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  2. Short Story.

    It was six o'clock. London we[?]ered in a 10g. The nearest lights gleamed wanly, pedestrians avoided the edge of the pavement, ...

    Article : 2,764 words
  3. SALTING THE CLOUDS.

    A plan to sprinkle salt on the clouds to produce rain, which would curb the forest fire menace, has been offered to the Governor of Oregon, in a letter ...

    Article : 96 words
  4. EARTHQUAKES AT SEA.

    The "earthquake" shock recently experienced by the Pacific battleship fleet off the Mexican coast was so severe that the big flagship, "New ...

    Article : 339 words
  5. PEACE AND BALD HEADS.

    An amusing sidelight on the recent Peace Conference at Versailles is thrown by an American correspondent, who not only reported the proceedings ...

    Article : 185 words
  6. SUBSTITUTE FOR HUMAN BLOOD.

    It has been explained before the French Academy of Sciences that, in order to reanimate persons exhausted by continual hemorrhage, there is no ...

    Article : 117 words
  7. SORGHUM SUGAR.

    Sorghum was introduced into America from China and Africa a little more than fifty years ago and the culture spread rapidly. Many a ...

    Article : 284 words
  8. MOTOR-CYCLE DESIGN.

    Commenting on the recent motor- cycle exhibition at Olympia, a London paper asserts that the general tendency of motor-cycle and side-car design is ...

    Article : 127 words
  9. Farm and Field

    Opinions differ as to whether a heifer should produce her first calf at about 27 months or 36 months old. In Holland and America heifers are ...

    Article : 239 words
  10. DIVING ARMOUR.

    The old diving equipment is for the most part useless in view of the great depths at which many shipwrecks lie. At 300ft, for instance, it has been ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. SOLVING THE GLARE MENACE.

    A new lens was shown at the New York Automobile Show and has attracted wide attention among automobile owners, manufacturers, and ...

    Article : 180 words
  12. Science Notes

    Bamboo is put to an astonishing number of uses in Japan. It gives timber for all kinds of work in the fields. It is used in the building of ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. From all Parts

    Sufferers from sleeplessness should try this trick. Have a pair of blinders made from a double thickness of black silk. These should just cover the ...

    Article : 256 words
  14. PROSPECTS OF DAIRYING.

    Lord Ernie, late President of the British Board of Agriculture, in proposing the toast of "Success to Dairy Instruction and Dairy Farming," at ...

    Article : 235 words
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    Many of our foremost men to-day have forced their way to the front through terrible poverty. Mr. Balfour cannot be included in ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. ORCHARD CULTIVATION.

    To cultivate an orchard it is not sufficient to simply turn under grass and weeds. An orchard lightly ploughed in this way may be made to look ...

    Article : 190 words
  17. DRAWING LOTTERY BONDS.

    In connection with the issue of a loan of 1,500,000,000 franes by the City of Paris. 3,125,000 bonds are to he paid off at par over a period of sixty years, ...

    Article : 239 words
  18. A HOUSE MORE ROOF THAN WALL.

    Mr. Albert Freeman, while looking for a solution of the present building, problem, found a description of the Caterian arch adopted by. Jacques Germain ...

    Article : 268 words
  19. CHURNING TEMPERATURE.

    The correct churning temperature is that at which the butter will come midway between the hard shot granule and the soft, slushy, irregular flake, ...

    Article : 252 words
  20. RAPE GROWING.

    Under normal conditions rape is ready for feeding off in from 12 to 15 Weeks, although under extremely favorable soil and climatic conditions ...

    Article : 300 words
  21. LEARNING TO FACE TIGERS.

    Every elephant used for tiger-hunting must be steady, obedient, and fearless, for if a single elephant misbehaves or bolts when he confronts one ...

    Article : 279 words
  22. NEW ENGLISH WHEATS.

    According to last English files, say: "Dalgety's Review," the plant-breed big section of the University of Cambridge, which is closely associated ...

    Article : 153 words
  23. COSTS OF MILK.

    Mr. Wm. Parsons, of Chulmleigh, Devon, writes as under to the London Daily Mail: I will give you a few figure of cost for the county of ...

    Article : 153 words
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