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  2. SUNLIGHT AND HEALTH.

    Sunlight is Nature’s most powerful drug. But as in the case of all drugs, we should remember to use it discreetly, for, although it contains ...

    Article : 215 words
  3. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    In one of the New Orleans parks a big thermometer has been erected close to the superintendent’s office which measures 10ft. in height, and is ...

    Article : 881 words
  4. WOUNDS IN WAR.

    A French doctor who went through the Balkan War gives the following interesting account of wounds and how they are got. ...

    Article : 271 words
  5. THE POULTRY RUN.

    Animal food is fed to poultry to take the place of insects, worms, snails, and such small land and water creatures as they would obtain on, natural range. ...

    Article : 372 words
  6. AMERICAN HUMOUR.

    A Tip—Who made the saucepan with left-sided spout? “I,” said the Mere Man; “I thought it out.” Women, oh, Mere Man—why not use ...

    Article : 882 words
  7. ABSTINENCE FROM FOOD.

    It has been authoritatively stated that if abstinence from food does not last too long, and especially if it is voluntary and habitual, the ...

    Article : 183 words
  8. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    Investigations are being conducted under the auspices of the Dominion Government of Canada with a view to the utilisation of green flax fibre, which ...

    Article : 65 words
  9. DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF SHRAPNEL.

    The shrapnel is really a flying cannon, which shoots its charge while in fight or explodes on contact. Its speed of five hundred thousand feet per ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. ALL MADE CLEAR.

    Wonderful! That was the verdict of the Chinese mandarin’s eight little wives on their English lady guest. Forgetting manners in their ...

    Article : 170 words
  11. AN INCH OF RAIN.

    An inch of rain means really a big rainfall. When ah inch of rain has fallen it means practically that the amount of water descending from the ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. WHAT NEXT, MA’AM

    “What is my boofy baby, crying for?” exclaimed the young mother, as she rushed to her yelling firstborn. “Nurse,” she said crushingly to ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. VERY URGENT, INDEED.

    After a fatiguing two hours in his padded office, followed by half a day’s strenuous work round the club billiard table, Mr. Potter arrived ...

    Article : 235 words
  14. TO GET WINTER EGGS.

    To obtain a good supply of eggs in the cold, winter weather depends to a large extent on the feeding. A watertight roosting shed—free from cracks ...

    Article : 654 words
  15. HUGE TELESCOPES.

    If the new Canadian observatory to be erected on Vancouver Island is fortunate enough to be equipped with the proposed seventy-three-inch telescope ...

    Article : 147 words
  16. UTILISATION OF PUTRID MEAT.

    In certain Continental countries nothing is allowed to go to waste. Meat unfit for food and the bodies of animals that have died of disease are ...

    Article : 166 words
  17. NOVEL DEVICE FOR LIFTING HEAVY SACKS..

    A German inventor has devised a contrivance for lifting heavy sacks. A wooden framework, substantially built, forms with its cross support a letter ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 86 words
  18. THE MYSTERIOUS EGG.

    The hen’s egg, although weighing but 2 to 24oz., is a very mysterious little thing. Whilst the sex of an egg before the latter has been incubated, ...

    Article : 176 words
  19. TESTING THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE.

    Ingenious instruments have constantly been invented by meteorologists for recording the temperature and the humidity of the upper atmosphere and ...

    Article : 185 words
  20. EVOLVING THE GOLF BALL.

    The evolution of the golf ball has been slow and laborious. The first balls were made of untanned bull’s hide, two rounds forming the ends, ...

    Article : 188 words
  21. MATCHES.

    The only matches sold in London 100 years ago were cedar splints tipped with a paste of chlorate of potash and sugar. One dipping one of these ...

    Article : 156 words
  22. BUT POSSIBLY TRUE.

    Some people have a terrifying knack of saying the wrong thing at the most inconvenient time. Fred was of them. The other night at a dinner party ...

    Article : 146 words
  23. SKINS AS BANK-NOTES.

    In China, the first country to use bank-notes, certain skins were once of such great value that they were accepted as cash, passing from hand to ...

    Article : 202 words
  24. THE FIRST MEERSCHAUM PIPE.

    The first meerschaum pipe, it is believed, was made by Kavol Kowates, an ingenious shoemaker, a resident of Pesth, Hungary. He was skilful in ...

    Article : 169 words
  25. WHY THE BOY DIDN’T PLAY.

    An elderly gentleman, clad in an immaculate. suit of black, was seated on a bench in the park enjoying the lovely spring day. A small boy lay on the ...

    Article : 138 words
  26. BY FORCE OF HABIT.

    In the course of a lesson on the coins of the realm a teacher had taken her class of little girls through the entire range, from farthings to sovereigns. ...

    Article : 61 words
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