Surprise is often expressed at the official statement that an enormous percentage—sometimes placed as high as ninety—of wounded men go back ...
Article : 197 wordsAmong the most curious modes of salutation is that of the Malays and other Polynesians, who greet each other by smelling. Two natives on ...
Article : 268 wordsWhen 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 : 297 wordsIs an aeroplane the safest place for a soldier in war? The question would appear to be answered in the afirmative in view of the following facts. ...
Article : 266 wordsKeepsakes in time become relics, and relies become, if not sacred, often very precious—in terms of hard cash, that is. It is not everybody ...
Article : 338 wordsIt seems almost incredible that something like 10,000,000 letters and 750,000 parcels are sent every week to British soldiers [?] in France. ...
Article : 248 wordsLiterature owes no inconsiderable debt to prisons, which have led to the writing of books that otherwise would not have been produced. Literary ...
Article : 598 wordsIn the whole realm of science nothing is more wonderful or of greater importance to mankind than the behaviour of plants under the influence ...
Article : 468 wordsSome remarkable fees have been paid to doctors by wealthy individuals whom they have attended. Dr. [?], a well-known New York ...
Article : 240 wordsThe largest and most valuable library in the world is the Bibliotheque National, in Paris, which was founded by Louis XIV. The library ...
Article : 231 words"Carry your own lifeboat," is the motto of an Italian inventor, G. Piperno, who has visited England with what is probably the most ...
Article : 187 wordsThe report of the Women Police Service tells how some of its members reassured a crowd who suspected the planet Venus of being the light ...
Article : 180 wordsA girl baby was recently brought to a clergyman to be baptised. The latter asked the name of the baby. "Dinah M.," the father responded. ...
Article : 111 wordsShe considered it her duty to correct Tommy very frequently. Sometimes she let acts pass, but even with that margin there still remained so ...
Article : 67 wordsBarnes: "This wireless telegraphy reminds me of a groundless quarrel." Jones : "What possible connection is there between the two ?" ...
Article : 46 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 1,096 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Prahran Chronicle (Vic. : 1894 - 1906; 1914 - 1918), Sat 30 Nov 1918, Page 6
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: