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  2. MOTOR POWER ON THE FARM.

    Mr. Vanning, a South Australian farmer, at a recent meeting said, "Wha[?] a law years ago, horses were employed to cut chaff and to ...

    Article : 426 words
  3. THE SANDS OF THE SEA.

    Many very instructive matters were touched upon during the lecture of Mr. C. H. S. Phillips, F.R.S.E., at the meeting of the Royal ...

    Article : 627 words
  4. SCOTS WIT AND HUMOR.

    The wit of a nation is reflected in its proverbs: many at the Scots small at the s[?]il. Thus, "A" Stuarts are n[?]e [?]ib to the king"—every ...

    Article : 919 words
  5. FROM NATURE'S BOOK.

    Belgium has recently had a good deal of trouble with floods, especially in the neighbourhood north of Bruges, where immense sheets of ...

    Article : 960 words
  6. SEA-POWER AND COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.

    Writing in the "Fortnightly" upon a National Policy,, Mr. Benjamin Kidd reminds us that one fact, and one only, now stands between ...

    Article : 241 words
  7. WHY ARE WE RIGHTHANDED.

    Out of every hundred persons, ninety-six are right-handed. So say the statisticians who have gone into the matter. The whole world is ...

    Article : 1,462 words
  8. HOAX JOKES.

    The practical joker who ordered twenty-five tons of coal to be delivered at the house of Mr. Winston Churchill had not even the excuse of ...

    Article : 683 words
  9. PRODUCTION OF DRAFT HORSES.

    Only a few man succeed in raising trotting horses, as it requires a good deal of time and skill in their development. Perhaps more men would ...

    Article : 559 words
  10. EARTHLY TIDAL WAVES.

    The ebb and flood tides of the sea a[?]d familiar phenomena. Everyone knows that the ebb follows the flood tide at regular intervals of six hours ...

    Article : 402 words
  11. MY TWELVE DAYS’ FAST.

    I was very hungry for the first day of the twelve days of fasting I had undertaken—the unwholesome, ravening sort of hunger that all ...

    Article : 365 words
  12. READY TO DO BUSINESS.

    Pedlar (selling preparation for removing stains from clothing): "I have got here—" Servant (who responds to the ring) ...

    Article : 136 words
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