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  2. Short Story

    "You ought to have told me who you were before. You might have given as a hint of the truth." Clive Warrington spoke in low tones ...

    Article : 2,172 words
  3. Interesting War Notes.

    As Minister of Munitions, Mr. Lloyd George is the greatest employer of labour in the world. He controls 1,670 munition factories, employing a million ...

    Article : 493 words
  4. COUNTING THE STARS.

    The number of stars visible in the argest telescopes has been variously stated. A few years ago an estimate to 125,000,000 was current. According to ...

    Article : 104 words
  5. A HANDY RANCE-FINDER.

    This latest pocket instrument which has made its appearance has received the approval of the War Office. It is an extremely small device, comprising ...

    Article : 183 words
  6. PIGEONS AS POSTMEN.

    From the earliest times recorded ill history the homing pigeon's wonderful faculty of getting home in a hurry" has bee utilised in conveying messages. ...

    Article : 471 words
  7. FARM & FIELD.

    Humus is so thoroughly desseminated in tine soil that its presence is noticeable only in the dark colour it gives when in largo amounts, but black ...

    Article : 454 words
  8. WAR SACRIFICE.

    Considerable sentimental interest attached to the auction sale of one of the gift articles sold in aid of the Auckland Hospital Ship Fund recently. This ...

    Article : 177 words
  9. SCIENCE NOTES.

    By painting periscope tubes with parallel stripes representing the colours of the spectrum, it is reported that the United States Navy Department hopes ...

    Article : 58 words
  10. EDISON ON GAS BOMBS AND WORSE.

    A writer who visited Edison lately, asked him whether couldn't invent something deadlier than a gas bomb. "Yes, I could," was the prompt reply, ...

    Article : 139 words
  11. WHEN MONARCH'S MOUNTS HAVE STUMBLED.

    Curiously enough, considering the care that is always taken in the selection of their mounts, monarchs frequently come to grief when riding. ...

    Article : 244 words
  12. THE FIRST BOMB.

    The bomb, once looked upon chiefly as a symbol of anarchy, has come into such general use as a destructive agent during the, present war that it is ...

    Article : 174 words
  13. SOLDERING BY ELECTRICITY.

    An electric soldering iron of radically new design has recently made its appearance on the American market. Instead of employing the usual form of ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. RUSSIA'S KITCHENER.

    So General Kuropatkin, who has been appointed commander of the Grenadier Corps in Petrograd, has been described; and there is ...

    Article : 270 words
  15. Items of Interest.

    Praise may puff up a shallow nature, but it always brings something of humility to a deep one. But oh! that eye was in itself a soul. ...

    Article : 236 words
  16. BLESSING THE SWORDS.

    That the Japanese are past-masters in the art of sword-making is proved by the splendid weapons, equal to those of Toledo and Damascus, which they ...

    Article : 524 words
  17. TYRE CHAINS AND SKIDS.

    The majority of automobile owners fit chains to the rear wheels only, and appear to consider this ample insurance against accidents from skidding, but ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. CURING A KICKING COW.

    The method adopted by a correspondent effectually cows from kicking—consummation much desired by all milkers. His ...

    Article : 228 words
  19. NEW WEIGHING DEVICE.

    The use of a fine gold or platinum chain in place of the usual milligram weights and beam riders is claimed to reduce the time of weighings by the ...

    Article : 191 words
  20. POULTRY.

    If the recent scarcity of poultry foods has resulted in breaking down some of the prejudice against maize as a food for poultry, it will not have ...

    Article : 460 words
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