Our Weather Prophet
In our village annals the weather prophet has always held an honoured place. He has invented longer prophecies than have yet been dared by any meteorological office. Saints'......
Gracing
That more or less new form of amusement, the racing of greyhounds, has made its own, and not very suitable port- manteau word. Gracing" is established and possesses its own......
Killing In February The Close Season Is Generally...
begin with February. It does not. You are allowed to go on shooting snipe and woodcock till the beginning of March in some counties, till St. Valentine's Day in others. Now one......
Lighthouse Observers A Considerable Success In Research...
by Captain Damireuther and the lighthouse and other observers whom he has mobilized. They have advanced by a very long way our knowledge of the migrations of insects, and proved......
Country Life
Worcestershire Worcestershire, one of the Three Graces, is to have a special branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. It has peculiar need. The county......
Lying Berries
As to particular prophecies; the old and still activeteleological belief that many berries point to a hard winter has been disproved with singular emphasis—the holly berries......
Persian Or Greek? • Mr. Young's Learned Book On The
narcissus or daffodil has rearoused speculation on the derivation of the words. Perhaps our chief authority on plants in English and classical literature, Mr. Vernon Rendall,......
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