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  2. FISH THAT SING.

    In Ceylon there is a shellfish, a sort of mussel, which sings! It can hardly be claimed that it competes with the nightingale, but it ...

    Article : 193 words
  3. THE RIGHT AGE.

    Recently issued statistics prove that Englishmen are marrying at a much later average age than was once the case. That may suggest that ...

    Article : 336 words
  4. WHEN IT RAINS INK.

    Some time ago a shower of black rain in Hampshire occupied the attention of scientists. Such an even is not without precedent. In ...

    Article : 248 words
  5. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. FOR TWO.

    Three young men were sitting on the verandah of the Golf Club idly watching the players drive off. With good cigars, a fine day, and nothing ...

    Article : 827 words
  6. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The first essential of stable government is horsesense. Few men are broad enough to understand both golf and a wife. ...

    Article : 736 words
  7. ROAD GRADE OF GOLD.

    Parts of the road by which the Devonshire village of Widecombe is approached are metalled with a peculiar type of granite, in which a ...

    Article : 131 words
  8. TO CHEAT THE WAVES.

    Special safes for the conveyance of mails and other valuables across the oceans are the latest Dutch idea. The safes are oval in shape, and ...

    Article : 157 words
  9. MYSTERY OF THE METEORS.

    The late summer and autumn months are generally marked by the appearance of large numbers of socalled "shooting stars." They are ...

    Article : 274 words
  10. COLOURS FROM RUBBISH

    Even such an ordinary thing as coal tar has a romantic history. For a long time tar was looked upon as almost valueless refuse, the ...

    Article : 206 words
  11. PRICELESS LIMBS.

    Pavolova, the famous dancer, is said to have insured her arms and legs for upwards of £30,000. The loss of a single toe would in her case ...

    Article : 171 words
  12. HOW THE EARTH WAS BORN?

    Up to comparatively recent times it was believed that this solid globe of ours came from an enormous mass of gas which spun round so rapidly that ...

    Article : 646 words
  13. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Drugs cost British provincial hospitals about £200,000 a year. "Daddy longlegs" are quite harmless in a house as they do not touch ...

    Article : 304 words
  14. ANIMALS AS SPIES.

    The use of animals as spies has been a military art practised in Japan from remote times. The animals so used were the dog, fox, and rat, ...

    Article : 459 words
  15. COCO-NUT PALM PERFUMES.

    The coco-nut palm is the most widely distributed and most generally known tree in the tropical regions of the world. To such an extent do ...

    Article : 166 words
  16. NEWSPAPERS EAT TREES.

    A thin grey fluid comes bubbling out of the vat on to the straining table, and spreads upon the smooth surface of the wire cloth. This fluid ...

    Article : 284 words
  17. GEYSERS TO SUPPLY STEAM POWER.

    About seventy-miles north of San Francisco, in what is known as Sonoma County, U.S.A., is a place that started out to be a volcano ...

    Article : 1,002 words
  18. BARRELS AS CLOAKS.

    At a recent auction sale in London there was sold for seven guineas an "absolutely unique Elizabethan drunkard's cloak, in which drunkards ...

    Article : 123 words
  19. JEWELS THAT KEEP TIME.

    A watch movement contains precious stones to diminish its wear. The lever and the balance wheel pivots always run on bearings made out of ...

    Article : 100 words
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