's door? ...

    Article : 672 words
  9. THE AQUILINE NOSE.

    An interesting statement is that of Dr. Louis Robinson as to the origin of the aquiline nose, which feature he asserts is requisite to a full ...

    Article : 269 words
  10. ORIGIN OF "HORSEPOWER" AS A POWER UNIT.

    The multitude of automobiles, motors and power-machinery of all kinds in our days has caused the word horse-power to become part of the ...

    Article : 329 words
  11. SEPARATE STALL FOR BIG TOE.

    The chafing of the big toe against its nearest neighbour among the little toes, often the cause of bunions, or corns, has caused an English inventor ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 74 words
  12. BUILDING UP A STRAIN.

    Most poultry-keepers at some time or another cherish the idea of building up a strain of fowls that will embody all the test qualities and at the same ...

    Article : 257 words
  13. SUPER-SENSES.

    Clairvoyance, or second sight, as it is popularly called, is still one of the problems unsolved by science. Usually the "super-sense" is confined to ...

    Article : 323 words
  14. SUNSHINE STORAGE.

    Has the sunshine really been harnessed at last? Can its life-giving-properties definitely be utilised for supplying motor power? ...

    Article : 544 words
  15. MAN OR WOMAN: WHICH WOULD YOU BE?

    One hundred girls of the highest education were asked the question—"Would you prefer to be a man or a woman?" ...

    Article : 559 words
  16. TONGUE PRESSURE RECORDED.

    An apparatus for making records of tongue - pressure, for use in the treatment of defects in speech such as the occluded "s," in ...

    Article : 133 words
  17. SHERLOCK HOLMES FAILED.

    It was early morning. The rising sun had dispelled the gloom and awakened all the little birds, who forthwith, began the usual row. ...

    Article : 401 words
  18. WEATHER DETECTOR.

    By means of a modified wireless set recently installed in the observatory in Lyons, France, M. Flajolet has been able to note atmospheric electrical ...

    Article : 87 words
  19. OXY-BENZOL BLOWPIPE.

    A new type of blow-pipe, [?]daimed to have several advantagres over the oxy-acetylene, and oxy-hydrogen system, has recently been placed on ...

    Article : 288 words
  20. A REGULATED PRESS.

    Some of the laws that regulated the Turkish Press in the days of Abdul Hamid have just been published. Certain definite subjects wore laid ...

    Article : 253 words
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