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  2. A LAUGHING PLANT.

    A naturalist recently returned from Arabia has described to a learned society a plant called the "laughing cactus." The plant gets its name ...

    Article : 116 words
  3. WHAT ARE "TAMBUS"?

    The three Fijian chiefs who each presented a whale's tooth to the King recently were conferring upon him the highest honour it is in their ...

    Article : 116 words
  4. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. THE COLONEL'S SECRET.

    Dr. Courtney was a reserved man. And more than that he was a peculiar one. People who met him for the first time were neither drawn ...

    Article : 1,612 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    A teacher asked a pupil the definition of a "vacuum." After pondering over the question for a while the pupil replied, hesitatingly: "I have ...

    Article : 782 words
  6. SEAWEED SNACKS.

    A Devonshire delicacy which is at its best in September is 'laver'—a dish made from a seaweed which grows in broad ribbons on the rocks around ...

    Article : 131 words
  7. MR. OSTRICH HELPS.

    Not the least interesting of the attractions in the South African Section of the British Empire Exhibition was a flock of ostriches. For ...

    Article : 172 words
  8. SEALS WONDERFUL NOSES.

    Most of us when we go in for diving have the very unpleasant experience of getting our nostrils full of water. Nature did not design man ...

    Article : 286 words
  9. A SUBSTITUTE FOR SUGAR.

    If you find that you have to order sugar more frequently than you like, buy a pound of alpha-anti-aldoxine of perillal-dehyde. This single pound ...

    Article : 137 words
  10. FACE FORTUNES.

    Are you bright? Don't take the term in the sense that it is now generally used—as descriptive of mental powers. Are you bright facially? ...

    Article : 338 words
  11. MYSTERY OF THE HERRING.

    Around the shores of the North Sea, the talk during the summer months is mainly of herrings. On the success of the fishing depends the ...

    Article : 188 words
  12. STOPPING TRAIN BY WIRELESS.

    Powerful electrical machinery at the British Empire Exhibition has been set in motion by the pressing of a button near Manchester. No wires ...

    Article : 589 words
  13. WORDS TO MAKE US WONDER.

    Have you ever wondered how some of the queer words and expressions we use to-day first came into the language? ...

    Article : 209 words
  14. AT HOME ON A SHEEP'S BACK.

    Hawks are notoriously slack about nest building, and the kestrel seldom builds for itself. An old magpie's nest suits a pair of kestrels to ...

    Article : 535 words
  15. INTERESTING ITEMS,

    India accounts for only- two per cent, of the world's production of silk. Based on dances 3,000 years old, a ...

    Article : 407 words
  16. SUITS AND SHOWERS.

    It may be assumed that when you have paid a good price for a good suit you think it ought to wear well and look well. ...

    Article : 346 words
  17. THE MAGIC VITAMINE.

    At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society, Professor W. Eddy took from his pocket a small vial and passed it round among the ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. HOW TO ENJOY YOUR SWIM.

    Too much bathing—even one swim too many or one taken at the wrong time—is injurious and destroys the benefits of a holiday. ...

    Article : 154 words
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