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  2. Animals Aren’t So Stupid

    The animal world is full of queer stories, going to show that natural history is sometimes unnatural. Let’s consider for a moment the question of ...

    Article : 534 words
  3. New Colors of “Budgies”

    Such is the popularity of the Australian Grass Parakeet overseas that there has just been formed in Glasgow the Scottish Budgerigar Society. It ...

    Article : 206 words
  4. Recruiting Spies

    Whence come the Recruits of the international spy gang? The hundreds of thousands of refugees, exiles from their own countries, now provide an ...

    Article : 228 words
  5. Rabbit Helped Restore Sight

    A girl of 23 has had her sight restored by transplanting in her eyes, graftings from the cornea of a rabbit. The case is described by the surgeon, ...

    Article : 185 words
  6. Why Stars Twinkle

    The difference to the eye between a star and a planet is that the stars twinkle, having light of their own, while planets, being visible only in the ...

    Article : 260 words
  7. The Causes of Shortness of Breath

    Breathing is one of those bodily functions which goes on day and night with perfect regularity in health. That does not mean that it goes on at the same ...

    Article : 751 words
  8. The One That is Left

    When sisters or friends are devoted companions it does come hard on the one who has to sit back and watch a young man take her place. ...

    Article : 921 words
  9. THERE’S A ”CATCH” IN IT —FOR FLEAS.

    A man home on leave from a trading-post up-country in China was mystifying us (writes a “Pearson’s Weekly” correspondent) by passing ...

    Article : 202 words
  10. Ticket to a Fortune

    Joseph Lacosta, student, was doing research work in the Vatican Library, at Rome, for a learned work he was writing on bygone Italian philosophers. ...

    Article : 189 words
  11. THE ROYAL TRAIN.

    The most especial of specials is the Royal train. This magnificent train was built at Wolverton, and was paid for and is still maintained by all the ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. “LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD!”

    It is an old custom that we must never kill a ladybird. This is perfectly justified, for the ladybird is the greatest friend of the farmer and the ...

    Article : 349 words
  13. THE FRIENDLY DOOR.

    “The door of my room is a friend of long standing, He’s there between me and the draught of the landing; ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. A WARM PROCESS.

    The use of tobacco is so general today that one would think it was known throughout the world, but this is far from being the case, as the following ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. FOOL’S GOLD.

    Iron pyrites, a yellow mineral that looks very much like gold, is known to miners as “fool’s gold,” and is used by them to hoax amateurs and novices ...

    Article : 126 words
  16. FIGHTING THE ’FLU.

    Of Italian origin, the name influenza suggests that the patient is under some mysterious influence. The usual symptoms are mental ...

    Article : 269 words
  17. Irish Strategy.

    A Southern Irish soldier in France, during the war, received a letter from his wife saying there wasn’t an able-bodied man left, and she was ...

    Article : 323 words
  18. MULE AGED 40.

    Three horses and a one-eyed mule, all war veterans, were returned to England from Belgium by Our Dumb Friends’ League last month. They ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. CARE OF LEATHER COATS.

    Of course, before trying to rejuvenate a leather coat you should remove all the grease marks. If this cannot be done with water ...

    Article : 315 words
  20. FAT MEN’S SHOP.

    There is a small shop in New York where they do “big business.” It is not an imposing shop, but it has an imposing array of garments on view ...

    Article : 180 words
  21. Corrected.

    The policeman was giving evidence is a case of assault. “He was fighting his wife, your worship, when I arrested him and—” ...

    Article : 32 words
  22. Hopeful.

    A small boy entered a post-office and handed a shilling to the counter clerk with a request to be told whether it was a good one. ...

    Article : 209 words
  23. SAVED BY A CIGARETTE.

    By the simple act of offering a cigarette, a policeman of Bamberg, North Bavaria, prevented a would-be suicide from taking his life. The suicide, ...

    Article : 101 words
  24. That Was All.

    A stranger addressed the farmer’s boy across the fence: “Young man, your corn looks kind o’ yellow.” “Yes, that’s the kind we planted.” ...

    Article : 70 words
  25. The Artist’s Outlook.

    The artist was painting a sunset vivid red, with blue streaks and green splotches scattered over the canvas. A farm hand stopped and watched him. ...

    Article : 98 words
  26. On the Trail.

    A man lost a valuable dog, and advertised in a newspaper, offering a substantial reward, but got no replies. He called at the office. ...

    Article : 76 words
  27. More Trouble.

    The landlord called one Monday morning at a house in which, after some undesirable occupants, new tenants had been installed. The wife, not ...

    Article : 65 words
  28. Of Course.

    The doctor was summoned on the telephone. “Come at once,” he heard, in agonised tone from the other end. “My ...

    Article : 46 words
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