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  2. Short Story

    It was night in Tombstone. The lights of the miners' cottages upon the hillsides shimmered through the purple darkness, and the cold wind that blew ...

    Article : 2,455 words
  3. FARM AND FIELD

    Nitrogen is one of the most important, and at the same time, most expensive ingredients of artificial fertilisers. Nitrogen promotes and ...

    Article : 619 words
  4. SOUND OF HEAVY FIRING.

    It is said that the firing of the German siege guns at Liege has been heard at Maastricht, in Holland, some twenty miles away. That, of course, is nothing ...

    Article : 199 words
  5. NOVEL UNIFORM FOR FIREMEN.

    A patent new fireproof suit has just been invented for firemen, for which great things are claimed. You can stand right in the fire with this new ...

    Article : 327 words
  6. SCIENCE NOTES.

    Successful tests of a new shell, which will not explode until after it has penetrated the armour of a vessel, were recently made by the French naval ...

    Article : 113 words
  7. Odds and Ends.

    School Inspector: "Who is it that sits idly by doing nothing while everybody else is working?" Bobby: "The teacher." ...

    Article : 355 words
  8. RIFLES AND MARKSMANSHIP.

    The Germans are staggered, it is said, by the unerring accuracy and deadly effectiveness of the rifle fire of the British troops. The Mauser of the 1898 ...

    Article : 180 words
  9. LISBON'S TIME SIGNALS.

    Correct time is announced every hour in the port of Lisbon, Portugal, by means of two lanterns placed on iron columns 100ft. high. The lanterns each ...

    Article : 121 words
  10. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of a man who owns he loves no one but himself.—Talleyrand. ...

    Article : 344 words
  11. MAN AS A FLYER.

    Mathematicians have calculated that man is too heavy ever to be sustained in air by the power of his own muscles, no matter how large the wings are ...

    Article : 133 words
  12. VALUABLE SWORDS.

    Among the Royal treasures of Persia is a pipe set with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds to the value, it is estimated, of no less than £100,000. This pipe ...

    Article : 307 words
  13. TOLL OF A GREAT WORK.

    In a letter to the Hon. George M. Young, Representative in Congress, Colonel Goethals states that from May, 1904, to March, 1914. 1,219 lives were ...

    Article : 120 words
  14. A Large Order.

    Small Child: "Change for sixpence! And look sharp, cos I've got to buy somefink at annuver shop!" ...

    Article : 25 words
  15. An Unfortunate Proposal.

    "Yes, I thought it would be a novel idea, as well as loyal to our woman's club constitution, to be married by a woman preacher, so I made George ...

    Article : 97 words
  16. ENSILAGE FOR COWS.

    Mr. W. Dibble, in the Journal of the Department of Agriculture, says:—"A constant supply of succulent fodder is the best of all means of ...

    Article : 495 words
  17. NO WIRELESS "TAPPING."

    Secrecy in wireless communication is said to be assured by an invention announced by Captain A. N. Hoyland, of the Norwegian Navy. The machine is ...

    Article : 199 words
  18. Equally Ignorant.

    Bill Collector: "The boss wants to know when you're going to settle this account." Mr. Slingun de Munnaway: "Please ...

    Article : 66 words
  19. THE ROMANCE OF THE VIOLET.

    There is one flower which all humanity loves—the violet. And yet this same dainty violet is the emblem of the Bonapartes. It was a favourite ...

    Article : 515 words
  20. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Society of the Silver Cross in Austria is asking for wedding rings, for which it gives iron ones in exchange. A similar movement is in progress in ...

    Article : 162 words
  21. Weary Willie Scores.

    Weary Willie, the tramp, had one distinctive feature, a red nose—one of those all ablaze noses. The other day he applied at a house for food. ...

    Article : 99 words
  22. WIRELESS AT SEA.

    Science Siftings gives the following note on a new wireless directions finder—the Marconi-Bellini-Tosi apparatus which is said to enable a liner even in ...

    Article : 275 words
  23. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    A shabby black bedstead is greatly improved in appearance, if rubbed with a cloth slightly dipped in paraffin, and then with a clean, soft duster. ...

    Article : 99 words
  24. THE FIGHT FOR ALMA'S HEIGHTS.

    Sixty years ago; almost to the day, soldiers of Britain and France, fighting side by side, achieved one of the most brilliant victories in the annals of war. ...

    Article : 188 words
  25. POTASH AS MANURE.

    Potash is an important constituent of all plants, and is found most abundantly in the young leaves and twigs, as it is intimately connected with the ...

    Article : 152 words
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