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  2. COMPLETE' SHORT STORY. HIS SUBSTITUTE.

    When Archibald Loring of Stanhope Loring & Co., of Liverpool and New York, exporters of hardwoods, decided to go to Havana to open a ...

    Article : 1,553 words
  3. RADIO "DOWN UNDER."

    Australia, after a time of waiting and watching, is now preparing broadcasting rules founded on lessons learnt from other countries' troubles. ...

    Article : 107 words
  4. IS YOUR DOG BRAINY?

    In a cafe in the, City a few weeks ago a man rose from a table and left a pair of gloves on a chair near by. A dog which attended him ...

    Article : 575 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Honesty is best whether it is policy or not. Don't worry over anything you can't help—you can't help it. Don't ...

    Article : 727 words
  6. BESTING BACCHUS.

    One of the most original ways of curing the habitual drunkard is that practised in the "Inebriates' Home" of Norway. And, according to ...

    Article : 127 words
  7. LUCKY STRIKES.

    Many very useful inventions have been due to accident. For example, William Wouldhave, who discovered the principle of the self-righting ...

    Article : 625 words
  8. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    To produce one pound of honey a bee must take the nectar from some 62,000 clover blossoms. More than 90 per cent, of our jute, ...

    Article : 327 words
  9. UNKNOWN TO HISTORY.

    To those who imagine as many do, that Nature has no further surprises in store for us in the shape of new animals and birds, the news that an ...

    Article : 284 words
  10. KEEPING DOCTORS BUSY.

    In the course of a conference on tuberculosis held a few years ago, it was stated that this disease alone costs Great Britain no less than ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. AUTOMATIC BOOKING CLERK.

    An electrically operated automatic passimeter is now in use at several of the London Underground Railway stations. ...

    Article : 83 words
  12. RECLAIMING THE GOODWINS.

    The sea is continually either eating a nay from or adding to the British islands, but few people realise the full extent of its activity in this ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. THE BLOOD ORANGE.

    The blood orange is obtained by grafting the sweet orange on to the stem of the pomegranate. This blending of fruits gives the ...

    Article : 132 words
  14. SEEDS IN STRONG ROOMS.

    There is more romance in gardening than even the keenest enthusiast realizes. Plant an ounce of sunflower seed and you will reap enough seed ...

    Article : 321 words
  15. BACHELORS ON THE BRINK

    Many an engaged girl, whose fiance has hitherto been adoring and eager to be married, has discovered almost on the eve of, the wedding-day that ...

    Article : 322 words
  16. WHEN HILLSIDES SUP.

    The recent severe landslides in Italy and Spain recall the famous Rossberg disaster in Switzerland. The top of the Rossberg, near ...

    Article : 123 words
  17. SEEING THROUGH THE SKIN?

    We know that blind people are consoled in some measure for the loss of their sight by the greater alertness of their other senses. ...

    Article : 254 words
  18. MAKING SUNBEAMS TALK.

    Because there is such a lot of it in the moon, selenium is called the moon-element. The name of selenium is not new. ...

    Article : 221 words
  19. A WEEK OF SUNDAYS.

    Most people know that the original Sabbath Day of the Fifth Commandment corresponds to our Saturday, the seventh day of the week. The ...

    Article : 134 words
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