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  2. A TUSCAN HOMESTEAD.

    The old house was built on the rocky hillcrest; the stable and lower rooms for the storage of tools, corn, and such things having the floor and ...

    Article : 929 words
  3. GRASS AND FEET.

    There are some interesting matters connected with the development of horses’ feet which have a boaring on our horses at the present day. ...

    Article : 507 words
  4. USEFUL MAN.

    A little man slunk out of a house, glanced up apprehensively at the front windows, then darted down the street. Before he had traversed ...

    Article : 249 words
  5. PRINTING FOR POSTERITY.

    Experiments have just been made with a view to finding a means whereby records of exceptional value may be preserved through ages yet ...

    Article : 371 words
  6. EARS GROW CONTINUALLY.

    A curious thing about ears, which the anthropologists’ have only just made known, is that they continue to grow during the whole of our ...

    Article : 1,009 words
  7. FIRE FIGHTERS, OLD AND NEW.

    The latest Dennis turbine fire engine alongside a fire squirt dated before 1700. The man is wearing the uniform of the Hand-in-Hand Insurance Company, dated 1696. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  8. IN A TROPICAL FOREST.

    The wild bees of Malaya (says "Chambers’s Journal") are a genus apart, larger, fiercer, than those of the domesticated species known to ...

    Article : 695 words
  9. HOW TO TRAIN WILD BEASTS.

    "The entire art of the trainers of wild animals," writes Pierre Hachet Souplet in his investigation into the psychology of animals, "consists in ...

    Article : 212 words
  10. A FAMOUS SHETLAND PONY.

    The above is a photograph of Mimi of Methven, one of the famous Shetland ponies belonging to Lady Hope, sister of the Marquis of Linlithgow. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 85 words
  11. CAPPING A SPOUTER.

    It is often necessary to bore to a depth of over a thousand feet before oil is struck. From many of the wells the oil has to be pumped; ...

    Article : 186 words
  12. CALF REARING.

    The writer has recently come across the simplest and easiest way of calf-rearing he has ever met with, and would like to publish details ...

    Article : 522 words
  13. THE LECTURE PLATFORM.

    The chairman of the lecture committee was a very absent-minded man, and when he had reached that portion of his introduction of the ...

    Article : 428 words
  14. THE BEARER OF A FAMOUS NAME.

    The battleship Bellerophon is the third of her name in the British Navy. The first, a line-of-battleship, of seventy-four guns and 1,613 tons, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 146 words
  15. HOW THE ANCIENTS WROTE LETTERS.

    A mission of the Chicago University to the East has resulted in the discovery of more than two thousand. tablets covered with ...

    Article : 212 words
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