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  2. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Queen Anne was the last British sovereign who touched for the King's Evil in 1712. The total value of the City of ...

    Article : 280 words
  3. Short Story

    Tremaine invited the two girls into his large, handsome study, from the front windows of which they could view the approaching procession. ...

    Article : 1,462 words
  4. CROP ROTATION.

    The rotation of crops is a fundamental practice in good farming operations. The potato is one of the most useful crops in a general rotation, because the ...

    Article : 288 words
  5. WAVE-MAKING MACHINE.

    A machine has been invented which will make to your liking, any one of a half-dozen or more different kinds of waves—ocean waves long rolling ...

    Article : 152 words
  6. FARM AND FIELD.

    When soils are very deficient in lime, it is often necessary to dress the land with lime before applying the slag. The vital process of nitrification is due ...

    Article : 177 words
  7. Odds and Ends.

    A piece-maker—The bull in the china shop. Straightening out affairs—Trousers stretchers. ...

    Article : 330 words
  8. DOUBLE TELEPHONES.

    A new device that doubles the capacity of the telephone and telegraph cables has just been invented by the Post Office engineers. It is now ...

    Article : 192 words
  9. For Boys and Girls.

    "Fancy having that kid tacked on to us all day!" growled Freckles. "Mother Matthews must have jolly well known what a nuisance he'd be!" ...

    Article : 994 words
  10. SCIENCE NOTES.

    The novel method of finding longitude lately tried by Professor Lippmann, the French astronomer, is the comparison of simultaneous ...

    Article : 89 words
  11. PAPER CIGARS.

    We have heard of paper wheels, paper houses, and paper canoes. Now we hear of paper cigars. This is how they made. The paper is steeped ...

    Article : 100 words
  12. THE VALUE OF LIME.

    Lime not only acts as a manure, but its presence liberates other valuable ingredients that are so locked up as to render a large per cent. of the plant ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. THE DURATION OF THE SUN.

    Adopting the well known hypothesis of Helmholtz, which attributes the production of the heat emitted by the sun to its contraction, an idea can be ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. WATER-PROOFING FOR RUBBERS.

    The members of the staff of Mount Rose Observatory, Nevada, have found shellac to be an impervious and pliable water-proofing for rubbers, which ...

    Article : 119 words
  15. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    All love that is worthy of the name now and forever uplifts:—G. Macdonald. Women seldom value the ...

    Article : 502 words
  16. SOLUBLE FERTILISERS.

    They may be present in a soluble state in the film of water which surrounds the particles of soil, though the roots of plants themselves have a ...

    Article : 149 words
  17. AGES OF EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS.

    King George, whose fourth accession day brought him many congratulations, is still young as Kings of England on having only recently reached ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. ROAD-MENDING MACHINE.

    An experimental test has been made in Paris of a portable road-mending machine, consisting of a six horse-power gasoline engine, actuating an ...

    Article : 139 words
  19. RELEASING PLANT FOOD.

    As has already been pointed but, lime only forms part of the necessary ingredients for plant life, bot unlocks the store of plant food contained in the ...

    Article : 171 words
  20. The Root of the Matter.

    "My good friends," began the temperance orator, "drink is the curse of the world. All the crime, all the wars, all the heart-aches of this universe ...

    Article : 64 words
  21. DUST AND ELECTRICITY.

    A curious experimental electrical machine described by Mr. W. A. Douglas Rudge to the Cambridge philosophical Society depends on dust. ...

    Article : 156 words
  22. FLOATING CHURCH.

    New York is to lose its floating church, an institution unique in many ways. Its seafaring existence is to be terminated by a permanent haven ...

    Article : 244 words
  23. It Filled the Bill.

    A teacher in a big elementary school had given lessons to an infants' class on the Ten Commandments. In order to test their memories she asked: ...

    Article : 64 words
  24. FARMYARD MANURE.

    It is almost heresy in the eyes of any farmer to indicate that farmyard manure, properly made, has any imperfections of any kind, except the cost of ...

    Article : 247 words
  25. A [?] of the Tongue.

    Mrs. Mills was a woman of few words. One afternoon she went into a music shop to buy the book of an opera for her daughter. A shopman ...

    Article : 71 words
  26. ARTIFICIAL LEGS.

    It is not often that an infirmity carries with it the possibilities of making fortune, but this is what seems to have happened to M. Desoutter, the ...

    Article : 245 words
  27. Co[?]

    How many weeks belong to the year? Forty-six; the other six are only lent (Lent). What history does a tallow chandler ...

    Article : 51 words
  28. AUSTRALIA'S GIFT.

    The writing table and inkstand presented by the commonwealth of Australia to the Peace Palace at The Hague has reached its destination. ...

    Article : 280 words
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