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  2. THE QUEBEC GOLDFIELDS.

    Considerable slaking of gold mine claims has taken place in the north-western part of the Province of Juebee, a few miles east of the ...

    Article : 88 words
  3. FRANZ VON RINTELEN: THE GERMAN SECRET AGENT.

    Not for the first time is the German spy, Franz yon Rintelen, a prisoner; nor is this the first time, if the American journalists may be ...

    Article : 938 words
  4. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    When washing glasses, put bluing in the water, and it will add to the brilliancy. To remove paint from the hands ...

    Article : 417 words
  5. LIGHTHOUSES THAT TALK.

    During thick weather, when lighthouses are most anxiously looked for by the mariner, the light is frequently invisible, and, as a result, many ...

    Article : 216 words
  6. LOOSE SLEEVES FOR TYPISTS.

    Never wear anything light round your wrist when using a typewriter. It is sure to start your nerves going wrong. A man who has to do a bit ...

    Article : 249 words
  7. FICTION OUTVIED BY FACT.

    A strange short story in a magazine last year, by a writer who knows Russia, sets forth vividly what the revolution in that vast and backward ...

    Article : 397 words
  8. UNCLE SAM'S "MAGIC" FLEET.

    Uncle Sam's war hustling has made the world's eyes open wide; but he has eclipsed even his own records in his amazing effort to build a fleet of ...

    Article : 248 words
  9. BAREFACED.

    The driver of the bus was ruddly of countenance, with a huge beard of the hue politely known as auburn. The taxi-man he was holding up ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. WHERE EAST AND WEST MEET.

    If America, in company with Japan, does establish an Eastern front in Siberia, we shall witness one of the strangest chapters in the history ...

    Article : 151 words
  11. IN PLAN SIGHT.

    Willie Stone had been sent on an errand to the home of the rich Mr. Lott. He returned with the astonishing news that Mr. Lott was going ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. A GRATIFYING PORTENT.

    Turkey has had more of the kicks than of the half-pence of war, but the "Manchester Guardian" tells us that the lustre of the Shining Stone, ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. PUTTING HIM IN HIS PLACE.

    During some recent manoeuvres, a raw recruit had been told off as orderly. On reaching the marquee where the ...

    Article : 143 words
  14. 4000 DESTROYED IN A YEAR.

    Between July, 1917, and July, 1918, he British air Torres have brought lown considerably over 4000 enemy aircraft. ...

    Article : 207 words
  15. HOW BLOOD PLUGS WOUNDS.

    Have you ever thought why a soldier, wounded on the battlefield, doesn't always blued to death before the doctors reach him and look after ...

    Article : 255 words
  16. ANOTHER CANCER DISCOVERY.

    A remarkable association of magnesia with cancer has been communicated to the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. E. Dubard. Many ...

    Article : 156 words
  17. CHAPLAIN WINS V.C. AT 53.

    For the fourth time since the Vicclergyman has won this most toria Cross was instituted in 1856, and, the third in the present war, a ...

    Article : 301 words
  18. SALT IN THE OCEAN.

    The origin of the suit in the ocean is attributed by some modern authorities entirely to the washing out of salts from the land by rain and ...

    Article : 218 words
  19. A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

    Our sergeant had been to the Officers' School learning the ins and outs of the hand grenades. In turn, it was his duty to instruct us, so one ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. SHIPS WITHOUT RIVETS.

    The first steel vessel built without rivets has just been launched somewhere on the south coast of England. The launch took place in the presence ...

    Article : 224 words
  21. JUGGLERS OF HEARTS.

    Probably the world's marrying record for men was created by that [?]otorious bigamist, George Witzoff, whose marriages have been established ...

    Article : 181 words
  22. HE WASN'T BAD.

    Mother: "I don't like the looks of that little boy you were playing with on the street to-day. You mustn't play with bad little boys, you know." ...

    Article : 65 words
  23. ATHENAEUM FOOTMAN.

    The Bishop of London told a quaint story at the anniversary gathering of the Sunshine Guild, in the Mansion House, London, of his first ...

    Article : 162 words
  24. ANCIENT TYPEWRITERS.

    It is not generally known that the dea of the typewriter is two hundred years old. A man named Henry Miltook out a British patent in 17.14 for ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. PAT'S SHARP SHAVE.

    The unconquerable Pat, being one day in town, found his way into a barber's shop to get a shave. As it was nearing dinner-time, and the ...

    Article : 119 words
  26. MOSQUITO'S JOURNEYING CAPACITY.

    Astonishing lessons in insect migration are reported from East Key, Tortuga (an island off Hayti, in the Atlantic). Mosquitoes were ...

    Article : 72 words
  27. THE DECLINE OF HOME LIFE.

    The growth of the flats system in the various Australian capitals constitutes a sign of the times which is not by any means commendable. Although ...

    Article : 69 words
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