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  2. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    A pessimist is one who, of two evils, chooses both. Cricket is a fine exercise for the lungs—of the spectators. ...

    Article : 837 words
  3. MASKS AND FACES.

    The making of paper masks from living faces bids fair to supersede portrait-painting and photography in Vienna. A well-known sculptor has ...

    Article : 194 words
  4. 'SPECIALS' FOR ROBERT.

    Few people are are that Scotland Yard has a daily newspaper of its own, and that this interesting journal has both an afternoon and ...

    Article : 230 words
  5. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. THE ENGINEER'S STORY.

    During the winter of 1898-99, I was one of a party of engineers who were building a railroad into some mining. property on top of the Alleghany ...

    Article : 1,518 words
  6. SUMMER SERMONS.

    Summer and long sermons don't go well together the vicar of one London church has decided, and he has announced that, while the weather ...

    Article : 146 words
  7. BY LOCUST POST.

    While the district mounted patrol Of the Krugersdorp (Transvaal) police was at work destroying large swarms of locusts on the ...

    Article : 114 words
  8. RACECOURSE "LUMBERERS."

    A "lumberer" is a racecourse trickster whose speciality is "telling the tale"—that is, fleecing the unwary racegoer by means of lies. ...

    Article : 676 words
  9. "'TWAS A FAMOUS VICTORY!"

    "It is a great day for England," said William IV. as he lay on his death-bed on June 18th, 1837, and listened to the guns firing for the ...

    Article : 167 words
  10. WORDS WITH HISTORIES.

    When a housewife asks whether the goods she is buying are cotton or woollen, she little thinks that originally they were one and the same, for ...

    Article : 184 words
  11. TELESCOPE TELLS THE TIME.

    For the reason that it is governed by rules forbidding admittance to any but astronomers and privileged visitors, Greenwich Observatory, ...

    Article : 686 words
  12. POISON IN SUMMER FOODS.

    Every summer thousands of people suffer from "food poisoning," and in the opinion of many medical men this is due to harmful so-called ...

    Article : 226 words
  13. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    It costs £400 a month to clear the Royal parks of London of litter thrown down by careless, visitors. Chunks of dried milk were recently ...

    Article : 515 words
  14. NATURE'S LUCKY-BAG.

    As a people we get into the habit of taking things for granted. For instance, we seldom realise that we are indebted to nature for other ...

    Article : 390 words
  15. FIRST SUNDAY-SCHOOL.

    Sunday-school Day, which has just been observed in England by more than 30,000,000 scholars and teachers, is a celebration that contrasts ...

    Article : 203 words
  16. SEEKING A LOST CONTINENT.

    A small steamer, with a crew of sixteen men, recently set off from America on one of the most romantic expeditions ever undertaken. A ...

    Article : 142 words
  17. ACROSS AMERICA BY MOTOR.

    A syndicate is planning a crosscontinent motor-bus service from New York to Los Angeles, in California. ...

    Article : 81 words
  18. SUNSHADES FOR ALL.

    A hundred years ago a woman was as incomplete without her sunshade as the modern girl without her powder-puff. And now the wheel has ...

    Article : 110 words
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