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  2. WHY FISH ARE SLIPPERY.

    "Why are fish so slippery?" was a question put to a fishmonger the other day by a lady customer. The fishmonger did not know. ...

    Article : 161 words
  3. WEALTH FROM THE WIND.

    The railway killed the road for a time, but now the road is rapidly getting its own back, and to-day far more money is being spent on, roads ...

    Article : 310 words
  4. CAUSE OF DIVORCE.

    The difference of viewpoint of men and women, their opposing ideas on almost every Question that arises, has ever been one of the profound ...

    Article : 1,077 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "Do you remember when you were first struck by my beauty?" He:! "I think it was at the masked ball." ...

    Article : 872 words
  6. WORDS WE DON'T USE.

    A great number of the old nouns of multitude have fallen out of our ordinary language. We still speak of a hive of bees, a school of whales, a ...

    Article : 211 words
  7. DEFYING THE MOTOR.

    Which British.-town possesses the largest number of cyclists in proportion to its population? It would seem from recent statistics that ...

    Article : 186 words
  8. MILLIONS FROM USELESS WOOL

    A short time ago it was reported that a £4,000,000 company was to take over the Saltaire Mills. It was not a particularly striking ...

    Article : 583 words
  9. PUNCHES THAT MADE HISTORY

    "There were giants in Ihe Ring in those days." The words come unbidden to the mind as one reads of thw prize-fights of a century ...

    Article : 325 words
  10. HUNTING THE WHALE.

    The Greenland whale fishery, so far as Britain is concerned, is almost non-existent. The harpoon-gun. was too deadly, and the "right" whale of ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. DANIELS WITH THE BROOMS.

    There is only one lions' den at the London Zoo which the keepers enter when the lions are there, and they go in with nothing inore to protect ...

    Article : 357 words
  12. INTERESTING ITEMS,

    If the population of -South Africa goek on increasing in the present ratio, within the next fifty years the white population will have grown to ...

    Article : 645 words
  13. DIVERS' UNDERSEA DUELS.

    In the whole history of submarine diviDg operations there is no more amazing episode than that which culminated in a fierce fight at the ...

    Article : 560 words
  14. LIGHTS THAT SAVE LIVES.

    To know, what the Lizard light means to ships and seamen you have to go up the English Channel on a pitch-black wintry night. Similarly, ...

    Article : 473 words
  15. WIRELESS AND WRONG NUMBERS.

    The day of the wrong;number, that bane of the telephone subscriber's life, is passing. According to a French scientist, Professor Turpain, ...

    Article : 149 words
  16. BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES.

    The wheel of time is not always going forward; sometimes it rolls back. Despairing of ever getting their books published under the soviet regime, a ...

    Article : 211 words
  17. "MASS" PHOTOGRAPHY.

    An American inventor has just perfected a wonderful photographic printing machine, which is capable of turning out 4,000 prints in an ...

    Article : 161 words
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