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  2. A LIVING BAROMETER

    Santa Barbara, in California, has a living barometer. No need for the residents of that quiet Little city to remember the date of the rainy season or to ...

    Article : 960 words
  3. ANCIENT RELIC FOUND

    While overhauding a lot of old junk and rubbish under the cartridge case foundry at the Washington Navy Yard (U.S.A.), workmen recently unearthed two ...

    Article : 916 words
  4. THE FIVE-POUND PIG

    “O[?]h, shure, and she's a fine lady!” is a somewhat embarrassing remark when addressed by a stranger to a friend of one's' own, and “oneself” happens to be ...

    Article : 1,419 words
  5. LAST "PEELER”

    Father of the Force" and "Last of the Peelers” are two of the picturesque, titles which may justly be claimed by Superintendent George Race, who recently retired ...

    Article : 562 words
  6. HIGH PRIESTESS OF “SPOOKOLOGY”

    May Ann Scannell-Pepper-Vanderbilt, Brooklyn’s high priestess of “spookology,” has made her farewell appearance as a scientitic exhibit. A few weeks ago she ...

    Article : 651 words
  7. SURVIVOR OF HUGE FIRE

    Only two of us are now living that made our escape from the fiery flames of the General Lyon, when 4,800 souk were hushed by the hand of death on March 31, ...

    Article : 1,166 words
  8. THE AERIAL TROPHY

    International aerial competitions are calculated to give a considerable impetus to aerial navigation, and to the development of machines of utillity. To inspire ...

    Article : 322 words
  9. THE TRAGEDY OF THE MOON.

    The history of the moon appears to have “been one long series of tremendous catastrophes. Its origin, according to the theory of Darwin, which is now generally ...

    Article : 918 words
  10. A CENTURY OF SCOTT

    A hundred years after the publication of that fascinating poetical romance, "Marmion," one can reflect on what; Scott has done to make Scotland famous Inferior ...

    Article : 719 words
  11. QUEBEC'S TERCENTENARY

    The people of Quebec intend to celebrate their tercentenary on a large scale. Seeing that the work of three centuries ago has been the genesis of so much, the ...

    Article : 615 words
  12. OVERDOING EXERCISE

    Unless one is a little bit careful physical culture is apt to become a strenuous thing. Not so many years ago physical culture loomed up above the horizon, ...

    Article : 925 words
  13. THE MOTHER'S FART

    How far it is right to permit the development of the child to be the slow growth of nature, unaided, is a question that has been much discussed by motherhood in ...

    Article : 630 words
  14. DOCTOR COMMON SENSE

    How much money do you pay the doctor? Probably a great deal more than you to spare—a great deal more than necessary. If you don't give the money ...

    Article : 610 words
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