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  2. SUN’S MISSING PLANET.

    Will the earth blow up? Science says it might happen. Apparently that very thing, did happen to a companion world of ours, which ...

    Article : 1,351 words
  3. BEGGARS’ TRADE UNION.

    In China one of the most formidable trade unions is that of the beggars. Begging in that country is a recognized profession, and there is a ...

    Article : 104 words
  4. A MODERN BABEL.

    Cairo, which those who use its telephones know as the modern city of Babel, is to have an automatic telephone system. A British firm has ...

    Article : 213 words
  5. WRITTEN IN PRISON.

    In prison Boethius composed his work “De Consolatione Philosophiae” while George Buchanan, contemporary of John Knox and a famous Scots ...

    Article : 215 words
  6. WHAT ANIMALS SAY.

    A series of gramophone records made recently show that many of our popular conceptions of the sounds made by animals and birds are ...

    Article : 151 words
  7. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Mary: “Did he kiss you against your will, dear?” Mabel: “He thinks he did!” Said a young man to his wife at ...

    Article : 873 words
  8. MORE BOYS THAN GIRLS.

    Why are there more boy babies than girl babies? In the human race the ratio of boys to girls is between 103 and 107 ...

    Article : 141 words
  9. BELIEFS ABOUT RINGS.

    The recent incident in which a woman in the Midlands refused to go on with a register office marriage ceremony, on the ground that the ...

    Article : 225 words
  10. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The first microscope to be patented in England was registered in 1742. The weather, modern dancing, and too many cigarettes are jointly ...

    Article : 502 words
  11. SEARCHING WORLD FOR FRUIT.

    The agricultural explorer is the name given to a scientist who is sent to little-known parts of the world by the United States Department of ...

    Article : 89 words
  12. THE RICHEST MEN ON EARTH.

    There has been a great deal of discussion recently about the richest men in the world. The richest man in America is no doubt Mr. Henry ...

    Article : 651 words
  13. MERSEY’S MAMMOTH TUNNEL.

    The great tunnel to be built under the Mersey, linking Liverpool with Birkenhead and adjoining towns on the south bank of the river, will be ...

    Article : 236 words
  14. FIRST AID FOR BURNS.

    When the clothing catches fire, throw the person on the floor or ground, so that the flames will not rise towards the mouth and nostrils. ...

    Article : 379 words
  15. EVERLASTING BATTERIES.

    Electric batteries to last thousands of years before running down are a possibility of the near future if a Birmingham scientist’s theories ...

    Article : 206 words
  16. THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS.

    In the first attempts to make a photograph in the early part of the eighteenth century, the subject to be photographed sat between the source ...

    Article : 164 words
  17. METAL MONEY BEST.

    The talk about a return to the gold standard in the coinage makes a recent test by a German bacteriologist of considerable interest. He declared, ...

    Article : 130 words
  18. LANTS AND COLOURED LIGHT.

    To test the effect of light of different colours upon plants, Dr. Miramond de Laroquette has built at Algiers hothouses of blue, green, ...

    Article : 260 words
  19. DOGS WITH GLASS EYES.

    Recent examples of the surgeon’s skill on injured animals rival in delicacy many of the operations performed on human beings. ...

    Article : 279 words
  20. SUNLIGHT FOR HEALTH.

    Recent experiments on chicks demonstrated the importance of sunlight in human health, particularly as a factor in the physical development of ...

    Article : 224 words
  21. FIRE FIGHTING WITH FOG.

    A heavy dripping fog rolled in from the Pacific Ocean and put out a fierce forest fire which had been burning for days south-west of Port Angeles, ...

    Article : 155 words
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