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  2. CONSERVATION OF FODDER ON A WHEAT FARM.

    Mr. A. F. Noll, in a paper read before the Quorn Branch Bureau of Agriculture, South Australia, drew the attention of farmers to the ...

    Article : 344 words
  3. INDIA SIBERIA AND AUSTRALIA.

    Is India safe from Invasion?—So long as England has command of the sea, which is as essential to the safety of India and Afghanistan as ...

    Article : 668 words
  4. A STAGE TRAGEDY.

    A correspondent of "The Free Lance" writes:—Few old playgoers have ever discovered why Walter Montgomery committed suicide in ...

    Article : 415 words
  5. ROBERTSON GRUSOE'S ISLAND.

    According to Mr. Herbert Vivian, who writes in the "Royal Magazine" Juan Fernandez, five hundred miles off the coast of South America, was ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. A HISTORIC CEDAR OF LEBANON.

    The famous cedar at Biel was brought in a flower-pot from London by Lord Belhaven, it was thought, on the last occasion he was ...

    Article : 202 words
  7. THE JOKER WAS ACCEPTED.

    He was a comic writer and asked her to be his wife. He proposed as a humourist could and she laughed. He looked blue. Then she smiled ...

    Article : 333 words
  8. GUM ARABIC PRODUGED BY ANTS.

    Gum arabic is an exudation from certain species of acacia. In order to obtain the gum the stem must be cut or perforated so that the juice ...

    Article : 224 words
  9. WINDOW-PANES THAT DIFFUSE LIGHT.

    The increase of tall buildings has resulted in a larger use of ribbed and prismatic glass for windows as well as in the production of ...

    Article : 92 words
  10. DYNAMITE PNUMATIG GUNS.

    A successful dynamite gun has finally been constructed according to reports from America, where tests were recently held in the presence of ...

    Article : 200 words
  11. THE CAT WAS OUT.

    The following little story was related to the writer by a rate collector He was beginning to doubt the ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

    A popular K.C. in the days when he was not quite so well-known as he is now, was engaged on a case in the country. ...

    Article : 222 words
  13. MR. CHAMBERLAIN AS A SPEAKER.

    Full of distinctive characteristics is Mr. Joseph Chamberlain—unquestionably the most interesting personality in Parliament. Watch him ...

    Article : 482 words
  14. FISHY SEA-SERPENTS.

    Somewhere at the bottom of the deep blue sea at an unknown distance from the surface, dwell some weird fish-like animals. One of these ...

    Article : 115 words
  15. THE STORY OF AN INDIAN ELEPHANT.

    Among the many odd presents received by Queen Victoria was an elephant, which, when a mere baby, was sent to her by an Indian Prince. ...

    Article : 365 words
  16. IRISH TOBACCO.

    Tobacco-growing in Ireland was a matter which attracted a great. deal of attention a couple of years ago and other Department of Agriculture ...

    Article : 160 words
  17. A CRAZY HONEYMOON'S TRAGIC SEQUEL.

    Our readers are acquainted with the personality of Captain Andrews, the "lone navigator," who achieved fame by crossing the Atlantic from ...

    Article : 473 words
  18. RICE V. POTATOES.

    If the value of food is judged solely by its chemical composition, a wrong impression may be obtained. for instance, potatoes as purchased ...

    Article : 227 words
  19. A PARROT STORY.

    "My wife," remarked a rising young' solicitor "though a dear little woman in every respect. has a mania for extravagantly-coloured ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER IN RUSSIA.

    An English commercial traveller had a very curious experience while travelling in Russia on one of his periodical visits in quest of orders ...

    Article : 265 words
  21. EGGS FRESH FOR THREE YEARS.

    Every farmer's wife arid every good housewife has a method of her own for the preservation of part of the plentiful supply of eggs in ...

    Article : 249 words
  22. HENCE THESE TEARS.

    "The Slate" tells an amusing story of a poor old Scotchman who could no longer till "his wee bit land." and was obliged to accept the ...

    Article : 194 words
  23. IN HIS ELEMINT.

    An Irishman. out of employment. went up to an employer and asked for a job. Employer: "Do you know ...

    Article : 146 words
  24. IN A MILITARY HOSPITAL.

    A major and surgeon of the army stationed in the Philippines states that when the chief nurse of a small base hospital in Southern Luzon was ...

    Article : 148 words
  25. LIONS AND THEIR GOOD.

    It is a common assertion in works on natural history that the lion in a state of liberty. will not cat what he has not killed himself—so noble ...

    Article : 125 words
  26. OF COURSE.

    Two Irishmen were arguing which was the cleverer. "Well". said Pat "I bet you can't tell me what keeps bricks to ...

    Article : 48 words
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