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  2. BRISBANE 1 Week by Week

    Last week will no doubt be long remembered in Brisbane, events of the sensational order threatening on every hand. Chief of these was ...

    Article : 710 words
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    A German prisoner taken in the recent advance was asked what his people called the Scotch kilted regiments. His reply was: "The women ...

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  4. Science and Invention. WHY A GRASSHOPPER IS LIKE A TELEPHONE LINEMAN.

    Everyone has seen a telephone or telegraph lineman climb a pole by means of iron spurs strapped to his shoes. The grasshopper’s legs carry ...

    Article : 321 words
  5. News of the World

    The end of the year was to have seen the completion of the great bridge over the St. Lawrence River about eight miles above Quebec, to enable the ...

    Article : 1,054 words
  6. PETROL SUBSTITUTES.

    Owing to the shortage of petrol in England, the London General Omnibus Co. has cut out its all night services, and also many of its Sunday ...

    Article : 696 words
  7. HELMETS AS A PROTECTION AGAINST DANGEROUS DUST.

    Dust of all kinds is a menace to a worker's health, especially if it is laden with metallic or sharp particles. So it is that among the dangerous ...

    Article : 602 words
  8. HACK OR HACKNEY

    In Great Britain, up to a few years ago, the trotting gait under saddle was most cultivated in the English Hackney, Coupled with this was ...

    Article : 477 words
  9. WOLVES OF THE SEA.

    Facts appear incontestably that sharks, and big ones, abound in Cuban waters; that thousands of swimmers are never attacked; and that there are ...

    Article : 199 words
  10. WHY YOU CAN SEE TWO SIDES OF A THING AT THE SAME TIME.

    If you spin a coin and watch it you will see both sides of the coin at the same time. This is explained by the fact that the senses of man retain ...

    Article : 93 words
  11. "CANAL BOATS" WHICH ARE REAL WATER-SHOES.

    An Italian electrician, Luigi Risso, of Genoa, has invented an ingenious form of water-shoe to which he gives the name “hydro ski.” Compared with ...

    Article : 167 words
  12. WHAT MAKES THE HAIR SUDDENLY TURN GREY.

    A phenomenon that has always aroused curiosity is the sudden turning grey of the hair under the influence of great emotion. Several ...

    Article : 285 words
  13. SPONTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS DUE TO MICROSCOPIC PLANTS.

    Every little while an explosion occurs in a subway, sewer or trench or in an electric-wire tunnel or some other subterranean conduit or ...

    Article : 241 words
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    Sir-Roger Casement was tried in the Lord Chief Justice's Court which was altered for the purposes of the trial. A temporary Jury box was ...

    Article : 150 words
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    An unusual degree of interest is ' centring Just now in the debonnair[?] young Prince Christophoros, a brother of the King of Greece, who is said to ...

    Article : 143 words
  16. VERY FINE INDEED.

    The story is told of a well-known lawyer, who has the distinction of being the leanest man in the town, that he was one day walking along a street ...

    Article : 108 words
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