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  2. Secrets of New Bank of England

    Two of the most important London building schemes now taking shape are the London University headquarters, in Bloomsbury, which will ...

    Article : 572 words
  3. Compass That Almost Thinks

    The stranding of the famous sailing ship, Herzogin Cecilie, brought to light the fact that iron in the Salcombe rocks affected her compass and caused ...

    Article : 378 words
  4. [Short Story.] APPEARANCES

    Colonel Mountjoy, D.S.O., replaced the boot cleaning materials in the cupboard, critically surveyed the room, then himself in the old-fashioned ...

    Article : 2,284 words
  5. Cure for Bloodlessness

    When we come across a bloodless person we ask ourselves about the possible cause of the condition. Is he suffering from a recent haemorrhage ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. Tunnelling Mont Blanc

    It is officially announced that the French Ministry of Public Works has approved the plans drawn up by French, Swiss and Italian engineers ...

    Article : 171 words
  7. Useful Household Hints

    I have tried the following method and found it very successful. Dissolve a quarter of a pound of lump alum in two gallons of hot water, allow to cool, ...

    Article : 343 words
  8. BIGGEST ELECTRIC SIGN IS TEN STORIES HIGH.

    Scotsmen in New York are getting stiff necks watching the largest free cinema on earth—the giant electric sign recently erected on Broadway to ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. The Queen Mary

    "It would be wrong to suggest that the laying down of the Queen Mary is the reply to the German Europa and Bremen," says Mr. Winston Churchill ...

    Article : 276 words
  10. The Rarest Stamp

    Quite a number of the world's rarest stamps have been found in stamp collections formed by schoolboys. The rarest stamp of all was first ...

    Article : 208 words
  11. WHAT'S IN AN EGG?

    Poultry-keepers there are in galore, millions. of eggs are laid each year, and, strange to say, very few of these poultrykeepers really know anything ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. FLAGS YOU MUST NOT FLY ASHORE.

    Do you know that the right to fly either the white or the blue ensign is strictly limited? Hitherto these flags have often been ...

    Article : 255 words
  13. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

    A good many people believed that when Edward Vin. succeeded his much beloved father the Duke of York would become the Prince of Wales, but this ...

    Article : 112 words
  14. TRAMP'S £50,000.

    When "Robert J. Hall" proposed to Constance Williams at St. Joseph, Missouri, he was a tramp "on relief." She said "Yes." ...

    Article : 77 words
  15. HIS LUCKY FRIGHT.

    Sudden fright brought speech back to Raymond MacDonald, of Ancienne Lorette (Quebec), who had been dumb for sixteen years. His employer, a ...

    Article : 74 words
  16. "HUBBY" LIVED IN A TREE.

    Because her husband left her and went to live in a tree, Mrs. Emilie Arsalian, wife of a Persian carpets dealer, has been granted a divorce at ...

    Article : 123 words
  17. Getting Down To it.

    A woman approached a postmaster and said: "I've been expecting a package of medicine for a week back and it hasn't arrived yet." ...

    Article : 95 words
  18. Some Cat!

    The talk had turned on intelligent animals, and some rather tall stories had been told, when old Joe chipped in. "Clever animals!" he queried. "I ...

    Article : 235 words
  19. Advised.

    A man went to consult a solicitor. "What can I do," he asked, "to a hoy who threw a stone and broke one of my windows?" ...

    Article : 193 words
  20. And Dressing.

    Ex-Sergeant: "I planted an early crop of potatoes." Friend: "Did you drill the ground first, and put them in eyes right?" ...

    Article : 23 words
  21. The Last Straw.

    A certain popular footballer had—as all players do—an off day, when he could no nothing right. The crowd demonstrated its ...

    Article : 129 words
  22. Fixed.

    The two business men were chatting in the train together. "I read in the paper," said one, "that a circus owner has just bought ...

    Article : 112 words
  23. Sole Survivor.

    The new vicar was talking to the oldest inhabitant and asked his age. "I be ninety-seven, sir, and I haven't an enemy in the world," replied the ...

    Article : 88 words
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