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  2. Her Father's Daughter CHAPTER XXI.

    "It sounds like a dream to me—[?] like a mad sort of dream." Ro[?] spoke in low, half-bewildered [?] starting hard at Mr. Curtis. She ...

    Article : 2,155 words
  3. OUR BELT OF ATMOSPHERE.

    In a contribution to the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture, Roscoe Nuun, of the United States Weather Bureau, compares the ...

    Article : 292 words
  4. EDISON AT SEVENTY.

    Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor of modern times, is no friend of the time-waster or slumberer. It is interesting to note that his most ...

    Article : 682 words
  5. WOMEN SOLDIERS.

    For a member of the so-called weaker sex to be laid to rest with military honors is an event of rare occurrence and no less distinction. ...

    Article : 573 words
  6. NATURE'S WEALTH.

    The pine trees of Finland are the gold-mines of the country, and really its chief trade. Pines and silver birches flourish on all sides. ...

    Article : 291 words
  7. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    After washing linoleum, wipe it over with water to which a little th[?] glue has been added. This gives it a polish without making it slippery. ...

    Article : 255 words
  8. BLUNDERS IN QUOTATION.

    Errors of quotation are common in speech and writing. Byron quoted Shakespeare, "An eagle towering in his pride of place." But what ...

    Article : 172 words
  9. SNAIL'S WONDERFUL FEATS.

    That snails can pass over such sharp instruments as a razor's edge without the slightest harm has been demonstrated by a French scientist. The ...

    Article : 270 words
  10. ORIGIN OF THE CORONER'S JURY

    The following circumstances first occasioned the institution of coroner's juries. A gentlewoman in London, after having buried six husbands, ...

    Article : 268 words
  11. PROFITABLE PEBBLES.

    The flint pebble industry gives occupation to many women and children along the French coast lying between Havre and Dieppe. The pebbles ...

    Article : 248 words
  12. His Supplement.

    George: You seem devoted to that old lady you were with, is she a near relative? Gus: Hist! I'll tell you how it is. ...

    Article : 101 words
  13. CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS.

    Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned a mill; Terence was a slave; Cervantes, the author of "Don Quixote," died of hunger; Bacon lived a life of ...

    Article : 160 words
  14. Rather.

    The scarcity of servant girls led Mrs. Vaughan to engage a farmer's daughter from a rural district of Irelaud. Her want of familiarity with ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. A "FRIDAY" SHIP.

    The true story is told of a sceptical Massachusetts captain who way back in the early years of the republic determined to exhibit the fallacy of the ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. CHAPTER XXII.

    "Thank heavens I shall soon be saying good-bye to this beastly room and to hard work. Oh, it will be jolly settling down at the Red House ...

    Article : 1,902 words
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