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  2. BROTHERS OF B.C. 1.

    "Attempt not to direct a married woman in her house when thou knowest that she is a perfect housewife. Say not to her: 'Where is that (i.e., ...

    Article : 236 words
  3. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. IN HIS BEHALF.

    The sporting editor leaned back in his chair, took a firmer hold with his teeth on the stem of his pipe and then with that contrariness which ...

    Article : 1,516 words
  4. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Mr. Newlywed: "This lettuce tastes awful. Did you wash it?" Mrs. Newlywed: "Of course I did, and used perfumed soap too." ...

    Article : 732 words
  5. A FORBIDDEN PLANT.

    In California, if you grow a marihuana bush you risk imprisonment for three months, Marihuana is the Spanish-American name for hasheesh, ...

    Article : 117 words
  6. SAVING NIAGARA FALLS.

    The Falls of Niagara are threatened with extinction. Chicago's drainage and power canal diverts 16,000 cubic feet of water a second. Yet ...

    Article : 288 words
  7. COUNTING THE STARS.

    When the discovery of a new star is announced the layman is apt to infer that an almost exhaustive list of stars, to which the latest recruit ...

    Article : 329 words
  8. HISTORY OF THE CABBAGE.

    Remarkable facts concerning the cabbage have been discovered by professor Ruggles Gates, the botanist. It is stated that cabbages, kales, ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. PHANTOM PLANES.

    Long-range guns have now been rendered as obsolete as bows and arrows, according to the inventors of a new pilotless aeroplane which has ...

    Article : 140 words
  10. THE SCOURGE OF THE WORLD.

    The world to-day awaits a benefactor such as it has never before known; one who will deliver it from the greatest scourge of all time—cancer. ...

    Article : 642 words
  11. CABIN-BOY TO SHIPOWNER.

    About three o'clock one dark December morning, more than sixty years ago, from a cottage in the small fishing village of Cresswell, on ...

    Article : 292 words
  12. REPTILES SOLD BY THE YARD.

    There is a python market in New York. There, at the right, time of the year, one can get pythons measuring from seven to twenty-five feet, and ...

    Article : 189 words
  13. JACKDAW WOMEN.

    "You have plenty of shoplifters here, but I doubt if you can show so many so-called kleptomaniacs as New York." ...

    Article : 181 words
  14. MUSIC FROM A MIRROR.

    More than two thousand years ago a barber discovered that, in moving his mirror, air was forced through the tubes which were common in ...

    Article : 260 words
  15. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Among the Paupuans there is a belief that a man guilty of murder is doomed to live in a swamp in the next world. ...

    Article : 391 words
  16. NO MORE DIVING SUITS?

    The invention by the Japanese of a diving appliance which dispenses with the use of pumping promises to revolutionize the pearling industry. ...

    Article : 124 words
  17. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    If milk is scalded and kept in a shallow basin it will remain sweet for a longer time than if kept in a deep jug. ...

    Article : 300 words
  18. PLANTS OF PREY.

    With beasts and birds of prey we are all familiar; but there are also plants of prey, which are armed for killings, just as a tiger is. ...

    Article : 206 words
  19. LONG LEGS MEAN BIG BRAINS

    An American psychologist, Dr. Henry E. Garrett, asserts that the best brain worker is the man with long arms and legs and a small body. ...

    Article : 200 words
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