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  2. “LOOKING INTO IT.”

    When the great Dr. Sorby, of Sheffield, brought the microscope to the study of geology he was laughed at by the wiseacres, who said “You ...

    Article : 644 words
  3. FAKED FITS.

    Quite a lucrative trade has been carried on by men who can imitate the effects of a fit. There was a man recently in the courts on the charge ...

    Article : 337 words
  4. HEADLESS INSECTS.

    That butterflies not only continue to live with their heads cut off but actually survive those not subjected to decapitation was the ...

    Article : 73 words
  5. NEW USES FOR SULPHUR

    From his research and study of sulphur, started as a hobby, an American chemical engineer has found new uses for the mineral. ...

    Article : 194 words
  6. A LITTLE AUDITION.

    We were all in the room that used be Anita's nursery—Anita herself, Peter Kitson, George Parling, Bill Forrest, and me. I’d been passing, ...

    Article : 1,741 words
  7. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    Why is a dual a very brief afair?— Because it only takes two seconds to arrange it. A Policeman caught a Welsh ...

    Article : 938 words
  8. SECRETS OF THE BANKERS’ ENGINEERS.

    The daring efforts of the scientific cracksman of to-day have evolved, as a natural consequence, the bankers' engineer, a highly skilled expert ...

    Article : 269 words
  9. GREEKS V. PERSIANS.

    Modern battlefields have been terrible scenes of slaughter, but in ancient days a battle was a battle and the side that won promptly killed ...

    Article : 186 words
  10. MILK FOR GROWING CHILDREN

    Milk for growing boys and girls is a universal slogan, but actual experiments to prove its value have produced figures that astound eve n ...

    Article : 350 words
  11. RUBBER OUTWEARS METAL.

    Rubber has now begun to be widely used in equipment where resistance to abrasion is important, we are told by “Chemical and Metallurgical ...

    Article : 616 words
  12. EVE IN PRISION!

    There are those who contend that men, as a whole. are considerably vainer than women. I beg to differ —not because I am out to defend my ...

    Article : 472 words
  13. WHEN TOMMY GAMBLES.

    So dearly does the soldier love a gamble that, to furnish a bit of excitement, he will even turn the church-parade service into a sort of ...

    Article : 240 words
  14. CAN THE DEAD BE RAISED ?

    Can the dead be brought back to life? Dr. Tuffier, the well-known surgeon, declares that it is not ...

    Article : 88 words
  15. OCEAN PHANTOMS.

    We often hear of ghosts haunting houses, churchyards, and appearing at bedsides, or coming when bidden at the seance, but less often do we ...

    Article : 854 words
  16. A NICE DRINK.

    Lemonade becomes sweeter if it is allowed to stand for an hour or two after being made. The cane sugar in the lemonade is converted into a ...

    Article : 58 words
  17. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    Barrels made of wood for packing and shipping fruit and such-like commodities are being supersealed by made of compressed paper ...

    Article : 326 words
  18. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    If you want to make a hole in a piece of glass- or a bottle, just drop little turpentine on the spot where you want the hole to be, then work ...

    Article : 289 words
  19. AUTHORS AS DADDIES.

    Authors are frequently eccentric in their ideas of dress. Charles Dickens when sitting for his portrait to the painter Frith. ...

    Article : 251 words
  20. TOBACCO EFFECTS.

    “Sir Humphrey Rolleston, of the Medical Faculty of Cambridge, gave a summary recently of the existing evidence, pro and con, of ...

    Article : 131 words
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