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  2. HOW STONEHENGE WAS BUILT.

    How the builders of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, England, with the appliances of, say, 3,500 years ago, managed to get the vast stones ...

    Article : 319 words
  3. GEMS OF MYSTERY.

    Hatton Garden has its mysteries and its romances. The chief mystery at a recent sale was the nature of a couple of curious stones which had ...

    Article : 121 words
  4. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. COINCIDENTAL ACQUAINTANCE

    It was a New Orleans June morning. To those who know that means many things. Work and play both seem better than they really are, ...

    Article : 1,406 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The older you are the more quickly the future becomes the past. The honeymoon is over when the coos cease and the bills come in. ...

    Article : 711 words
  6. COOKING BY SUN-POWER

    Recently several more or less successful attempts have been made to compel the sun to render to man additional service beyond the light ...

    Article : 91 words
  7. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Russia in Europe and Asia has a population of about 125,000,000. Kiss-stealing is not a crime in Canada, according to old ...

    Article : 371 words
  8. BIGGEST WINDOW PANE.

    The largest sheet of plate glass in existence was seen at the British Empire Exhibition. This mammoth window pane had an ...

    Article : 155 words
  9. SACRED SCARAB OF EGYPT.

    Of all lucky charms probably the most common is the so-called "Egyptian" scarab. As a matter of fact, this beetle is found in plenty of other ...

    Article : 264 words
  10. A WEDDING OF THE OCEANS.

    Among the great engineering feats of modern times none ranks higher than the cutting of the Panama Canal. The achievement marked the ...

    Article : 639 words
  11. MICROSCOPE MARVELS.

    The detective in fiction does some amazing' things with a microscope, as also does the scientist in real life, only the other day, for instance, a ...

    Article : 636 words
  12. CASTING FOR CUPS.

    The number of anglers in Britain grows rapidly, and in the Midland and North Country manufacturing towns there are angling associations ...

    Article : 286 words
  13. PROVERBS ABOUT THE HOME.

    A hearth of your own is worth gold. He who is far from home is near harm.—Danish. East and West, home's the best. ...

    Article : 68 words
  14. FISH THAT CROWS.

    Strolling among the rocks at your holiday resort in Britain, you may Snotice a quaint, bullet-headed fish basking in the sun in a crevice well ...

    Article : 172 words
  15. WINE MADE FROM ROSES.

    The rose long figured in the pharmacopoeia. Pliny gives over thirty remedies compounded of rose-leaves and petals, ...

    Article : 89 words
  16. SAFETY ON THE LINE.

    When they read of a railway accident, the travelling public give little heed to the elaborate precautions taken to ensure safety. ...

    Article : 355 words
  17. ROLLING ACROSS EUROPE.

    A few mouths ago a man started ton a journey from Amsterdam to Marseilles by the strange method of rolling on his head, hands, and knees. ...

    Article : 291 words
  18. CHANGING PEOPLES COLOUR.

    By a very simple operation a British medical authority has found it possible to turn a blonde person into a brunette or a brunette into a ...

    Article : 198 words
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