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  2. CHINA'S FIRST LOCOMOTIVE.

    China's first locomotive, often spoken of as the Chinese "Rocket," has a story as interesting in some respects and more exciting than that ...

    Article : 251 words
  3. BACTERIAL TOXINS IN SOILS.

    Excerpt from a paper read before the Agriculture section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at its Australian meeting ...

    Article : 906 words
  4. AMERICAN AMBULANCE TRAIN.

    The first ambulance train for the American Army has been built in England. A sixth of a mile long, it stood a few weeks ago in two ...

    Article : 151 words
  5. "HULLO, FATHER!"

    In his lecture on "War Aims and Peace " at Queen's Hall, London, the Earl of Denbigh incidentally told an excellent story. ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. TRAPPED REVOLUTIONARY.

    The "Handelsblad" states:— "It is now established that Karl Minster, the German editor of the revolutionary Socialist, 'Kampf,' ...

    Article : 186 words
  7. PRINCESS MARY.

    Everyone who knows is talking in Great Britain of the steadfast war work done by Princess Mary. The war has brought her opportunities of ...

    Article : 457 words
  8. WORKMAN EARNS £998 A YEAR.

    In a case for non-payment of income tax dealt with by the Nottingham magistrates at Mansfield recently, it was shown that a workman ...

    Article : 66 words
  9. ELECTRIFIED PATIENTS.

    "The best equipped electrical workshop in Europe for repairing injured soldiers" was the description an R.A.M.C. colonel recently applied ...

    Article : 341 words
  10. MIMIC WHO MADE A PRISONER.

    One of the most remarkable characters brought to light by the war, writes Mr. Sterling Heilig from Complegne, is Achille, who is attached to ...

    Article : 285 words
  11. FESTIVITY A BAD THING.

    Aware that self-denial means a step to victory, the nation will pass through the customary festive occasion (Christmas) with light diet but ...

    Article : 99 words
  12. CRIMES OF THE SEA.

    Could there be any surprise, asked Lord Beresford," speaking at Hull recently, that British merchant sailors had decided to boycott Germans ...

    Article : 138 words
  13. QUEEN AND BOY SOLDIER.

    There is a pretty sequel to the romance of Ted Wharton, the heroic Australian boy of 16, who, at the age of 13 1/2, got into the army, and who ...

    Article : 301 words
  14. JAW WORKED BY MOTOR.

    For a form of lockjaw in a young girl, New York surgeons performed an operation affecting the muscles of the lower jaw, and then, to restore ...

    Article : 66 words
  15. COMPASS CURIOSITIES.

    Professor J. A. Fleming recently delivered the first of the Faraday Lectures for young people at the Royal Institution, London, taking for ...

    Article : 319 words
  16. SOLDIERS' SUPERSTITIONS.

    The vogue of mascots and luck-bringers of various sorts, and often of weird construction, is considerable in the armies of to-day. We hear ...

    Article : 1,206 words
  17. BILLY SUNDAY'S FIGHT.

    Billy Sunday, the famous evangelist, had a bout with fists with a German sympathiser on his platform at Atlanta, Georgia, one night recently ...

    Article : 183 words
  18. RAT HARVEST OF DESTRUCTION.

    It is estimated in Boston, U.S.A., that the rat, particularly the voracious brown variety, costs the United States alone from £40,000,000 to ...

    Article : 235 words
  19. KRUPP'S WHINE AT LOWER PROFITS.

    The balance-sheet of Krupp's for 1916-17 shows that even in Germany the golden age for munition-making is beginning to fade away. ...

    Article : 222 words
  20. HURLING BARBED WIRE AT THE ENEMY.

    An inventor in Detroit, U.S.A., has invented a novel, projectile, which shoots barbed wire instead of bullets. The inventor, claims that his ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. WHAT TO DO.

    An onion poultice beats all others for easily neuralgic or rheumatic pains, sore throats, etc. Adding a pinch of salt when ...

    Article : 192 words
  22. SMITH'S HEN.

    The Smiths had an old hen which insisted upon neglecting her comfortable nest to-day a daily egg in the coal cellar. ...

    Article : 86 words
  23. BUTTER—AND BUTTER.

    "What is butter to-day, please?" she asked the shopman wearily, feeling for her money. "Butter is butter to-day, ma'am," ...

    Article : 47 words
  24. NOT SURPRISED.

    Suddenly and dramatically the maiden aunt swept into the drawing-room, to discover, to her horror, her cherished ward sitting on a soldier's ...

    Article : 71 words
  25. TRICKS OF THE TRADE.

    Ikey had been attending a customer in his father's pawnshop, and he came to his father in the back shop, and said:— ...

    Article : 74 words
  26. DID HE FIND IT?

    A family was seated at dinner, when the door-bell rang. The servant went to the door. It was noticed that she held long parleying ...

    Article : 74 words
  27. BILL ADMITTED IT.

    "I understand old man Simpkins was very much opposed to his daughter marrying Bill Smith; called Bill a fool, and all that sort of thing." ...

    Article : 50 words
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