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  2. Science Notes and News.

    The force of a blow struck by a modern train going at high speed is greater than that of the shot from a modern gun. At least, such is the ...

    Article : 140 words
  3. Random Readings.

    Sydney Smith once asked a young lady -- "Do you ever reflect how you pass your life?" ...

    Article : 90 words
  4. THE REST CURE.

    People are at last becoming alive to the fact that a rest cure, if taken in time, may ward off a serious illness or may bring back renewed health and ...

    Article : 475 words
  5. CULLING THE COMPOSER.

    Signor Puccini, the composer, refers his strangest musical reminiscence to Milan. Unknown, as he supposed himself to be, he attended in that city a ...

    Article : 289 words
  6. Wise and Otherwise.

    "Spottswood is one of the most remarkable men I have ever known." "What form does his genius take?" "He isn't a genius at all. He ...

    Article : 803 words
  7. The Poultry Run.

    Between the two popular varieties of geese -- Emden and Toulouse -- there is very little to choose in point of merit, although there is considerable ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 215 words
  8. New, Odd & Interesting.

    Broadcloth took its name from its unusual width. The mortality under chloroform is only one person in ten thousand. ...

    Article : 774 words
  9. For Young Folks.

    Pierre held up the wooden bear no had been busily carving for a whole week. He was rather proud of it, and he expected some words of praise. ...

    Article : 955 words
  10. JONATHAN WILD'S MAXIMS.

    Jonathan Wild had every qualification necessary to form a great man. . . . He laid down several maxims as the certain methods of attaining ...

    Article : 393 words
  11. ELECTRICITY FROM PEAT.

    European engineers are engaged at present in the investigation of methods of utilising peat as fuel in electric stations. Southern Bavaria, for ...

    Article : 163 words
  12. ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.

    It has recently been pointed out that the use of oil for lighting and heating purposes is of very ancient origin, and it is only necessary to recall the ...

    Article : 211 words
  13. MINING FOR EMERALDS.

    The finest emeralds are found in the Republic of Colombia, in the famous Muzo mines in the department of Yoyaca, seventy miles north by west of ...

    Article : 214 words
  14. GOOSE REARING.

    Goose rearing is not so much indulged in as the sister industry of poultry, yet to anyone who goes in for mixed poultry farming it will be ...

    Article : 768 words
  15. ARRANGING BOUQUETS.

    The art of arranging bouquets is very simple. It is only necessary to possess a good eye for colour, and to have some idea of the tasteful ...

    Article : 250 words
  16. MOTION PICTURES SPEAK AS THEY MOVE.

    The first exhibition of motion pictures that speak as they move were recently given in the theatre of Thomas A. Edison's laboratory, at Orange, N.J., ...

    Article : 294 words
  17. ADVICE TO SPEAKERS.

    Don't apologise. Don't shout. Don't hesitate. Don't attitudinise. ...

    Article : 276 words
  18. WHERE HER THOUGHTS WERE.

    The husband was reading a newspaper account to his wife. Now and then he paused and asked a question. The nature of her replies made him ...

    Article : 248 words
  19. ORIGIN OF HOBSON'S CHOICE.

    "One often hears and uses the expression, 'It is a case of Hobson's choice,' yet it is safe to say that there are very few people indeed who could ...

    Article : 267 words
  20. WITTICISM.

    Being rich is apt to make one lazy, but being lazy is not apt to make one rich. We are creatures of habit; once one ...

    Article : 216 words
  21. CIGARETTES AND THE VOICE.

    Like tippling, the effect of cigarette smoking is distinctly cumulative, and the slight but constant absorbation of tobacco juice and smoke makes the ...

    Article : 278 words
  22. TIMBER FROM STRAW.

    The steadily increasing price of timber in Europe has caused interest to be centred in a French invention for preparing a substitute for this article. The ...

    Article : 247 words
  23. WHAT IS THE SMALLEST THING?

    We used to think that about the smallest thing in the world was an atom of hydrogen. In fact, it was taken as the unit by which the atomic ...

    Article : 232 words
  24. DRUGS FOR CRIMINALS.

    The mystery as to how drugs like cocaine, opium, and morphine have been continuously smuggled into American prisons for many years past is ...

    Article : 143 words
  25. WHERE TUMBLERS CAME FROM.

    The glasses we now know as tumblers differ widely from the drinking vessels to which the name was first applied. These appear to have been of ...

    Article : 151 words
  26. A TREE THAT OWNS ITSELF.

    A giant oak tree in Athens, Ga., holds the unique distinction of owning itself. About 20 years ago, Col. W. H. Jackson had a deed made out ...

    Article : 137 words
  27. "BODY CHANGES."

    The idea that the body "changes" every seven years, or at any other period is a popular delusion. It is only necessary to read any text book ...

    Article : 50 words
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