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  3. A Private Army.

    Most of the 250 Highland "giants" who compose the Duke of Atholl's private army are now at the front. The Highlanders have always been "bonny fechters," and ...

    Article : 157 words
  4. The Angry Tree.

    Did you know that a tree can get angry? There ia a kind of acacia in Nevada that not only is "touchy," but, as the gardener put it, "goes very mad. ...

    Article : 147 words
  5. How Animals Feed.

    When one thinks of the many curious ways in which common animals partake of their food, one realises more than ever the vast difference there is between ...

    Article : 154 words
  6. Items of Interest.

    In one of the French trenches the men have constructed a small chapel under the earth. It is large enough to admit twenty men at a time. Every effort has been ...

    Article : 110 words
  7. Novel Use of the Periscope.

    Although the periscope has become familiar to the general community chiefly from its association with submarine and trench warfare, it has been put to a distinctly ...

    Article : 213 words
  8. Bells and Shells.

    According to official Austrian figures, up to the end at August no fewer than 15,200 church bella bad been melted down for munitions in the Dual Monarchy, the ...

    Article : 208 words
  9. Chain of Office.

    The Lord Mayor of the City of London wears the most costly badge of office in England. It contains diamonds to the value of £120,000, and each holder of it during ...

    Article : 222 words
  10. Big Bridges.

    The Cernavoda Bridge, across the Danube, which the Roumanians are reported to have blown up in order to prevent its falling into the hands of their enemies, is ...

    Article : 191 words
  11. The Founding of Frankfort.

    The beautiful German commercial city of Frankfort-on-the-Main is said to have had a curious origin. When the Emperor Charlemagne ...

    Article : 164 words
  12. Ships Built of Stone.

    From the middle of the Christiania Fiord in Norway, where of old the Vikings used to launch their wooden war galleys, the strangest ship in the world has appeared. ...

    Article : 372 words
  13. Mustard

    Our forefathers (says a writer in a London paper) used mustard as an antidote for the poisonous effects of certain mushrooms and to counteract snakebites. ...

    Article : 197 words
  14. Photography in Warfare.

    Another use for-photography in war has been found by the Serbians in connection with their prisoners. The Bulgars, with the remembrance of their own cruelties to ...

    Article : 222 words
  15. A Submarine Boat that Runs On Wheels.

    A submarine cruiser, fitted with wheels which will enable it to run along the bottom of the ocean, has recently been invented by a prominent American who ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. Joffre's Hard-boiled Eggs.

    General Joffre's cook was once the chef of a famous Paris restaurant, and he is highly dissatisfied with the General's taste in food. He says that the General prefers ...

    Article : 201 words
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