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  2. NOVELETTE.

    It was drawing toward nine o'clock on a dull, drizzly evening, and my horse was leg-weary. I am one of those persons who ought ...

    Article : 2,087 words
  3. MIGRATING BIRDS.

    Scientific men who are deeply interested in studying how wild birds take their flight have found out some very interesting facts ...

    Article : 432 words
  4. ILLITERATE RUSSIA.

    To-day in Russia all shops have their signs. Outside the baker's shop, beside his printed name--printed name, by the way, often quite unintelligible ...

    Article : 262 words
  5. NAPOLEON'S ONLY WOUND.

    An interesting relic has just been placed in the Army Museum in the shape of a fragment of the shell that struck Napoleon at Ratisbonne on ...

    Article : 97 words
  6. ELECTRIC SMELTING OF TIN.

    Preliminary tests and more extended investigations in Cornwall with an electric blast furnace fitted with three carbon electrodes and supplied with ...

    Article : 66 words
  7. SALT AND HEALTH.

    Health cannot be maintained without a due proportion of mineral salts in our food, but the only one which need be added to our daily menu is ...

    Article : 295 words
  8. RESOURCES OF THE SEA.

    With the great resources of the sea, such as fishes, whales, seals, turtles, and crustaceans, everyone is familiar, but--the miscellaneous minor treasures ...

    Article : 216 words
  9. ROYAL SUPERSTITION.

    Canterbury Cathedral, like most great cathedrals, is decorated with innumerable niches for statues. At Canterbury a series of these inches is ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. THE HOPE DIAMOND.

    According to "The Lady," the celebrated "Hope" diamond was on board the Titanic when she went down. It states also that, though the French ...

    Article : 224 words
  11. BICYCLER IN WAR.

    The authorities are beginning to take serious notice of the possibilities involved in the use of the cycle in war. In addition to the increased ...

    Article : 100 words
  12. DISCOVERY IN AVIATION.

    What promises to be a scientific discovery of the very highest importance in aviation is now being investigated by the French military authorities. It ...

    Article : 208 words
  13. VALUE OF HONEY.

    Pleasant as a comestible at any season of the year, honey is specially valuable in a damp, raw climate like our own, owing to its heat-yielding ...

    Article : 214 words
  14. STRANGE PLANTS.

    Some extraordinary plants have been discovered in England, plants which have puzzled the botanists, to whom they were either utterly unknown, or ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. Scientific Notes.

    One of the boldest of railway projects is the plan recently formulated by an English engineer to construct a 2200 miles line from Port Said, Egypt ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. ANTECEDENTS OF THE FIRELESS COOKER.

    The first definite mention of the fact that food could be cooked without continual heating is said to have been made by the great ...

    Article : 523 words
  17. Odds and Ends

    New Arrival--I suppose you have music at the hotel. Hotel Clerk--No; but we have a band. Pedestrian--Hey! You just missed ...

    Article : 502 words
  18. WHY THUNDER SOURS MILK.

    It has often been observed that some foods, such as milk meat and soup, go bad when there is a thunderstorm. This has generally been attributed to the ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. SULTAN AS CABINETMAKER.

    It is said that the principal occupation of the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid in the palaces of Allatine is carpentering, and sometimes, by way of a change, he ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. PRESERVING TALLEST TREES.

    None too soon a popular movement has been set on foot in Australia to preserve the gigantic stringybarks (various species of eucalyptus) of that ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. THE NEWEST BLOUSES.

    All the newest--the very newest--blouses have long sleeves, reaching to the wrist and thence a soft frill falls over the band. These blouses (says a ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. Miscellaneous.

    A photographic map of the entire sky, showing approximately 1,500,000 stars, has been prepared in sections by the astronomers of Harvard ...

    Article : 321 words
  23. RANGE OF WIRELESS.

    In the old system of wireless telegraph from 15 per cent. to 20 per cent. of the primary energy was carried to the transmitter antenna; in the ...

    Article : 127 words
  24. LINEN NEARLY 8000 YEAR SOLD.

    Modern paper has often been compared disadvantageously with that made in bygone years. Most of the bosk published nowadays will be apt to ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. OVER-BUSY WOMEN.

    The over-busy woman, always in a state or rush, exercises a very disturbing influence on those about her. She fairly revels in talking about her ...

    Article : 143 words
  26. Housekeeper.

    The white of an egg dropped into a pot of soup will gather to it all impurities. When it curdles remove it. To-prevent brass fire-sets from ...

    Article : 362 words
  27. CANADA AND WIRELESS.

    Canadians were among the first to recognise the value of wireless telegraphy in the interests of navigation on the inland waters of the country ...

    Article : 296 words
  28. HOT WATER BY ELECTRIC POWER.

    The Electric World, in a recent issue, described a progressive electric light plant which sold to its customers not only the current, but the exhaust ...

    Article : 126 words
  29. RECIPES.

    Potato Puff: This is an excellent recipe for using up cooked potato. Ingredients: Three-quarters' of a pound of cooked potatoes, 14lb. of ...

    Article : 648 words
  30. A PRIMITIVE CLOCK.

    At Coughton, a tiny Warwickshire village, there is an ancient church dated 1525. Inside the belfry, is a large wooden case, which stands about ...

    Article : 149 words
  31. SWISS POLICE AND BOXING.

    In the Canton of Vaud the director of police has ordered all the policemen under his control to learn English boxing and be able, when attacked, to ...

    Article : 89 words
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