SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS."

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1028, 16 May 1908, Page 7

SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS."

The Electrical Prince of Bavaria claimed the throne of^ Spain. During r the Reformation every clergyman was compelled to receive 39 articles. A colony is a piece of land belonging to England, such as America. The Potteries are little islands at the West of England where they make pottery, but they are not inhabited. The masculine of heroine is kipper. / Some of the West India Islands are subject to torpedoes. The Triennial Act enacted that no sovereign should reign for more than three years. The imperfect tense is used (in .French) to express a future action in past time which does not take place at all. Hamburg is a free city in Germany belonging to France. Becket put on a camel-air shirt and his life at once became dangerous. Arabia has many syphoo^s and very bad ones; it gets into your hair even with your mouth shut. England has much coal beds. When it is finished we shall have to use our brains for fuel, and it will be scarce. A long time ago England was once a foreign country. -*" Air usually has not weight, but when placed in a barometer it is found to weigh about 15 pounds a square inch. If a small hole were bored in tho top of a barometer tube the mercury would shoot up in a column thirty feet high. Plants need starch to make them stiff.' • Sodium when'cut has an italic appearance. Soap is sometimes made from glycerine and cucumber. Hydrogen is colorless, odorless, and insolvent. _. A cuckoo is a* thing that turns from a butterfly into a moth. Horse-power is the distance a horse can carry one pound of water in an hour. The earth revolves on its own axis 3G5 times in 24. hours. ' This rapid motion through space causes its sides to perspire, forming dew. Fahrenheit and Centigrade arc two chemiclcs used in making thermometers. Magnesium is one of the salts found in the sea. — it is what makes it effervesce when the tide comes in.