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  2. Short Story

    Considine Lefallet, known to the world as “Con.,” sat [?]ooding in the little sanctum that had been the cradle of his creations for five years. ...

    Article : 2,060 words
  3. Interesting War Notes.

    Town life in Russia is as different as can be from life in the country districts. One curious custom is the afterlinner call. People do not call on their ...

    Article : 133 words
  4. M[?]

    The [?] known [?] sign. [?] land pe[?] ...

    Article : 78 words
  5. PRUNING CITRUS TREES.

    As a whole no class of fruit tree requires less pruning than citrus trees. At time of planting the young trees should be cut down to about 18in. to ...

    Article : 182 words
  6. TO DISPENSE WITH HORSE SHOES !

    A correspondent of the “Scientific American” asks, apropos of the horse shoeing evil: Could not some way be found for painting with some chemical ...

    Article : 198 words
  7. DOWN-IN-A-SUBMARINE SENSATION.

    In the course of an interview the commander of the captured U16 thus described life in an underwater craft:— “It is fearfully trying on the nerves. ...

    Article : 150 words
  8. MIXING FERTILISERS.

    Besides a general understanding of the functions of manures, and a know, ledge of their differences in action, there is still a necessity for some ...

    Article : 268 words
  9. ELECTRIC OVEN FOR TESTING SHRAPNEL.

    To facilitate the testing of shrapnel there has been devised a thermostatically controlled electric oven which is now in use in one of the Government ...

    Article : 157 words
  10. FOUNDER OF THE ENTENTE.

    It may be rightly said that M. Delcasse, the French Foreign Minister, whose resignation led to the downfall of the French Government, paved the ...

    Article : 452 words
  11. FARM & FIELD

    “The usual practice, in filling the silo to avoid acid fermentation, is to put in but 2½ft, or 3ft. in depth of the fodder in a single day, and this is ...

    Article : 462 words
  12. CARPETS ON[?]

    Aniline dy[?] the reputation [?] Persia, lately[?] Turks. At one [?] ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. DECORATIONS FOR WOMEN.

    A decoration exclusive to women is the Imperial Order of the Crown of India. This was founded by Queen Victoria, and is bestowed upon the ...

    Article : 160 words
  14. NOVEL ARMOURED MOTOR-CAR.

    Several of the European armies now engaged in war are using an armoured motor-car which is designed to be driven from either end. It has four ...

    Article : 130 words
  15. SCIENCE NOTES

    A Swedish-born engineer, M. Wolff Normelli, has succeeded in. inventing a new type of ammonium nitrate explosive, called Normellite, which has 25 ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. STRANGE CHINESE BELIEFS.

    Among the many extraordinary customs of the Chinese is that of banding years together in groups of twelve, called “cycles,” and ...

    Article : 168 words
  17. HOW EXPLOSIONS KILL.

    It will be recalled that on the morrow of the Battle of the Maine returned combatants related strange stories of the aspect of certain German ...

    Article : 160 words
  18. AERIAL DREADNOUGHTS.

    We have been hearing a lot about German super-aeroplanes, carrying a large crew and two or throe machineguns. What truth there is in the ...

    Article : 274 words
  19. WILLOW HERB FOR JUTE AND HEMP.

    The American Consul at Breslau reports that German manufacturers have discovered a substitute for jute and hemp, which have become scarce, in ...

    Article : 109 words
  20. The “Devil-Ship” of Antwerp.

    The “Devil-ship” of Antwerp was a much more successful and impressive affair. It was designed by an Italian engineer, and ...

    Article : 328 words
  21. GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT CUNS.

    When the Germans began to build Zeppelins, they also prepared for possible rivalry, and provided suitable weapons with which to combat them. ...

    Article : 279 words
  22. CROWING SAINFOIN.

    Sainfoin may be said to be a. similar crop to lucerne, but suited to soils not so well adapted for the latter. It will grow on most soils if they are ...

    Article : 279 words
  23. SERVIA’S MINERAL SPRINGS.

    One feature of Servia which is little known, but which one day may make that gallant little country rich, is its wealth of mineral springs. With some ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. WHAT CERMANY HAS NOT DONE.

    The dismal and gloomy pessimists, who, like the Fat Boy, are always trying to make our flesh creep with stories of Britain’s mismanagement of this war, ...

    Article : 372 words
  25. Items of Interest.

    The proper function of a Government is to make it easy for the people to do good and difficult for them to do evil.— Gladstone. ...

    Article : 230 words
  26. WIRELESS WAVES AND ORGANIC

    Ever since the extensive commercial employment of wireless telegraph there have been many who believe that the powerful Hertzian waves seriously ...

    Article : 124 words
  27. DEVELOPING FRUIT CULTURE.

    The development of fruit culture must always proceed along, two broad lines. First, the production of new and improved varieties, suitable to the ...

    Article : 159 words
  28. £40 PER SECOND.

    Three million five hundred thousand pounds a day, £145,833 an hour, £2,430 a minute, £40 a second. That is what the war is costing us, ...

    Article : 333 words
  29. KEEPS WINDSHIELD CLEAR WITH HEAT.

    There have been a number of mechanical devices designed to keep the windshield of a motor-car clear in a driving rain, but most of them rely ...

    Article : 144 words
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