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  2. Interesting War Notes.

    The authorised formation of a "bantam" battalion, and the fact that the War Office has lowered the height standards in various regiments, would ...

    Article : 389 words
  3. (PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.) The Master Key.

    Helen Rhodes was to be married on Christmas Day. Everything was arranged for the ceremony. She had been engaged for two whole years to ...

    Article : 2,433 words
  4. AN EARLY INVENTION.

    Inventions have a remarkable knack of repeating themselves. Among the more interesting patents for 1015 is a specification for a wheel-loss motor-car, ...

    Article : 130 words
  5. DAIRYING AND FERTILITY.

    It has been found that where butter making has been carried on for a number of years farms have steadily improved production. Where choose ...

    Article : 233 words
  6. FARM AND FIELD

    To ascertain the needs of a soil for plant food is not a simple matter. Chemical analysis, while it supplies information, is not a certain guide, ...

    Article : 665 words
  7. POWER DEVELOPED IN CANNONS.

    Monsieur le Commandant-Regnault has calculated the actual horse-power developed during the firing of a projectile by some modern specimens of ...

    Article : 135 words
  8. SECRETS OF FLYING CORPS.

    Which nation has produced the best aviators? When we think of the splendid work which is being accomplished day after day by England's Royal ...

    Article : 658 words
  9. SCIENCE NOTES.

    Granting that the average consumption of tyros by motor-cars is eight tyres per car per year, which includes all type of vehicles, there will be ...

    Article : 54 words
  10. MINE-SWEEPERS.

    A fleet of mine-sweepers is clearing a path through the Dardanelles for the great battleships which are battering own the forts with their powerful ...

    Article : 353 words
  11. NEW ALUMINIUM SOLDER.

    A solder for aluminium which can be used without flux, has been evolved by a Now York company, which sells it by the pound in convenient sticks ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. THE KAISER'S WITHERED ARM.

    Various stories have been told of the cause of the Kaiser's infirmity—that withered left hand and arm, which must have caused the proudly sensitive ...

    Article : 477 words
  13. DIFFERENTIAL LOCKS.

    One of the lessons learned during the present war has been that of having either a four-wheel drive truck or a differential lock. When one of the ...

    Article : 76 words
  14. HORSE-POWER OF A RAINFALL.

    Few people realise the energy in a fall of rain. On the evening of October 9, 1914, there fell at Kansas City, Mo., in two hours 1.70 in, of ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. NEW ELECTRIC BELL.

    An original electric bell combination is in use at Paris which is designed to got rid of all trouble caused by the question of batteries, for these are ...

    Article : 118 words
  16. Items of Interest.

    Decision is the greatest element of effect.—J. S. Mill. Of all-felicities the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship.— ...

    Article : 277 words
  17. LIME AND PHOSPHORUS.

    There is a tendency upon the part of some persons to confuse the functions of lime and phosphorus. Lime is used primarily to correct the acid condition ...

    Article : 378 words
  18. DOOR FASTENER.

    Placing a wedge under a door is one of the most effectual means of closing it for pushing upon the door from the outside only increases the effect of the ...

    Article : 135 words
  19. FAMOUS REGIMENTS.

    The Connaught Rangers, since the opening of hostilities, have been in the thick of the fighting in Flanders, and along with other Irish regiments have ...

    Article : 431 words
  20. WOLVES ON BATTLEFIELDS.

    History tells us that on Napoleon's fatal retreat from Moscow the wearies troops were constantly harassed by hungry wolf-packs. To-day it is said ...

    Article : 190 words
  21. PAPER CARTRIDGE CASES.

    A new application of extreme interest at the present time of the metal sprinkling process invented by Mr. M. U. Schoop, an engineer of Zurich, ...

    Article : 177 words
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