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  2. Advertising

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  3. PRUSSIANS NATURALLY BRUTE BEASTS..

    The unparalleled ferocity which the Prussians have shown in war has shocked the civilised nations. Scientific examination of the skulls of the ...

    Article : 1,154 words
  4. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "Yes, they are excellent boots," said the shop dealer to the young woman purchaser. "They will wear like iron." ...

    Article : 367 words
  5. ABOUT BRIDGES.

    The biggest bridge in the world is the Forth Bridge. The British Navy can pass under it, and its biggest Dreadnought looks like a pigmy in ...

    Article : 205 words
  6. BESTIAL GERMANS.

    In a message describing the deliberate and shameful destruction that was wrought by the Germans in Chateau—Thierry, the Press ...

    Article : 393 words
  7. WORLD—WIDE NOTES.

    Have we anybody in this country that can do work similar to that performed by Miss Marie Dahms, a New York girl of twenty—two? She ...

    Article : 137 words
  8. LUCKY OR UNLUCKY.

    "Lucky" and "unlucky" have come to be applied to gathering blossoms, to horseshoes, to the colour of hair — in a word, to every possible event ...

    Article : 185 words
  9. FLYING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

    Great preparations are being made in the United States by aviators who hope to fly across the Atlantic in the near future. Under their own ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. SILENT BIDDERS.

    Now that so many articles are being sent to the auction—room to be sold for the benefit of the various charitable funds, it may be of ...

    Article : 214 words
  11. ONE—MAN SUBMARINE.

    Submarine midgets, and not dreadnoughts may even yet prove to be the secret of ocean supremacy. The first submarine was invented over a ...

    Article : 444 words
  12. "I BLOW FOR A LIVING!"

    I am a glass—blower. Let me take you, in imagination, through the glass factory where I am employed. First to the mixing—room. This ...

    Article : 743 words
  13. CLEOPATRA'S PEARL.

    Most persons know the story told of Cleopatra to illustrate her luxurious habits of living, that she dissolved in her wine a precious pearl. ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. OLD MAIDS IN SIAM.

    When a Siamese girl attains the age of thirty—five without marrying she is labelled and placed in a privileged class under the special care of ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. CAUSE FOR JUBILATION.

    Spud Murphy was being entertained right [?]royally in the regimental canteen, and Ginger Jones was watching the rivals jealously. ...

    Article : 142 words
  16. ANIMALS AS SENTINELS.

    A wounded soldier, asked what had surprised him most in the battlezone, told of finding a robin's nest in an empty shell—case. ...

    Article : 266 words
  17. TINY REWARDS FOR BIG FINDS.

    Some fifty years back an Irishman named O'Reilly, engaged in buying ostrich feathers at a spot near the Vaal River, was offered by an ...

    Article : 532 words
  18. WHAT'S YOURS?

    Nearly everyone has some special word which he mispronounces. Have you? The writer always tries to avoid the word "plebeian." through ...

    Article : 163 words
  19. A PROFITABLE MEAL,

    The members of the club were telling yarns, when the quiet man in the corner was asked to contribute. "Well," said he, "I once entered a ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. GERMANY IN PAPER.

    Even the oilskins worn by the crews of the U—boats were of chemically—treated paper, and paper—lined leather and imitation leather suits ...

    Article : 148 words
  21. THANKS FOR SMALL MERCIES

    The parson who preaches short sermons certainly deserves recognition, but whether de deserves so handsome a reward for his brevity as ...

    Article : 283 words
  22. HIS DAY SPOILT.

    "But," said the undertaker, "I assure you that it is the custom. You and your mother—in—law must ride together in the first carriage." ...

    Article : 266 words
  23. OLD WRECK A TREASURE SHIP.

    A remarkable ship—salvaging job was undertaken recently at Ventura, California, when a large crew of men ...

    Article : 271 words
  24. TELLING OF DEATH.

    In "Forty Years in a Moorland Parish," the late Rev. J. C. Atkinson tells of a one—time rector of Sessay, near Thirsk, who, being called ...

    Article : 172 words
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