W.D. & H.O. Wills

Do You Know (3rd)

Stock ID: mXK

Full set of 50 vintage cigarette cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 1. What “Ancient Lights” are?
• 2. What an Artesian Well is?
• 3. What Asbestos is?
• 4. What “Book-works” are?
• 5. What a Boomerang is?
• 6. What a Cenotaph is?
• 7. The origin of the Christmas-Tree?
• 8. How the Clothes Moth damages clothes?
• 9. What a Comet is?
• 10. The origin of the Brass Crescents on Harness?
• 11. What a Tasmanian Devil is?
• 12. Why Water runs off a Duck’s back?
• 13. The origin of the “Flying Dutchman?“
• 14. Why a Dog turns round before lying down?
• 15. What causes an Echo?
• 16. What an Electric Eel is?
• 17. The cause of “Fairy Rings”?
• 18. The cause of the White Marks on our Finger-Nails?
• 19. What a Devil-Fish is?
• 20. What causes Fog?
• 21. Why some Furniture Creaks at Night?
• 22. Why we sometimes become Giddy in high places?
• 23. Why the Glutton is so called?
• 24. What Gossamer is?
• 25. Why Liquids Gurgle when poured from a Bottle?
• 26. How far away the Horizon is?
• 27. What a Laughing-Jackass is?
• 28. How an Automatic Cigarette Lighter works?
• 29. What a Loofah is?
• 30. The origin of the Mantelpiece?
• 31. What the Milky Way is?
• 32. Why Coins have Milled Edges?
• 33. Why the Mocking-Bird is so called?
• 34. The origin of the word Museum?
• 35. How the Nettle stings?
• 36. Why Oil calms Rough Water?
• 37. The cause of the Sea’s Phosphorescence?
• 38. What Pumice Stone is?
• 39. Why Reflections on water appear to follow us?
• 40. Why Safety-Matches are safe?
• 41. Which is the true Shamrock?
• 42. Why a Squib explodes with a bang?
• 43. Why Steam puts out a Flame?
• 44. Why Telegraph Wires hum?
• 45. What the so-called “Thunderbolt” is?
• 46. What Time Zones are?
• 47. The origin of the Toby Jug?
• 48. Why a Violin String produces many notes?
• 49. What causes a Whirlpool?
• 50. The cause of “Wormholes” in Wood?