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  2. TEETH IN THE POST!

    The Postmaster-General in London has entrusted to a well-known firm of auctioneers a large quantity of jewellery and other property found in the ...

    Article : 146 words
  3. FIRST AID ON THE SANDS.

    Accidents happen to children at the seaside, in spite of the care excercised by parents, and it is as well to have made up your mind beforhand ...

    Article : 635 words
  4. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. THE PROFESSOR'S PANTHER

    I had been sure for a long time that there was a story connected with the panther, hut the old professor, for some reason, never seemed to ...

    Article : 1,664 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Try to see through things and see things through. Tom: "How's the young married couple? As devoted as ever?" ...

    Article : 778 words
  6. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Dining cars on electric trams have been introduced in Germany. Claws on its wings as well as on its legs enable the hoatzin, a South ...

    Article : 428 words
  7. CLOCK AS MONEY-BOX.

    A savings bank in the United States is making a present of a clock to every new depositor. It is a timepiece of a peculiar, kind, ...

    Article : 75 words
  8. KISSED BY MILLIONS.

    During the holiday season many tourists in Ireland will visit Blarney Castle and its famous kissing stone. Of the stones variously asserted to ...

    Article : 216 words
  9. LARGE AND SMALL LAMPS.

    The smallest electric lamp in the world is about ¼ candle-power. It is ¼in. in diameter (about the size of a grain of wheat), and was designed ...

    Article : 158 words
  10. THE LITTLE GOLD RING.

    I was choosing an electric kettle when she stepped briskly into the shop and set a well-worn black traveller's sample-case down on a vacant ...

    Article : 623 words
  11. FLYING UNDER THE SEA.

    The idea of a tunnel linking England and France, a subject that is receiving renewed attention, is not a new one. ...

    Article : 626 words
  12. WHY CIGAR SMOKE IS BLUE.

    Tobacco, when smolted, releases a certain amount of half-consumed product in the form of smoke. With very good tobacco, either as ...

    Article : 162 words
  13. WATER YOU CAN'T SINK IN

    Everyone who has swum in a lake or pond as well as in the sea knows the extra buoyancy of salt water as compared with fresh. This effect of ...

    Article : 168 words
  14. A BOTTLED LOVE-LETTER.

    Forty-two years ago an Irish colleen wrote a love-letter, which she placed in a sealed bottle with her name and address and committed to ...

    Article : 167 words
  15. MOTHER LUDLUM'S COOK-POT.

    Holiday-makers often hurry past quaint churches with just a glance, whereas, did they but know, there is something about them which would ...

    Article : 300 words
  16. MOVING A CRICKET GROUND.

    Every follower of cricket has heard of Lord's, the most famous of all cricket grounds in England, but few are aware that the present ground ...

    Article : 167 words
  17. PLANTS THAT HATE MUSIC.

    Experiments have shown that certain plants deliberately turn away from bands that are playing loud music. Although little is known at ...

    Article : 151 words
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