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  3. THE CANALS OF MARS.

    Mr. E. Walter Munder, in the "Pall Mall Magazine," writes in a fascinating manner about the "canals" seen by astronomers on the surface of Mars, and goes ...

    Article : 890 words
  4. THE LAND.

    The cereal crops are going through their most critical time now. Upon the character of the weather during the next fortnight or three weeks will depend the ...

    Article : 2,730 words
  5. SCIENCE NOTES.

    A plant has been discoverod in South America containing a considerable quantity of saccharine matter which is not fermentable, and possessing an unusually ...

    Article : 102 words
  6. THE HANDICAP OF MARRIAGE.

    Writing in a London paper on the subject of marriage, Mr. Cloudesley Broreton states that "in the long run the ever-growing, handicap of marriage will ...

    Article : 1,094 words
  7. FRENCH AND ENGLISH.

    In the "Cornhill Magazine" Miss Beetham-Edwards contrasts the standard of living in England and France, and has some illuminating comments to make ...

    Article : 1,147 words
  8. A GREAT ABSORBENT.

    Peat straw is the woolly fibre of peat clcansed and dried. It is generally of a light brown color, spongy in texture, light, clean, and with an extraordinary ...

    Article : 102 words
  9. CAUCASIAN SKULL-GROWING.

    By comparing modem skulls with those of the same race in an old monastery in the Kedron Valley, Doctor Dight, of the American College of Beirut, Syria, has ...

    Article : 95 words
  10. HARDENING WOOD.

    Considerable interest, has been aroused by the announcement, as the result of a prolonged series of experiments, of a method of so treating timber as to ...

    Article : 100 words
  11. AN ANT MARSHAL.

    A French traveller has discovered a new species of ant in Siam. The creatures were small, of a gray color, and lived in damp places. M. M. Meissen, the ...

    Article : 111 words
  12. HOW NATIONS "RAISE THE WIND."

    Germany has on two occasions found herself in financial difficulties, and in order to stave off disaster she conceived two extraordinary methods of scraping money ...

    Article : 693 words
  13. COSSACKS MIDNIGHT RAID.

    The following story is told in the "Harbin News", concerning Cossacks in an outpost station, with General Rennenkampf's force:— ...

    Article : 354 words
  14. CONTRADICTORY PROVERBS

    Defining a maxim, or adage, in the columns of the "Queen," Gelett Burgess says that it is "a half truth that, to become truly pregnant, needs to be Wedded ...

    Article : 321 words
  15. MILLIONAIRES' HOTEL.

    The new Hotel St. Regis, in New York City, which was opened this year as the most magnificently-furnished building of any kind in the world, let last ...

    Article : 188 words
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