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  2. THAT DUD ENGINE.

    When we had nearly finished the work of reconuaissance over enemy territory our engine went dud. Instead of a rhythmic and continuous ...

    Article : 1,677 words
  3. A COMB-OUT REQUIRED.

    A curious state of affairs exists on one of the Chinese railways. On the Peking-Hangkow line there are no signals, and as only one express ...

    Article : 323 words
  4. GIRLS WHO WON'T WED.

    The tables are turned. From badgering our comfort-loving, selfish bachelors, we attack, the batchelor woman. It is a fact that, at the ...

    Article : 707 words
  5. "ALL FARES, PLEASE!"

    Why did I become a conductorette? Because before the war I had a sort of personal grudge against all 'bus conductors. ...

    Article : 730 words
  6. WHAT A WAR ALLOTMENT IS WORTH.

    A war allotment usually consists of 10 roads or poles of land, equal to 300 square yards. If the potato is planted in rows two feet apart, and ...

    Article : 665 words
  7. RUINS OF THE TOWER OF BABEL FOUND.

    Many interesting new discoveries have been made concerning the Tower of Babel, whose construction, as described in the Book of Genesis, is ...

    Article : 741 words
  8. AN ADVENTURE WITH A BURGLAR.

    A curious adventure with a burglar is told in the "Life of Sir George Grove, C. B."—One night (says Sir George, in telling the story) I was ...

    Article : 922 words
  9. FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS.

    An unthought of result of the war has been the creation of a lead-pencil industry in Japan. In 1911 Japan imported 65,000,000 ...

    Article : 151 words
  10. SOLDIERS OF THE SNOWS.

    Sir William Robertson has described the Italian Alpini as "the most amazing soldiers in the world." These mountain fighters have ...

    Article : 421 words
  11. JELLICOE OF SCAPA.

    The name by which Viscount Jellicoe has chosen to be known has pazzled more than a few of us. What does "Scapa" mean? It it a place ...

    Article : 183 words
  12. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    An intensely bashful young man was driving one evening with a young lady whom he had been previously calling on for some time. ...

    Article : 231 words
  13. SHELLS AS MESSENGERS.

    For some time past the Germans have been milking use of a special "message" shell both for liaison work within their lines and for ...

    Article : 161 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    A cinema has been secured for use in the camps surrounding Jerusalem. There are [?] million pounds worth of £1 and 10/ notes in circulation. ...

    Article : 307 words
  15. "SEED-POWER."

    Never before have seeds been so scarce. It behoves us all, therefore, to take very special care this season to sow our seeds as sparingly as we ...

    Article : 332 words
  16. IN AN INDIAN JUNGLE.

    A tiger story, from India affords a remarkable instance of a providential escape from death. A [?] it should be explained, is a ravine between two ...

    Article : 443 words
  17. LAUNCHED FROM AN ICEBERG

    Many unaccounted disappearances of ships and steamers are attributed to coll[?] with icebergs, ships and all on board going to the ...

    Article : 346 words
  18. MAKES ARTIFICIAL FLIES.

    The title of world's champion artificial fly maker is proudly claimed for Miss Alice Sherwin Coleman, of New York, who for more than a ...

    Article : 302 words
  19. UNCLE SAM'S SAYINGS.

    "In most happy homes you'll find that the well-behaved child is the one that's asleep."—"Binghamton Press." ...

    Article : 265 words
  20. STILL IN THE FAMILY.

    The scene was the golf links and the parson and the doctor were having a friendly match—at least, the match had been friendly till the ...

    Article : 127 words
  21. A JOKE WHICH FAILED.

    On one of the "varnishing days," as they are called, when artists give finishing touches to their paintings at the Academy, Landseer once cut a ...

    Article : 140 words
  22. SHRINKING TO ORDER.

    "Mein fader," asked John Simpson (otherwise Jacob Schlosky, junior), of the second-hand clothes emporium, "a shentleman wants to know if dot ...

    Article : 62 words
  23. HIS CREDITORS.

    "My father objects to you because he says that you are unable to meet your creditors! Is that true, Algy?" "No, dear, 'pon my honour" ...

    Article : 72 words
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