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  2. AGRICULTURE.

    Pastoralists are prone to say, even alter a good fall of rain, “there's feed—feed of a kind," although thoroughly impressed with the fact that ...

    Article : 666 words
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  4. BRITISH KANGAROOS.

    Fox-hunting is occasionally rather a complicated affair in Herts. At a recent meet of the Old Berkeley Hunt the hounds lost "owing to spectators ...

    Article : 201 words
  5. CAN WILD OATS WALK ?

    We are all more familiar with 'wild oats' in a moral than a botanical sense, yet in the latter it is an article of no small curiosity. ...

    Article : 150 words
  6. TELL-TALE EYEBROWS.

    "What a lot of difference there is in the eyebrows of people! Some are bushy, others almost invisible. Some are straight, others curved. From the ...

    Article : 121 words
  7. THE WONDERFUL WORM.

    The earthworm is a much-despised creature, against which war is waged by both man and birds. But the earthworm makes agriculture and its ...

    Article : 146 words
  8. IF A COMET HIT THE EARTH.

    What would happen if a comet were to hit the earth? Would our globe be consumed with a flash of fire or would we ever notice it? How much ...

    Article : 680 words
  9. TERRORS OF AN AVALANCHE.

    In the avalanche season. When the thaws begin, the snow which has accumulated during the winter breaks off and slides downhill, knocking over ...

    Article : 647 words
  10. MEETING DEATH HALF-WAY.

    My friend Jepson was a mine manager (writes a correspondent). He had often tried to persuade me to visit the mine over which he had ...

    Article : 627 words
  11. TEST YOUR BREATHING.

    How long can you hold your breath? Two French doctors have been making experiments, and they have ...

    Article : 120 words
  12. QUEER TOILETS.

    It is wrong to suppose that animals, upon waking up in the morning are ready for the day's work and play, Like human beings, they have ...

    Article : 402 words
  13. EAT OIRT FOR HEALTH !

    If you want to be really healthy you must eat dirt. So says Dr. Blob, a famous French surgeon, who considers that the starving Russians who ...

    Article : 225 words
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  15. TAMING THE UNTAMED.

    The wonderful way in which a young woman is able to control and play with some of the biggest and fiercest inmates of the London Zoo ...

    Article : 313 words
  16. NAVIGATION BY SOUND.

    An apparatus which automatically indicates the depth of water beneath a ship by means of an echo has been invented. The device, which has ...

    Article : 148 words
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  18. EGYPT'S MONSTER- PYRAMID.

    The Great Pyramid of Egypt was erected more than 5,100 years ago, and nothing more mechanically perfect has ever bean built. In ...

    Article : 278 words
  19. THE POLITE FLY.

    Mr. Julian Huxley, the biologist, has been talking about, the thinking powers of insects, he gave a very curious instance to show that flies ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. HOW WE GOT JAZZ.

    Military bands never play slow music except at a funeral. The object of the drum and fife band, as of all military bands, is to keep up the ...

    Article : 229 words
  21. A FREAK FRUIT TREE.

    In the Transvaal a remarkable tree has been grown as an experiment. A lemon tree war lopped until only three branches remained. Upon one ...

    Article : 115 words
  22. TOMBS OF DISTANT TIMES.

    The world's oldest stone buildings are reported to have been discovered near the famous pyramids of Sakers, about fifteen miles south of ...

    Article : 96 words
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