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  3. HOW AIRMEN SEE AT NIGHT.

    There are few questions a nightflying airman is more often asked by laymen friends than the easily-answered one: "How do you find your ...

    Article : 483 words
  4. MILLION-TO-ONE CHANCES.

    Suppose there existed a lottery with a single prize of a million pounds, and each ticket cost one pound, it is probable that ...

    Article : 902 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    He had been made M.P. for Mudshire, and had just taken his seat in the House. He was a modest, retiring individual, and felt quite ...

    Article : 157 words
  6. REIMS AND SOISSONS.

    Reims is a city with a history, Caesar knew it, in the days when it was inhabited by a people called the R[?]mi, from whom it took its name. ...

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  7. ORIGIN OF OUR COINAGE.

    Our present system of coinage, which is threatened to be changed, goes back something like seven hundred years, and most of as have ...

    Article : 206 words
  8. A TRADE BOOMERANG.

    A novel method of capturing Germany's trade, and of utilising the Hun himself to achieve this end, has been recently started at a factory in ...

    Article : 218 words
  9. AWFUL MOMENTS IN MID-AIR.

    There may have been a more thrilling air adventure than the following but, if so, it has not been recorded. A British airman was, on May 10th, ...

    Article : 650 words
  10. WHAT HE YEARNED TO SAY.

    Tommy Atkins has coped, more or less with the difficulties of the French language, and now the Americans are finding it difficult in their turn. One ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    A recently-proved will contained the clause that the deceased "wished his heart to be separated from his body and preserved in spirits." ...

    Article : 158 words
  12. [?]6,000,000 WORTH OF SMOKE.

    An allowance of more than a hundred cigarettes for every man, woman, and child in Great Britain today; of nearly three hundred for ...

    Article : 734 words
  13. WAR TERMS.

    Bevis was feeling peevish, and as it was most unusual for him to be out of sorts, mother was anxious to know what was the matter. ...

    Article : 82 words
  14. THE THIN ONE HAD GONE.

    The prim and proper young woman sailed into "Makem & Wearems." "Will you kindly show me," she shrilled, "the thinnest thing you ...

    Article : 57 words
  15. HAVE YOU A PAIN?

    An important discovery about pain has been made by an American doctor. He has found out that when there is a pain in any part of the ...

    Article : 137 words
  16. NOT QUITE,

    The prisoner looked very dejected as he stood in the dock and heard the evidence against him. Finally, the judge turned to him, and saked: ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. MAN OVERBOARD!

    The dread cry raised amidships is taken up by those on deck, and, reaching the ears of the officer-of-thewatch, causes him to stop suddenly ...

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  18. CHARACTER AND COLOUR.

    An ordinary cavalry officer says that one may judge the constitution and character of a horse from its colour. Bright chestnuts and light ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. SOON WARMED HIM.

    Paterfamilias was feeling out of sorts, and was inclined to be a bit, "raw." "Get away from the fire, my boy!" ...

    Article : 62 words
  20. WELL, WELL!

    There was nobody who could play the violin like Smifkins—at least, so he thought—and he was delighted when he was asked to play at a local ...

    Article : 70 words
  21. TOBACCO, FLEAS AND PLAGUE.

    Mr. S. Mallanah states in the "Indian Medical Gazette," that tobacco kills fleas practically simultaneously. When tobacco leaves are spread over ...

    Article : 156 words
  22. NEAR SHAVE.

    Miss Ina Ficks flounced up to the globe-trotter, who was surrounded by an admiring crowd eager to hear his adventures. ...

    Article : 78 words
  23. SOMETHING IN THAT.

    Father looked up from his perusal of the morning paper, and remarked to mother: "The reading this morning is awful. ...

    Article : 142 words
  24. OUT OF HIS TURN.

    Mr. Jenkins was sedate and strongly disliked making what he was pleased to term an exhibition of himself. In fact, he was a highly ...

    Article : 157 words
  25. AIRSHIP EFFECT ON BIRDS.

    Man's new power of aerial travel is giving closer observation of the fight and migration of birds. The notes of a French aviation officer ...

    Article : 126 words
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