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  2. MEDICAL NOTES.

    Sleeplessness, or insomnia, is always an evil. It is the invariable precursor of actual lunacy; though often, under such circumstances, it is not always ...

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  3. OF RURAL INTEREST

    The conference with the States, wheat-buyers, and shippers on the wheat question has arrived at an agreement by which the control of the ...

    Article : 493 words
  4. STRAW MEAL AS FOOD.

    It has long been taught that straw is practically without nutrient value so far as mankind is concerned. There is however, plenty of evidence that cows ...

    Article : 202 words
  5. ARMY NICKNAMES.

    Of the many causes which make a soldier so inordinately proud of his regiment, certainly foremost among them is the possession by his corps of ...

    Article : 945 words
  6. HOW CARTRIDGES ARE TESTED.

    Many millions of rounds of rifle ammunition are being made in our munition factories, and every batch of cartridges sent out from the factories is ...

    Article : 200 words
  7. WORKERS' VISIT TO TRENCHES.

    "Despite every disadvantage, our fighting men only ask that, as they are loyal to us, we at home shall be loyal to them, and see that no act of ours ...

    Article : 465 words
  8. STORMING OF LOOS.

    That first glorious charge, made in the grey light of a day in September, which carried our men right through Loos and to the summit of Hill 70 ...

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  9. FIGHT WITH 10,000 TRIBESMEN.

    Thrilling stories of the recent fighting against the rebellious Mohmands, on the North-west Frontier, are told in Peshawur by men who took part in the ...

    Article : 647 words
  10. HAVEN'T HEARD OF WAR.

    Incredible though it may sound, there are still places which have not yet heard a syllable about the war. Trisan da Cunha, the lonely South ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. GERMAN AIRMAN CAUGHT.

    Mr Edwin Cleary, the "Daily Express" special correspondent in Northern France gives the following details concerning the capture of an aviat[?] ...

    Article : 307 words
  12. WORLD'S GREATEST CHOIR.

    Russia boasts of the world's greatest choir. It is in the Cathedral of Alexander Nevski, in Petrograd, and is attached to a convent erected in honour ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. ANCIENT ANÆSTHETICS.

    To suppose that the surgical use of anæsthetics, either general or local, is peculiar to modern a times, is a popular fallacy. Dr J. de Fenton, in the "South ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. THE CORRIEDALE

    The official organ of the wool trade in Sydney says:—The growth in popularity of the Corriedale—a type of sheep comparatively new in most parts ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. PROBLEM OF RE-POPULATION.

    From Vienna again comes the declaration that medical experts there are determining successfully the sex of infants by pre-natal measures of which ...

    Article : 847 words
  16. MARRIAGES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA.

    Polygamy is the universal practice. "It would be absolutely improper," says Emin Pasha, "for even a small chief to have fewer than ten or fifteen ...

    Article : 307 words
  17. A BULLET-PROOF STRETCHER.

    Fighting conditions have become so strenuous in the war zone that there is no certainty when or where hospital attendants of Red Cross men will be given ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. EUROPEAN MEAT MARKET.

    A development in the meat trade is apparently taking place with the European countries on a wider scale than formerly. As yet we are no doubt, just ...

    Article : 198 words
  19. LITTLE FEET.

    Feet that lightly come and go, Like the silent s tides that flow, Like the falling of the snow, Childish' feet in careless play, ...

    Article : 211 words
  20. ROMANCE OF BARBED WIRE.

    Barbed wire, which is playing such all important part in the war, was invented a good many years ago by an American named Ellwood. A working ...

    Article : 198 words
  21. THE EFFECT OF DEHORNING.

    In an experiment with ten cows at the Kansas Agricultural College, it was found that for the first five days after dehorning the cows lost an average of ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. SEED SELECTION.

    How necessary it is for the farmer to exercise care in the selection of the seed that he commits to the ground is being increasingly demonstrated. In ...

    Article : 134 words
  23. SCOTTISH WAR ROMANCE.

    The war has furnished one Scottish romance. During the operations in Arabia two of our medical missionaries—Dr. McRae and Miss Bryce—found ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. HUMOROUS PATIENT.

    At the bedside of a patient who was a noted humorist five doctors were in consultation as to the best means to produce perspiration. The sick man ...

    Article : 67 words
  25. APPLES IN SYRUP.

    Core and peel the apples. Boil together for five minutes 1 cup sugar and 1½ cups water. Put the apples in and cook gently until tender. ...

    Article : 30 words
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