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  2. FURRY TALES.

    A number of cases have recently occurred where maiden ladies have either left money in a will to provide for a cat or have been found dead ...

    Article : 322 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    A true friend will multiply your joys and divide your sorrows. It is better to point with pride than to view with alarm. ...

    Article : 794 words
  4. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. THOMPSON'S TRIUMPH.

    Thompson stood in the damp, cold room at the top of the Washington Monument and gazed over the Capital City. The atmosphere was clear ...

    Article : 1,552 words
  5. FINGER FACTS.

    It is a fact not generally known that the fingers of the right hand move more quickly than those of the left. They are also much more ...

    Article : 111 words
  6. "PATCH" PARLEYS.

    The little black "patch" that was imported from France in the days of powdered wigs and brocaded gowns did more than draw attention to the ...

    Article : 141 words
  7. MUSICAL TREES.

    Poets have often talked about the music of the trees, and travellers to Barbados declare that the whistling tree is a thing of literal fact. ...

    Article : 143 words
  8. THE FIRST SPECTACLES.

    Although double eyeglasses did not become popular in Britain until 1290, the single glass or reading glass was in common use long before then. ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. PIGS THAT GUARD SHEEP.

    In this country one seldom says anything kind about pigs. Yet they are highly esteemed in other parts of the world. ...

    Article : 166 words
  10. A DOG GOES FISHING.

    Have you ever heard of a dog which goes fishing and actually catches trout? Such a remarkable feat is attributed to a dog by a reader, who ...

    Article : 701 words
  11. THE CRYSTAL CANNOT LIE.

    There was dim mystery in the fortune-teller's sanctum. The deep blue curtains, that hung before the windows in rich folds and excluded the ...

    Article : 470 words
  12. OUR MENFOLKS' MASCOTS.

    The manager of a very famous shop told me the other day that many more men than women purchase the hundred and one mascots that flood ...

    Article : 139 words
  13. A WHITE DESERT QUEEN.

    Wireless messages from the heart of the Sahara, relayed by way of Algeria, tell how a French and Danish expedition has discovered a desert ...

    Article : 584 words
  14. REINDEER MEAT.

    Meat authorities have just been investigating the reindeer herds in the so-called frozen wilds of Alaska. They contend that these are destined ...

    Article : 489 words
  15. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The total population of the earth numbers 1,849,500,000. "Scratching posts" of wood are now provided in all the cages in the ...

    Article : 281 words
  16. SUMMER-TIME DANGERS.

    In winter a woman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of dancing. And though she may have a cold or so, it is remarkable how free from ...

    Article : 182 words
  17. LAND OF FLYING ANIMALS.

    In Australia there are at least twenty species of animals which are aviators. Among them are flying squirrels, flying Opossums, flying ...

    Article : 134 words
  18. WHISKERS MEAN MONEY.

    There is joy in China, a cargo of walrus whiskers having just arrived from the Behring Sea, via Tacoma, U.S.A. ...

    Article : 85 words
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