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  2. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. Doctor: "You cough more easily this morning." ...

    Article : 550 words
  3. ICEBERGS AHEAD!

    The menace to navigation from floating icebergs is well known. Only one-tenth of the mass of a floating berg is visible, the other nine-tenths ...

    Article : 260 words
  4. WHERE FISHING IS EASY.

    The smallest fish in the world live in Lake Buhi in the Phillippine Islands. They are only about, half an inch long when full-grown, and ...

    Article : 109 words
  5. PRINCE OF METALS.

    In the Woolworth Building, New York, which is to-day the world's tallest sky-scraper, approximately a million pounds of copper was used ...

    Article : 150 words
  6. STRONG MEN OF OLD.

    Feats of great strength have at all times excited much interest, and the more extraordinary examples have been deemed worthy of record by ...

    Article : 279 words
  7. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. THE LAST MESSAGE.

    It is not an unusual thing for a train dispatcher to take his life after a wreck resulting from carelessness on his part. Nevertheless, when it ...

    Article : 1,435 words
  8. WHAT ARE "CATES"?

    The word "cates," meaning dainty food, is probably never used except in poetry, and seldom there, yet we call the person who caters for our ...

    Article : 144 words
  9. LOCAL FOOD FADS.

    An attempt is to be made to introduce snails as an article of food in certain London restaurants. The French, of course, regard snails as a ...

    Article : 156 words
  10. CHINESE HAIR-NET INDUSTRY.

    The hair-net business in China has had quite a history. It was established originally by Germans, who imported the nets from Chefoo into ...

    Article : 177 words
  11. WANTED—NATIONAL ANTHEM

    The Government of the Irish Free State is seeking a national anthem for Ireland, and a competition has been suggested as the best means of ...

    Article : 153 words
  12. BURGLAR-PROOF.

    Few men could tell more romantic stories than the managers of the various safe deposits. There are now thirteen of these institutions in ...

    Article : 660 words
  13. SHIRT-SLEEVES BANNED.

    The shirt-sleeves habit is not yet so universal in England as in America, but it is gaining ground, even in those Government offices where, ...

    Article : 144 words
  14. GERMS IN THE JUG.

    We may not be aware of it, but we all take our little daily dose of microbes. If we are in good health they may not do us any harm, but ...

    Article : 461 words
  15. RUNNING 20 MILES A MINUTE.

    An astonishing fact, which would rarely occur to one when watching the leasurely antics of a fly in the air, is that whereas at that ...

    Article : 234 words
  16. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    A man at Dalry, Ayrshire, owns a retriever and a cat, and both recently became mothers. The retriever's two pups were born dead, so she ...

    Article : 471 words
  17. LAUGHING AT THE LAW.

    "There are many criminals who cannot be rounded up by the authorities," said a Scotland Yard man to the writer recently. ...

    Article : 156 words
  18. APPROPRIATE AILMENTS.

    A bus driver with "congestion." A sweep who suffers from the flu. A butcher who has painful 'joints.' A marksman with 'shooting pains. ...

    Article : 139 words
  19. A MODERN GARDEN OF EDEN.

    An old man of eighty-one built himself a Garden of Eden on the outskirts of the little Kansas town of Lucas, and to, it has taken a bride ...

    Article : 254 words
  20. NATURE'S NIGHT-CLUB.

    People often wonder whether plants and flowers really sleep. They do; some at night, others during the day-time. When a flower sleeps it closes ...

    Article : 231 words
  21. MAN OVERBOARD!

    Lifebuoys are to be equipped with self-igniting water lights, so that in the case of an accident at night the victim can see the lifebuoy, and swim ...

    Article : 90 words
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