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  2. THE LEISURE HOUR IN THE HOME CIRCLE

    The Arctic seems to be warning up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who salt the seas about Spitsbergen and the Eastern Arctic, ...

    Article : 725 words
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  4. THE BOOKSHELF

    They are big men, that the tracks of the farthest-out-men of in[?]table will, and heroic intent. In strange shapes they run, from the [?]all [?] athlete to the under[?]zed physical ...

    Article : 339 words
  5. NATURE'S WIRELESS

    The air was full of talk and music countless centuries before man invented wireless broadcasting. Any number of other creatures whom we ...

    Article : 332 words
  6. COFFEE

    It is odd that coffee drinking should ever be denounced as a curse. Yet it was denounced when first it came into use among the Mahometans, and it has ...

    Article : 1,055 words
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  8. Microbes in the Soil

    What Sir John Russell claims to be the most remarkable census ever taken has been carried out at Rothamp[?]tend (Eng.) experimental station. It was ...

    Article : 238 words
  9. "THE PLANTATION MANAGER."

    An unusual island is that just published by the N.S.W. Bookstall Company, and entitled, "The Plantation Manager." It is conventional to regard the trople Islands as a kind of ...

    Article : 312 words
  10. "BEYOND THE CITY GATES."

    "Now that you've the coast of 'Prosperity to the District,'I'll call on Mr. Jack [?]ses for a recitation." That is what you will hear from any ...

    Article : 498 words
  11. Chance Inventions

    The accidental discovery that led a Bradford silver refiner tu produce silver that will resist tarnish for a considerable period recalls many ...

    Article : 310 words
  12. SYNTHETIC COAL.

    Alchemy has yet to succeed in transmuting base metals into gold, but it appears that German science (having failed to achieve synthetic gold, has ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. A War-Time Horror

    A terrible tragedy, particulars of which were suppressed by the censorship,and are now published for the first time, occurred during the war near ...

    Article : 227 words
  14. UNLUCKY FLOWERS.

    Primroses are flowers of ill omen to the rural poultry-keeper, points out the "Morning Post," In many areas it is a firm belief that if the first promises ...

    Article : 149 words
  15. A DWARF FAMILY.

    Reminiscent of a form of cruelty in vague in the Middle Ages is the story that comes from Madrid of a family of dwarfs, who had been hidden in an ...

    Article : 109 words
  16. GAUGING THE TIME.

    It is hard to imagine how folk arranged their appointments in those days when there were no clocks, and when even the primitive sundials only ...

    Article : 193 words
  17. THE LUCKY HORSESHOE.

    The hora[?]hoe was originally hung on a beam or doorway for good luck, as being propitiatory in the mean symbolising the Mother Principle. The ...

    Article : 100 words
  18. A CAMPHOR-DRIVEN BOAT.

    It has been demonstrated that camphor will drive objects through water. A piece of sine foil Was cut out in the shape of a boat, at the stern of ...

    Article : 155 words
  19. THE SURVIVOR.

    An Incident unique in British Army history took place last Thursday when General Sir George Higginson, aged 97, who is called the father of the ...

    Article : 140 words
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