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  2. Short Story

    It was gone. The famous Madonna of the Sepulchre had vanished. In the picture's stead was a space of red wall staring ...

    Article : 2,710 words
  3. INTERESTING WAR NOTES

    The most important lighthouse at the present time, so far as actual operations are concerned, is the light of Heligoland the island which Germany ...

    Article : 161 words
  4. OUR NATIONAL SONGS.

    One of the Canadian newspaper writers hits upon an interesting discovery in the matter of national hymns when he remarks, as a suggestive fact. ...

    Article : 311 words
  5. BOOTS MADE FROM SEAWEED.

    According to experts who have closely studied the matter, we are neglecting a valuable asset by not making more use of the tons of seaweed ...

    Article : 168 words
  6. TESTING GERMAN GUNS.

    A writer in the "World's Work" supplies some interesting figures to illustrate the dimensions of the great gun and armour-plate works of the ...

    Article : 140 words
  7. BALANCE THE RATION.

    Men who have been successful in the business have followed very closely the tines of scientific investigation, or the good common sense principles that a ...

    Article : 155 words
  8. HIGH EXPLOSIVES.

    The choice of the French in the matter of explosives has been the powerful compound melinite, and experiments made with shells filled with ...

    Article : 220 words
  9. FARM AND FIELD

    The dairying business is not self operative to the extent that it pays without effort or forethought. But it does pay big returns on all the brains ...

    Article : 409 words
  10. TOMMY'S MARCHING FEATS.

    British infantry have tile reputation for excelling the infantry of All other armies in the rate of marching and staving powers. Fifteen miles a day ...

    Article : 130 words
  11. ELEPHANT ARTILLERY.

    The Heavy Battery of India is the roost curious corps in the British Army. In fact, it in absolutely unique in the world. This is the elephant ...

    Article : 715 words
  12. SCIENCE NOTES.

    In the present European war gasoline has come to be regarded so much a necessity that it has been referred to in some quarters as a war of gasoline. ...

    Article : 87 words
  13. MILLIONS SPENT ON HELIGOLAND.

    Since 1890 Heligoland, the Kaiser's island fortress, has been practically reconstructed, and has had £10,000,000 spent on her by the astute German ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. WAR AND COPPER.

    Since the commencement of the twentieth century nearly 8,000,000 tons of copper have been extracted from their ores, and have been consumed in ...

    Article : 156 words
  15. RUBBER MICROBES.

    Commercial rubber, which is kept in perfectly dry air, is not capable of furnishing nutriment to any form of microbe, according to a note in the ...

    Article : 113 words
  16. PARIS AUTO-'BUS.

    According to the Paris journals, the auto-'buses which are doing such good service in the war will not afterwards be used again for the city lines, but ...

    Article : 116 words
  17. Items of Interest.

    We must not pretend to see all that we see, if we would be easy.—Penn. What virtue is so fitting for a knight, Or for a lady whom a Fight should ...

    Article : 322 words
  18. WHEN ARCHERS FOUGHT NAPOLEON.

    We think of the bow and arrow as mediaeval weapons of war, abandoned by the nations of Europe four or five centuries ago: yet it is only 100 years ...

    Article : 177 words
  19. CLOVERS AND SLAG.

    Clovers always pay well for dressings of slag, but to get the full benefit the slag should be applied to the corn crop in which the clover is sown. Although ...

    Article : 184 words
  20. THE CYRO-COMPASS.

    Gyro compasses have now been installed on 20 battleships, one armoured cruiser, and 15 submarines of the United States Navy, and it has recently A correspondent in South Dakota writes that in his part of the country the automobile has been found a great success as a prairie-dog exterminator When the German submarine has been able to get home its torpedo it has affected the destruction of the ship attacked practically at the first blow ...

    Article : 411 words
  21. SORTING FROSTED ORANGES AND LEMONS.

    The way to determine whether a lemon or an orange is frosted or frozen is to cut it in two and look at the juice globules. The outside of the ...

    Article : 454 words
  22. CANADA TO BUILD WARSHIPS.

    Canada is not only supplying Great Britain and our Allies with large quantities of material, but will also soon be in a position to build warships of ...

    Article : 173 words
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