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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 968, 8 November 1910, Page 2

Size for size, a thread of spider's silk is decidedly tougher than ono of steel. An ordinary thread will tear a weight of three grains. This is about 50 per cent, stronger"than a. steel thread of the eame_. thickness. ; .. . ' Tho. children coughed and sneezed ifl. . ECOOOIi The Ladv Teacher, culm and cool; Remarked: "The Government's pretty sure ' .- To let mo buy Woods' Peppermint Cure, For all this sneezing, coughing crowd, • ' And not a sixpence I'm allowed! Yet I must doctor all the lot. Or else the school will go to pot!"—Adrt. . ■ ■ 22 Although the brain is perpetually no. tivt>, yet the whole of it is neT«r at wark at ono time. The- two hemispheres ftr halves do not operate simultaneously, ha{ alternate, in aotion—now it is the ens half, then the other. .'..-. v At Knebworth, in Leicestershire, a bird ;. ■ has built its nest in tho sidcpocket of a 6car«-orow's ooat.