W.D. & H.O. Wills

Do You Know (2nd)

Stock ID: mAD

Full set of 50 antique cigarette cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 1. What Amber is?
• 2. How the Aneroid Barometer works?
• 3. Which Animals live longest?
• 4. Why an Apple turns brown when cut?
• 5. Where Bananas come from?
• 6. What causes the “Bedeguar” of the Wild Rose?
• 7. Why a Bishop wears a Laced Hat?
• 8. What causes the Bloom on Grapes?
• 9. Which is the most beautiful Building in the World?
• 10. Where the Oldest Buildings in the World are?
• 11. Why the Camel has a Hump?
• 12. What China-clay is?
• 13. How Cinematograph pictures are taken?
• 14. Why the Cock is used on Church Weather-vanes?
• 15. How a Coral Reef is formed?
• 16. Why Flowers smell?
• 17. Why some Flowers are brightly coloured and others not?
• 18. How the Fly walks upside-down?
• 19. Why the Flying-Fish flies?
• 20. What causes a Geyser?
• 21. Why a Giraffe has a long neck?
• 22. Why a Golf Ball is not Smooth?
• 23. How a Gramophone acts?
• 24. Why the Horse straightens its fore-legs first when rising, and the Cow its hind-legs?
• 25. What India-rubber is?
• 26. Why a Curved Iron hangs over the Rails in many Stations?
• 27. Why a Ladder has a Number?
• 28. What makes the Light in the Lighthouse?
• 29. What causes a Lunar Corona?
• 30. What causes the Midnight Sun?
• 31. Who built the Pyramids, and why?
• 32. What Quinine is?
• 33. Where a Railway runs over the Sea?
• 34. How the Sand comes on the Sea-shore?
• 35. Why a Saw has a Notch in its top edge?
• 36. Why Shells vary in shape?
• 37. How the Spectroscope acts?
• 38. What a Sponge is?
• 39. How Stalactites are formed?
• 40. Why the Stamp is stuck at the top right-hand corner of the envelope?
• 41. Why Stone Steps were placed by the road-side?
• 42. Why the Sun makes us Brown?
• 43. What a Tidal Wave is?
• 44. Which is the Biggest Tree in the World?
• 45. What causes a Volcanic Eruption?
• 46. What causes the Waves, and why the Sea is salt?
• 47. What causes the Wind?
• 48. Why Wood floats in water, and Iron sinks?
• 49. What the X-rays are?
• 50. What Yeast is?