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  2. MAKING V.C.'S.

    When an ordinary medal is made a steel die is used, and the article can be turned out complete with one blow of the press. Thousands can thus be made ...

    Article : 200 words
  3. Interesting War Notes.

    Near by, in the Place Verte, is the statue of Rubens in bronze, the figure being 13ft. mounted on a pedestal 20ft. in height. ...

    Article : 210 words
  4. Short Story

    The Baron Montalto was, in several ways, a rather remarkable personage. I became acquainted with him a few years ago, at the time when I [?] ...

    Article : 2,775 words
  5. PRUNING AND SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.

    The weather during the last few weeks has greatly retarded operation in this department. Even though advantage could be taken of the few fine days ...

    Article : 240 words
  6. HOW WARSHIPS EAT UP COAL.

    One of the many new items of expenditure which we have to face in the present war is the cost of fuel (says the London "Globe.). The Navy [?] ...

    Article : 241 words
  7. ARMY FILMS.

    For a year or more preceding the outbreak of the war, the German Government made extensive use of motion-picture films both for instructing ...

    Article : 121 words
  8. IF THE ANIMALS DECLARED WAR.

    The average length of life of horses at the Front is said to be about a couple of months. There are thousands of lives of horses ...

    Article : 311 words
  9. 8,935 TONS SOVEREIGNS.

    It is almost impossible to convey a popular idea as to what a million sovereigns means, let alone 1,136½ millions, which is our estimated ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. CONQUESTS OF EGYPT.

    In view of the recent attempt by the Turks to invade Egypt by the peninsular of Sues, with its subsequent failure, it is interesting to recall the ...

    Article : 248 words
  11. PICS AND BACON.

    When a pig-keeper has made his arrangements, built his pens, his yards, and fixed his pasture, he should be careful and not put in more stock than ...

    Article : 417 words
  12. WANTED -- A RUBBER GENERATOR.

    A prize of £5,000 has been offered by the German Government for a satisfactory process of regenerating rubber. It is not merely a "reclaiming" ...

    Article : 118 words
  13. MINE EXPLODING BY WIRELESS.

    From France came news a few months ago of success in the art of exploding ocean mines by wireless impulses, but the news was received with suspicion. ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. FARM AND HELD

    That there is a right way and a wrong in everything that needs to be done is easily understood, but it is not so easy to understand which is the right ...

    Article : 488 words
  15. BIG GUNS AND BUTTERFLIES.

    Lecturing recently on "Modern Artillery," Lieutenant Hadcock said that the butterfly is born, lives its full length of life, and dies of old age, all ...

    Article : 127 words
  16. FIRST TORPEDOES.

    The first navy to use torpedoes was the Austrian. Although the actual inventor of the modern weapon, Robert Whitehead, was an Englishman, he ...

    Article : 168 words
  17. BATTLEFIELD SURGERY.

    In past campaigns a wounded soldier had to undergo a painful journey to the rear of the fighting-line before his injuries could receive attention, but ...

    Article : 270 words
  18. A GREAT SUN SPOT.

    A great sun spot estimated to be 100,000 miles long has been disclosed by the recent development of a photographic plate that was exposed at the ...

    Article : 151 words
  19. LUCKY DAYS.

    The belief in the special luck, bad or good, attaching to certain days of the week is as old as the hills. Some great men have ...

    Article : 379 words
  20. SOME GERMAN SURPRISES.

    One of the biggest surprises of the present war has been the number of German soldiers who can speak English, and who are also acquainted with ...

    Article : 144 words
  21. SCIENCE NOTES.

    A remarkable operation, the extraction of a fragment of hand-grenade from the heart, was described at the Academy of Medicine by Professor ...

    Article : 201 words
  22. MILITARY AEROPLANES.

    The life of aeroplane motors in use is according to a French authority, not over 350 hours, and to assure this much of them they must be taken ...

    Article : 146 words
  23. £55,000 FOR A NEW GUN.

    A Melbourne man has invented a new quick-firing gun which, according to experts, will outclass easily the Maxim gun, which has held the markets for ...

    Article : 323 words
  24. SURGICAL MAGNETS.

    The use of magnets by surgeons for withdrawing foreign metallic substances from the body is no novelty. This war, however, has brought about a ...

    Article : 188 words
  25. ONE-SIDED FERTILISERS.

    An agricultural lecturer in describing certain abuses of artificial fertilisers, pointed out as one of the most flagrant the far too common system of ...

    Article : 300 words
  26. COURAGE AND MUSCULAR EFFORT.

    The world has not waited for theorists to tell it how emotion follows the bodily state and how the mind's tone and action take measure from the body's ...

    Article : 212 words
  27. THE PRICE OF PETROL.

    In 1905 the price of petrol was 7d. a gallon; from that time it rose steadily until in the early part of last year it was 1s. 9d. It has remained at about ...

    Article : 310 words
  28. SALUTING THE QUARTER-DECK.

    Every time an officer or a seaman goes upon the quarter-deck, he salutes it. He never by any chance forgets this, one of the regular customs on ...

    Article : 189 words
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