Most animals are very particular about their morning toilet, and 'getting up' is with them often a far longer business than it is with us. ...
Article : 702 wordsSome time ago it was announced that a wealthy American was to marry again. This man, after divorcing his wife, married her mother ...
Article : 137 wordsA cat in Scotland named Major was a great rat hunter, but when he got old and had lost his teeth he found difficulty in killing the rodents. ...
Article : 609 wordsHow many people have heard of prize-fighting fishes ? These creatures are very common on the coasts of Japan and Siam. Their ...
Article : 646 wordsLove has all the senses--save common-sense, Man loves with the eye, woman with the ear. ...
Article : 886 wordsTrees are formed of three parts-- the roots, the parent stem or trunk, and the branches. When the trees are cut up for lumber, the first of ...
Article : 163 wordsA new theory as to how the world will end is advanced by Mme. Curie, the discoverer of radium .She declares that the earth, instead of ...
Article : 136 wordsAn enormous amount of hidden treasure has lately been discovered near Cuxhaven, in Germany. It is valued at 20,000,000 marks ...
Article : 143 wordsYou know that lovely rambler rose, "Lady Gay." Originally, this rose was called "Amelia Jenkins." As such it mot with no special sale, but ...
Article : 134 wordsWho were the lake-dwellers of Switzerland, and what became of them ? Facts newly brought to light are most interesting. For one thing ...
Article : 485 wordsMany theories have been advanced for the origin of the term "round robin." The most generally accepted is that the practice of signing a ...
Article : 190 words"It's only fools as backs 'osses," Robert Ridsdale used to say, "the bookie's the wise man, as pockets their money." ...
Article : 497 wordsThat every year there is a haryest of seaweed is a fact which is not generally known. This industry is carried on in ...
Article : 201 wordsA strange food, which is both cheap and sustaining, has been the subject of scientific experiments with, the object of making it suitable for ...
Article : 123 wordsYou might be surprised for a moment if you were told that mankind lives entirely upon stones, metals, and other minerals. But it is true. ...
Article : 320 wordsThere is a time for everything-- even for laughter--and the man who ceaselessly cracks jokes is a nuisance. Yet there are many people who do ...
Article : 795 wordsMost of the ivory we use is obtained by digging, and not by shooting. Elephants have their own code of customs. One of these is that no ...
Article : 193 wordsEighteenth-century sportsmen would have been strong in the condemnation of the footballs we use nowadays. They would have said that ...
Article : 157 wordsNo matter how deeply we delve into history, we find traces of metal instruments which yielded musical, notes when struck by metal wands ...
Article : 160 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
King Island News (Currie, King Island : 1912 - 1986, Wed 6 Dec 1922, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: