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  2. STRANGLES.

    Strangles (often known as acute distemper) is an irruptive fever peculiar to the horse effecting the respiratory system and in most cases ...

    Article : 490 words
  3. IF LIGHTNING STRUCK AN AIRSHIP.

    Aeronauts have a well-founded dread of thunderstorms, for a small spark discharge between the balloon and a cloud, or between two parts of ...

    Article : 993 words
  4. WHY WOMEN ARE GROWING UGLIER.

    Women are growing uglier and cleverer, says Dr. Carleton Simon. There are two types. One is all body without soul. She is the ...

    Article : 465 words
  5. HIGH DIVING.

    In his "Memoirs of Eighty Years," Dr. Gordon Hake, who was a nephew of General Charles Gordon, tells how he won the approbation of his uncle, ...

    Article : 279 words
  6. HOW ANIMALS GOT THEIR NAMES.

    How many people, on visiting a zoological gardens or a museum of natural history, ask themselves why each of the creatures they see was ...

    Article : 975 words
  7. PREVENTING STRIKES IN CANADA.

    The chief feature of the beneficient Canadian Act called the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act was the requirement that, in the event of a ...

    Article : 235 words
  8. ARRIVAL OF THE LADY AVIATOR.

    As was inevitable, the lady aviator has arrived—in Paris. Mme. La Baronne Delaroche is her name, and, following on a flight of 300 metres ...

    Article : 274 words
  9. A STRANGER IN GLASGOW.

    When Bridget O'Toole and her husband first came to live in Glasgow, she was fresh from the Green Isle, and the attentions of door-to-door ...

    Article : 656 words
  10. HOW PLANTS SEE.

    The power of plants to adjust themselves in whatever position may be most desirable with regard to the light is very curious, for the ...

    Article : 359 words
  11. THE HORSEMEN OF MEXICO.

    Every country in the world has its equestrians; but travellers unite in giving the palm to Mexicans for expert horsemanship. Everybody rides ...

    Article : 314 words
  12. CORN SUBSTITUTES.

    The proper supplementary feeds which balance corn in a ration not only enable the hog to show better results in fattening, but they also ...

    Article : 199 words
  13. AN EXTORTIONATE CABBY.

    "My father," (writes Alexandre Dumas, Junior) "possessed extraordinary strength of muscle, evidence of which I had for the first time ...

    Article : 224 words
  14. A PARK LANE FOOTMAN.

    It may perhaps not be generally known that one of the greatest essentials with regard to the recommendation of a footman is not only ...

    Article : 292 words
  15. BREAKING SUBSOIL WITH GUNPOWDER.

    Kansas farmers show a good deal of ingenuity in pursuing their calling. Nothing comes amiss to them. The question of expense in ...

    Article : 247 words
  16. RATS AND THEIR COST.

    The brown rat is practically omnivorous. Its bill of fare includes seeds and grains of all kinds, flour, meal and food products made from ...

    Article : 242 words
  17. SIXTY EARS OF CORN FROM A GRAIN.

    Mr. Sims, a porter on the London and South-Western Railway at Leatherhead, has had a remarkable experience in wheat growing. From a ...

    Article : 174 words
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