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  2. VARIATIONS IN CREAM TESTS.

    We hear much complaint concerning the test of cream. There are variations, and sometimes the farmer cannot understand why there ...

    Article : 820 words
  3. THE AERIAL BATTLESHIP.

    "The aerial battleship" forms the subject of an interesting article in "M'Clure's Magazine" by Carl Dienstbach and T. R. MacMechen. The ...

    Article : 280 words
  4. MAX O'RELL IN CANADA.

    Max O'Rell tells in "Harmsworth's Magazine" an amusing story of his experience in Canada with a lectureagent whose honesty be had reason ...

    Article : 600 words
  5. SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.

    If a mustard pot be left open, as is well known, the condiment as mixed for use soon loses its piquancy. The reason is popularly supposed to ...

    Article : 87 words
  6. VICTORIA ALEXANDRA'S V.C.

    "Ping! Ping!" The stinging smack of a rifle-bullet against a rock. The sound had drawn curses from the men at intervals all ...

    Article : 2,825 words
  7. NON-MAGNETIC SHIP.

    Recently there arrived at Falmouth from St. John's the American nonmagnetic ship, owned and sent out by the Carnegie Institution at ...

    Article : 171 words
  8. MAKING MICROBES DO FARM WORK.

    Results of experiments in inoculating soil with nitrogen fixing bacteria have been published. These, it is found, are retarded in development ...

    Article : 109 words
  9. DISCOVERY OF CHLOROFORM.

    Prof. James Young Simpson, of Edinburgh University, experimented with chloroform as an anaesthetic on several occasions at the infirmary, ...

    Article : 271 words
  10. WALLS OF GLASS.

    Some enterprising French fruit growers have recently essayed the use of walls of glass instead of masonry, with quite interesting results. ...

    Article : 100 words
  11. A PLAGUE OF BABOONS.

    In many part of Nigeria, and especially among the hill regions of the northern provinces, baboons are one of the greatest plagues to the ...

    Article : 377 words
  12. PENALTIES FOR OFFENDING ROYALTY.

    The greatest social offence is to do anything which incurs the direct displeasure of either the King or Queen. There is, to be sure; no legal penalty ...

    Article : 336 words
  13. THE HAPPY DESPATCH.

    A London contemporary is being twitted for its misuse of the term "happy despatch." How the "happy despatch" really works the world-has ...

    Article : 286 words
  14. A POPULAR ERROR.

    White round the eye of a hack ha[?] been erroneously taken as a sign of vice, the error arose thus:—Suppose, in consequence of ...

    Article : 144 words
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