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  2. TO PROMOTE LONGEVITY.

    Youth depends, to a great extent, upon our ability to keep the blood and circulation in a healthy condition. The best method of doing this may be ...

    Article : 205 words
  3. Wise and Otherwise.

    Bill: What will he do when all the fools are dead? Jill: He'll never live td see that day. How did Miss Lala execute your ...

    Article : 877 words
  4. IN CHRYSALLIS CARE.

    "Remember, constable," said the partly mayor to the constable who stood on duty at the town-hall on the night of the children's fancy-dress ball, "no ...

    Article : 163 words
  5. For Young Folks.

    If you[?] something hard to do, start [?] once to put it through; Don't you wait. If you put it off and fret ...

    Article : 143 words
  6. Random Readings

    Dreams seem a mere play of imagination without any value—the more as every serious student has recognised that it is absurd to think that ...

    Article : 283 words
  7. MUSICIANS' APPETITES.

    Many great musical composers had exceptionally large appetites. When Handel dined alone at a restaurant he generally took the precaution of ...

    Article : 99 words
  8. New, Odd & Interesting.

    Switzerland and Servia are the only States without a navy. The most improved needle machine turns out 1,500,000 needles in a week. ...

    Article : 794 words
  9. CAR'S LONGEVITY AND EFFICIENCY.

    "The length of life of a car and its efficiency of service depend more upon the manner in which it is handled when on the road than upon any ...

    Article : 366 words
  10. SIMPLE SIMON.

    Once on a time two princes set out to see the world. They had been absent for so long a time that finally the king and queen became anxious about ...

    Article : 644 words
  11. PROVING A SUPERSTITION.

    The late Count de Lesseps never seemed to lose sight of the education of his children, even in the smallest detail. One morning at breakfast a ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. ELECTRIC FUSES.

    In these days of electric traction and electric lighting most people have an acquaintance with current defects, summarily expressed as "a fuse ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 108 words
  13. HUSBANDS WHO NEVER SPEAK TO THEIR WIVES.

    During a recent painful lawsuit it was stated that, owing to family differences, a husband had not spoken to his wife for close upon fifteen years. ...

    Article : 386 words
  14. A SLEEPING FISH.

    Some curious habits in a fish have been observed by the French zoologist, B. Romeis. The fish in question, which bears the name Paratilapia ...

    Article : 259 words
  15. ELEPHANT LANGUAGE.

    Elephants are said to make use of a great variety of sounds in communicating with each other, and in expressing their wants and feelings. Some ...

    Article : 221 words
  16. SLEEP-WALKING.

    Somnambulism is a singular condition of the body, in which a person performs many voluntary acts, implying a certain degree of perception of ...

    Article : 104 words
  17. NEWSPAPER BLOCKS.

    Photography has done away with the old method of wood blocks for newspaper illustration, in which every line and dot had to be cut by hand—a ...

    Article : 318 words
  18. WASHING AN UNTAMED TIGER.

    A Cossack, ignorant of the French language, was faired at Moscow by the lion-tamer Perow to clean the cages of his wild beasts. Their understanding ...

    Article : 316 words
  19. TWO IRISH STORIES.

    Here are a couple of good yarns from "Irish Life and Humour," by W. Harvey. A man, arrested for murder, bribed ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. TOO LATE!

    Here is an after-dinner tale told by an actor to illustrate the vicissitudes of an actor's life. An elderly actor said one day to a theatrical agent, "Is ...

    Article : 111 words
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