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  2. THE OLDEST BRIDGE.

    What is described as the most important prehistoric find of recent years is reported from Koerde, near Dortmund. ...

    Article : 165 words
  3. SALT FOR WAGES.

    In the early days of our civilisation, when a man's flocks and herds were his only possessions, they also constituted his money, and when ...

    Article : 214 words
  4. BRITAIN'S MYSTERY PONDS.

    Dew-ponds, or mist ponds, have been in existence on the bare summits of the South Down for many centuries. But who discovered, or ...

    Article : 153 words
  5. AWESOME SOLITUDE.

    Though I had read of travellers in desert lands walking more or less in a circle, only to return time after time to their starting point or ...

    Article : 1,729 words
  6. MINING FOR WOOD.

    Milling is generally associated with minerals and the getting of these substances out of the earth, but there are some places where mining ...

    Article : 312 words
  7. WHERE FISH SING.

    The town of Pascagoula (Missouri) is the proud possessor of fish that sing. The Pascagoula River rises in the hills, and pursues its uneventful ...

    Article : 184 words
  8. HOUSE-TO-HOUSE HUMOURS.

    The business of extracting money from householders by door-to-door visits grows more and more crowded every day. Consequently, the man ...

    Article : 788 words
  9. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    There are only two lighthouse builders in England. The Vatican, the residence of the Pope, finds employment for a staff ...

    Article : 348 words
  10. KING OF CLIPPERTON ISLAND.

    Off the western coast of Mexico is a little island with a romantic history. A dispute between Mexico and France once arose over the ownership ...

    Article : 727 words
  11. BUTTONS FROM SNAILS.

    At an auction sale in England recently some green snail-shells were sold for £1 and upwards per hundredweight. ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    "You simply cannot, find a maid who is honest," said Mrs. Smith. "The last one left suddenly with nine of my towels." ...

    Article : 373 words
  13. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    A squeeze of lemon-juice and a quarter of a teaspoonful of olive oil added to the water with which pastry is mixed will make it light and ...

    Article : 380 words
  14. HOW THEY GOT THE GUNS.

    Surely never did the fortunes of war take such an unexpected turn as when the Argentine revolutionary leader, El Chacho, captured the ...

    Article : 361 words
  15. KING TUT'S BEAUTY SECRETS.

    Beauty secrets have been found in some strange circumstances and in strange places, but no cosmetic can have a more romantic history than ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. WHISTLING CHAMPIONS.

    Twelve thousand schoolboys and girls competed in a whistling contest held in Jersey City to find the best sixteen whistlers, from whom ...

    Article : 157 words
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  18. RADIO LIGHTHOUSES.

    Navigation in fog and darkness near dangerous coasts, will be robbed of most of its terrors by a new use of wireless with which Senatore ...

    Article : 150 words
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