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  2. YOU’LL LAUGH AT THESE !

    In one of the High Courts the barrister was rebuked for obstreperousness by the judge, who was a man of interior qualities. No one knew why ...

    Article : 576 words
  3. JERSEY BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION.

    A council, meeting of the above association was held at Collins House on Wednesday, June 11, Mr. Trevor Harvey presiding, and there was a good ...

    Article : 1,067 words
  4. WHY BATTERIES SULPHATE.

    The negative plates of a storage battery contain spongy lead, and the positive plates lead oxide. When current is taken from the charged ...

    Article : 245 words
  5. ARE YOU A TYRANT AT HOME?

    Kipling speaks of “the unnecessary hells” that we make for others, and that others make for us. A Great phrase, that. The unnecessary hells ...

    Article : 547 words
  6. Bondage of Hate

    The “Esperanza” steamed carefully out of the harbor, and breasted the first of the rising swells that ran to greet her. She creaked in every beam ...

    Article : 4,666 words
  7. “CROSS CROSSINGS CAUTIOUSLY.”

    Do you heed the warning at railway crossings or do you recklessly speed over tracks, thereby endangering your own life as well as the lives ...

    Article : 162 words
  8. A PUZZLING MISS.

    A miss, in the engine of a car puzzled the owner for several days. When he first noticed it the engine started running on three cylinders. He ...

    Article : 325 words
  9. REFITTING CONNECTING RODS.

    In some motor car engines the connecting rods are offset to the centre of the bearing, and in refitting them great care should be observed that the ...

    Article : 93 words
  10. DRAWING THE LINE.

    Brown had been invited to dine at a big hotel, and, as his financial position was not very great, he looked rather glum when, at his departure, ...

    Article : 512 words
  11. NOT ENTIRELY IGNORANT.

    Visiting a remote village, a man entered a local emporium—where rashers of bacon, seed cake, and paraffin oil were special lines—and asked to ...

    Article : 90 words
  12. HOW MUCH SALT IN THE SEA?

    At first, it strikes one as strangle that, although the sea must originally have been formed of distilled water —that is, congealed watery vapor— ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. SPEED WITH BABY BEEF.

    North Carolina (U.S.A.) beef-cattle growers lately have been looking into the baby-beef end of their business. One county has under way a plan to ...

    Article : 218 words
  14. CHERRY III. OF ROSEMONT.

    The secretary of the Illawarra Milking Shorthorn Society of Australia advises that the cow Cherry III. of Rosemont, bred and owned by Mr. A. J. ...

    Article : 199 words
  15. WHY THE SKY IS BLUE.

    Professor Vigard, of Christiana University, has made a discovery which suggests that the atmosphere of the earth outside the air-stratum is shut ...

    Article : 272 words
  16. SHE GOT THERE FIRST.

    A farmer called at the village post office. “Hello, Seth!” he said. “Got anything here for me?” ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. HER FIND.

    Breathless with excitement, the old lady appeared at the window of the lost property office. “I found something in the train,” she said. ...

    Article : 202 words
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