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  2. Short Story

    "How dare you, Lon Malverne? how dare you?" "I beg your pardon, Miss Greer." "It's beyond pardon. It's simply ...

    Article : 1,586 words
  3. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A floating cinematograph theatre, consisting of a ship 164ft. long, is a popular attraction at Netherlands Harbour, Cape Town. ...

    Article : 176 words
  4. TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD.

    There has been recently completed in New York a skyscraper which can claim the distinction of being the tallest habitable edifice on the face of the ...

    Article : 281 words
  5. FAILURE OF "HAIL RODS."

    Great things were expected from the recent erection in many parts of France of large lightning-rods, known as "electric Niagaras," supposed to ...

    Article : 195 words
  6. NEW UNBREAKABLE GLASS.

    The strengthened glass of recent French experiments consists of a thin sheet of celluloid between two layers of gelatine, each covered by a sheet ...

    Article : 87 words
  7. SHAPE OF THE EARTH.

    On the earth and on Mars the oceans dominate the austral hemisphere. This fact may be attributed to the translation of those two planets in a ...

    Article : 171 words
  8. THE BRAN MASH.

    A bran mash acknowledged to be one of the indispensable for horses, but all do not take the pains to make the mash properly. To make a good ...

    Article : 241 words
  9. NEW BIG GUN RECORD.

    A now record with a 9.2 in. gun, the heaviest in our coastal defence, has been made by men of the Royal Garrison 'Artillery, under Colonel ...

    Article : 78 words
  10. Odds and Ends.

    Customer: I want to order my wife a round. Butcher: So do I mine, sir; but she orders me around. Nurse: Yes, Johnny, the doctor ...

    Article : 302 words
  11. LONG DISTANCE WIRELESS.

    Some astonishing long-distance communication has been carried out by the operators at the new wireless station at Awanui, New Zealand, and an idea ...

    Article : 78 words
  12. GASOLENE FROM PETROLEUM.

    A very large yield of gasolene from petroleum can be obtained by catalytic hydrogenation. The method is practically the same its that recently ...

    Article : 166 words
  13. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

    "Oh, Willie, don't throw a stone at the poor thing! It's cruel to hurt dumb things mother says so!" cried Daisy in alarm "and besides you'll kill it, ...

    Article : 1,419 words
  14. MOST EXPENSIVE GOLF CLUB.

    Chicago has started a golf club, limited to 150 members, with £45,000 in the treasury derived from entrance fees fixed at £300 each. Within ...

    Article : 168 words
  15. SCIENCE NOTES.

    A revolver measuring about three inches from the tip of the hammer to the end of the barrel has been designed. It fires a steel bullet about ...

    Article : 37 words
  16. Items of Interest.

    Anger is certainly a kind of baseness.—Bacon. Joys are our wings sorrows are our spurs.—J. P. Ritcher. ...

    Article : 237 words
  17. NEW GIANT BIPLANE.

    A well-known Russian aviator and designer has just built a huge aeroplane weighing no loss than three tons and a-half. It is stated that the now ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. FARM AND FIELD.

    On the basis of the continuous manuring experiments begun in 1895 in the experimental field of the Agricultural Station, the following ...

    Article : 315 words
  19. WHAT AND INCH OF RAIN IS.

    An inch of rain strikes one as very little. But it is really a big rainfall. When an inch of rain has fallen it means, literally, that the amount of ...

    Article : 155 words
  20. Not What She Expected.

    Scene: A street corner. Short-sighted old lady in a hurry to get a tram, holding up umbrella to passing hearse: "Stop! stop!" ...

    Article : 42 words
  21. 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 : 126 words
  22. Change.

    First Youth: "I know that I am not perfect. I realise that I have my faults." Second Youth (pleasantly): "yes ...

    Article : 42 words
  23. FLOATING ON THE DEAD SEA.

    The wonderful buoyancy of the Dead Sea, that strange inland sheet of water in Palestine, is proverbial. It is some 47 miles long by nine miles ...

    Article : 118 words
  24. A NEW METHOD OF STERILISING MILK.

    A now German invention for producting germ-free milk, known as the "biorisator," is said to be in successful use at dairies in Leipzig and ...

    Article : 256 words
  25. For Safety.

    Youth (hiring a horse to go for a ride): "I'll pay you when I get back." Horse Owner (who doubts his riding ability): "Perhaps you had better ...

    Article : 37 words
  26. Enough.

    Magistrate (to Mrs. Con Kelly): "You claim, Mrs. Kelly, that Mrs. Dooley gave you that bruised and blackened face?" ...

    Article : 61 words
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    There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower; In every herb on which you tread Are written words which, rightly read ...

    Article : 106 words
  28. WEIGHING THE EARTH.

    Professor J. H. Poynting F.R.S., Professor of Physics at Birmingham University, and better known to the scientific world as the Man who ...

    Article : 134 words
  29. Didn't Know.

    Jack: "Who wrote 'Birds of a feather flock together?" Tom (who has tried shooting): "Some idiot who has never been out ...

    Article : 28 words
  30. WHAT ARE CARBOHYDRATES?

    Protein corbohydrates, and fat are the three substances which form the essential factors in a ration for stock feeding. There is a wonderful variety ...

    Article : 349 words
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