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  2. KEEP OFF THE AIR.

    Signal rockets are being used by the Swiss to warn belligerent airmen that they are over Swiss territory. The Swiss General Staff has notified ...

    Article : 69 words
  3. HORSEFLESH IN FRANCE.

    Horseflesh week has been proposed for Paris. Victor Boret, the French Minister of Provisions, wants to economise on meat by instituting a ...

    Article : 118 words
  4. A DOUBLE EVENT.

    His reverence, a nervous old gentleman, having lost his coachman, recently employed a local farm hand to drive him to a neighbouring parish. ...

    Article : 122 words
  5. A STRANGE GIFT.

    Remarkable powers were shown by a woman in London. A short time ago a young girl travelling in a London 'bus shifted her sent to avoid ...

    Article : 155 words
  6. THRILLS IN THE LIFE OF A MAGICIAN.

    Two things have made Harry Houdini the greatest magician alive. The first is his natural power of dislo[?] tion and "relocating" his joints, ...

    Article : 1,521 words
  7. THE RUNAWAY TWINS.

    Airmen have sometimes interesting diversions froom their business of shooting down the Huns. Two captive balloons broke away from their ...

    Article : 152 words
  8. HOT WORK.

    Everyone is armed in Finland now. A Danish engineer who recently returned to Copenhagen reports that one day on the street he met a boy ...

    Article : 69 words
  9. THIN WHITE LINE.

    We have often heard of the "thin red line," but not so much of the "thin white line," which now accompanies it. The Y.W.C.A., in a recent ...

    Article : 140 words
  10. ACTIVE MOVEMENT IN TARTS.

    Young Tommy returned from school in tears and nursing a black eye. "I'll pay Bill obbs off for this in ...

    Article : 112 words
  11. HUNS IN LONDON.

    Long before the war everyone was complaining of the endless and miceasing invasion of Germans into London. It was generally supposed ...

    Article : 226 words
  12. "TO KILL THE KAISER."

    A correspondent of the "Daily Express" status that, when he was in Petrograd, he heard of a plot by the Social Revolutionaries of the Left ...

    Article : 143 words
  13. FLYING SENTRY.

    There was an Irishman working in London, and he was boarding himself. So he had a suspicion that his landlady was pinching some of his ...

    Article : 113 words
  14. WAR TERMS.

    Johnny was feeling peevish, and it was most unusual for him to be out of sorts. Mother was auxious to know what the matter was. ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. ABOARD A SUBMARINE.

    The commander of a submarine must lie in wait for his quarry with the nose of his boat pointing in the direction where he expects the ...

    Article : 207 words
  16. TRAPS FOR PATROLS.

    The Germans, it is stated, are now employing man-traps to catch patrois [?]n No Man's Land. One of these contrivances was discovered in an ...

    Article : 133 words
  17. "PASS, KING GEORGE'S KEYS—ALL'S WELL!"

    If you stand outside the Tower of London any night at 10 o'clock, you will hear the echoes in the grey old fortress suddenly awakened by the ...

    Article : 453 words
  18. JOB JOHNNY WANTED.

    Johnny O'Brien had left schook, so his father told him to be on the lookout for work. But Johnny could get no work, so his father said:— ...

    Article : 95 words
  19. KAISER AND AIR RAIDS.

    Dr. Davis, in the a New York "World," says that the Kaiser, while outwardly a courteous gentleman, gifted with great personal ...

    Article : 219 words
  20. WHEN TOBACCO CAME.

    It is a matter of conjecture whether the use of tobacco as a narcotic was known in the East before the discovery of America. It is possible ...

    Article : 135 words
  21. HOW SHE GOT IT.

    "Hello, Tims!" said Jones. "I saw your wife this morning. By Jove! that new coat of hers must have cost a pot of money. You're ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. FUR FROM FEATHERS.

    Much attention has been given recently to the problem of spinning leathers into thread. The difficulty has been to spin the feathers so that ...

    Article : 158 words
  23. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    To clean and freshen the kitchen sink, serub with hot salted water. When making jam, a wooden spoon should be used for stirring. ...

    Article : 204 words
  24. HISTORIC TABLES.

    There is a tremendous demand to-day for old maliogany or oak fables. If there are any historic associations attached to the tables they fetch ...

    Article : 125 words
  25. GEOGRAPHY.

    The platoon was having a little test in geography when recently out for a short rest, when the following argument was overheard:— ...

    Article : 98 words
  26. WHERE AIR INVENTIONS GO.

    In pre-war days, when there was outery against Patent Office red tape a soured, but still witty, inventor on the down grade invented the epigram: ...

    Article : 132 words
  27. "VISITING CARDS" AT THE POLE.

    The silk flag which M. Amundsen is taking with him to plant at the North Pole—if the opportunity, presents itself—will be used, of course, ...

    Article : 112 words
  28. THE WORLD'S POPULATION.

    In 1787, the population of the earth, according to Busching, was about 1000 millions: in 1800, according to Fabri and Stein, only 900 ...

    Article : 70 words
  29. A NOTION.

    "I've a great notion to go and jump into the river," said Mr. Peek, at the end of a little domestic discussion, as he took his hat and ...

    Article : 64 words
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