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  2. INSECT PERILS.

    The famous scientist, Professor A. R. Wallace, was once asked,what was the most dangerous beast he had encountered in the course of his ...

    Article : 222 words
  3. POSTMAN'S KNOCK.

    Pew come into such intimate contact with the joy and sorrow, the grim and the gay in other people's lives, as does the postman., ...

    Article : 585 words
  4. WHY ARE YOU "DRY?"

    It may surprise many to learn that when we take a drink it is not done merely to, relieve a. dryness in the throat, because thirst "has ical ...

    Article : 1,294 words
  5. WISE ADD OTHERWISE.

    "I heir your husbdhd.suffers from asthma." "Well, he has asthma, but I suffer from it." ...

    Article : 722 words
  6. ERRATIC BOUNDERS.

    How did the Bowder Stone, in Borrowdale, get to its present position? How did the many "perched boulders" and "rocking stones," hundreds of ...

    Article : 169 words
  7. WHEN WORDS FAIL US.

    There are many things in everyday life which we find difficult to describe. For instance, how many people can describe the difference in flavour ...

    Article : 210 words
  8. "OLD BILL" OF THE ARCTIC.

    There recently arrived at the London Zoo a strange creature which is the first of his kind to be there for many years. This is a baby walrus, ...

    Article : 614 words
  9. DRAMAS OF LIFE AND DEATH.

    Hall hidden amongst the riot of tangled vegetation in the still, darkcoloured pool was a creature whose appearance was so forbidding that it ...

    Article : 563 words
  10. WAKE UP YOUR MIND.

    What is your "thinking depth"? Now and again, in political controversy especially, one man describes another as a "shallow thinker." ...

    Article : 321 words
  11. NEWS AND THE MAN.

    The proserous-looking man who sat next to me-in the-train had just unfolded his morning v paper as I sat down. He opened it at the principal ...

    Article : 440 words
  12. LAW-SUITS THAT LAST YEARS.

    The recent case, in which a couple of years elapsed between-, the commission of a crime and its discovery, falls far short of a record. ...

    Article : 213 words
  13. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin, are said to be insured for £250,000 each. Measles is no longer a notifiable ...

    Article : 352 words
  14. "SWEATED" LAWBREAKERS.

    The maxim, "Honesty is the best policy," has no more convincing illustration than a glance at the profits of a life of crime. For, on the ...

    Article : 305 words
  15. READ THEIR OWN OBITUARIES

    Very few people ever experience the thrill of reading their own obituary notice in the newspapers, but the llev. S. Baring Gould, who wrote ...

    Article : 190 words
  16. A LINER'S SAFETY CHAIN.

    The terrible effects which might result from carelessness in a blacksmith's work, are well illustrated by the great importance of every link in ...

    Article : 199 words
  17. WOMAN EARTHQUAKE DIVINER

    "An Englishwoman of peculiar sensitiveness has for many years past been able to report almost every earthquake in all parts of the world ...

    Article : 137 words
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