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  2. WHAT A NAVAL ACTION COSTS

    The guns of our super-Dreadnoughts are terribly expensive to "feed." Approximately (and approximate figures can be given) about £200 disappears ...

    Article : 649 words
  3. OLD CAN LOOK YOUNG.

    Dr. William Lee Howard, in a recent paper, asserts that loss of youthfulness and decline of beauty are but reaction of body tissues to injurious ...

    Article : 1,185 words
  4. A WISE OLD BIRD.

    In the beginning she had nested in the ivy-arch over the garden path—the last place in the world anyone would have looked for her therefore, ...

    Article : 585 words
  5. A TORPEDO WITH EARS.

    In its cruelest modern form the torpedo carries about 400 pounds of gun-cotton in its "war head" and it costs about £1,400. If it once bits a ship, ...

    Article : 1,477 words
  6. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    Although the King had recently to tap [?]ty tons of molten metal in Scotland, he had not to face an ordeal like the one to which his father ...

    Article : 119 words
  7. SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT BABIES

    Some very curious superstitions prevail in parts of Cumberland and the Westmorlands in regard to babies. When an infant is taken to a house ...

    Article : 138 words
  8. TAKE INTERNAL BATHS.

    The success of many of the famous water cures is, claims Dr. J. W. Trabert, in a recent paper, not the equality of the water used, but the ...

    Article : 616 words
  9. BOON TO HOUSEWIVES.

    One of the new inventions for the comfort and pleasure of the American housekeeper is the small, compact dish-washing machine, which may be ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. TONS OF GOLD.

    Curiously enough, it is not in England or America that one may see the richest treasures of gold, it is at Petrograd, in Russia's State Bank ...

    Article : 233 words
  11. SAM BROWNE BELT.

    Wellington and Blucher gave their names to boots. Lord Cardigan of Balaclava fame is commemorated by the waist-coat, Wolsley by an officer's ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. PRESS GANG AT CHURCH.

    The cursory examination which recruits allege they received in the very early days of the war were far greater tests of endurance and stamina ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. FROM BRUSH TO PEN.

    Several artists of note have been known to desert the brush for the pen and when they have died they have left their mark behind them as ...

    Article : 194 words
  14. THAT PESTILENTIAL "P."

    Why has the letter P so many evil associations? Is it mere coincidence? Or is there any reason annexed? ...

    Article : 295 words
  15. ROMANCE OF BURIED TREASURE.

    There have always been treasure-seekers diligently endeavouring to discover and bring to light the wealth hidden by their predecessors. Only a ...

    Article : 325 words
  16. GERMAN SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOL AND COTTON.

    Spinners and weavers of Germany claim that they hare round in their own country an inexpensive and satisfactory substitute for cotton, wool, ...

    Article : 256 words
  17. NO CONFUSION AT AUCTIONS.

    At the regular trade auctions held in the Netherlands, instead of having a auctioneer call for his bids. there is a large dial provided with an ...

    Article : 223 words
  18. THOUGHTFUL SON'S CARE.

    On the platform at Kansas station surrounded by packages of various shapes and sizes, sat an old woman an alarm clock hanging round her ...

    Article : 199 words
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