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  2. Short Story

    When the men had gone she sat still for a while in thought. She had much of old Pengelly's determination, and she was resolved to give no ...

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  3. INTERESTING WAR NOTES

    "I cannot understand Great Britain going to war with Germany just for a scrap of paper." The "Scrap of paper," thus contemptuously referred to by the ...

    Article : 226 words
  4. BLACK SOILS.

    The black soils in different parts of the globe are remarkable for their fertility, and abundant crops are harvested off them year after year ...

    Article : 375 words
  5. IS MOONLIGHT DANGEROUST

    The alleged harmfulness of moonlight is at last receiving scientific attention. It seems, according to a writer, that the light of the moon being reflected, ...

    Article : 198 words
  6. HOW JELLICOE KEEPS FIT.

    By practising "catches" and indulging in vigorous running round the deck. Admiral Jellicoe keeps himself in the "pink of condition," according to an ...

    Article : 248 words
  7. WAR COINCIDENCES.

    It is curious to note how the long arm of alphabetical coincidence is figuring generally and also in relation to prominent personalities in the ...

    Article : 123 words
  8. FARM AND FIELD.

    The increasing popularity of the cowpea is due to the fact that gives a heavy yield of the very finest hay for stock feeding that can be produced ...

    Article : 389 words
  9. INVENTIONS BY ACCIDENT.

    An alchemist, experimenting in earths for the making of crucibles, found that he had invented porcelain. A watchmaker's apprentice, holding a ...

    Article : 328 words
  10. SCIENCE NOTES.

    H. prolonged mirror described by E. H. W. Westwood to the Victorian Institute of Electrical Engineers is held together by wire netting ...

    Article : 91 words
  11. TRAINING ARMY BANDSMEN.

    Great Britain is the only country which undertakes the systematic training of its Army bandsmen, and the selection of the band of the Duke of ...

    Article : 207 words
  12. THE MACAPUNO COCOANUT.

    This curious sport fruit of the cocoanut, which occasionally grows on trees bearing ordinary cocoanuts, is described from the Philippines by B. ...

    Article : 101 words
  13. EGYPT'S FAMOUS MOSQUE.

    Sultan Hussein will be a title which is really "reversion to type," for Egypt was long ruled by Sultans, one of whom has given his name to what ...

    Article : 115 words
  14. Items of Interest.

    The poor man wants food for his appetite; the rich man appetite for his food. A fool is never master of himself, ...

    Article : 302 words
  15. WORLD'S BIGGEST CUN.

    The biggest gun in the world—unless the German army has larger ones not known to other nations—was shipped from the Water[?]liet arsenal, New ...

    Article : 229 words
  16. ELECTRIC WATER-HEATER.

    A very compact little electric stove has been pot on thy market which is particularly adapted for heating a tumbler or glassful of water in a very ...

    Article : 114 words
  17. DOCTORING WAR HORSES.

    At the Front horses are treated with just the same care and skill as is shown to the soldiers, and are given choloroform and other anaesthetics ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. A GOOD DAIRY COW.

    In a good dairy cow the hindquarters should be heavy and the forequarters comparatively light in build. This gives a good length from the loins to ...

    Article : 303 words
  19. MAINTENANCE OF SOLAR HEAT.

    Discussing this well-worn subject in the Comptes rendus, M. A. Veronnet attempts to calculate the time the sun's activity could be maintained by ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. CLOTHING KITCHENER'S ARMY.

    The manufacture of clothing for the new armies is proceeding in the West Riding of Yorkshire on a colossal scale. ...

    Article : 213 words
  21. FAMOUS REGIMENTS.

    Since last October the Lancashire Fusiliers have been in the thick of the fierce struggle raging on the read to Calais, and they have been commended ...

    Article : 422 words
  22. SHELLS AND SOMNAMBULISM.

    A correspondent who is in charge of an ambulance on the Continent has been investigating the psychology of the fighting man. Neurotic subjects, ...

    Article : 242 words
  23. SULPHUR FOR FOWLS.

    The need of sulphur in spring for breeding birds has been amply proved by experiments made in France and elsewhere to test the vitality of eggs ...

    Article : 167 words
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