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  2. What Makes an Electric Lamp-bulb Glow?

    When you heat iron in a forge it becomes either red hot or white hot, depending on how hot it is. It sends forth light. The hotter it is the ...

    Article : 298 words
  3. Another Prophecy.

    A remarkable prophecy which seems to have been overlooked occurs in the Apocrypha, in tile second book i of Esdras :— ...

    Article : 339 words
  4. Body Armour.

    It was stated during the Boer War that a sufficiently resistant plate over the heart and another over the abdomen would prevent nearly all ...

    Article : 173 words
  5. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    In parts of New Zealand during the seventeenth century voters had to reside in a "stone house of the dimensions of 20 feet by 16 feet, with one ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. CITY OF PRAHRAN.

    Interior of Prahran City Hall before renovation ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  7. THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG.

    Here is, a fine descriptive: writing on the wonderful effect of the nightingale's song:— Then, in the solemn stillness, the ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. Where He Scored.

    He felt his position keenly Restlessly he moved off one leg on to the other, and looked up with the simple faith of a little child unto her who ...

    Article : 221 words
  9. AN OLD WORLD CHISEL.

    Speaking before a meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers at London, Sir Robert Hadfield said that when in Ceylon he paid a visit ...

    Article : 190 words
  10. Surprising Plant Habits.

    In the whole realm of science nothing is more wonderful or of greater importance to mankind than the behaviour of plants under the influence ...

    Article : 466 words
  11. Scottish Soldiers.

    It would be difficult to find an army in Europe which did not contain descendants of the Scottish soldier of fortune. In Sweden Gustavus ...

    Article : 206 words
  12. Oh, Those Gramophones!

    Some people keep gramophones as a hobby some do it on purpose. I live at the situate in a quiet avenue. I have [?]ived here for two ...

    Article : 472 words
  13. STRANGE PETS.

    The chameleon belongs to the lizard family, and is a slow, ugly creature, and the last thing on earth you would think of making a pet of, yet ...

    Article : 223 words
  14. Lies Detected by Breath.

    When a man is telling a lie he breathes differently from when he is telling the truth The difference was discovered by means of some tests ...

    Article : 236 words
  15. THE EYE OF THE GUN.

    This is called the telemeter and is used by all artillerists in some shape or other. The telemeter is really a tube with two telescopic lenses, one ...

    Article : 273 words
  16. Your Own Lifeboat.

    "Carry your own lifeboat," is the motto of an Italian inventor, G. Piperno, who has visited England with what is probably the most ...

    Article : 189 words
  17. COMPULSORY ECONOMY.

    The son was about to embark upon the sec of matrimony. The father called him to his side, and gave his last lecture on economy. ...

    Article : 161 words
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