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  2. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Good fences make good neighbours. Friends are those who dislike the same people. Every tailor knows a lot of ...

    Article : 680 words
  3. A CROSS OF PEARLS.

    Wnat are perhaps the most remarkable natural pearls in the world was exhibited in the Australian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition. ...

    Article : 199 words
  4. LIFE AND £. S. D.

    What is the cash value of a man? We all know how valuable may be the voice of a great singer, or the sensitive fingers of a sculptor of ...

    Article : 136 words
  5. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. SUCH IS LIFE.

    Tow Banwick was in love—not in the old-fashioned, tragic way, but easily, lightly—with two girls at once—with one more than the other, ...

    Article : 1,378 words
  6. BATHING BEACH COMEDIES.

    Besides keeping an eye on too-adventurous swimmers, a beach guard has to solve all sorts of problems. The worst of them is caused by the ...

    Article : 550 words
  7. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    There is about 86 per cent, of water in milk. Milk taken from the cow in the evening is better than milk taken in ...

    Article : 336 words
  8. POISONED BY THE PUFF.

    "Poison can easily enter, the skin, via the face," says an eminent American specialist. Creams, face-powders, rouge, and ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. A FIGHT UNDER THE SEA.

    A diver named Cappadona tells a graphic story of a terrific underwater encounter which he had with a stingray more than a yard square. ...

    Article : 123 words
  10. MAN WITH A MILLION FRIENDS.

    To be born in humble circumstances and to gather about one's name a respect that outlasts centuries is the lot of but few people. One of them ...

    Article : 671 words
  11. "THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS."

    Many stories are told of the journalist's ingenuity and resource in gathering news for his paper. One of the best concerns the famous De ...

    Article : 599 words
  12. TIMEPIECE THAT PLAYS TUNES

    A novel contrivance in the musical line is a combination phonograph and alarm clock. This "musiclock" can be set not ...

    Article : 103 words
  13. PLAYING TRICKS WITH TIME

    A few weeks ago the American aviator, Lieut. Russell Maughan, created a record by flying from New York to San Francisco in one day—that is, ...

    Article : 337 words
  14. UNDER THE SEA TO FRANCE.

    The old project of a Channel Tunnel has been again in the public eye recently. True, it has again been turned down, but the supporters of ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. DEFYING THE HEAT WAVE.

    In some countries, where natural difficulties have stimulated human inventiveness, it is quite usual for snow to be collected, during the coldest ...

    Article : 147 words
  16. OUR LITTLE WORLD.

    In these days of airships, aeroplanes, and wireless, one often hears the remark that the world is shrinking. Indeed, long before those ...

    Article : 343 words
  17. DUST AS EVIDENCE.

    Microscopic examination of the dirt and dust upon the clothing of suspects is a new scheme of the French police to catch criminals. ...

    Article : 201 words
  18. FISH FARMING.

    At Bibury, in the Cotswolds, there is a farm where every year trout are bred in hundreds of thousands for the stocking of rivers and lakes all ...

    Article : 198 words
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