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  2. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    An invention named the "audiphone amplifier," for use aboard passenger ships, has been tested with satisfactory results by a United ...

    Article : 93 words
  3. HONEY AS A WHOLESOME FOOD.

    Formerly honey was the principal sweet, and it was one of the items sent as a propitiatory offering by Jacob to his unrecognised son, the chief ruler. ...

    Article : 305 words
  4. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    So-called marriageable ages vary very widely in different countries. In Austria a "man" and "woman" are supposed to be capable of marrying ...

    Article : 937 words
  5. GOT IT.

    A certain good-looking portrait painter got a commission to paint the portrait of a rich city magnate. He improvised a studio down at his ...

    Article : 363 words
  6. THE POULTRY RUN.

    There are certain ailments that affect chickens, but which are rarely known to affect adult fowls, and there are a number of diseases arising from ...

    Article : 880 words
  7. AMERICAN HUMOUR.

    Home Conversation.--"Why have you interested yourself in theosophy?" 'Well," replied young Mrs. Torkins, "my husband persists in talking about ...

    Article : 877 words
  8. SENSATIONS OF STARVING.

    For the first two days through which a strong and healthy man is doomed to exist upon nothing his sufferings are perhaps more acute than ...

    Article : 408 words
  9. THE DEAD SEA.

    The wonderful buoyancy of the Dead Sea, that strange inland sheet of water in Palestine, is proverbial. It is some forty-seven miles long by nine miles ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. CHEAP GAS INVENTION.

    A young Marion (Kansas) man announces, the invention of a process for solving the fuel problem. By means of a special motor and ...

    Article : 116 words
  11. NO TYING REQUIRED.

    A new box which automatically "locks" itself is reproduced in this illustration. The bottom of the box in which the articles are placed has ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 111 words
  12. EFFECTS OF ANGER.

    Anger, says a writer, is the intoxication of the passions; like inebriety, by indulging it grows into a disease. "I cannot help it," says the ...

    Article : 321 words
  13. NOVEL PAINT WHICH STOPS THE HEAT RAYS..

    There has recently been placed on the market an interesting chemical paint manufactured by a German concern, which has the property of ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. NO LUCK AT ALL.

    Jenkins, who had gone to the shop, that sold everything to make a few purchases, happened to notice, while the assistant was serving him--what do ...

    Article : 183 words
  15. HOW TUNES ARE BUILT.

    The mastery of music never just "came naturally" to any human being. The world has never known a more industrious worker than the illustrious ...

    Article : 159 words
  16. THE INDUSTRIOUS EARTHWORM.

    The part performed by worms in rendering the earth fertile is not generally understood. Darwin estimated that worms, by swallowing earth for ...

    Article : 177 words
  17. TESTING CIGARS.

    A well-known cigar expert has been dispelling some popular misconceptions anent the fragrant weed. He alluded to the belief that the whiter the ...

    Article : 175 words
  18. SLEEP WITH OPEN EYES.

    Most people sleep on their sides, with the knees drawn up. Elephants always, and horses commonly, sleep standing up. ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. HER IDEA OF ENJOYMENT.

    It was a sweet, sad play, and there was hardly a dry handkerchief in the house. But one mail in the first balcony irritated his neighbours ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. AUTOMATIC ROAD BUILDER.

    A self-propelled road-building machine has been tested abroad with results that are said to be highly satisfactory from the standpoints of ...

    Article : 189 words
  21. LONGEVITY OF BIRDS.

    In ancient days it was the general belief that ravens lived longer than any species of birds, and it was said that their age frequently exceeded a ...

    Article : 172 words
  22. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    When you have a bird whose face is covered with hairs, you may be sure that it lacks constitution and stamina. You will also note that most of the ...

    Article : 139 words
  23. IN ORDER TO ESCAPE.

    One day a young man came into a studio to be photographed. Instead of posing so as to look as handsome as possible, he hunched his back as ...

    Article : 108 words
  24. A TAX ON BACHELORS.

    There was a time in England when the bachelor was taxed; but even if he attempted to escape by marriage he could not avoid the tax-gatherer, ...

    Article : 98 words
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