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  2. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    The expression "well-tempered" or "finely-tempered" steel is generally misused. It is usually taken to indicate steel of extra hardness, whereas the ...

    Article : 141 words
  3. THE POULTRY BUN.

    The vice commonly called feather-eating is liable to give the poultry-keeper trouble during the moulting season unless strict measures are taken to ...

    Article : 638 words
  4. OMENS OF SUCCESS.

    Bone of the omens of luck popularly believed in make a curious study when marshalled together. If the palm of your right hand itches, ...

    Article : 502 words
  5. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    Sealed Orders in the Navy are orders given to the commanding offcer of a ship or a squadron sealed up and only to be opened at sea at a certain ...

    Article : 946 words
  6. ADVANTAGES OF A LIFE PLAN.

    It pays to have a life plan. Such a plan unifies our life; it organises our days; it binds oar hours together in one harmonious whole; it gives meaning ...

    Article : 275 words
  7. NOTHING EXTRAORDINARY.

    An officer of the guard near the edge of a cliff on the Rock of Gibraltar in his regulation written report stated that nothing extraordinary had occurred ...

    Article : 152 words
  8. AMERICAN HUMOUR.

    A Socialist.—Enter the nurse. "Please, 'm, will yon come in and speak to Master Willie? He won't let me bathe him. He says he's a ...

    Article : 926 words
  9. FERTILISING QUALITIES OF RAIN.

    The fertilising qualities of tropical rainfall are probably not realised by most students of agriculture. Nitric acid is formed in the atmosphere by ...

    Article : 125 words
  10. PARTING SHOT.

    The barber had, for the time being, exhausted his stock of topics, and the customer nobly came to the rescue. "Oh, by the way," said he, "what ...

    Article : 144 words
  11. WHERE BROWN'S STRATEGY FAILED.

    It was the early hours of the morning, and not yet light, when Brown woke up with a sense of impending dread. He suddenly remembered that ...

    Article : 187 words
  12. TRACINGS MADE WITHOUT INK BY NEW PROCESS.

    A radical change in drafting methods may be brought about fcy a new tracing fabric that has just appeared on the market. This fabric is somewhat similar ...

    Article : 176 words
  13. THE "SICK" DRUMMER.

    As a regiment of soldiers was on the march, some of the soldiers stepped out of the ranks, and confiscated a couple of geese, and one of the drummers ...

    Article : 132 words
  14. MUSICAL JOKES.

    It is said that a respectable tradesman of the name of G. Sharp was astonished one morning to find that some musical wag had added to his name ...

    Article : 168 words
  15. CHINA AND GLASS CEMENT.

    A most excellent cement for glass and china, and one which will be found to resist all the solvent action of water, I can be made as follows: Dissolve 10 ...

    Article : 229 words
  16. PAYING HIM OUT.

    Robinson was a "traveller." How he managed ever to secure such a position with any firm it is impossible to say, since, poor man, he was ...

    Article : 194 words
  17. THE ONLY WAY.

    "On private business," said Charles to the office-boy, as he handed in his card. With a quaking heart and a coldness ...

    Article : 152 words
  18. MAIZE AND MOULTING.

    Many poultry-keepers imagine that moulting fowls require a good proportion of maize to enable them to bear the strain incidental to the changing ...

    Article : 198 words
  19. FAT SOLDIERS.

    Here is a story of the late American Commander General Shafter, who, although himself a man of corpulence, had a dislike for fat soldiers. ...

    Article : 162 words
  20. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

    Few of us have the opportunity of catching red-handed a notorious thief, and probably few of us would seize the moment if it came. ...

    Article : 133 words
  21. ALL ABOUT ANTHRACITE.

    It has been proved that, of all the various kinds of coal, anthracite is supposed to be the last stage in the conversion of vegetable matter into coal. ...

    Article : 243 words
  22. FOREWARNED.

    Mr. Backrack is a most considerate husband, but there is a limit. Upon leaving home one morning, his wife requested him to purchase for her ...

    Article : 74 words
  23. BOTH WERE SOLD.

    "Gentlemen, I can't lie about the horse; he is blind in one eye," said the auctioneer. The horse was soon knocked down to a citizen, who had been ...

    Article : 105 words
  24. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    The poultry man should give his fowls something to do, and he shouldn't overfeed them. A small scratching shed may easily be made by nailing ...

    Article : 124 words
  25. THE VALUABLE BAT.

    To the Government of the United States we owe the discovery that the bat, insead of, being useless and worthless, as is generally thought, is really ...

    Article : 82 words
  26. A NOVEL AUTOMOBILE RACING-TRACK.

    The most novel automobile racing track in the world is at Salduro, Utah, where natural-salt beds furnish the roadway. The beds are on the line of ...

    Article : 76 words
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