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  2. Science Notes & News.

    Professor Grindley, of the University of Illinois, United States finds that cooked meat is less soluble than raw meat in cold water, ...

    Article : 89 words
  3. Facts & Fancies.

    There is a popular belief amongst Mohammedans that the good and bid angels of a man engage in deadly combat for the first, three ...

    Article : 201 words
  4. The Poultry Run.

    Green lucerne cut into [?]in. lengths is of course, the best for poultry, but when the green lucerne is unobtainable, lucerne chaff of good ...

    Article : 77 words
  5. The Farmers Column.

    Nitrogen promotes growth, phosphates promote fruitfulness and early maturity, and potash increases quality, says Professor Hammond ...

    Article : 490 words
  6. ANCIENT FOOD THEORIES.

    The teaching of the ancient Indian sages on the problems of diet is interesting. Sometimes they differ as, for example, one recomends that ...

    Article : 148 words
  7. KILLING AND PLUCKING.

    The old-fashioned method of killing a fowl—namely, by piercing the main artery or blood vessel in the leg, It is not only an unsightly and ...

    Article : 235 words
  8. ELECTRICITY AND ARTERIAL TENSION.

    Electrical currents of high frequency have been applied by M. Montier to the treatment of "arterioclerose." The patient is placed ...

    Article : 64 words
  9. A WIRELESS TELEGRAPH DETECTOR.

    Professor J. A. .Ewing. F.R.S. and Mr. L. H. Walter have brought out a new magnetic detector of electric waves for the wireless telegraph. ...

    Article : 223 words
  10. PLANTS LIKE STONES.

    In South Africa there is found a plant of the genus Mesembryanthemum, growing on stony ground, which so closely resembles a pebble ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. THE LENGTH OF A LIGHTNING FLASH.

    M, Prinz, assistant in the Royal Astronomical Observatory of Belgium, states that the average duration of a flash. of lightning is about hall ...

    Article : 77 words
  12. PENCILS FOR MARKING LEATHER.

    (I.) Three parts lampblack, four parts soap, eight parts yellow wax four parts tallow. (II.) Two parts lampblack, four parts soap, eight ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. REWARD OF VIRTUE.

    The happiest page-boy in all America is Michael Dumphy, who has inherited £8000, thereby proving that Dame Fortune has not yet ...

    Article : 321 words
  14. NEWTON'S CALCULATIONS PROVED CORRECT.

    Newton's law of gravitation which states that two bodies attract each other with a force inversely proportional to the square of the ...

    Article : 98 words
  15. FORTUNE IN LACE.

    Several millionaire families in New York possess immense fortunes in laces alone. The laces owned by the Astor family are valued at ...

    Article : 148 words
  16. CANKER.

    This is a dreaded disease among poultry-keepers (on account of its infection) for which there is no certain cure. It is usually an ...

    Article : 277 words
  17. WHERE MONKEYS ARE REGISTERED.

    The monkeys of Gibraltar are familiar objects of interest to visitors to the Rock, and hold official recognition in connection with the ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. TERROR OF SLEEP.

    Criminologists say that the greatest terror that afflicts that fraction of humanity suffering from an uneasy conscience is neither dread of ...

    Article : 322 words
  19. TO PREVENT SHIP COLLISIONS.

    The "Scientific American" states that the White Star liner Baltic is equipped with an electrical device for preventing collisions with other ...

    Article : 106 words
  20. FULCRUM ATTACHMENT FOR FORKS AND SPADES.

    Much of the back breaking energy required in using an earth fork or spade is expended in the dislodging of the, load from the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 78 words
  21. PEARL FISHERIES.

    The most famous of these in the world are those of Ceylon, in the Gulf of Manaar, and those in the Persian Gulf, both of which are very ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. NOTES.

    The windward side of a fodder stack is a poor place to fatten sheep. Never let a prompt horse work with a lazy driver. Fire the driver ...

    Article : 203 words
  23. A SCIENTIFIC MYSTERY.

    Everybody knows that a sovereign contains an alloy, but it is not common knowledge, says a contemporary' that that alloy forms but a ...

    Article : 129 words
  24. SOME GENERAL HINTS.

    The ordinary poultry-keeper is not a, specialist, nor does he desire to become one. He does, however, like to keep a few, fowls about the ...

    Article : 217 words
  25. COAL IN MEDIAEVAL ENGLAND.

    Henry III., King of England, in 1234, granted a license to people to dig coal at Newcastle. Seventy-two years after this Parliament ...

    Article : 158 words
  26. ELEVEN YEARS SPEECHLESS.

    A remarkable case of a dumb woman recovering her speech has occurred at Leeds, where Mrs Ada Collingwood, the wife of a ...

    Article : 197 words
  27. A MOVING STORY.

    Everybody has lost things when moving at one time or another, and many people have found some forgotten treasure on similar ...

    Article : 205 words
  28. RADIO ACTIVITY AND WEATHER PROPHETS

    Professor J. J. Thomson, the wellknown professor of, experimental physics in meteorology, states that the astronomer now has to deal not ...

    Article : 149 words
  29. ATTACKED BY WOLVES.

    A strange but fully authenticated wolf story comes from the Western Government of Volhynia. A poor peasant woman carrying her baby ...

    Article : 124 words
  30. THE DOCTOR'S GOOD FAITH.

    In Beloochistan, when a physician gives a dose ,he is expected to partake of a similar one himself as a 'guarantee of his good faith. Should ...

    Article : 97 words
  31. NATURAL COKE NEAR ANTWERP.

    Coal of a cokey quality has been found by boring at a depth of 2000 ft in the vicinity of Antwerp, in the Campine district, Belgium. As the ...

    Article : 60 words
  32. BROODIES AND CHICKENS.

    Always pick out your broody, and isolate in a dark nest a day or two before setting; to make sure she's not a sham. Dust her with ...

    Article : 337 words
  33. AMERICAN EARTH MOUNDS.

    Below the mouth of the Missouri, for instance opposite St. Louis, the Mississippi is bordered on its eastern bank for sixty or seventy miles ...

    Article : 151 words
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