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  2. PUMPING FOR FISH.

    Since the Stone Age the accepted method of catching a fish has been to inveigle it on to a hook. Catching fish in a net is also a method of ...

    Article : 147 words
  3. THAT FURTIVE LOOK!

    Have you a criminal face? Of course you haven't, you exclaim indignantly. Yet thousands of absolutely respectable, lawabiding citizens ...

    Article : 317 words
  4. PRE-HISTORIC MONSTER FOUND.

    The fossil bones of an extraordinary prehistoric monster with the body of a pig, the feet of an elephant and the head of a rhinoceros, have recently ...

    Article : 1,147 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Diner: "Bill, please!" Waitress: "What did you have?" "Goodness, knows! "I ordered hash." ...

    Article : 904 words
  6. REMEDIES IN ROOTS.

    Liquorice belongs to the pea and bean tribe. In Britain the plants flower scarcely once in ten years, and they do not ever appear to bear seed. ...

    Article : 275 words
  7. LOST IN HOLIDAY-LAND.

    To be lost on hill or fell during the holiday season may strike some people as no great hardship; but those acquainted with the conditions know ...

    Article : 592 words
  8. ARE BACHELORS "BORN?"

    Of the men who remain unmarried to-day, it may he said that some are horn bachelors and that others achieve bachelorhood. ...

    Article : 416 words
  9. FIGHTING SUGAR'S FOES.

    Many people, even farmers and market-gardeners, have possibly never heard of thermo-gen. It is a paper made from sugar-cane, the waste ...

    Article : 222 words
  10. BEHIND PRISON BARS.

    What is the modern British prison like, and what are the conditions under which a prisoner serves his sentence? ...

    Article : 642 words
  11. AN ITALIAN SAVOURY.

    Most people who have visited Italy for any length of time have met the attractive Italian cook, who seems to make everything out of nothing. ...

    Article : 651 words
  12. MEN THE LAW CAN'T TOUCH.

    In taking up office:, Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, the American Ambassador in London, assumed responsibilities that few men would care to shoulder. ...

    Article : 562 words
  13. RAILWAYS' QUEER CARGOES.

    Railways are constantly engaged in carrying tremendous loads of all kinds. Some of these are not only remarkably heavy, but very awkward ...

    Article : 199 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Macaws, a kind of parrot, native of South America, can break with their beaks nuts which resist attacks with a hammer. ...

    Article : 337 words
  15. THE GOLD-BEATERS.

    Gold-beating is at once the most ancient and the most modern art in the world. It is believed that the art was introduced into Britain by ...

    Article : 196 words
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